I recently purchased my Jeep from a used car dealer who used to be a Chrysler/Jeep dealer until 2009 when Chrysler was trimming fat. They've been in business for over 30 years.
My new toy is a 2010 Patriot Sport with CVTII and the 26E option package; 87,000 miles on the odometer when I bought it. One owner, who seemed to follow the maintenance schedule pretty religiously according to the CarFax that the dealer gave me. The only scheduled maintenance that was not documented was changing the front and rear power train fluids. It's really clean - very little rust underneath - unusual for a vehicle that's spent its entire life in Upstate NY. It's the first used vehicle that I've purchased that came with its original manual, and the DVD was in the glove box unopened. I've been able to watch the introductory videos, but the DVD requires Adobe Air, and I haven't been able to get it working on my vintage Macbook Pro. I did download the PDF manual (Thanks!) and have viewed a lot of threads here. The original window sticker was also in the glove box.
The only issues that I've had are noisy brakes (rust on the new disks & rotors) and the dreaded stalling/power loss after filling the tank (3 out of 3 so far).
Still getting used to the CVT - one thing I realy appreciate is the lack of downshift/upshift when I hit the varying speed limits in the small towns and villages here in semi-rural Western NY.
First tank of gas was 27 mpg, second was 25 mpg (my pulse-foot #1 son started driving it).
Here's a pic of it in my open-plan garage:
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My new toy is a 2010 Patriot Sport with CVTII and the 26E option package; 87,000 miles on the odometer when I bought it. One owner, who seemed to follow the maintenance schedule pretty religiously according to the CarFax that the dealer gave me. The only scheduled maintenance that was not documented was changing the front and rear power train fluids. It's really clean - very little rust underneath - unusual for a vehicle that's spent its entire life in Upstate NY. It's the first used vehicle that I've purchased that came with its original manual, and the DVD was in the glove box unopened. I've been able to watch the introductory videos, but the DVD requires Adobe Air, and I haven't been able to get it working on my vintage Macbook Pro. I did download the PDF manual (Thanks!) and have viewed a lot of threads here. The original window sticker was also in the glove box.
The only issues that I've had are noisy brakes (rust on the new disks & rotors) and the dreaded stalling/power loss after filling the tank (3 out of 3 so far).
Still getting used to the CVT - one thing I realy appreciate is the lack of downshift/upshift when I hit the varying speed limits in the small towns and villages here in semi-rural Western NY.
First tank of gas was 27 mpg, second was 25 mpg (my pulse-foot #1 son started driving it).
Here's a pic of it in my open-plan garage:
