I'm with you. Get the Amazon Prime card so you can get the 5% back. Every time I tell my wife I'm not putting another nickel into the Jeep, It's not a week until I'm saying the Jeep wants more.
Have you ever added up how much money you’ve put into your TJ?
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Nitrobrent
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That's something you don't want to put on paper , anywhere the wife can find it.
On a recent trip away with my daughter , sitting by the fire at the dam pictured , she asked me what I would do when my TJ has had it.
Whether I'd buy a stocker and build it , or swap the good stuff on mine , with the stock stuff , and sell mine?
I said I'd build a stocker, no point putting thrashed parts into a new build.
She asked how much that would cost. I added up what would be needed, the total shocked me, over $20,000 just in parts.
TJ prices in Australia are going nuts , $14,000 for a stocker with 100,000 miles , before covid , would have gotten $8,000
On a recent trip away with my daughter , sitting by the fire at the dam pictured , she asked me what I would do when my TJ has had it.
Whether I'd buy a stocker and build it , or swap the good stuff on mine , with the stock stuff , and sell mine?
I said I'd build a stocker, no point putting thrashed parts into a new build.
She asked how much that would cost. I added up what would be needed, the total shocked me, over $20,000 just in parts.
TJ prices in Australia are going nuts , $14,000 for a stocker with 100,000 miles , before covid , would have gotten $8,000
I have a Google sheet with every part # I’ve put on it along with the prices. I purposely don’t have that column totaled. I know how to find the answer if I wanted to know it.
what’s sad is how much I have on my CJ spreadsheet for a project which sits unfinished.
what’s sad is how much I have on my CJ spreadsheet for a project which sits unfinished.
I always spend all my money on Women, Scotch and my TJ. The rest of it I just waste!
ejay
TJ Addict
Uh, why would we do that? Put your calculators away. This is about Jeep life.
Besides, you're not even close to me. I started at $12K
As I have said in the past. When I die I hope my wife finds my password to this forum and asks you all what she should sell it for and not what I have told her I have into it. Now do I know how much I have into it, yea somewhat 
Bbrayden85
TJ Enthusiast
How’d you get an ‘04 rubicon for 3k?! Thats nuts!! Over in Washington you couldn’t get even a pile of garbage of a rubicon for less than 6k
OP
2004 Jeep wrangler SE 2.4 I've never had a rubicon. I got my 04 because the frame was rust free which is very rare in Maine.
My body ( to much arthritis)) couldn't handle wheeling so having a rubicon would be such a waste. I just bang around town and during the summer I drive the 30 minutes between my house on the lake, and my other house.
So when I just did my "build" unlike most here I didn't do a lift kit, winch, and other wheeling upgrades. I sound proofed, put on new LED lights, new powder coated fenders, and a lot of other stuff.
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If I added up what I've spent on my 12 TJs, alcohol, ex wives and bail money, I'd probably have to kill myself.
p.s. I only regret the ex wives.
p.s. I only regret the ex wives.
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hardtailpan
TJ Enthusiast
For better or worse I keep a spreadsheet. I have about $7k total into it now including purchase price, taxes and title. I have about $1700 more I'd like to put into it not including swapping in a hemi.
Then I have a separate column adding up the costs of the parts I've been collecting for the hemi swap....
That'll be interesting!
Then I have a separate column adding up the costs of the parts I've been collecting for the hemi swap....
That'll be interesting!
Sure, sure and this is 9 inches right?I know it to the penny.
$4,258.26
Just ask my wife. She will confirm.
