Well I only really need the SMART, BUT CHEAP ones of you but anyway HELP. Advice from any of you could be helpful because most of you are smarter than me. 

My old la...................loving wonderful wife is going to be driving different wheels or ELSE.

She will not drive car with check engine lite on. Now the old wagon has gone and died in traffic twice,and not set the check engine lite off. Restarted and drove away,but she ant going to drive it EVERY.

That was wednesday and had it towed and came home in a rental. An yesterday it sank in my thick head I was going car shopping. But no idea what we want till I agreed to go shopping women style(you will know it when you see it)(men shopping is know what you want and looking if price is cheaper somewhere else). I knew I had to climb in and not bang my head and knees(I don't bend like I use to).

Well i sat in a bunch of brands an most would be ok. But the most pushy salesmen,not a bad guy but a good for company salesmen tells me $3000 less today because of factory promotion. I don't know the car business,but do they really do things like that?

Oh well the Shameless stubborn part of me showed up and could not be pushed into a buy it NOW!!!! Long story made, short did that once and biggest piece of garbage we ever drove. Always more cars out there.

But the one point he had was the Jeep Cherokee line has a extended for as long as you keep it warranty. Of course you pay more,but I learned a long time ago let her pester the dealer not me.Anybody know how much is really covers,and how good will it be when Fiat kicks Mopar loss.

But I have kinda figured out it needs to be a SUV with 3rd row seating. Her childhood was spent with Mopar people so that is a point or 2 even  though I grew up with anything but Mopar. 

So any run away from models or the best ever.

An maybe old Joe needs her old wagon a 2007 Chrysler Pacifica 4.0 liter with 140,000 and a rebuilt transmission somewhere after 100,000. A California car no salt.

And remember, the big print giveth, and the small print taketh away...

My wife has her trust issues with a car that quits on her.

Had a Dodge minivan that had a transmission and valve job. Had the oil changed in town as she wants it the day it gets to the mileage,gas station that to this day still does smog check and oil changes left a rag on top of engine.  Drove 20 miles stopped for mail in front of house,and rag started burning. Had a extinguisher at the back door and a kid that new how to use it. She never drove that van again and had recites from a few weeks before and got a lot more money from insurance. 

She pays attention to gages and hears more than me I believe in her getting extended warranty. She can fight with someone other than me. So yes till it quits if that light was disconnected  ,how did that happen. 

Since a Jeep is up the list and yes some have 3rd row seats. Any good or bad I would like to know. Was surprised to learn the Cherokee is rear wheel drive.

When she talked at one place I sat in a Ford Flex and that was the easiest for me to get in and out of but was a 3 or 4 years old. She thought the Flex was lower to the ground so not as good out on are back roads,have to look closer. So will have to visit Ford and see what they have.

The hunt continues tomorrow.

She ant driving a bus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is  pretty close to what she had to say to Shameless good advice.

The techy kid says Toyota Highlander or a Honda the best rated mid size SUV's.  But no dealer for 50 or 60 miles. Got Ford real handy in town an a Chevy just a bit farther. I think there are some 0% deals at Ford. Oh what to do?????

Well 40 years too late to go down that road.

Doctor would.......well more the hospital people that got to do real work probably would of left me to die if she had not showed up everyday back in summer of 16. Spending 13 days for gallbladder surgery you no I was not in shape to protest that first week. 

Talked with several mechanics saying Toyota and Honda so have to look at them. The one says as a GM/Chevy guy forever it hurts to say that but the Japanese brands are the most trouble free from a mechanical standpoint.

I don't imagine many of you old farts go out giving opinions at the online sites,just snowflakes. Cause I find it all worthless,I don't worry about my phone not working with car bluetooth or backup camera not working. I want the car to get from A to B and not break out in the middle of nowhere,or the yard for that matter. But most reasons to slam a brand is funny to me. I also don't think I need my butt cooled or even the heated steering wheel,but since somebody was testing turbos on "The Machine" the other day maybe I do.

But the way my luck runs I could get the only lemon they make all year so........................I  am still looking.

To many local people tell me they are longest lasting cars out there. The boss is  paying extra for a Toyota warranty on the electrical/computer stuff( woo hoo if anything blinks or buzzes she can bug them). So for the next 7 years all  is good,as long as cows have twins so I can pay my part.

Great choice!  Enjoy.

And it's made in the USA.  Princeton, IN.

I don't have the seat just right cause it is not all push button like the old one,but not bad. I will keep moving it to find what I like best. 

 Not like the old Chevy pickup of like it or lump it.

The type your think of are in VW bus or Volvo and Beamers.