I love ignorant Jeep owners

[JeepZJ4.0]

To make a long story short... this guy owns a $40K Grand Cherokee Overland with the 4.7L HO and has changed the oil 3 times in 40K miles.

http://www.jeepsunlimited.com/forums/showthread.php?t=634813

Go read it. I tried saving him but he just brushed off our advice...

 

[brianl703]

He lives in Lansdowne, VA..he can probably afford to buy a new one every year.

Knowing what Northern VA traffic is like, I doubt he's using it for non-severe use.

 

[Geoff]

His '96 Laredo is for sale. Any takers?

 

[rgl]

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I tried saving him but he just brushed off our advice...

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He should be encouraged to never change the everlasting gobstopper dino oil. What's the point, if he's right?

 

[JeepZJ4.0]

Oh, I should mention that he's using conventional oil.

 

[TooManyWheels]

You could assume he is about to change it for the fourth time, which would bring the average OCI down to 10K.

 

[brianl703]

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Originally posted by Geoff:
His '96 Laredo is for sale. Any takers?

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Yes, please, sign me up for an almost 10-year-old vehicle with questionable oil change maintenance that probably spent a good portion of it's life sitting in rush-hour traffic for 3 hours a day.

 

[Drew99GT]

You know what ****** me off is I know a few people that have this mentality and their cars seeem to last just as well as people who are fanatic like us. Oh well, our cars run better and what can I say. I get satisfaction from taking care of equipment. Cars are depreciating assets, you may as well get as much use out of them as possible.

 

[rjundi]

The truth is if this owner keeps the vehicle less than 100k miles I bet it be running well enough at trade-in. So this interval may suit the owner's needs.

 

[brianl703]

I'd love to see the emissions results for the last test on this vehicle. Actually, if I had the VIN, I could look them up online.

 

[JeepZJ4.0]

I love how he doesn't care that a new engine costs 6000 bucks and oil changes cost him less than 20. Stupidity right there.

 

[cousincletus]

The 4.7 supposedly has the potential to be a sludge engine too. May be ok using synthetic but no way I would use dino. I guess if the engine sludges up he'll blame Chrysler for it.

 

[JeepZJ4.0]

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Originally posted by cousincletus:
The 4.7 supposedly has the potential to be a sludge engine too. May be ok using synthetic but no way I would use dino. I guess if the engine sludges up he'll blame Chrysler for it.

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Yeah... i've been reading that but it only seems to be in 4.7L V8s that don't follow proper oil change intervals.