Yep thats a hefty life lesson to have to learn the hard way, believe me I know. I bought my Jeep when I was 22 or something brand new. Put a lift and tires and a bunch of other crap into it. Wheeled it in paragon through the woods, against trees and everything. Broke shit and it was a blast but it wad DUMB.
Granted the only thing ever that went wrong with it was 2 ball joints… which were recalls because of some heat shields that weren’t in place, as soon as they saw a young guy & it lifted and with 32’s on it, there were like OHHH NO, not covered. I had to play hardball to get them to cover the work because it was really a matter of recall not damage. After that I feared for suspension/drive-train stuff to break knowing I had no chance in hell to get it covered. I left it alone after that, didn’t add anything else to it and sold it shortly there after… AFTER i put it back to stock.
I guess we all have to be young and stupid to be old an wise, but the smarter ones take it with baby steps. At $16000 jeep VS a $30000 car is a hell of a difference. and when I traded it in, I was ahead on my next purchase…not wayyyy behind like that Evo is/will be.
PLUS you would think he would have learned from Travis! AWD car, bank owned, cant hardly afford it, thinks they are cool as shit in it, mods the fuck out of it poorly and the burns it to the ground and is probably STILL paying for the mistakes.