Adventioneering

I owned Remington for about 33,710 miles. Total cost of ownership, including vehicle purchase price, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, but not fuel or insurance, was $11,001. I subtracted what I recovered (the sale value), so the actual cost was higher.

Total cost of repairs and maintenance only was $3,913.46, or about $0.116 cents per mile. This doesn’t include the price of recovery (1 tow, the Reiter Pit Computer incident). The Jeep TJ is running $0.052 cents per mile in maintenance and repairs.

During ownership the LR received a new front end panel, new headlight assy, ignition cables, battery, steering box, power steering hoses, all 4 wheel bearings, rear axle stubs, rear left wheel, brake rotors, pads, left rear brake pipe, all coolant hoses, and several coolant tanks. At the time I sold it, the TODO list was 35 items long, and included many scary and expensive things that I was simply neglected or opted not to fix, like the $600 ignition cylinder.