So much less expensive and more capable to buy a CJ or Wrangler, even if you have to pay someone else to do some work on it (and particularly if you do the work yourself, which is usually VERY easy). Either buy a side-by-side, or buy a Jeep. The Roxor is a pale imitation of either one.

Yeah, if you think a car is a “death can” or a “worn out dog” because it’s got a bad wheel bearing, I’d recommend you be the one who sticks with new, modern cars: you probably don’t know enough about the older vehicles to safely identify potentially dangerous problems, as indeed Mr Tracy did.

That sounds...really boring. Here’s my daily driver: I make it to my destinations just fine. And my destinations are...way off the map.

That’s actually not a particularly bad wheel bearing. There’s every chance he could have driven it to Virginia and back with no problems whatsoever. That looks like a serious issue, and certainly should be fixed ASAP, but it’s really not that bad. You say Mr Tracy has become desensitized by driving too many old…

What is it that makes you better-suited to choosing what David Tracy ought to do than David Tracy is?

I recently discovered I’d been driving for four years on a wheel bearing in a little worse shape than David’s - mine came out in pieces - which only had two of its three bolts holding it in. Crossed the Mackinaw bridge several times with it like that. No bueno.

“Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?”

I feel like I’m probably not going to get five figures out of mine.

Excellent idea, but not at this price, and not with those approach and departure angles.

I’ve had to drill out bad license plate mounts on a few of my Cherokees, and the best solution I’ve found is expansion plugs, those cylinders of rubber between two washers, that fatten up as you tighten them down. Bonus: they isolate vibration quite well, if you have a subwoofers.

Humans will find any excuse to divide themselves into “us superiors” and “them inferiors”.

Ah, you’re perilously close to entering Phase Two of Jeep ownership: “Necessity is the mother of fabrication.”

So your position, then, is that all passenger cars should be equipped with six point harnesses, arm restraints, custom seats, roll cages, and HALO devices, and be sized such that a large number of people, including children, wide people, and tall people cannot drive or ride in them, simply so that we can avoid the…

Head-on collision speeds, which all passenger cars must be designed to handle, can be 140 MPH or more, and passenger cars weigh substantially more than any race-going vehicle; since force equals mass times velocity, passenger cars are dealing with the same kinds of forces race cars are dealing with.

In order to achieve the level of safety found in race cars, the “livestock” would need to be in five- or six-point harnesses, which are generally tightened by crew to levels even the driver couldn’t achieve themselves. In addition to that, modern race cars also have HANS devices that you generally don’t find in your…

The JS Cummins study above notes that there’s a “higher degree of protection in patients with seatbelt-plus-airbag in comparison to occupants who used seatbelts or airbags alone during the crash”. That quote is from Seatbelt versus seatbelt and airbag injuries in a single motor vehicle crash, which found the same…

9/10, would daily-drive.

I have just the solution for both the driver’s side door hinge problem, and the smoker’s windows:

I’ve looked into an M1078, as well as a variety of other LMTVs and larger MTVs, as an option for replacing my beloved doorless 1995 Jeep Cherokee as a machine to live, work, and play in. I like the available space. I like the durability. I’m not wild about the fuel economy or the complexity of repair (“You need a part…

There’s no doubt that to those who loved these people - these actual human beings, we might take some care to remember - are grieving their loss. And while we might find some of their actions reprehensible, we should, you know, mourn their loss to whatever degree each feels is appropriate for “a fellow human being…