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My wife and I are considering trading in our 2020 2 Door Sport S for a JLU Sahara. Locally, we have a 2018 JLU Sahara with 25,000 miles for $39k and a 2018 JLU Sahara with 59,000 miles for $31k.
The lower mileage Jeep is CPO. I’m having a hard time justifying the $8k price difference but like the idea of buying a lower mileage vehicle. If the higher mileage option inspects well (I’m meticulous about these things) should I be concerned about the mileage?
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I would go with the lower mileage in this situation, provided both are optioned the way you would like. 34,000 miles difference is more than double the wear and tear on the lower mileage jeep. Drive them both because some 2018's have serious wandering issues. Make sure the steering TSB's have been applied. There was a TSB for trackbar replacement and a TSB for the steering gearbox replacement. There was also a safety recall for the steering stabilizer. I like the idea of having the CPO. Good luck with whichever one you purchase.
 

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My wife and I are considering trading in our 2020 2 Door Sport S for a JLU Sahara. Locally, we have a 2018 JLU Sahara with 25,000 miles for $39k and a 2018 JLU Sahara with 59,000 miles for $31k.
The lower mileage Jeep is CPO. I’m having a hard time justifying the $8k price difference but like the idea of buying a lower mileage vehicle. If the higher mileage option inspects well (I’m meticulous about these things) should I be concerned about the mileage?
I would take the lower mile car every day and twice on Sunday assuming it is equipped how you want. Even if you assigned a nominal $0.50 cent per mile, the higher mile one should be $17k off the lower.
 

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Both are probably out of warranty due to time or mileage as the factory warranty is 3/36 if I remember. The CPO gets a 3 month 3,000 warranty with it so that is a plus. CPO means a higher price tag for those 3 little letters. The CPO label means it was inspected a bit closer than normal and everything checks out to their parameters, on theory you are getting a better vehicle.

60,000 miles on this platform are really nothing if it has been taken care of, but it does mean you are probably due for sone fluid changes. Diffs, transfer, transmission. Those will cost a few dollars but not $8,000 difference. A good chance it will need new tires unless they did that as part of the flip. If they put tires on they might have put on cheap shitty tires though.

How are the options between the 2 Jeeps? Maintenance history? Accidents? Mileage and CPO make up most of the price difference but not all of it
 

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Get the lower mileage one. $8k might sound like a lot now but it will be worth it down the road. Who knows what the 60k mileage one has been through. It’s tough to do a lot of damage to one with only 25k miles one it. Piece of mind.
 

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I often wonder where you people live where you think anything below 100k miles is even broken in.

I’d take the cheaper one.
 

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Both are probably out of warranty due to time or mileage as the factory warranty is 3/36 if I remember. The CPO gets a 3 month 3,000 warranty with it so that is a plus. CPO means a higher price tag for those 3 little letters. The CPO label means it was inspected a bit closer than normal and everything checks out to their parameters, on theory you are getting a better vehicle.

60,000 miles on this platform are really nothing if it has been taken care of, but it does mean you are probably due for sone fluid changes. Diffs, transfer, transmission. Those will cost a few dollars but not $8,000 difference. A good chance it will need new tires unless they did that as part of the flip. If they put tires on they might have put on cheap shitty tires though.

How are the options between the 2 Jeeps? Maintenance history? Accidents? Mileage and CPO make up most of the price difference but not all of it
Yikes, that is weak.

We bought the wife's XC90 as a CPO which took the warranty from 4/50 to 5/unlimited. Paying CPO premium for 3 months is hardly worth it.
 

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Hi, what about options??
By just looking at miles you’d would obviously favor the one with lower miles but it’s choosing blindly without knowing more about one vehicle’s equipment vs the other, also a carfax will give you history or maintenance done to the 60K vehicle etc so you can see if it was properly serviced
 
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My wife and I are considering trading in our 2020 2 Door Sport S for a JLU Sahara. Locally, we have a 2018 JLU Sahara with 25,000 miles for $39k and a 2018 JLU Sahara with 59,000 miles for $31k.
The lower mileage Jeep is CPO. I’m having a hard time justifying the $8k price difference but like the idea of buying a lower mileage vehicle. If the higher mileage option inspects well (I’m meticulous about these things) should I be concerned about the mileage?
I'd keep that sweet looking 2 Door and save yourself $34k.........
 

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The cheaper one has heated seats and new tires. The more expensive one doesn't but has led light package and is well over half way through the tire life.
 

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The cheaper one also has the 3.6 engine and the expensive one has 2.0 engine. I believe for 2018 all of the 2.0 had the etorque. I would test drive both and not worry about the miles much.
 

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Other difference is Newer one is I4 turbo with tow package and Older one is 3.6L V6.

You will get better gas mileage from the newer one but I have the 3.6L and love it
 

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Other difference is Newer one is I4 turbo with tow package and Older one is 3.6L V6.

You will get better gas mileage from the newer one but I have the 3.6L and love it
Also depends on your usage. My commute is 3 miles each way. Not enough time to properly warm up the turbos. I wanted a naturally aspirated engine due to this, so went with 3.6.
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