MCosta

Hey fellow Jeepers! My name is Matt & I'm proud to say my first vehicle of mine is a Jeep & I love it! For starters I only paid $1,000 at an auction in CT last March. It's a 1994 Grand Cherokee Laredo V8, I have only put in a little over another $1,000 to get it running and looking the way it does almost a year later! My family has also been a huge Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep family. My uncle currently drives an Unlimited Wrangler & has owned a Grand Cherokee ZJ in the past, my aunt has a 2004 WJ Columbia Edition 4.7 HO V8, another aunt drives a 2006 (don't quote me on the year) diesel Grand Cherokee, my father has a 89 Comanche 4.0L 5 speed 2wd short bed (planning on making it a 4WD soon) another uncle has a 2004 Grand Cherokee limited, my cousin currently drives a 1996 Cherokee Classic. Now for the list of Jeeps one of my cousins has owned lol he owned a 2007 JK which he traded in on a Dodge Challenger R/T then went back to Jeeps buying a early 90s 5 speed Cherokee for a daily driver which is now going to be transitioned into an off-road vehicle to be the sibling of his other XJ that is already set-up for off-road (bring both of those to Dummond Island, Michigan this summer) he has owned two previous off-road vehicles (one a XJ and the other a ZJ) & now he drives a 97 ZJ Laredo 4.0L

Attached photos are of my 94 ZJ when I first got it and how it looks today, and one recent picture with my dad's Comanche .. since I have owned it I have done the following:
-hinge pins on drivers door
-updated to a 96-98 style ZJ lift gate with an opening rear window
-front brakes (pads, rotors, calipers)
-rear shocks (coil over shocks)
-new cat-back exhaust (dynomax)
-new water pump
-lower & upper radiator hoses
-driver side motor mount
-front end alignment
-2 new tires
-96-98 ZJ style Laredo wheels
-Serpentine Belt
-Oil Sending Unit
-Starter
-Battery
-Front axle shafts
-trailer hitch
-Bug deflector
-5" inch KC Apollo series fog lights
-tinted windows
-plugs/wires/cap&rotor
-New headlights (from Rock Auto)
-painted body cladding, bumpers and roof rack in spray on truck bed liner

just as a note, i myself did not pay for all of these items (some of them were gifts between my birthday, christmas, and my parents helping out some as well, after all i'm a poor college kid lol)

Future Plans for my Jeep is to change out my transfer case to have a 2WD option and update my front end (grille, bumper, Etc) to a 98-98 style.

Gee oh Dee

Welcome to our forum!

MCosta

Thanks! found you guys when I was searching google when i had starting problems with my Jeep!

ol"blue

Hey Matt, great looking ZJ, and nice MJ too.

Welcome to CF.

1ATony

Welcome to the site Matt, great to have another ZJ guy on the board. Love the MJ too.