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If you bought a Wrangler, two door or four? If you would buy a two door, get the wrangler over the gladiator. If you would buy a 4-door, you are already getting into compromise territory and it shows you have some need for rear seat use, cargo space perhaps. The Gladiator makes compromises...

That's it, pretty sad but truth.

Man, that heated steering wheel was a treat. From old cold injuries to my hands, at certain temps they feel like I've smashed them with a hammer. We were camping in the Flathead national forest and after packing up the RTT when it was 20* I was in agony. A heated steering wheel would have...

I don't think the willy's gets the Fox shox. While they do play a bit of a game with the spec list, all the packages do that. For instance, I have at least two packages that add X or Y, but they don't discount those packages because another package has a given component already. The real test...

Light bar bro!

It's aggregated risk, at scale the numbers are far in favor of the warrantor. For most, most, folks, the warranty will not pay off. However, if your risk, burden of unforeseen costs, is very high, then it may be worthwhile anyway. This is why homeowners or renters make sense, because the risk...

There are two main factors in reliability, the inherent design/manufacture and maintenance. We've had s lot of high mileage vehicles in my family, Honda, Jeep, VW, Toyota, and the common thread is that they were all purchased new and well cared for. Scheduled maintenance by the book and...

The ZR2 is probably better as a ‘high speed’ off road machine and highway runner. For old school dirt and rock you can’t beat a Jeep. The ease of modification and the relative simplicity favor the Jeep. Adding a winch for example is easy peasy, I did it solo in my yard with a bag of tools in...

Likewise with a car seat. My wife was keen on a TRD but we decided the back seat with a car seat was too cramped = toddler kicking your seat back. She ended up being intrigued by then really liking as she put it, how close the windshield is. Much better visibility in our opinion which is...

I can't recall off the top of my head, but in other vehicles I've driven this has been the case. Consider, the transfer case is after the transmission so any gear whine or noise that the transmission would generate during 2Hi/4Hi that would be masked by road/wind noise as speed increased would...

EV's totally make sense for a significant number of people. My old commute was 50mi each way as it was for tens of thousands of others in the region. For those folks in that situation there are significant tangible benefits with an EV. That use case is mostly confined to major urban centers...

That would be the future, charge while sitting at stop lights as well.

I would buy an electric vehicle that I didn't have to plug in, but until then, nope, can't do it.

Great list but I'd move the shovel and fire extinguisher to the base kit. If you need to poop in the woods, or build a fire you should be using / carrying a shovel. I'm partial to the gerber e-tool model that includes the pick. It fits under the rear seat folded and has proven very durable in...

Looks iterative.

The Red River Gun Truck is a customized Jeep Gladiator with the purpose of eradicating outlaw quadrupeds. | Red River Range Found it! Personally, given the doors are made to come off I think you'd do better with a pintle mount that bolts onto the door hinges Gunvee style.

I got a good deal on a smittybilt X20 Gen 2 10k and have used it a few times so far. Interestingly the warn winch mount I bought for it cost nearly as much as the winch but is just as critical a part given it supports the load and must fit precisely into the frame. The smitty built seems more...

That's a tough break but all things considered, we do still have a full steel bed (ahem Toyota) and the truck is already the heaviest in the class. I have beaten the heck out of my bed so far and with the bed liner it has thankfully been no worse for wear.

Black bears and mountain lions for me. But at the end of a long private road with no lights, someone driving up at night would attract quite a bit of attention from the neighbors and myself.

I'll be honest, I wanted to 'change' my rear diff fluid at 7k miles and I just used a vacuum evacuator to pull 90% and wipe the fill plug magnet off. I know I didn't get it all but in another 7k I'll finally pull the cover and go through it properly then. In my case I just wanted to get most...