The Official "That Dumb P.O." Thread!

[98classic]

Not the guy I bought it from, but the PO before the PO did this:

 

[beav350]

"Filled the radiator" with anti-freeze by pouring it into the windshield washer resevoir (20-ish woman in California). Said antifreeze promptly ate through and poured onto the firewall side of the fuse block, resulting in a heavily corroded and finally no-longer-attached main supply wire. "My Jeep won't do anything at all and the shop can't figure it out" became my ticket to my 1st 500 dollar Cherokee.

 

[bjoehandley]

Not the guy I bought it from, but the PO before the PO did this:

But he left it like that long enough for you to buy it?

 

[98classic]

a hundred dollar jeep is a hundred dollar jeep. It ran, was just fugly.

 

[bjoehandley]

Hell, I'd use the money I saved to buy black BBQ Grill paint and a bulk pack of razor blades! Atleast your's doesn't have that goofy alarm my sister's Brairwoody has, that damn thing locks out the ignition of you open the driver's door wrong.

 

[JNickel101]

fan shroud had cracked and was wired back together with chicken wire....no spare tire at all (must have had magic tires), tires on it were 2 sizes too small....

 

[stewie]

mine had the words "pappi chulo"(sp?) in childrens metalic sticker letters right above the center air vent. smelled like a combination of nasty mold and rotten candy. took 4 trips to the vacume at the car wash to get all the candy out from under the back seat, two times washing the rear seat, and pulling out the rear carpet and hurculining the rear to get 1/2 the odor out. now it just smells like cat pee sometimes.

the sterio is just placed in the stock location and the unit is held up by wadded up paper towel and a pice of styrofoam.

very little of the pinch seam is left straight- it must have been wheeled like it had 6" of lift when stock

there is more but i cant think of it off the top of my head.

 

[98classic]

Hell, I'd use the money I saved to buy black BBQ Grill paint and a bulk pack of razor blades!

Funny you mention that. That's exactly what I did. Here it is the day after I drug it home.

 

[bjoehandley]

hahaha, that is pretty funny!

 

[General lee]

I found 20 or so breadsticks in my airbox. I am still confused.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

I bought mine from JCR, so I, thankfully, have no "Dumb P.O. stories".

There was a large amount of Pepto Bismol in the Jeep at the time of purchase though....

(I'm sure they could write up a whole thread about the way I distroyed my TJ though...)

 

[WaXJ_Skier]

I found 20 or so breadsticks in my airbox. I am still confused.

Maybe the PO was trying to keep them warm and was too stupid to figure out that cooking works better if you use teh exhaust sytem.

 

[Speed_racer]

PO of my MJ replaced pass window with plexiglass.... then scraped the shit out of it, and it fogged out so bad you couldnt see a thing...

had a po on my old xj cap every vent/vac line...

Had another PO that replaced the cat with a piece of pipe 1/2" smaller tha the rest with a coupler... was a weird problem to diagnose...

I can go on and on....

 

[themangeraaad]

Somehow managed to snap half the braces that connect the seat to the seat bracket. Snapped the lower pin in drivers side door in 2 places, *attempted* to weld the top hinge for some reason, which just led to more cracks forming cuase he used to high a heat, hollowed out the cat... but didnt take the crap out so it was just stuck in there making noise... well... just messed with teh entire exhast system, had to be compeltely redone. Never tightened the battery in, so it was loose and i thought i had electrical problems but it was just a lose battery, smoke the tires off it and almost blow the rear end (Found that one out when I finished it off after a few times out wheeling and some beating on it).. I feel like there should be more... rusted out floorboards and some along the back of the cargo area...

Listing all that out, I paid way too much for that POS... but he is the one who is now stuck with a wrangler

Edit: after reading previous post... replaced the tail pipe with pipe about half in too small

 

[88xjchief]

Before my friend sold his xj he put a new headliner in it. He used a old rug or something and used strips of wood to hold it up. He thought it looked good. I thought it looked horrible.

 

[Krazors001]

When I bought my Jeep, the hood release didn't always work. Someone thought it a good idea to try and pry it up with a screwdriver instead of just pulling the lever again.

 

[ECKSJAY]

The POs of my first one had to go and take perfect care of it.

The PO of my new one went and threw a bunch of mods together in expert fashion.

Have had zero experience with 'dumb' on either XJ I've owned.

 

[MRK98]

I ordered my 98 sport from the factory: Up country + Tow package + select trac. It had 20 miles on it when I got to greasing the front end. The factory didn't put a spot of grease toward any of the fittings. I'm glad I checked they were all bone dry. 165k and going strong!

 

[88manche]

well, theres a gold tee in one vaccume line, a screw in another, and i have no blower motor, all the speakers were blown. the carpet was balck in places, and the choke was unplugged and broken, but it had not holes/tears in the seats!! and it had those fancy aluminum thingers you put on your wheels that go around the edge.

yeah.

 

[Georgia Mike]

The PO of mine couldn't figure out why it wouldn't stay running. I guess they gave up on it because I bought it from the repo man for $200. Looks like they tried a lot of different things to fix the problem. I checked the CPS, and the bolts were loose, so they'd apparently tried that, too. Turned out to be the CPS plug on the wiring harness was bad. Cut it out, and it runs fine now. They also left trash in it for who knows how long so there were dead maggots all in the cargo area. The roof was caved in from someone walking on it, and the windshield is smashed. I figure these two things happened as a result of someone's temper getting the best of them because it wouldn't run.:roflmao: