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Wheel upgrade with Rubicon takeoffs? - Will be towing

Jay1313g

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I'm sorry if this has been beat to death, but I promise that I tried to search for it.....

We'll be picking up our 2021 Sport EcoDiesel Wednesday. The biggest reason to get the EcoDiesel was to pull our ~4,000 lb. camper.
We'd like to pick up some take off Rubicon wheels, BUT I read somewhere that the Gladiator wheels were made stronger that Wrangler wheels.
I'm scouring for take offs near me, but do I need to be picky to only get Gladiator wheels since we will be towing?
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I remember reading that too a while back on here (JT wheels designed to handle higher weight limits), but if I recall correctly the only thread(s) I saw about it just mentioned that the Gladiator engineers may have said that in an AMA discussion but no one ever actually found out what the spec was of each one. I had my hesitations about doing the same thing, but eventually just reminded myself there's safety factors built into these types of things for worst of the worst case scenarios so I did the swap, but I also don't really plan on maxing mine out anytime soon. The OEM sport wheels were just too ugly to keep looking at.
 
 







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