Anybody heard anything negative about running a Jeep Cherokee over here, apart from the gas prices of running a V8 of course.

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Routine spare parts are easy enough to obtain but anything that needs to be ordered from the US is very expensive - friend of mine had a Grand Cherokee and broke the wing mirror - cost 35,000 baht for a replacement unit and had to be air freighted from the USA. However routine service seems to be pretty reasonable in price and you can get them serviced now at Mercedes dealerships. Downside is that there aint that many Jeep dealers anymore as the model is effectively withdrawn from Thailand. They depreciatte very fast - you should be looking no more than about 1,200,000 for that model - down from about 3,300,000 when it was new.

Jeep Cherokees are notorious for engine problems in the States so I'd be wary about getting one over here.