It’s open thread time. Discuss the pros and cons of having an eleven-year-old Jeep with 171,000 miles on it and taking it regularly on trips from Virginia to NJ.
All I can say is, if your engine light is going to start flashing on a 350-mile trip, it is simply the best possible outcome to have it start flashing before you’ve gone two miles and while you haven’t even passed your mechanic.
Got to Mom’s today instead of yesterday, and now have a new ignition coil for my Jeep.