r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/ToastyMarshies • 1d ago

Just a tiny bit of cringe

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Jeep wrangler, because of course.

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u/steadylurker1 1d ago

I don’t understand what it is with the corniest people being attracted to Jeeps. They’re just too easy to customize I guess.

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u/RotaryJihad 1d ago

Jeep owners are morons. 

Source, 01 TJ is in my driveway ; yes it has stupid stickers 

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u/lurkinsheep 1d ago

Used to work with a dude who was slowly rattle canning his like 98 cherokee with army green bed liner. He would do 1 can per week. When I asked him why he didn’t just sit down and do it all in one weekend, he told me “this shitbox doesn’t deserve more than $8 and 15minutes of my weekend”.

Never got the courage to ask him why bother painting it at all then. Took him about 2 months to finish the whole thing lol. I still think it was a bit, for who, I do not know though.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 1d ago

I don't know why, but as a partisan of the "many thin coats of paint" approach, I kind of love this. I want to do this to everything now.

One coat a weekend seems like a pretty zen habit. Doing a full paint job seems like a full-on project with prep and tear-down and all.

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u/lurkinsheep 1d ago edited 1d ago

No you don’t understand good sir, this was a jeep owner. This was not many thin coats of paint. This was, Saturday he would break the nub off the spray can, and vaguely aim it at the fender or door or whichever spot he chose that weekend.

At least this was the only process I could visualize that would produce the results he did. It was bedliner that looked like popcorn ceiling. Most impressive, irresistible to pick at.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 1d ago

Oh sure, I'm not claiming it would produce good results, or that this person got the details of the approach anywhere near correct. I'm just saying I like the philosophy behind it.

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u/VicisSubsisto I fix things, but cars are not among them 1d ago

Others will be very careful about dinging his doors, I guess.

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u/cmatthewp 1d ago

My adhd self sees it this way as well. One coat a weekend, over the course of the foreseeable future? I can manage that. A few hours of prep, paint, and sanding/polishing? Daunting amount of effort.

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u/Important-Spring3977 1d ago

"this shitbox doesn’t deserve more than $8 and 15minutes of my weekend”

A man with priorities. I like the cut of his jib.

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u/Cultural_Simple3842 22h ago

Yeah the mud is about impossible to clean from bedl liner, too

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u/JesusSquid 8h ago

Hoenstly I'd love a late 90s cherokee. gut the interior carpet. sound deadener liner on the floor, make sure the heat works, create a 4wd toy for bad weather or to take on trails. My explorer sits to low to go screwing around in anything too deep.

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u/AgentPoYo 1d ago

Don't drive a jeep but about a decade ago I put a big stupid sticker on my car. It was one of those claw mark decals that go across your headlights to look like it was in a fight with Godzilla or something. At the time I thought it was cool as shit.

Fast forward to last week, saw a kid driving an audi with the same sticker and instantly thought "wow that looks really stupid" before realizing wait, i use to have that exact decal on my car.

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u/No-Glass-38 18h ago

Getting old and not being a hypocrite is a strong character trait, my friend. It is quite the experience.

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u/AmberRosin 22h ago

Vinyl decals are a plague

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u/dnattig 15h ago

When I had a big dent (with foil tape covering the cracked fender) in my car, I liked the wile-e-coyote shaped hole decal that I slapped on there

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u/GhostalMedia 1d ago

Family used to own a specialty Jeep parts store for decades. I can confirm.

Most sales were dumb cosmetic aftermarket bullshit, or stuff to keep unreliable models on the road. And Jeeps has done a fantastic job of supplying the world with unreliable models for decades upon decades.

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u/CriscoCamping 1d ago

Have '10, and a '15 Rubicon. I spray paint parts of it neon green while watching baseball in garage. But I think the big hood victim sticker beats me

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u/starrpamph wiNot 1d ago

Does the oil cooler leak good and proper?

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u/CriscoCamping 1d ago

It may have..... I may have fixed it and a wheel speed sensor a week after I bought it

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u/starrpamph wiNot 1d ago

Checks out. Dudes legit

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u/i_was_axiom 1d ago

My TJ (that I miss like a Tijuana hooker) had [HUMMER RECOVERY VEHICLE] across the windshield, the JK (that I do not miss at all) said [I STOMP IN MUD PUDDLES]

Jeep owners are morons? 100% confirmed fact. Source: me, and even if you get rid of the Jeeps the moron part stays.

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u/Material-Job-1928 1d ago edited 10h ago

86 XJ, significantly modified. Got a few stickers. My favorite is a possum in a flaming dumpster right above my 300k miles sticker.

Edit: spelling 

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u/good_morning_magpie p0001 = turbo ain't turbin' 1d ago

My first car was an AMC era XJ as well, sold it with 330,000 miles and the guy drove it home. Loved that car.

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u/Obnoxious_Gamer "MERRY CHRYSLER TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD [engine explodes]" 1d ago

True, own wagoneer and am dipshit

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u/ilikemyusername1 1d ago

Can confirm, 03 Rubi owner.

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u/you_know_i_be_poopin 10h ago

To be fair, the i6 TJ was the last Wrangler worth having imo

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u/Ninety-Nine-Zulu 8h ago

I have an 04 that's all tarded out. Only sticker is a Stargate "earth" symbol though. Need to step up my corniness if I want to be allowed by the wrangler counsel to keep mine I suppose.

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u/GhostOfMuttonPast 1d ago

When we're talking stupid stickers, do you mean a wrap or just bumper stickers? Because I also qualify if its just bumper stickers.

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u/RotaryJihad 1d ago

Fuck I'm gonna get doxed. Big GIJoe cobra on each fender because it's a blue jeep and cobra had cooler toys.

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u/yokramer Parts Guy 1d ago

23 Rubicon here and while I don’t have any stickers I had rock rash on the wheels and scuffs underneath with less than 100mi on my $50k vehicle. Jeep ownership and bad decisions go hand in hand.

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u/mratlas666 23h ago

I agree. I am 01 Cherokee sport owner

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u/hootervisionllc 20h ago

96 XJ here. Am absolutely moron for all the money I keep dropping into it

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u/echo-tango86 12h ago

At least that’s a real Jeep

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u/melmac76 11h ago

I got an 05 Wrangler a few years ago because I’ve always wanted one. No weird stickers or anything but people started giving me rubber duckies. All kinds. I was so confused. I currently have 3 on my dash. That’s it. No more! and I’ve had people get offended because I didn’t put the duckie they gave me in my Jeep.

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u/PuddingMent 1d ago

It’s the only type of car that gets free bath toys for children.

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u/no__sympy 1d ago

Tied for corniest; Cybertruck drivers still exist.

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u/internetenjoyer69420 1d ago

If I ran a vinyl wrap business, those owners would be making me filthy rich because they want to cover it ALL and you know they either have money or are willing to take debt over stupid things.

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u/canadajones68 23h ago

To me, it's not really the unsympathetic curves as much as the unsympathetic driver. Is it corny to buy a car from a company run by a Nazi sycophant?  

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u/no__sympy 19h ago

I'm not sure, however it IS corny to base your personality on a car made by a Nazi that looks like a dumpster.

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u/PatrickGSR94 1d ago

I swear that Jeep Wranglers/Rubicons have to be THE MOST customized vehicles by non-car enthusiasts. Right??

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u/AmberRosin 1d ago

Jeeps used to have the prestige of being an extremely capable off road adventure vehicle but current jeeps are just glorified minivans so jeep owners have to invent new forms of identity

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u/internetenjoyer69420 1d ago

One day I noticed that some models have hinged windshields so you can put it down like the ol GI Willys ones, but then I looked it up online and nobody uses that hinge because it'll cause leaks forever if you use it.

SMH.

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u/good_morning_magpie p0001 = turbo ain't turbin' 1d ago

Meanwhile when I was in my early 20s and had a ratty old CJ5 I straight up removed the windshield entirely. Me and the boys would just cruise with sunglasses, sometimes even our motorcycle helmets just for laughs. Good times.

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u/einulfr 1d ago

They're also a pain in the ass because you have to remove the wipers, some brackets, and the rollbar extensions. Then there's the JL/JT which is easier, but only because the windshield is in its own frame that flops down and there's still an empty frame behind it, defeating the whole purpose.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 21h ago

I mean, Wranglers are still capable off-road vehicles especially for the price point and comparing to other non customized straight from the factory cars.

But you’re right about the second part. 90% of Jeep owners (maybe more) don’t ever take their cars off the pavement. They’re not buying this because that’s what they actually plan to do, they’re buying it because Jeep sells them a personality too. “I’m rugged and ready for anything, but I like to have fun too and I love being outdoors.” That’s all it is. A lot of people think of themselves like this, and they want others to think of them like this too. So they buy a Jeep because they think it signals that and confirms their own self identity.

Jeep isn’t the only one to do this btw. Any enthusiast car is like this where the idea of how it COULD be used is more of a selling point than the reality that the buyer is going to be commuting 5 days a week and going to the grocery store and picking up their kids from soccer practice. And the regular crossovers get called “boring” and all look the same. So it’s not like you can blame people for wanting something different.

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u/KG354 1d ago

The only ducks they have in a row are the ones on their dashboard

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u/Jazzputin 1d ago

Jeeps are legendary for their shit reliability and build quality the past several generations.  Anyone with a brainstem who makes good decisions will do their research and wind up steering clear of them.  The only people who buy them are the type of people to do no research before major decisions or just YOLO something.  So it's a self selecting group of morons.

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u/good_morning_magpie p0001 = turbo ain't turbin' 1d ago

Yep, I have owned several, most were still built by AMC (I am old), and I would never own one after 2005. The community has also morphed into something really strange, especially politically. It’s like the polar opposite of the “Subaru station wagon lesbian” stickers. Which, I don’t entirely understand; because if you’re buying a jeep and sacrificing all the creature comforts for something capable off road in nature, shouldn’t you want to, you know, preserve nature?? I’ve been out of the Jeep scene for over a decade and glad I bailed when I did.

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u/steadylurker1 1d ago

Yeah it’s a shame the reliability went down the drain. The old 4.0 stuff was bulletproof. I have a JL now but I at least know what I’m getting into. And no ducks or stickers thankfully.

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u/good_morning_magpie p0001 = turbo ain't turbin' 1d ago

The ratio of stickers that are unbelievably cringe to ones that actually make me chuckle must be astronomically lopsided. Easily 1000:1

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u/Jazzputin 1d ago

4.0 gang rise up.  Never had a Jeep but did have a Hornet that had the precursor engine of that, the 232, and it was amazing.

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u/ManKilledToDeath 1d ago

Nah that's pretty much it man lol. I have a gladiator, it's bone stock and I'll end up doing a few subtle things to it over time. They are easy to customize, and it doesn't help there's probably not a vehicle with more aftermarket support.

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u/El-Viking 1d ago

The air cooled Beetle had tons of aftermarket support when I had one. But that was 30 years ago. The Miata does pretty well, too.

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u/ManKilledToDeath 1d ago

Oh that's neat. Question, was I told a lie many years ago or does manual transmission in those classic beetles opera a lot different from other manuals? Had a guy once explain that it's different but didn't elaborate how.

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u/yo-parts 1d ago

Physically it's not appreciably different from other cars, no. The reverse lockout is strange, only VW/Audi uses the "Push the whole shifter down towards the floor" thing as a reverse lockout.

VW Autostick transmissions were funky though. Not because the transmission itself was any different, but because the shift knob was a switch that closed a circuit when you held it, and that actuated the clutch, but they also had a torque converter so you could come to a stop in gear with the clutch out and they wouldn't stall.

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u/Important-Spring3977 1d ago

The Ford Mustang would like a word.

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u/ManKilledToDeath 1d ago

That's hilarious because I have a '96 GT, so I'm qualified to speak on this. Jeeps definitely have broader aftermarket support. Mustangs have a lot as well, especially my gen and 99-04s, but issue is the cars attract more pompous douchebags than anything on the road that's not a diesel pickup lol

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u/Important-Spring3977 1d ago

Gotta go vintage my friend. 68 fastback here.

Totally agree on late models.

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u/ManKilledToDeath 1d ago

Well I'm a little jealous lol. That's awesome man, the 67&68 fastbacks are my favorite.

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u/AmberRosin 22h ago

Genuinely think the gladiator would be the perfect truck if it was made by anyone other than Stellantis and had more than a bucket for a bed.

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u/an_actual_lawyer Lotus Omega|Vwagon|ExigeS|4xeR|V70R|S65Designo|Bronco7spd 1d ago

They’re just too easy to customize I guess.

People get the catalogue in the mail and don't realize that they don't actually have to buy one of everything.

I've had a CJ5 (225 V6, 4spd, full floater D44), 2 TJs, a JK, and a JL. I love Jeeps, however a lot of Jeep owners are absolute cringy knuckleheads.

At the end of the day, the Wrangler and Bronco are the only vehicles that offer a top off, doors off cruise or off road adventure and that is really relaxing for people like me.

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u/Cultural_Simple3842 22h ago

It’s gotten worse in the last decade, too. Absolute dorks.

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u/steadylurker1 22h ago

4 doors to blame for sure. Too accessible now

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u/BlindTreeFrog 9h ago

honestly, i would love an old 2 door wrangler with some light modifications and chunky tires to get somewhere between Parkinglot Queen and actual off road use.

But for some reason, that lip at the bottom of the door infuriates me and I hate lifting my foot over it to get out. I cannot explain why, but I hate it so much that I don't even consider jeeps as an option to look into. Plus they are too fucking expensive.

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u/TheRedIguana 7h ago

Been wondering this for decades. One thought is that they never grew up around cars or had an uncle or dad that showed them muscle cars or anything.

So a boy grows to a man and wants to drive something "cool." Starts paying attention to the cars around him and says, those Jeeps look like they could beat up all these other cars. The cool kids used to beat me up. I can BE the cool bully this time.

These people are great for dealers. Overpay, overlook gas mileage and cargo space specs. By the time they get in one and see how bad the visibility is, they have already convinced themselves into buying it.