Selling the Jeep will make you hate yourself, and every day with that Accord will make you feel like you sold your testicles to the devil, or to your wife if she doesn't already have them in her purse. Let her drive that mini van and don't you dare sell that wicked cool Jeep that has your soul imbedded into every beautiful suspension and body part. You're driving your dream dude. Tell your kids their option is to go to a state school, and make sure their high school grades are good enough to get scholarships because you're not going to put $40,000 a year into a kid that ends up getting a BA in English and working at Barnes And Noble and living with YOU in the family room that you planned on turning into your man cave when the kids LEFT home, IE they don't. Long sentence, sorry. My dad was an English Professor so I had tuition abatement and didn't cost my parents quite as much as my friends did. My sentence structure still sucks. My wife and I don't have children so unfortunately my advice is perhaps , in your case a bit reckless, but you only live ONCE. That's also debatable in my opinion. Quite a few friends and family died before they hit 50 so in my opinion, life is short, keep the Jeep!!.
Put more money into the Jeep. The Harley is suicide. Coming from a guy who was a Paramedic and also owned a bike shop at one point. By the way, are you paying for grad school or is she. You know as well as I do she's going to need that MA. Either way you sound like a good dad. God Bless.
I wont put more money into the Jeep but I also wont be buying that new Harley. I have been riding for 38 plus years, in rural Vermont , and I am actually considering selling my present bike and packing it in. I have put it down once, avoiding a deer ,been very fortunate. I know you are right.
Did you upgrade your steering at all? Once I upgraded to steersmarts I've been pretty happy with mine.
that's why I always say most people are weekend warriors. I see people spending tens of thousands of dollars putting all this expensive hardcore stuff on a Jeep which is their right to do its their Jeep but they never use it. They don't go out there and need all the undercarriage protection and everything because they're just weekend warriors like myself. I can only go one weekend a month if I'm lucky when kids are in college so we're traveling every weekend just about to go see my daughter she dances and performs at football games. Then if you got other kids doing soccer and football that takes a lot of your time on the weekends when you have kids. Their activities come first at least they do in my family
I love this jeep and have put a ton of time/money into building it...but life changes happen. I have a RK trackbar and stock draglink/tie rod and owe $28k on it and listed it on Autotrader, cars.com and facebook marketplace. I would keep it if it was still a daily driver like it has been, but the new job involving driving 35-40k miles/yr, I didn't want to put that many miles on it or pay for gas/maintenance. With a 4th kid on the way and the older kids starting sports, there's less time for jeeping. It's simply not worth it in this situation at $550/month + $62/month insurance for an occasionally driven wknd toy. I also dont like taking an expensive jeep offroad because I'm constantly mindful of avoiding scratching/breaking stuff. The plan is to sell the jl, save some $ and wait a bit to make sure the new job is going well...then pay cash for an older mall crawler jk rubi lifted on 35's with lockers and start doing some tougher trails.
Here's the listing if you want another sweet JL with alot of upgrades:
Guess you have to keep itIronically, this site decides to feature my build today..
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