Unlifted Rubicon, and no plans to lift. I MIGHT go to 35"s when the time comes to replace tires, we'll see. My JT is a daily driver with overlanding in mind, not rock crawling. In the 6 months I've owned it I've yet to have any real clearance issues. And I wheel almost every weekend as I have...
Another vote for the RR Arcus. As pointed out, its not as robust as many others, but my rig is a daily driver, for overlanding, and I don't live in an area with deer etc, I just needed something more substantial than the plastic stock bumper and would hold a winch. Your needs may dictate a...
One is indeed without the winch tray and with the overrider, while the other has the winch tray but no overrider. The Rugged Ridge site itself displays the options this way.
While I've added a new bumper and winch (bought it with the plastic bumper), I've no intentions to do other true modifications to my Rubicon (I consider things like the Leitner rack and lights to be accessorizing). I bought it with the intent of overlanding, not rock crawling, and its more than...
Rugged Ridge Arcus. It's $549 MSRP, but they seem to be on sale regularly (I bought mine for $499 and got a 5% rebate). Recessed winch mount, factory fogs fit, and there's an optional overrider bar.
During the time I worked at 5.11 as a Marketing Manager, we partnered with Toyota who gave us a 2017 TRD Pro. Partnered with other brands and built it out and brought it to SEMA that year (Cooper Tires booth). I drove this for the next year and a half, including a trip to Overland Expo West (pic...
My top 5 mods for my Rubicon, and specific to my Overlanding needs:
Leitner rack with gear pods
Rotopax (fuel and water)
Recovery gear (Maxtrax, shackles, tow straps, etc)
Bumper (Rugged Ridge Arcus)
Winch (Warn EV0 10S)
There's lots more mod's, but these were the most important for me to be...
I'm in Palm Springs proper and hardly ever see any. I saw one yesterday while driving through Rancho Mirage, but aside from that, can count on one hand the JT's I've seen in my area since buying mine in February. There are JK's and JL's aplenty though.