Hey everyone! Just got myself an '04 TJ with about 60k miles on it. It was a rental and I am only the 3rd owner (the CarFax showed a good history of maintenance).
I live in Phoenix (it gets pretty hot here) and used to take road trips to El Paso or Los Angeles, both of which are about 800 miles round-trip, in a reliable '19 sedan I owned prior to this Jeep. The drives are pretty much always hot and the A/C is usually blasting with the 110+ heat.
Just wanted to gauge the forum for advice - should I feel comfortable taking my TJ on these road trips? My worry is that the TJ breaks down somewhere in New Mexico or the California Desert and we have no A/C until AAA (or someone) comes to save us. I should mention that I would be travelling with a dog, and I worry it would be too hot for a dog to handle the desert heat if the Jeep were to break down...
Anything helps!
I live in Phoenix (it gets pretty hot here) and used to take road trips to El Paso or Los Angeles, both of which are about 800 miles round-trip, in a reliable '19 sedan I owned prior to this Jeep. The drives are pretty much always hot and the A/C is usually blasting with the 110+ heat.
Just wanted to gauge the forum for advice - should I feel comfortable taking my TJ on these road trips? My worry is that the TJ breaks down somewhere in New Mexico or the California Desert and we have no A/C until AAA (or someone) comes to save us. I should mention that I would be travelling with a dog, and I worry it would be too hot for a dog to handle the desert heat if the Jeep were to break down...
Anything helps!