If its a 4.0 6cyl they run FOREVER. I had one with 260k miles. The engine never had any serious work. Just fluids and basic tune up items. It ran great when I sold it.

 

the jeep has new 31" all terrain tires, new clutch 5k ago and it has around 100k original miles.

 

Buy the Jeep! I said that in post #4! lol

 

don't have much experience with Jeeps but from having several friends that have owned them they are a heck of a lot of fun. Huge community out there for upgrades, and mods. Relatively straight forward and easy to work on.

As far as reliability goes, to me, Jeeps seem to run to the extremes of the maintenance/reliability spectrum. Some of my friends have never had any kinds of issues with their Jeep. Seems to run forever, through all kinds of adverse conditions. Others have the complete opposite, just one problem after another. Spends more time in the shop than out. One guy had it so bad that the dealership pretty much gave up on trying to fix it and basically gave him a new one (not literally but they more or less replaced EVERYTHING including the engine).

 

the engine is a 4.2 inline 6 cylinder, i will see if i can get him to put down some cash on top of the trade cuz i think that the jeep would be lower value? what do you guys think?

 

i think i would stick with a jeep ive had 2 rodeos one i got for 200 bux 91 2wd 5spd 3.1 with a bad trans put 300 in to it (new used 5 speed trans and clutch) beat the living **** out of it drove it for 2 years and only replaced a u-joint bought my 2nd 1997 rodeo 4wd auto 3.2 for 4500 and it was just problem after problem just the luck of the draw i guess pluss aftermarket for jeep is almost endless theres barley a aftermarket for rodeos

 

86 was the last year they made a 4.2 engine. I bet its a 4.0.

 

What are you looking for in the new ride? Offroad ability, snow performance, etc....

 

the 4L straight six is cake to work on, you could teach a monkey to maintain it. Plus there's a **** ton of extra room in the engine bay cause its so little. It's basically a tractor motor lol.

 

i have though about it for a little and i dont know if i want to trade for a jeep just because it can get stolen very easily.