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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 12:45 AM
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What kind of treats did you find working on your Cherokee that the previous owner cobbled together for you to deal with?

-example: Was looking into replacing shocks, looked at the upper rear shock mounts, WELDED! When they were putting the lift in they broke the upper bolts off in the rear. Instead of drilling and tapping the holes, it seemed like a good idea to them to just weld in the new shocks. I can hardly wait to change them now!
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 01:02 AM
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that sucks that is what i call stupid. hope they did not weld the ujoints on or something else
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 01:14 AM
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haha that sucks, my 89 wich i recently sold had a nightmare of wireing. Like i mean i had to run new wires for every speaker, i pluged it a wire that was labled drivers door and the window started rolling down haha that thing was a freaking nightmare
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 01:20 AM
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Sounds like my Jeep, headlights are wired so they come on with the key, The thing caught fire on the way home back in Jan, Lost lights on the interstate tonight, and the floor is patched with road signs, Ohhhhh and the exhaust has about 300 clamps hahaha
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 02:47 AM
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ive had a rocker cover literally glued on, took like an hour to get it off.
im sure theres other stuff but cant think right now, theres some weirdos out there !!!!
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 10:47 PM
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I found a spoon under the seat lol
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 10:51 PM
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There was a bunch of little stuff like the radio was wired wrong, but the worst was that the seller put odor eater in that lasted until I rolled down the window in the interstate only to get physically ill on the 2 hour drive home from dog **** saturated carpet. What a mess of a drive that was.

s
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 10:55 PM
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that sux. spun bearing, hole in the #6 piston
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 11:40 PM
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i found several little things, like that most everything was covered in makeup, and a grape flavered cigar under the drivers seat
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 11:50 PM
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I found a butter knife and my hatch panel is woodcscrewed on
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 08:33 AM
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I found a CD holder that had about 10 disc's in it, They were oldies classic rock (Like Me)
AAAh you just gotta love jeep people...lol...Tj

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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 08:57 AM
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oh, and i found a cd that said GREATEST SONGS EVER and it had to have the worst music ive ever heard if you can even call it music, it reminded me of 6 dieing cats+3 1/2 dieing buffalos.
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 09:27 AM
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I found a screwdriver plus all my windows were covered in an aged bubbled tint that took over an hour each to get clean.
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 09:41 AM
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The ' 94 Cherokee I bought 2 years ago, the P.O. decided to wire up the headlights to the stereo. So if I want to play the stereo, without the key in, all I have to do is turn headlights on.
Mac
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 09:55 AM
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Three open cans of 3in1, a Garcia fishing rod and reel, 2.00 plus in change under the rear bench seat and a pot pipe cocked and loaded.
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