A jeep is amazing..you can use it to tow your boat, drive in the winter with 4x4 on , go offroad, top off in the summer to the beach, bring the dogs, great for camping, good for vision, high off the road, add lots of cools tuff to it, and the 4 banger is good on gas, and they look nice.

Owned since new and now has 172,000 plus miles on it. Great reliability!

Very Fun, 6 cyl, 13mpg, 7ft snow plow,
Hard and soft tops

2001 Jeep Wrangler Sport (TJ). Has yet to die on me no matter what. Gas mileage blows in comparison to a car (18 average). Solid axles fore and aft (D30/D44) so it rides like a tank, 231 t-case with a 2.72 gear reduction in 4L. The bullet proof 4.0 mated to the truck edition of the NV3500 series tranny; Currently using the 04 version of the 3550 due to the implementation of real bushings instead of paper. Factory equipped with 30" rubber along with a set of 3.73s to push em and an LSD equipped rear end, one could go to 95% of the places in the world stock......

But stock isn't perfect.

OEM brakes blow due to the relationship between the piston bore size and pad sweep area. A quick call to Van down in LA and a set of revised knuckles and dual piston calipers off a Ford Exploder fixes that problem nicely.

The D30 is internally sealed inside the diff leaving the tubes open to fill with crap. Tube seals fixed that up nicely.

Stock diff covers are made out of 1/8" thick stamped steel. Good for curbs, horrible for anything else. Some 3/16" cast steel covers from Rockcrusher was the solution.

The original exhaust was kinda quiet and all told boring plus I6s have a unique tone that should be heard, hence my Dynomax Super Turbo I installed.

For 00-01 the stock tranny blows. It was the first time the NV3550 was made for Jeep, and New Venture gear screwed up. Later versions of the tranny were beefed up. Thanks to the PO destroying second gear for me, I had a good excuse to upgrade.

Interior is a nice mix of classic design, neutral plastic and many rattles and knocks. Its a Jeep, it comes with the territory.

Heep has yet to break down on me. However, there is very few OEM parts left on it. Engine, t-case, and the Tub are some of the few stock pieces left. Everything else I've either replaced due to wear or upgraded.

It was a good first vehicle. It was tough. I was in 2 small accidents with this vehicle, and it suffered little damage.