I would guess it is a story that took about 9-10 months to develope.
I had a Suzuki Forenza and the wife's Mazda 3i ( we loved the Mazda, Suzuki on the other hand) Alright so we saw the new liberty's at the Chicago auto show and really liked em, was never really fond of the KJs was always too much of a "girl" vehicle if you ask me.
Alright so I'm way upside down in the Suzuki and I want to get out of it, it is depriciating faster than I can make the payments so it will never work out. We go to the local dealership (Zeilger for those of you in the Chicago area) We try to work a deal with looking at a New KK, but the numbers just aren't there so they have me test drive a used 07 KJ sport. This thing is kinda cool, I can have fun in this, plus it has 4x4 and I can tow with it( thinking long term here). So I buy the KJ.
I start a new job a few months later and then right about the first of the year I ask the wife, hey what do you think we get rid of your car and just keep the KJ because I get a car for work and we don't exactly need 3 cars in the driveway that only has room for 2 to begin with. Not to mention it would free up some money so we can pay off some other bills and get working on this debt thing.
The wife thinks about it and she says how about we get rid of the KJ and my car and get a new liberty. (Keep in mind she loves the Mazda and I like it too, great little car, but absolutly hates the KJ, one of the big factors is the buffeting) So we go back to Ziegler's, we test drive an 09 pre-owned sport, man it drives nice, the interior is great, and we both like the styling, always liked the KK more than the KJ. After we drive it we start talking numbers ( trying to trade in both the KJ and the Mazda) not really happy with the trade amounts and they won't even let us fill out a credit app because they are like no one will finance you. SO I'm like if you don't want to work with us you obviously don't need to sell cars, even told us both of our trades are prestine and would require nothing more than a good wax job for them to sell them, we are going to leave, and they told us, goodbye. ( we were there a hole 20 minutes and this included the test drive time)
The wife and I debate about it and start looking online for 09 KKs at other dealerships that have what we are looking for. Finally find one make osme time to go and it was a 4-5 hour evening at the dealership, but we traded my KJ, brought the KK home along with the Mazda and put the Mazda up on auto trader and craigslist, we sold the Mazda one week before payment was due on the KK. So all in all it worked out, never had to make 2 car payments in the same month after getting the KK and man let me tell you I love this thing. I want to mod it like there is no tomorrow and really looking forward to our trip out to NH in July to go visit some friends and deliever a snowmobile, towing it out with us as a favor. Can't wait to see how it does on the trip.
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