2004 Jeep Treble - FUNNY STORY!

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gordymills

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I've never been a fan of seeing other people driving the exact same car as me. That being said, I purchased my 2004 KJ in September of 2007, and although the options on my car are a rare combination, I've still seen a few that are equipped simillarly.

I started a business a few months ago, and got some of those large magnets to promote my business. The only space large enough to place the magnets are on the front doors. The problem is that the 2004's had the word LIBERTY in raised rubber lettering on each front door. Those letters obstructed the magnet, and would allow wind to get under them and peel them off at higher speeds.

I removed the letters, and the magnets work wonderfully. I didn't want to just throw the letters away, so I decided to lay them out, and see what I could spell with the letters on the back gate. I had the letters "LLIIBBEERRTTYY" at my disposal, and started picking out words that I could make with those letters.

I came up with all sorts of words. Libby, Billy, Try Beer, Belly Bite, Bert, Tree, Rebel... I didn't think any of them were really fitting to my personality, and some were not appropriate for operating a business. Finally, as I was about to give up hope, I realized that "TREBLE" was an available word.

Being a guitar player, I decided that Treble was perfect. I lined up the letters on a piece of scotch tape with perfect spacing between them, and cleaned the site on the gate. I placed the lettering, and pressed them in place. It looked perfect! I also realized that I had an extra R and T and that the verticle part of the L made a perfect slash. So I put R/T next to the 3.7L decals.

Here They Are:
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Jokingly, I'll tell friends that I own a 3.7L R/T Jeep Treble. Knowing that anyone in their right mind would recognize the body of the car as a Liberty.

Apparantly, I was wrong. I caught a couple (who drive a 2006 Liberty Ltd) looking at my car saying "Oh hey! this is the new Jeep Treble, I've heard about these, they put a 3.7 R/T engine in them."

I even had a Jeep salesman offer me $15,000 for trade due to how rare these vehicles are.

I've had someone ask me what year my Treble is.

Most recently, I took the car for a quick Wash and Oil Change and they wrote down on the paperwork that it's a Jeep Treble.

This has provided me with more entertainment than I ever thought possible. But it also opened my eyes to how many people only know cars by the badges and emblems on them.

Oh well. I thought I'd share this with everyone.

Take Care All,

Gordymills
 

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Wonder what type and how much oil they put in it??:eek::eek::eek:

I catch my self doing the same thing with cars Im not really familiar with.. Those dont really matter since they are not a Jeep anyway do they? :D
 

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I told them 5qts of Mobil 1 Synthetic anyway and to not mess with the air filter since it's a K&N. it went fine, but I can imagine their frustration when they were trying to actually enter it into the system. The paperwork I received was handwritten.

It was still fun.
 

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That is really funny. You should have told that jeep salesman you wanted $20K for it......haha

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It's funny how many people have done similar things with their cars.
I ran around town with the 4 linked circle Audi badge mounted to the front of my Mini's grill. The best part, I didn't even notice! The guy's at the V/W Audi dealer I worked at did it.
At first before I knew people were asking questions, coments,etc...
 

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Tell me about it. My co-workers can't even tell what they're driving at all. They even look at the badges and STILL screw up....

Here's some examples:

Jeep 4x4 (Applies to all models)
Jeep Laredo
Lexus S500 (Hmm....)
Hummer Jeep
Jeep Flexfuel (Now THIS one was funny!)
Saturn Ion (Turned out to be a Saturl SL)
Chrysler Cadillac (The reverse too...)
Hyundai Glassman (Glassman is the name of a local dealership)
Cadillac ETC (You mean Eldorado...)
Range Rover Land Rover (You mean Land Rover Range Rover...)
Chrysler 2.4T (PT Cruiser...)
Ford Eddie Bauer (Um... lol)
Mercedes 545i
Plymouth Caravan (hmm...)

I could go on and on but I think you get the point. Needless to say it makes me sick and angry, especially when I have to put these in the computer, but people are idiots...

What really kills me though is the lack of a model. They'll just write the make (sometimes this is wrong too) and if there's no badge, they don't know what it is...
 

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funny. if i ever get the ram air hood i want i going to put 302cid on each side and see where that goes.

i play guitar too. jackson rr3 05, washburn dime sig 332....black from 2000.
 

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Tell me about it. My co-workers can't even tell what they're driving at all. They even look at the badges and STILL screw up....

Here's some examples:

Jeep 4x4 (Applies to all models)
Jeep Laredo
Lexus S500 (Hmm....)
Hummer Jeep
Jeep Flexfuel (Now THIS one was funny!)
Saturn Ion (Turned out to be a Saturl SL)
Chrysler Cadillac (The reverse too...)
Hyundai Glassman (Glassman is the name of a local dealership)
Cadillac ETC (You mean Eldorado...)
Range Rover Land Rover (You mean Land Rover Range Rover...)
Chrysler 2.4T (PT Cruiser...)
Ford Eddie Bauer (Um... lol)
Mercedes 545i
Plymouth Caravan (hmm...)

I could go on and on but I think you get the point. Needless to say it makes me sick and angry, especially when I have to put these in the computer, but people are idiots...

What really kills me though is the lack of a model. They'll just write the make (sometimes this is wrong too) and if there's no badge, they don't know what it is...
Yeah it's amazing how many poeple don't have a clue to what they are driving.

Have had many poeple say they drive a Jeep,but it's a blazer.Heard "I have a Eddie Bauer" before,well what model? They make a few.The thing that really kills me is most have no idea what year there vehicle is,had a guy call today to make a apointment to have the intake gaskets replaced on a Malibu,well what year is it? He said it was a 2005,okay it's going to be $1150,he said what:eek:,well sir that is the price since it involves 7 hours of labor and the parts are $300.Well it turned out he has a 1975 Malibu which would be $175 to change the intake gaskets after he gave us the VIN #,here's your sign:D.
 

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It's not amazing, it's disturbing.

To us, it's hard, really hard to understand that not everyone is an auto enthusiast. Remember, most people, and I'm not talking about just women, just fill up the tank and drive whatever it is they bought... if they even know what that is. Just look at how dumb salespeople are...

On that note, the smartest salesperson I ever encountered was a woman. She knew everything about that Dakota that day...
 

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How do you know what car to go and pick up marlon?

Haha, stories like this crack me up. Theres a lot of ignorant people out there. How do they end up with the car they have if they dont even know what it is?
 

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wow i'm a little disgusted. that reminds me of my mom. months back she asked me why her car only intermitenly had heat? i asked her how her coolant level was, she said she didnt know. i checked it and the resevoir was of course empty... i thought i might as well ask her when was the last time she had her oil chaned.... " uhh like a year ago, i think, maybe longer". i dont understand how people can just drive and not know this stuff. i know i need an oil change in about another 2k miles and also that my coolant is getting a little low, it randomly pops into my head through out the day.
 

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Great idea :cool:

It might be a good business idea to create custom "refrigerator magnets".
I'm going to get some custom vinyl decals for my 4 cyl YJ.
2.5L Lo Output
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I see this all the time. I know much more about most people's vehicles than they do and I actually consider myself to be a little ignorant on vehicles. It's not what I do for a living. Any time I'm at a dealership, the sales people make comments like I should sell vehicles. I guess they don't realize I'm insulted by being told I should be a car salesman. My family doesn't know anything about vehicles either. My parents call every SUV a Jeep.

It happens with everything though. When I worked for a computer repair and service company, people would call up and ask "How much does it cost to fix a computer?" or "How much to upgrade a computer?" They don't know what kind of computer they have, and read the label from the monitor when asked to look. For the upgrades, they don't know what they have or what they want upgraded. Just that they want it upgraded.

I just don't understand how people can not know what they have. I can tell you the specs and model numbers of every piece of electronics I own, every vehicle I've owned, every gun I own, etc. I can even rattle off the specs of every computer I've ever owned since my TI-99 when I was 6 years old.
 

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Yeah it's amazing how many poeple don't have a clue to what they are driving.

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Yea, especially since they paid Thousands of dollars for it.....whatever it is...

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And to think all this time you could have been driving the first Jeep TRIBBLE :p

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To me it's also hard to believe that people still think that guns are these evil things that nobody should have.
Let's PLEASE not turn this thread political. We were having a good time in here discussing how many idiots there are in this world. :p

On that note I don't have one.
 
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