Used Car of the Day: 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee

by Tim Healey

November 8th, 2022 10:45 AM

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used car of the day 2008 jeep grand cherokee

Today's listing is a no-frills SUV of relatively recent vintage.

Coming to you from my old stomping grounds outside of Chicago, this Grand Cherokee is affordable and has a relatively low 170K miles, but it has minor rust.

It's a Laredo trim with the 3.7-liter V6. We're highlighting this one as an example of cheap transpo. Not every car we highlight will be quirky or rare.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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MaintenanceCosts on Nov 08, 2022

That era of Chrysler interior is amazingly bad.

With that said this is not a horrible choice. It will break, but parts are readily available and, unlike all the terrifying German iron from the past few days, it shouldn't be expensive to fix. As always the Grand Cherokee is a socially useful vehicle in America; it fits in in any setting.

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CoastieLenn on Nov 08, 2022

Literally the worst generation of Grand Cherokee, Terrible 3.7L, terrible interior, terrible transmissions. If you're going the budget JGC route, the ZJ (either engine) or WJ (NOT the 4.7) are the way to go. Burn these with fire, piss on them before the fire if they have the 3.7 or 4.7. Hemi was more acceptable.

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- Slawek on Nov 08, 2022
  
  WK has very comfortable cloth seats, unlike previous models.
  
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- Bokonon on Nov 08, 2022
  
  I don't know, CoastieLenn ... we've owned multiple Jeeps, and I like my 2007 Grand Cherokee just fine. It has the 4.7L engine and is going strong at 173K miles. It has been solid and reliable, and an absolute beast in the snow when I take it up into the mountains.
  
  The best part? I purchased it for just $5,000.
  
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- Ajla on Nov 09, 2022
  
  The 3.7L and 4.7L are fine. Especially by 2008.
  
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- Zerofoo on Nov 29, 2022
  
  Agreed. My 04 GC with the 4.0L was far more desirable than this heap. I miss that car.
  
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- 28-Cars-Later on Dec 05, 2022
  
  I know there are "Jeep people" but damn man, base model V6 for all kinds of money? Please tell me you are at least going to swap to a better interior.
  
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