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Not Rubi specific but from my personal experience of a few jeeps, get an OEM hard top out of the box. A soft top is cheap(er) but a financed factory hardtop is cheaper and easier to find than one in a couple years when Jeep does a new generation. Soft tops are way, way easier to find after...

I'm loving the AirLift bags, I put some on a month ago before a big road trip (~2500 miles) and certainly helped body roll on the highway. I have a heavy topper ~320lbs + recovery gear daily on the soft rubi coils and am running my bags at 15lbs. Some notes on my install: Soaking the bags in...

Toss up between cutting into the hood on my 2 month old JT for a snorkel install or putting a rear tire carrier bumper on my '05 LJ where many of the holes didn't quite match up. The bumper was a PITA and took forever. Wiring a topper brake light into the JT was a bit of a PITA too because the...

Either way, looks fine, I like the clean look too. The only thing I remove is all the annoying dealer badging. HATE, I just paid you how much for a vehicle, I'm not going to be a billboard for you jokers too. The angry grill is a very much "to each their own" with me, but I hate how easy it is...

Added some sage for seasoning this last weekend

Another one, I don't care that the key fob stabs me in the leg sometimes or is as big as my last flip phone, I haven't woken up a whole campground or remote started and gassed my garage when tying my shoes yet. My Taco remote start would activate if I looked at it funny. One advantage with the...

Mainly 2 trips with the JTR in the last 4 months that covered 9 states: MT, ID, UT, AZ, CO, WY, NV, CA, and OR.

Let me see.. V8s aren't that special. Any modern V8 is going to have as many reliability issues (thank you cylinder deactivation) and at elevation in the Rockies a turbo will maintain power better anyways. I've had several v8s, don't miss them in the JT. Related ^ I'll put an electric swap in...

Personally I think they nailed the design, I like that it's not a Wrangler "me-too" clone. I'll take the Jeep hood visibility though when off-road or grocery-gettin'. Ford got creative with an IFS in a way I hope others take notice for the next gen 4x4s (looking at you Toyota). That manual with...

Our LJR got us hooked, and a friend with smart advice. I had an '88 XJ and other 4x4s before, the XJ was a favorite, but wasn't really that much better than others, some advantages some disadvantages. In '05 my wife wanted a convertible and we live in Montana, so a TJ was the only choice and the...

I sold a 3rd gen Taco TRD OR automatic DCLB I owned for 5 years to get my JTR automatic with the 3.6. Before the Taco I've owned every vehicle until it was 150K+ in mileage (some XJs above 250K). Long post, but this was something I obsessed over with buying such an expensive truck. Things I...

We had winter weather advisories in Montana this week (aka blizzards). ☃

This is why I love Jeeps, my Covercraft windshade from my '05 Wrangler fits near perfect in my '22 JT. A little heavier, but incredibly awesome at blocking heat. I have the Covercraft shades in all my vehicles now. Edit: The actual reasons this one works for me, it's about a 1/4" thick and a...

Haha, statistically significant foot pain, a good measurement! ?

Totally, no one is going to post: "I drove my JT today and nothing happened", or "Picked up groceries, didn't catch fire". Which is my JT experience. It's also easy to miss seeing all the sweet trip journals here and on other forums (ExpeditionPortal) and ignore that no one broke down or had...

Oh I also forgot taxes, $1500 of that $16K was AZ sales tax. Some states Montanans can recoup sales taxes from (WA, maybe ID), but not AZ. OVRLNDs upgrades were reasonable compared to FWC, FWC puts margin on top of any resold item for an upgrade. So OVRLND may charge $300 for a Widget, which is...

I was always impressed with the Oregon model that some of the public utilities are NPO co-ops. My friends and family actually love their co-ops. My mom in Keizer brags about her co-op and sometimes gets refunds (?), I don't remember the last time someone liked their utility company. I'm sure not...

True, I think the OVRLND falls in the middle-ish to low middle. The GFC base price is cheaper, but isn't really customizable. Mine was ~16K with lots of mods, I had priced out an AT Habitat and that was going to be ~20K. The other thing I forgot to mention, Jay and Maggie, the owners of OVRLND...

I'm liking my OVRLND, for me I wasn't interested in a wedge style, otherwise I'd have gone with GFC which is 5 miles away from my house. I've had the OVRLND throughout the West this spring, lots of dirt miles, lots of heavy rain and wind, and a little snow. So far only down to about 28F degrees...

I'm not sure on the JT what it would really take, on the TJ/LJs LCGs meant tucking up the low-hanging stuff like the awful belly pan "shovel", radiator, etc. Doing high-line fender cutting or kits to clear bigger tires with less or no lift. Also figuring out increasing suspension droop to get...