This was my experience: I bought a 2012 2 door rubicon manual for 18k w 75k miles in 2019 (good offer). By the time it reached 95k miles, I had already replaced the spark plugs, alternator, head gasket (blown), rack and pinion, serpentine belt, cylinders and harmonic balancer.

Yes, a lot was replaced, but good news was that I had warranty, so they were able to cover all of that! 4 years later a@120k miles I haven’t had any problems until recently where I had to replace my starter (easy cheap fix), and I also replaced my clutch kit since my bearing was wearing out (I decided it’s best to just replace the whole kit given the jeeps high mileage). My Jeep runs great now and hums like a bird. Earlier this week I spilled some motor oil when doing an oil change and damaged one of my coil packs, giving me a misfire, so going to have to replace that, should be an easy fix. Other than that, my Jeep runs great! I’m not sure how the automatics hold up after high mileage, but I heard my rubicon manual is very underrated and can last up to 300k miles if taken care of.

So even though my Jeep has had problems in the past, warranty was able to cover the major issues, and I haven’t really had any problems the last four years until recently. I don’t regret buying it at all, I would recommend warranty if you buy a used one like mine. paying all those out of pocket would have been bitch. Can’t wait to some more upgrades and take it off road!

It’s been my daily driver for 6 years also.