do people ever "touch" your xj?
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From: Lynchburg, Va.
Year: 1998
Model: Grand Cherokee
Engine: 5.2/318 MSD Electronic Upgrades
I don't get this in my XJ. Its stock and no one gives a cap about it.
But...
When I'm out in the Samurai, It gets molested everywhere. I'll come out of a store and there is always someone either under it looking, leaning inside it, bending down beside it looking. I just ask them what they are doing and can I help them. Its never been a problem. I just say "well I gotta go" to keep from getting my head talked off about it. There isn't anything worth taking that someone can get easily in or on it. This doesn't bother me, guess I'm used to it.
But...
When I'm out in the Samurai, It gets molested everywhere. I'll come out of a store and there is always someone either under it looking, leaning inside it, bending down beside it looking. I just ask them what they are doing and can I help them. Its never been a problem. I just say "well I gotta go" to keep from getting my head talked off about it. There isn't anything worth taking that someone can get easily in or on it. This doesn't bother me, guess I'm used to it.
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From: Bloomington, MN
Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
Nothing like that, but whenever I take it in to a shop the mechanics are all over me(I have a regular mechanic who does anything major, but the exhaust, tire and alignment guys are all over it). Telling me how clean it is, how nice the lift setup is(my buddy who helped me has been putting lifts in trucks since he was 14 so my 2" lift with new springs was a cake setup for him) Asking me if I've ever had death wobble or vibration issues (no to both) and in general being amazed that there is a '96 in Northern MN/WI that is this clean with all the salt we use up here. Makes me proud if I might say so myself!
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From: CT.
Year: 88
Model: Comanche (MJ)
Engine: 4.0 HO
And besides there's usually nothing to take since I have no key to the doors except a crappy cb radio and a stereo that won't play cd's and a beat up tool box with crap tools in it.
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From: muskogee oklahoma
Year: 1988
Model: Cherokee
Engine: I6
I have a habit of when I see a lifted vehicle I see if they did a crappy job or if it is something I should watch out for when I'm with my family... ALOT of rednecks doing unsafe lifting in these parts(using thin tubing and bailing wire)... And second I want to see if it is actually four wheel drive... Alot of lifted non four wheel drives also... No touchy though...
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From: Northern Vermont
Year: '89
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 242
i had just pulled into walmart, gf called, as i'm talkin to her sitting in a parking spot this dude walkes up to my truck, checkin it out i guess, then starts touching all over my tires and what not, needless to say i told my gf i had to go and stepped out of my jeep asked the dude wtf are you doing? he just stuttered a bit then walked away. Has anyone else had some weird stuff like this happen?
So Bizarre!!! I wouldve said the same thing too...
Never had this happen to me though
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From: meriden Ct
Year: 2000
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
that is weird, I dont know how many people have touched my tires. I have stupid Cepeck crushers and they do look pretty odd.
one day at work I came outside to see a guy laying under my jeep parked int he street. I asked him what he was looking for and he wanted to see if I had a SYE with so much lift lol.
I have stupid Cepeck crushers and they do look pretty odd.one day at work I came outside to see a guy laying under my jeep parked int he street. I asked him what he was looking for and he wanted to see if I had a SYE with so much lift lol.
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From: somewhere Gee oh Dee cant find me...
Year: 1995
Model: Cherokee
Engine: I6 4.0L
i dont have ppl touchin my tires cuz their stock, but everyone has to mess with my dual 106" CB whips. there on springs and everyone at school has to go up and shake them so they look like a fast moving wave
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From: In a constant state of confusion
Year: 1989
Model: Wagoneer
Engine: 4.o
Not that I know of but if they did I wouldnt care. I run it threw the woods so what are fingers going to do to it. I wouldnt want someone getting inside of it unless they were a naked hot chick.
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From: PA
Year: 2000
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
Haha I'm a major Jeep Perv by the looks of it - whenever I see any Cherokee, any Jeep, any nice looking truck or 4x4, I always feel a need to touch the tires - something I didn't actually realize until I read this thread and thought about it LOL
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From: south bend indiana
Year: 1993
Model: Cherokee(XJ)
Engine: 4.0 i six H.O.
no one touchin mine as far as i know,but alot of people reading my stickers. like the 60ish couple reading, mable> it says mud makes me hungry, floyd> no mable it says mud makes me horny!
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From: Chesapeake, Virginia
Year: 2002
Model: Grand Cherokee
Engine: 4.7
yeah i get the bumper pullers, people are funny to watch, when me and my buddy parked on some snow piles and we had our jeeps flexed wayy out there was like a group of like 10 kids my age taking pictures standing next to them and stuff, i didnt care we just watched them and laughed, when we went out there one girl, who was kinda cute i might add was like posing on the tire, they all freaked out when we walked out, i was like no wait come back i dont care haha it was funny, i get a lot of picture takers, and a lot of little kids wanting to touch it i dont know why