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The ‘24 order banks opened up yesterday and I put down a deposit on a 2 door heritage but still waiting on an order confirmation. :shaking:
 
WashingtonMatt said:
Geez, my '21 build MSRP has gone up 10K. Two years later I can still sell mine for more than I paid. It's not supposed to work that way. My EB has gone up like a 1,000% since I bought it too. I guess I need to make more of these poor financial decisions.
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Same but different: in 2011, my wife sold her '06 TRD Taco to the dealership for $2k under her 2006 OTD price (great condition + scarcity due to Fukushima reactor meltdown). Then she bought her '11 FJC TRD which, with < 60k on the odometer, is worth > her OTD cost from 12 years ago. I make up for her good luck with regard to vehicle resale values :laughing:
 
WashingtonMatt said:
Geez, my '21 build MSRP has gone up 10K. Two years later I can still sell mine for more than I paid. It's not supposed to work that way. My EB has gone up like a 1,000% since I bought it too. I guess I need to make more of these poor financial decisions.
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Yup, replicating my '22 badlands, minus the optional beadlocks that were dropped as an option this year, is just at $10k more that I paid last summer. Only real difference is now its up to a 10 speaker stereo, which I'm sure is still complete dogshit like the rest of them have been.
 
ExWrench said:
Same but different: in 2011, my wife sold her '06 TRD Taco to the dealership for $2k under her 2006 OTD price (great condition + scarcity due to Fukushima reactor meltdown). Then she bought her '11 FJC TRD which, with < 60k on the odometer, is worth > her OTD cost from 12 years ago. I make up for her good luck with regard to vehicle resale values :laughing:
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Let me tell you about this crazy thing called inflation
 
posford said:
Let me tell you about this crazy thing called inflation
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I think the FJC is more a case of rarity due to ceased production. An '11 Taco TRD w/60k miles ain't worth 40-50 grand. Hell, the FJ isn't either, except that some idiots are willing to offer it :laughing:
 
muddyrover said:
Officially no more Base model.
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posford said:
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Agreed. Having to buy a 12-speaker stereo package to get desirable mechanical features is lame. Unfortunately, Jeep is functionally their only direct competitor and they're on the same luxo-wheeler bandwagon :frown:
 
ExWrench said:
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Agreed. Having to buy a 12-speaker stereo package to get desirable mechanical features is lame. Unfortunately, Jeep is functionally their only direct competitor and they're on the same luxo-wheeler bandwagon :frown:
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Means the strip model 2 door basesquatch I'll be looking for in another 4-8 years is going to be unpossible :shaking:

Add this to the list of reasons I'm just going to continue to fix old shit
 
gt1guy said:
Finally stood next to a new Bronco today. A 4dr one.

Damn things are huge. Bigger than my JKU by a good bit.

I thought they'd be smaller
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Size is mandated by CAFE requirements. Required fuel mileage is determined by footprint, which is track width X wheelbase. Any non-electric is made stupid wide to lower the economy requirements. Anything the size of an early Bronco (37 ft²) has to get 40-50 mpg now which defies physics for something lifted with big tires.

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Quick & Dirty said:
Size is mandated by CAFE requirements. Required fuel mileage is determined by footprint, which is track width X wheelbase. Any non-electric is made stupid wide to lower the economy requirements. Anything the size of an early Bronco (37 ft²) has to get 40-50 mpg now which defies physics for something lifted with big tires.

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Goes to show that the auto manufacturers aren't building the vehicle they want to or that you want. They're building autos that the government allows them to.
 
Price out some of the fancier mirror and headlights too. Not just on Fords but all of them. And if that scares you wander over to Merdedes/Audi/Lexus and look at some of the LED or bi-xenon headlights. With modules you can spend $5k on a headlight in a heartbeat.
 
Mercedesrover said:
Price out some of the fancier mirror and headlights too. Not just on Fords but all of them. And if that scares you wander over to Merdedes/Audi/Lexus and look at some of the LED or bi-xenon headlights. With modules you can spend $5k on a headlight in a heartbeat.
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Continuing on this slippery slope;
$21,000+ for a Bugatti Veyron oil change appears more reasonable, eh?:lmao::eek:
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
Repair costs are out of control, I'm so glad I can fix all my own shit.
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It doesn't sound like the repair costs are the problem. Its the cost of the parts. When the smallest item on the bill is the labor costs, it doesn't matter how good one can fix something, when the parts are 90% of the issue.
 
Howdy said:
It doesn't sound like the repair costs are the problem. Its the cost of the parts. When the smallest item on the bill is the labor costs, it doesn't matter how good one can fix something, when the parts are 90% of the issue.
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I'm constantly amazed that there isn't more aftermarket for this shit.

You can send an ECU out in the mail and some guy will pick it apart, fix it and send it back for a couple hundred bucks.

Why aren't people, if not in the first world then in the third, de-laminating and re-sealing, replacing reflectors, etc, etc, on these $500+ OEM light assemblies?
 
arse_sidewards said:
I'm constantly amazed that there isn't more aftermarket for this shit.

You can send an ECU out in the mail and some guy will pick it apart, fix it and send it back for a couple hundred bucks.

Why aren't people, if not in the first world then in the third, de-laminating and re-sealing, replacing reflectors, etc, etc, on these $500+ OEM light assemblies?
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I've seen FB vids of Pakistani/4th world nation people doing exactly that.:laughing:

Taking a headlight-taillight completely apart/buff-polish both inside and outside the lens/clean everything up/reassemble-reseal said headlights-taillights.
Profit.:smokin:
 
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