You know you own/drive a XJ when...

You do your oil change without work gloves on, despite the fact you do all your other projects with shop gloves on, simply because that's how the oil changes have been done for the last 240,000 miles....
 
FlexdXJ said:
When you have the sudden urge to rearend a Prius because you can tell a douchebag is behind the wheel! :D
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When you see a smart car and wonder how far you can make it bounce

When you have to go back to the shop during a vehicle recovery, because there is more recovery gear in your XJ than in the wrecker

When you go out on a AAA call for a winch out, and just take your XJ
 
When you spend an hour or 2 in the parts store parking lot with a hammer, screwdriver, and socket replacing a U-joint that conveniently blew out across the street from said parts store (while you were driving to the parts store to get a U-joint to replace it that night)... and then you start driving with the new joint and it breaks again since the cap retaining tab was torn off the yoke.

You "temporarily" fix the broken yoke tab with a large quantity of JB weld. 2 months later finally get a new yoke after driving with the "fixed" rear end daily

You finally get a new yoke because a friend tried to do a burnout in his taurus, and you thought you could one up him.. resulting in a driveshaft and several yoke pieces scattered around the street.
 
when you go to the car wash and spend more time spraying the wheel wells and under side than the paint clean.

when you play guess the sound or guess the smell, and the passenger is worried about the pops and kinks and burning plastic smell and it doesnt faze you one bit.
 
... your kids call it the Frankenjeep becouse you have more junkyard parts then stock parts.

...instead of backing out of the parking space at work you just drive over the curb.

... you speed up to go over the speed bumps.

.... you have to refill your window washer tank becouse the kids used the rear washer to squirt each other.

.... you know the area junk yard phone numbers by heart.

.... you spend your lunch hour working on your jeep

.... you day dream at work what it would feel like to drive over the boss's VW bug.

.... you call in sick when it rains just so you can go drive in the mud.
 
You ruin your alternator in a mudhole!
 
...The people at the junkyard know you by name.

...You call it 'the yard' instead of 'the junkyard.'

...You've spent the money designated for lunch on a jeep part.

...Driving over curbs makes you smile.

...You've spent more time staring at it, thinking about what else you need, than you have been watching TV.

...You spend almost the entire time you're awake with a wrench in your hands. The rest of the time it's either a tool or other such thing.

...You've tried (and failed) to explain to your friends why you enjoy working on it.

...Hearing your unibody groan when you flex makes you smile.

...You don't think twice about looking under somebody else's XJ to figure out if they mean "business" or if it's "for looks."

...Your OEM emergency jack doesn't work, but that's okay: You have a highlift in the back (or on the roof, or on your swingout carrier, or on the front bumper....)

...Those "trails" in car ads remind you of the staging areas for your trails.

...You've driven up/through something you wouldn't walk up/through.

...You've never heard the "scff" sound from bottoming out going through a gutter, even near 40mph.

...You still haven't fixed that gas tank sender, but you do have some new driving lights!

...You've run out of empty plugs to pull power from in your fuse panel.

...You've worked on someone else's XJ for dinner.

...You've used the phrase, "well, on an XJ, it might be this." when helping someone else with car troubles.
 
Hubbazoot said:
...The people at the junkyard know you by name.
...Driving over curbs makes you smile.
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Back in college my roommate (in an on campus apt), several other people in my apt, and other apts around mine all decided to go see some movie.. I think it might have been the newest spider man for some reason, not sure though.

Well movie sucked, and everyone was leaving the theater at the same time. I left by driving over the curb/small island between the theater and street, skipping all the lines of people waiting. I got the last parking spot in the lot at my school. My roommate and friends who got a ride with me were laughing their asses off and said leaving the theater was far better than the movie.. I like to think I started to bring a few more people to the world of XJ's :D
 
themangeraaad said:
Back in college my roommate (in an on campus apt), several other people in my apt, and other apts around mine all decided to go see some movie.. I think it might have been the newest spider man for some reason, not sure though.

Well movie sucked, and everyone was leaving the theater at the same time. I left by driving over the curb/small island between the theater and street, skipping all the lines of people waiting. I got the last parking spot in the lot at my school. My roommate and friends who got a ride with me were laughing their asses off and said leaving the theater was far better than the movie.. I like to think I started to bring a few more people to the world of XJ's :D
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...when you can drive over the islands in parking lots with 4 other people AND THEIR STUFF inside.

...when, for some strange reason, all of your 'shortcuts' involve trips across some obstacle.

...when some small part of you is disappointed when someone else's car isn't stuck in the snow when you offer them a tow out.

...when your hands are dirty after you've touched any part of the engine/drivetrain.
 
not sure if its been mentioned (I read them all but god there are alot) but

when you consider replacing u-joints part of your annual service


and not to deny the XJ any glory, but back in my freshman year of college (04-05) I did the same thing with my old '92 camry 4 banger (maybe 8 months before I got my XJ).. 5 people in it and as I called it I went mall crawling and urban wheeling around springfield MA (this is before I knew of XJ mall crawlers)... aka went to the mall and tried to find out how many curbs i could climb over with the car fully loaded with people... nothing stopped that car... until my friend decided to let off the gas when we were in (literally) 5 inches of mud in the cranberry bogs near my house. If I were to get another CAR I think it would have to be an old camry... F*CK the altima I have now, damn POS. heh, that car took everything I threw at it and more and kept on going strong. I have to say it was the XJ of the sedan world, not quite as good but damn close. I jumped it on a regular basis, it tore threw mud suprisingly well... even followed my buddy's XJ down some trails he really didnt expect it to make it down... its blasphemy but I think I am starting to miss that car.
 
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When you, your siblings, and your father have all embarrassed the living hell out of your mother by driving over a curb or sidewalk to get from one parking lot to another while she's in the truck with you.
 
bjoehandley said:
When you, your siblings, and your father have all embarrassed the living hell out of your mother by driving over a curb or sidewalk to get from one parking lot to another while she's in the truck with you.
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When your wife has gotten yelled at by the local police for going over a curb and down an embankment in your jeep becuase one way streets would have you drive 2 miles to go from one lot to another... and she "knew the jeep could handle it.."
 
You spread owning an XJ like an STD.

I just got someone else to buy one.
 
when you go wheeling with a guy in a Rubicon and his son in his stock XJ you in your built XJ and the son goes almost every place the nicely built Rubi goes!!

then when the stock XJ cant go on the next level of trails due to ground clearance issues, instead of riding in the Rubi with his dad the son asks to ride with you in your built XJ cause the Rubi cant go where you are headed either!!!! :moon:
 
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