I hate Jeeps
Dad ran an auto repair shop for the last 45 years and says they are the single worst brand of vehicle you can buy, I don't even think that's why I hate them so bad though
He also said they are generally annoying customers
These ducks they put all over their interiors is the cringiest shit ever and I can't even explain why it bothers me so much
If you follow any offroad forums you'll notice the jeep people will use insufferable vocabulary such as "my hubby" or "fur babies" or "puppers"
What's wrong with these people and why do they buy these cars?
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No, the custom 'angry headlights' are the cringiest shit ever.
Now I want to put ducks all over my Chevy, give it an angry eye mod and plaster "It's a Jeep thing" stickers on the back.
now i wanna do this on my honda ruckus
Get an “It’s a Joop Thing” sticker.
The stampings on the fenders would say joop once the “ee” decal faded or rubbed off.
The stickers with paw prints instead of e’s confuse the fuck out of me. On what planet does 🐾 look like “ee”?
I read them as “Joop,” always.
I'm kinda glad to learn they're custom. I didn't think even US automakers were that tacky.
It all seems pretty innocent to me
Yeah that pisses me off too - total wimps pretending they are outdoorsy badasses
It… pisses you off that Jeep owners have some innocent fun?
They aren't having fun tho, unless they like the pain and humiliation from keeping one running
Do you actually think that they're pretending to be badass? Isn't it more likely that they just thought it looked neat?
For me, most of the time these things come down to, "It's not what I would do in that situation," which is a bit ineffable, so it's easy to be annoyed by something that feels incorrect because I can't really explain why I feel that way.
You seem like absolutely no fun to hang out with lol.
I don't own a jeep, but they are fine dude. If you want to hate a brand of car, go with the swasticars.
I hate any vehicle that encourages social interaction. That's why I drive a surplus police car: people don't even wanna make eye contact with me!
If you are old school and it is a crown vic nobody gives you shit because it looks amazing and functions well when you remove the cop shit.
Taurus based interceptor. With the supercharged Mustang engine. It's fun to drive, heh.
i believe the Taurus was FWD and couldn't be optioned with a V8. maybe you're thinking of the panther body (Crown Vic/Grand Marquis/Town Car). imo the panther body is the most iconic interceptor.
No, most of the Taurus interceptors are AWD, and all are v6. Mine is the 3.5l Ecoboost twin turbo, I got pretty lucky getting it.
The brand is expensive while marketing itself as rugged and for active people. So the target demographic is basically wealthy granola folk
Cosplaying hippies. Dad likely already bought them a ticket for next year's Shambhala
I agree with 100% of everything you just said. I can't stand Jeep people. That fucking wave they do to each other... God it drives me crazy.
I'll add RAM and Dodge owners to this list. They're all assholes in a hurry.
They are douchebags but they aren't brutally annoying like jeep people are
Fair, but they're all part of the same conglomerate, so equal treatment
Something about jeeps gives me an irrational feeling of hatred though. I don't like dodges or teslas either but those for some reason don't give me the same intense feelings lol
I would put jeeps on par with harley davidson motorcycles in terms of annoying
Oh hell yeah. Hard agree.
I own one and don't see anyone on the road calmer than us. It is a minivan though.
Durango is the main Dodge culprit
I assumed the ram after the jeep.
They have a wave? How did I not know this.
Oh yeah. When they pass another jeep they lift 2 or so fingers from the steering wheel or if riding with no doors hang their hand out the side kinda downward.
I thought that sort of thing was exclusive to motorcycles, as a sort of a, "What we're doing is inherently more dangerous and requires a different skill set," acknowledgement, but Jeeps are just... Cars.
Yep
I just want to know why the fuck they buy like every little fucking custom accessory for their jeep. Like we get it, you want to show everyone you are different while being exactly the same as every other jeep owner
It's the angry eyes mod that kills me the most inside
At least they dont usually put one of those stupid little ladders on like Toyota people do
I wish there was an easy way to flip the angry jeep eyes upside down 🥺
Not all are like that. I bought a '04 TJ Wrangler Sport back in '16 that had the full compliment of cheap lift, shitty wheels, 35's, and so on. The thing only had 64k miles on it and was a pavement princess that had never been off-road. I bought it and then promptly took it back to factory suspension, wheels, and +1 sized tires that rode as well as could be expected. Every piece of cheap crap they put on that thing was sold and paid for it's return to factory specification. From there it was a great little cloth top Jeep that was fun to own and I smiled when I drove it.
In regard to your statement, I do despise the "I'm unique just like everyone else" crap they do to jeeps. I think it better to keep it simple and upgrade a thing only when it's necessary.
The problem is they're now so cheap and unreliable that that comes on pretty early.
Yeah, CONFORM ALREADY. Amirite guys? Please say I'm right.
Wut?
I have an old jeep, and I agree, jeep people are cringe as hell. I inherited my jeep, and like it for sentimental reasons. But it is built like shit, and probably the least practical a vehicle could possibly be.
And also I swear the “jeep person” as we know them came out of nowhere in like 2010. At least around me they had a sort of reputation as a hippie car when I was growing up.
It happened when they released the "unlimited" wranglers, the ones with 4 doors. Once "fun moms" found out about em, that was it. That did 2 things: made jeep realize they didn't need to be as rugged, and forced their "tough guy" audience to separate themselves with mods.
Yeah and just them becoming more like normal cars in general. Mine feels more like a tractor than a car, and has about as many luxuries. I never saw the duck thing or the angry eyes until after the JK had been out for a while.
I used to tell people being inside a jeep is a lot like being outside a jeep. Took a certain kind of person to be okay with that. And that’s not the case anymore.
Oh absolutely. In the end, I got rid of mine because of rust and overall growing failure list. It had 72k miles...
Picked up something more practical that passengers wouldn't get sick in from the ride, while maintaining or beating it in off-road capability.
Also, yup, it was the JK, kind of coincidental that that's the generation that made them a joke.
It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.
I think old jeeps (pre Stellantis ownership or even older) are ok. Anyone who buys a brand new Jeep product is a gullible moron.
That said, even with the old jeeps that I can appreciate, I still don't want one. At least for a daily driver. I hate the lip at the base of the door that my feet get caught on when trying to get out. The door latch on the frame always gets caught on my belt loops. They just aren't comfortable either.
I'm not sure about how annoying they are IRL, but I do notice that, on the road, they are hands-down the most reckless drivers. BMW drivers are the kind of people who don't signal, giant pickup truck drivers will pass you on the right going 40 mph over the speed limit, but jeep drivers are the kind of people that will veer over three lanes of traffick and cut in front of a semi to make their exit.
I feel like Nissan Altimas with bumpers held on by duct tape are the worst offenders of the veering across lanes and cutting people off to make an exit.
I've definitely noticed that midrange white sedans (especially Hondas and Toyotas) with visible damage are the fastest vehicles on the road. Even the guys who drive sports cars don't go as fast as a guy in a dented white Honda.
I used to call myself a jeep person, granted I've never owned one newer than 1983. The whole point of a jeep used to be that they were rugged, reliable, and most importantly utilitarian. All of that has gone out the window with the newer jeeps. Now they're just a status symbol and a way for the terminally dull to attempt to graft on a personality. That's why they customize them so much, it's more an outfit for them than a vehicle or tool.
Now they are a "status symbol" thats also incredibly poorly manufactured.
Jeepers are cringe but not as cringe as the people who get genuinely pissed off and/or upset by Jeepers.
But that's exactly what this comm is for. You wanna hate on haters you should make a new post. Then somebody can become a hater hater hater. Then the next person will make a post about hating meta.
Thanks for the tip
I know they do the duck thing but I don't think much about a jeep owner other than the fact that they bought a Chrysler product which... Is not that smart
Come to Vancouver Island, fuckers are everywhere stealing every campsite then go back to Vancouver on Monday
Not a large sample size but the two illegal campfires I spotted in the last weeks were jeep owners haha
my wife when complaining about a new dodge model said. They have jeep seats!
Look at it this way, they're telling on themselves, just like BMW and Mercedes owners. You know to stay away from them when you see them, because they're idiots.
Yikes I have a BMW haha
I respect the confidence it takes to admit that.
2011 335i, 6spd manual, just passed 10 years of ownership. I love this car with all my heart. Put the brand name aside, it's still some of the most car you can buy for under 20 grand
I am waiting for the right 987.2 cayman to pop up and then I will probably sell the BMW for it. It's the only car I can see being an actual upgrade for what I use it for
Let nobody accuse you of being inconsistent in your tastes.
That's real fun tho; I do like my car, but the downside to a comically torque-y EV is you don't really get to work on your car in any big, meaningful ways anymore. I do miss that aspect of ICE cars. All the performance mods I've done have been entirely software based.
I get why BMW gets the hate though. Like 95% of BMWs are literal trash and you'd have to be a moron to buy one. There are very few BMWs I would consider owning, and none of them are newer than 2013
Ya I'm not ready for an EV and for the reasons you state. I drive for fun. I'd rather just buy a fancy ebike than an EV. Since for me this would only come down to something that goes from point A to B.
And they used to be so great…
That's the thing that gets me about all this--the success of these cars is based largely on the past when they were built better. Now they look the part of the old-school classic Jeep but cost-reduced and modernized in ways that impinge on its capabilities and overall reliability. It's a Jeep-shaped p.o.s. from what I gather which really is a sad end for what was once such a great off-road vehicle.
Once upon a Time, the capitalist philosophy of steadily increasing profits was enough to sustain a corporation and their shareholders.
Not anymore
Now it’s an infinite-growth philosophy, where each quarter must be 1000x of greater growth than the last, and no amount of throat slitting can satiate the thirst of the shareholder. This relentless investment baking philosophy is killing us all, but first, all of these companies will eventually kill themselves.
No money to be made if they kept churning out 4.0L's. Need to sell you trash to make money
Same reason GM just discontinued the 5.3, it's too reliable to sell
Lol yeah, it's reliability is why it got a class action lawsuit.
Which had a class action lawsuit?
Oh the 5.3, yeah, the active fuel management system is a joke, but you can just delete it and have a normal 5.3
The duck thing was a cute little idea someone had that was kind of nice and organic and then of course the internet does what it does and turned it into some weird competitive flex.
Car stereotypes are a little questionable. I mean, some of them make sense. For example, why spend all that money to buy and maintain a BMW when it's just a kinda-sorta-OK car and not considered at all special in Germany, its country of origin. I've heard they handle great, and maybe that's true, but how much 'sporty driving' are you doing stuck in traffic, really?
And way too many Americans drive pickup trucks. I estimate maybe 20% of them actually need a fucking pickup truck. 80% of them are a waste of gas and are passing far inferior collision safety rules. Ford was maybe on to something with the EV F-150...but then dealerships didn't want them because they are greedy and knew that EVs require far less maintenance. Is there anything more 'Murican than that kind of bullshit.
Nissan drivers catch a lot of hate. But it's just a cheap common car, so naturally there are a lot of them on the road. We tend to remember the ones that do something stupid, and don't remember the ones that drive normally and are boring (selection bias). I started paying attention to this for a while, and for every Nissan with a busted bumper / fender I see, I see a lot more of them that don't have one of those.
As for Jeeps, I don't have a lot (of intelligent things) to say. Back in the day it was the "outdoorsy" people and "mudder" weekend warrior types that mostly drove them. Some of them were genuinely those things and some of them were just pretending to be on Facebook. I don't know who drives them now. I will say one of the most arrogant & useless people at my last job drove a Jeep. It had the ducks, and a some douchey "attitude" type stickers, and a vanity plate.
It looks like that Jeep hates itself.
While they do exist outside the US and are just as poor quality, the mods to such an excessive degree I feel is more a US problem because people often see cars as an extension of themselves.
In many less westernised places a car is just simply a mode of transportation and doesn't say too much about you or your family.
My car is an extension of myself in how utilitarian it is
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This community is literally called “I hate this thing.”
They are not excessively angry.