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

when your friends call your jeep "the tin can"

when your jeep is a regular at the local repair shop

when you have totaled a honda but came out with a scuffed bummper
 
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when your jeep is a regular at the local repair shop

...when you can't afford to take your Jeep to the repair shop because you spent all your money on a lift and bigger tires. :D

...when you get scared when the noises stop, because you know something probably just broke or fell off.

....you consider hacking off whatever rubs on the tires with a sawzall doing "body work"
 
When you refuse to take your Jeep to a shop because they charge you way too much money when you could just fix it yourself.

guilty, I only ever took it in before because I was too busy to work on it. once I started doing it all myself i saved enough money to buy my first lift kit :cheers:
 
when its worth more in parts than it is as a whole
Unfortunately true here...I've got close to $10k spent, including the Jeep, $5500 in parts. The most I could expect to get selling it whole is maybe $4000. I could probably get $5000 by parting it.
 
Unfortunately true here...I've got close to $10k spent, including the Jeep, $5500 in parts. The most I could expect to get selling it whole is maybe $4000. I could probably get $5000 by parting it.

As it stands, I am at $14,258.89 invested in my '99 Classic, so I am very close to catching up with you. :) I figure I can also only get 5-6k for my Frog. So, I suppose you know you own/drive an XJ when you quantify every cent expended and are willing to write it off as an acceptable loss.
 
As it stands, I am at $14,258.89 invested in my '99 Classic, so I am very close to catching up with you. :) I figure I can also only get 5-6k for my Frog. So, I suppose you know you own/drive an XJ when you quantify every cent expended and are willing to write it off as an acceptable loss.
Just means that our Jeeps can never leave us. :D
 
...when you know your car remote has less range than the TV remote
...when you remember that you don't lock the doors on that jeep, because the lock cylinders are too sticky to open properly, after locking the doors because you forgot since you drove the other jeeps for the last few months...
... and spend 5 minutes cursing and using the normal tricks to get the door to unlock, successfully, only to discover that you were using the key for one of the other jeeps! :doh:

(happened to me this morning)

... and likewise, when one of the crew at a NAXJA event locks themselves out of their jeep with the engine running and the solution is to have everyone try their keys in it. After ~4 tries we found a winner and the door opened!

... when you've done an engine swap in a parking lot, and enjoyed it

... when your air conditioning has never worked, and will never work, you assumed this before you even bought it, and are completely OK with that

... the junkyard gives you bulk pricing because they're too lazy to add up the pile of stuff you have, and don't even bother asking what type of vehicle you took the parts off of anymore

... when you get more worried because it stopped leaking oil than by the fact that it leaks oil, because it means you need to put some in

... when you see an XJ in the junkyard with a non broken washer fluid sprayer on the hatch and are shocked

... you know you drive an MJ when people walk up to you at the gas station and ask you how much it cost to get a cherokee turned into a pickup truck (happened to me only once so far but it was another MJ owning NAXJA guy trolling me :roflmao:)
 
...... when the girl at the drive-thru window asks where the rest of your truck is?:dunno:(when the doors are off) and you reply: "they flew off and are somewhere down the street because I drove soo fast to get here cause I only have 30 min. for lunch" ...the look following this statement is priceless.:D
 
You can open the doors/hatch on flat ground, but not when you have one tire on a jackstand.
 
So true, I have all my parts shipped to work. And then they sit around before I take them home.

...^^ when the ups guy knows who the box is for based on the size and weight

... when 2 tires cost more than you paid for it

... when you spend the last 2 hours of your day reading this thread, laugh out loud, and have co workers stare at you like your a little bit insane(which you are cause you own an XJ)
 
At the time I worked for a public works dept so they got all sorts of vehicle parts anyway. But mine were always different. As in they weren't for a cop car or dumptruck.
 
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