AEV JT350/JT370

[jlrocks]

Has anyone gotten a JT350 or JT370?

https://www.aev-conversions.com/vehicles/jt-gladiator/

You can get these directly through a Jeep dealer. Supposedly it doesn't invalidate any part of the factory warranty and you still just take it to your Jeep dealer for service. I'd like to know if it works that well in practice.

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[LaterGator]

Sweet. $6K worth of parts and tires for $12.5K. None of those options invalidate the jeep warranty if you do them yourself either.

 

[MrKnowitall]

Sweet. $6K worth of parts and tires for $12.5K. None of those options invalidate the jeep warranty if you do them yourself either.

Not sure it’s fair to compare a stack of parts to a turn-key setup. My local dealer sells AEV regularly and also puts Moparized Jeeps on the lot. Compared to what he lists for the in-house mods, the JT370 is a bargain.

 

[jlrocks]

Yes, skilled labor is valuable.

A Moparized Jeep is one upgraded in-house by the dealership?

 

[LaterGator]

Not sure it’s fair to compare a stack of parts to a turn-key setup.

Sure it is. A competent 4x4 shop could install that stack of parts for under $2k. Most of the cost in that stack of parts is tires and wheels which a tire shop would likely install for free if you purchase from them.

 

[Hootbro]

AEV has always gotten flack from the penny pinchers. They almost never discount or run sales and are unapologetic for it. They know the market consumer demographic they are chasing. Just about everything they make is top quality and that costs.

A turn key AEV conversion off a dealer's lot is way better than any dealer's slapped together conversion using whatever cheapest Chinese Ebay parts they can slam on it and probably ask the same amount as the AEV conversion.

 

[shrinkhead]

Always liked the AEV Jeeps. Question I would have here for the JT is cooling with those massive lights and nose on the bumper

 

[jlrocks]

I was on the phone with them yesterday and they said the spare tire now fits under the bed in the stock location. We weren't talking about 35s specifically but I should have asked if that applies to 37s.

 

[Beowulf]

Interesting on the spare tire.

 

[JerseyMike]

I think I would have considered a JT370 on top of my sport s, does it have to be a rubicon or can you add the package to a sport?

I paid 37,600 for sport s, adding on JT370 would put it at 49,700, which is very close to a comparable rubicon but this would swap lockers and discos for 37s, lift, bumper and gears....gladiators all have Dana 44s so seems like a decent trade off

 

[Beowulf]

I think you can send them any JT. If you go 370, I believe they switch out the sport flares for Rubicon flares.

 

[MrKnowitall]

I think I would have considered a JT370 on top of my sport s, does it have to be a rubicon or can you add the package to a sport?

I paid 37,600 for sport s, adding on JT370 would put it at 49,700, which is very close to a comparable rubicon but this would swap lockers and discos for 37s, lift, bumper and gears....gladiators all have Dana 44s so seems like a decent trade off

I asked over instagram and they can build on any trim. Didn’t see anything about the fender flares, though that’d be cool.

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