What is an unpopular opinion you have in the Jeep community?

[Rusty PW]

My first unpopular opinion was so popular. It got removed. So here's my second one.

Fenders. Why do people replace the fenders with stubby one's? I like coverage over the tire to keep rocks and mud down. Nothing like breaking the windshield in the car behind you and having to pay for it.

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[BA33]

My first unpopular opinion was so popular. It got removed. So here's my second one.

Fenders. Why do people replace the fenders with stubby one's? I like coverage over the tire to keep rocks and mud down. Nothing like breaking the windshield in the car behind you and having to pay for it.

Better yet, nothing like breaking your own windshield as your tire flings a rock up and forward and you drive right into it.

 

[Orange01z28]

This brings up my unpopular Jeep opinion: Unless you're actually towing, manual is the wrong transmission for any wrangler or gladiator. Frankly it's the wrong transmission for a lot of vehicles sold today. The fact that the car with the highest percentage of manual sales is the Miata which has a wide double digit lead over any mustang, camaro, or challenger, and the corvette, supra, and 911 aren't even sold manual anymore should be considered a failure to teach our children the joys of driving.

I support this opinion 100%

 

[JTBurns]

The 3.73s ain't so bad.

I only take the front doors off.

I love my painted flares.

Biggest shocker of all: I've had a positive experience with my Flushmount taillights

 

[ShadowsPapa]

That's right up there with Brakes and Breaks.

I gotta put the brakes on getting a wench - them's the breaks.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

But we all have different screen resolutions. On a 4k screen, resize to screen is considerably larger than on 1920x1080.

This is a case where "size doesn't always matter"
The FILE size is what slows things down, The display size is not necessarily connected to the file size.
Reduce the resolution the number of pixels, or when saving you don't need to make it photographic quality. Computer and phone screens can only display so many pixels.
Anything for the web can be really stripped down and still be great viewing - it just won't print like a photo on a photo printer.
I can make 2 filles that will display the same "size" on your screen, but be very different in file size - and that's what slows things down. We don't need pictures of a file size 1 meg or bigger - that sort of quality won't matter on a screen.

 

[NachoRuby]

This is a case where "size doesn't always matter"
The FILE size is what slows things down, The display size is not necessarily connected to the file size.
Reduce the resolution the number of pixels, or when saving you don't need to make it photographic quality. Computer and phone screens can only display so many pixels.
Anything for the web can be really stripped down and still be great viewing - it just won't print like a photo on a photo printer.
I can make 2 filles that will display the same "size" on your screen, but be very different in file size - and that's what slows things down. We don't need pictures of a file size 1 meg or bigger - that sort of quality won't matter on a screen.

It does if we're reducing to screen resolution, because screen size is inherently linked to the pixels displayed at one time. My phone display is 3216x1440, so when I screenshot, that's how big the resulting image is. This site offers no way to reduce that size when doing a mobile upload. What I'm getting at is many of us are on mobile. No way to manipulate upload size. So screenshots will be in full resolution, without using some kind of 3rd party app.

And for those of us on mobile uploading photographs, rather than screenshots, it's even worse. Most smartphone cameras these days are 40-50 megapixels or more, with no interface here to reduce that size. Other forums I've been on have offered a tool to reduce file quality. That doesn't seem to exist on this site, so it'll require a third party app. I've literally never accessed this site from a pc. So the tools/interface might very well be different there.

But I also don't have any slowness on this site. That's where gigabit internet speed is helpful. I've never noticed any lag here.

 

[texanjeeper]

I gotta put the brakes on getting a wench - them's the breaks.

Yeah, the spousal unit may have a big problem with that.

 

[texanjeeper]

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[ShadowsPapa]

It does if we're reducing to screen resolution, because screen size is inherently linked to the pixels displayed at one time. My phone display is 3216x1440, so when I screenshot, that's how big the resulting image is. This site offers no way to reduce that size when doing a mobile upload. What I'm getting at is many of us are on mobile. No way to manipulate upload size. So screenshots will be in full resolution, without using some kind of 3rd party app.

And for those of us on mobile uploading photographs, rather than screenshots, it's even worse. Most smartphone cameras these days are 40-50 megapixels or more, with no interface here to reduce that size. Other forums I've been on have offered a tool to reduce file quality. That doesn't seem to exist on this site, so it'll require a third party app. I've literally never accessed this site from a pc. So the tools/interface might very well be different there.

But I also don't have any slowness on this site. That's where gigabit internet speed is helpful. I've never noticed any lag here.

Many of us can't achieve the endless speed and bandwidth of half the country. Gigabit is a dream in much of the USA, sad to say.

Anyway - how the heck big are your screen shots? (file size, that is)
I did a screenshot from my LG phone of the JSCAN screen I was on - 130K and Google even allows you to crop, rotate and so on right on the phone. So I could make the size of the file smaller and the display smaller as well.
130K is nuttin'

Here's a full-rez screen shot from my phone today - untrimmed, uncropped, as taken - 130k - it isn't going to slow anything down.

 

[NachoRuby]

Anyway - how the heck big are your screen shots? (file size, that is)
I did a screenshot from my LG phone of the JSCAN screen I was on - 130K and Google even allows you to crop, rotate and so on right on the phone. So I could make the size of the file smaller and the display smaller as well.
130K is nuttin'

Here's a full-rez screen shot from my phone today - untrimmed, uncropped, as taken - 130k - it isn't going to slow anything down.

Just 500-600kb usually. I understand you on the speed. It's recent here, and only because I'm in town. And once I leave home, 3g is slow (and shutting down), 4g is ok when it works, and 5g is spotty at best.

 

[endurojeep]

Painted looks significantly better for the hardtop and *factory* fender flares

Amen brother especially with tires sticking outside the fenders

 

[endurojeep]

The first question after buying your Jeep shouldn't be what to name it or what "mods" should you add.

Additionally naming your Jeep is stupid. It's not a boat

Yeah it kind of is when a Rubicon is over 5000 lbs in a midsize truck in stock form. Sall land yacht

 

[shokker70]

Amen brother especially with tires sticking outside the fenders

Love my tire poke!!!! It ain't that much!

 

[endurojeep]

Utility aside I love the contrast the most - especially the fenders. It's just a very Jeep thing to me growing up loving the YJ and TJ.

Really because all TJ's and Yj's had body colored fenders and most had black flares

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