agordon117
Well-Known Member
yes, I do understand it. my point is, if you're on asphalt and you are in a situation where you need 4wd, probably going 70mph around a turn isn't your best option anyway. I'm not saying full time is a trivial benefit, I'm saying part time is not completely useless on road like is being implied. If you need it, you can use it if you do it properly. If you want the rubicon, don't skip out on it just for the full time 4wd option. It's silly unless you constantly are in conditions that are perfect, then crap, then perfect, then crap multiple times every single time you get into the car. The car isn't going to fall apart if you have 4wd engaged around mild turns unless you shouldn't have had 4wd engaged in the first place. And if you're constantly making sharp turns on clean roads, full time 4wd wouldn't have been engaged anyway.
I just don't see that it's worth giving up the car you want for slightly less work engaging and disengaging 4wd when you need it. The benefit is there, sure. The question is, does the OP want a rubicon, or not a rubicon? There's no middle ground. Anything else is just a sport or sahara with takeoffs on it. That may come off as elitist, which I'm not intending to be, but the decision has to be made on which pieces of the look are most important. Unless you find a takeoff hood, which is unlikely this early in the life cycle of the JL, you simply can't complete the look. There were a lot of places that tried to imitate the anniversary hood on the JK, and none of them actually had the aggressive look. It just looked like someone added a few extra bumps on the hood. None of them captured the essence of the anniversary hood.
Now, if the OP managed to find a takeoff hood from a rubicon in the right color before ordering, then by all means, go ahead and order a sahara with selec trac if that's what you want. Then you could have the best of both. Someone, somewhere ordered a rubicon for the electronic diff locks and sway bar disconnect that didn't like the hood. The trick is finding that person and convincing them to trade hoods without alerting anyone else to the trade.
I keep reading this over and it sounds like I'm trying to be an elitist prick. I'm really not, I swear. I'm just horrible at conveying tone via text.
TL:DR If the OP just wants rims and the bumpers, a Sahara would do fine. If the OP wants the whole rubicon look, then a decision has to be made between form and function.
I just don't see that it's worth giving up the car you want for slightly less work engaging and disengaging 4wd when you need it. The benefit is there, sure. The question is, does the OP want a rubicon, or not a rubicon? There's no middle ground. Anything else is just a sport or sahara with takeoffs on it. That may come off as elitist, which I'm not intending to be, but the decision has to be made on which pieces of the look are most important. Unless you find a takeoff hood, which is unlikely this early in the life cycle of the JL, you simply can't complete the look. There were a lot of places that tried to imitate the anniversary hood on the JK, and none of them actually had the aggressive look. It just looked like someone added a few extra bumps on the hood. None of them captured the essence of the anniversary hood.
Now, if the OP managed to find a takeoff hood from a rubicon in the right color before ordering, then by all means, go ahead and order a sahara with selec trac if that's what you want. Then you could have the best of both. Someone, somewhere ordered a rubicon for the electronic diff locks and sway bar disconnect that didn't like the hood. The trick is finding that person and convincing them to trade hoods without alerting anyone else to the trade.
I keep reading this over and it sounds like I'm trying to be an elitist prick. I'm really not, I swear. I'm just horrible at conveying tone via text.
TL:DR If the OP just wants rims and the bumpers, a Sahara would do fine. If the OP wants the whole rubicon look, then a decision has to be made between form and function.
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