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Hi team Renegade!

I may be moving to Brazil for work and I’m considering buying a used Jeep Renegade from my predecessor in Brazil. I’d really appreciate honest opinions from people who know these cars.

Details:

• Jeep Renegade Sport Edition
• Model year 2020 (fabrication 2019)
• 1.8 Flex 16V (ethanol/gasoline)
• Automatic transmission
• Around 50,000 km
• 2 owners total (both corporate expats)
• Maintained yearly at official Jeep dealer in Brazil
• Recent maintenance:
  • 2022 battery replaced
  • 2023 windshield wipers + front light replaced
  • 2025 brake pads replaced + wiper motor
  • 2026 LED rear brake light + small rear light replaced
• Has rear sensors + backup camera
• Metallic black exterior, brown leather interior
• Asking price: €12,000 (~R$75k)

The car apparently drives well and has been used gently for the last 5.5 years.

My main concern is reliability and repair costs. I’ve read mixed things online about the 1.8 automatic Renegades, especially older gearbox issues. On the other hand, I also hear the Renegade is extremely common in Brazil and easy to repair/find parts. I also like the sturdiness and capacity to travel on crappy roads.

For someone who wants relatively low stress ownership and stay in Brazil a few years, would this be considered: a good buy, fair price, risky, worth choosing over something like a more reliable Japanese car?

Would really appreciate some Renegade owner experiences and advice. I’m also considering to ask for a lower price actually.
Thanks a lot everyone! 🙏🌿✨☀️

Recently discovered a lot of abdominal tension through my TRE practice.

To work with those areas, should I just rely on the unfolding of the TRE sessions and subsequent deep stretches, or could I add deep tissue abdominal massage by a practitioner (Chi Nei Tsang massage)?

Interesting new experience that I noticed since one week.

I’ve been doing a structured TRE practice now for five weeks. Before that I did a more spontaneous TRE practice, as well as somatic experiencing, for about one year.

One thing I’ve noticed in the last week is that while doing my daily nature walk, I’m getting an awareness of certain tightness in my abdominal region. Mostly the lower gut / abdominal region where it connects to the hips and pubic area.

So while I do these daily nature walks, I get these really strong urge to stretch those areas. It’s not like the muscles there are necessarily tighter than before I started my structured TRE practice, but it’s almost like a new energetic awareness that there is a deep tightness there.

Then I just allow my body to stretch in the way that it wants, or that it suggests. It makes me go into all kinds of stretch poses that I would never normally be able to do without these clues that my body is sending.

It involves a lot of sucking in my stomach and then going into all sorts of positions to really stretch those muscles or connections between the lower gut, lower abdominal area, the hips, and the pubic region.

And every time I finish a stretch, this deep sense of relaxation — almost dopiness, but not in a bad way — just settles in me. It really sinks in.

I’m wondering if this is fascia release or not, but I thought it was a cool development. It does feel really good to do it.

Curious if other people have had similar experiences and whether they think this is fascia release.