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The spare will eventually get tire rot. You're also assuming that you'll never get a different size of tire. Sorry, but that sounds boring.

That's my theory, but we've put 24k on ours in 18 months. Close to zero commute miles, but man, we've done a crapload of road trips in it, almost all of them to do off roading.

To add to what @NWJeepr said: you'll get about 20% more life out of your tires if you also rotate the spare. My first JLUR burned through its KO2s to the point where I was thinking I needed to replace them at 18k. My latest JLURD seems to be doing well with the same type of tire (37s this time...

Any thoughts on how your driving characteristics might be impacting that? Like lots of hills where you're not downshifting, left foot braking, etc.?

Sorry, my brain goes severely OCD when people post details like that. Yeah, those brakes look impressive. I wish they weren't quite as significant of a hit to the budget, but oh well.

Make sure to compare it to what dealers are offering for custom builds in my sig.

You're assuming that the entire diameter of the brake (and not just what's being touched by pads) is braking surface area. That's an invalid assumption, right?

The area of a circle is Pi * r squared. Then you subtract the area of the inner circle that isn't part of the braking surface. I'm assuming 2" of braking surface, so that comes out to a total difference of 9.24% for the fronts...correct?

My wife is the opposite. Bears are fine, but there's rattlesnakes in the desert.

Are you adjusting the volume while she's speaking?

You're right: that's not normal. Hopefully the dealership will be able to resolve it for you.

Yeah, I've got the Rubicon badge and I should be getting the two others that we did last week (Poughkeepsie Gulch and Rocky Gap) in the mall. It's the seven that we'd already done & received that got scattered on the road somewhere. My wife says that she found a way to reorder replacements for...

Assuming that the braking surface is ~2" wide, don't the fronts have ~9% more surface area instead of 17? It's still significant, but not quite that much.

Basically electric fencing across the front of their doors.

Excellent! On a slightly less positive note: my wife apparently had our seven badges sitting on the rock sliders prior to us heading to the Rubicon. Now I've got to replace them since they're gone.

Last week in Lake Tahoe was the first time that I'd seen electric protection on front doors. The bears are really bad out there. We met up with a guy in a Taco on the Rubicon that had all of his food taken by a bear. That night a momma bear was teaching her cub how to do the same in our camp...

When I read that I was wondering how to activate normal cruise instead of adaptive. I guess I've never seen the need to use normal cruise over adaptive.

Woah, those differences are pretty significant.

I'm pretty sure that it's still somewhat drivable when the "service electronic stability control" message comes up. Maybe yours was a different type of failure? Note that turning our wheels lock to lock, then addressing the resultant off-center steering wheel seems to have resolved this for us.

They don't? Maybe that a Rubicon thing?