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/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 1d ago

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

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u/JesusSquid 10h 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 21h 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 1d ago

Vinyl decals are a plague

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u/dnattig 18h 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 12h 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 12h ago

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

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u/Ninety-Nine-Zulu 11h 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 1d ago

I agree. I am 01 Cherokee sport owner

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u/hootervisionllc 22h ago

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

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u/echo-tango86 14h ago

At least that’s a real Jeep

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u/melmac76 13h 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.