If ever you wish to buy a tow vehicle do not buy a jeep Grand Cheerokee 40,000klms rated at 3,500kg broke the rear subframe. No help from Jeep Australia to speak of. This set up never went of the bitumen. Has been rplaced with a diesel cruiser much much better.

Thanks for the info and sorry to hear about your bad experience.  It's always difficult to know whether to persevere with fighting these companies or to buy something else and walk away.  It sounds like you've made the right decision.

unfortunately thats the way thing are going nowadays, the rebadged chrysler jeep was a good unit in ww2 then they aimed it to the young yuppies and made all sorts of modifications and thereby destroying its original appeal and strength, I remember when me and a couple of mates replaced the morgan to whyalla pipeline we had a toyota fj55 to get to the heavy machinery, climb anything pull anything, never breakdown, from memory I think it gave about 12 miles to the gallon, we also ran a toyota short wheel base didnt even have a heater, as I got older I had a nissan patrol, 4wd low range one could easily plow the back forty with a 14 row set of discs, my brother was mad on cruisers ( had 3 new ) replaced it every 2 years, had to put fairey overdrives in them because they were geared too low for highway use, he eventually went to nissans and then ended up with a mitsubishi pajero, he has been around aust, about 5 times, as the toorak tractor gets more and more humanised it loses a certain ammount of continuous ability, sacrifices one for something else and so they inevitably get weaker, the big 2 (in my opinion) are still the strongest and most capable, but having said that I was passed and left looking pretty silly off road on an off road track in pichie richie pass by a suzuki soft top, the people who give respite to us for our son have a hyundai terrican and it seems very comfortable and capable although they dont take it off road (few do), I didnt think that the jeep would have such a flaw and I am surprised that you were left to deal with it yourself, but now that you have a cruiser I am sure the worry is gone from driving, I run a toyota Hi-ace camper with a bullet proof 3y engine, been around aust. twice with it and would go again without hesitation, I think there are good vehicles and bad vehicles and you just happened across a bad one, next will be good so it seems to go, as a mechanic you would know that most vehicles have a "life" of their own some good others bad. anyway thats my thoughts for what they are worth.

sorry to hear about the problem you had with the jeep cheerokee and thanks for the advice ............ Graham

I would not buy anything else but a Toyota anymore can get it serviced anywhere

I must tell a mate of mine who prattles on ad nauseum about how good his Jeep is....