MagnaRide got screwed up on a roadtrip with horrible roads

[smurfslayer]

I'm sure they will offer you more than $40k.

No they won’t! Plus I’ve got a solid offer on the table.

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[kinelisch]

Uneven and potholes, was bouncing in my seat for 600 miles. The car was just under 68k, 73k after taxes, and 8 months later I'm getting offered under 40k. I never planned to sell but now with these problems on top of the worst depreciation I've ever seen, yeah it's bad. I'm not confident all the NVH will be fixed, but it's tough to get it in there when they want it for 2 weeks and don't offer loaners like every other car brand I've owned. I wanted to love this thing but it's a regrettable purchase now, especially seeing that a slightly used DH would have been the better route now. Vert gets old with the less handling and higher inherent NVH and smelling like outside all the time. I blame myself for not thinking this out more on a lot of it, but not the Magnaride crapping out all the new NVH, and 10 mpg isn't helping me feel better about it either. Maybe the PP is killing the mileage but never imagined it would be so bad. I came from an Ecoboost so this has been tough, but still love the sound and want to love the car again, but i feel ripped off right now. If they would give me a loaner this would be a different conversation. Losing brand loyalty back to jeep since they actually made me feel valued and heard, which Ford has not so far. But the best offer I've gotten for it is 40k now down from 42k a month agoand 50k in September, i bought this thing in MAY. I don't see any other VIN depreciate so fast like mine did. 2018s sell for more than mine now, I just don't get it... i also put 6400 into a full ppf and window tint so I'm in deep on this 80k ...

Just because one thing got messed up doesn't mean that the car is Cr*p! Take it to the dealer and they will fix it.

Also, hypercars and supercars have issues as well. LOTS OF THEM. You take a McLaren 720S out and in a week something is messed up with the quality or something, Chill out and take it to the dealer and they will fix it. Then report back here.

 

[GrabThatBlue]

I haven't read one single sober comment from OP.
Only frustration about something small.
Looks like you can't handle life that well if you get upset about something like this that has a warranty were different people told you that it's not that big as how you experience it.

Or it could be that you bought a car above your budget?

 

[Bikeman315]

No they won’t! Plus I’ve got a solid offer on the table.

He's in Nevada, you're in Texas. Maybe yes, maybe no. Still worth the try.

 

[Wiley Marmot]

600 miles of "rough roads"??!! You know they make Bronco Raptors for that ****; right?

Sorry! Couldn't help myself.

 

[Ciulster]

If you were driving down a road that was rough enough to have you bouncing in the seat like mad and obviously threw your Magnaride out of whack so badly it either failed or went into failsafe mode you should have either

A. Slowed down for the road conditions

or

B. Not been driving on that road in the first place

I live in a place that is pretty notorious for rim wrecking potholes and basically non-existent road maintenance. I've bottomed out my suspension a few times so far not paying attention for new potholes and have been driving around with 200lbs of salt/ice mix that gets as hard as concrete stuck to the under tray and wheel wells of the vehicle for the past 2 months and not had a single issue with the Magneride because I don't expect it to be able to absorb every massive bump in the road, it's still a sports car after all not some luxury barge that is trying to compensate for every pothole while still giving some weak semblance of "sporty feeling".

Just because you got adaptive suspension does not mean it's going to compensate enough for you do do highway speed down a mogul course of potholes that warranted a slower rate of travel, which I sincerely hope is not the case with you. That's kinda the same mentality as people who get a base model AWD SUV on all season tires and then don't understand why it's unable to go through a 3 foot deep swamp without getting stuck, or buying a $70k wedding dress and then getting upset that it wasn't a very good wetsuit for scuba diving.

Don't get me wrong, these cars are still hunks of crap IMO just in different ways from all the 20+ year old hunks of crap I am used to driving. I've learned to love it and live with it either way. If I wanted something that had very little flaws, got better than 10-15mpg, and could take a thrashing down any road with little going wrong and depreciated very little I would have gotten a 10 year old RAV4 or 4Runner, not what is widely seen as one of the most common, cheaply made and overpriced sports cars currently still on the market..... But what do I know? Maybe I am really just spouting off nonsense here.

 

[Neggytive]

10 MPG?

Unless you have a Supercharger on it there is no way you are getting 10 MPG unless you are thrashing it and I mean drag strip type abuse.

Bringing my car to Florida which was 700 miles of mixed driving, but mostly at highway speeds my GT got 29 effn MPG with the 10 speed slush box

I have been known to enjoy the power under the hood, and my average MPG around town winding it out in 1st and manually shifting it a lot is 21 MPG

600 miles of potholes? I come from MA and NH, I know potholes and frost heaves, there is nowhere in the Northeast unless you are on logging roads in Maine where you are getting roads that bad.

This is a "sports car" not an off road vehicle.

Sounds like you need to find another vehicle

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