OMG what the hell?Totally off topic, well not totally, but the JL is really easy compared to a Taco.
Talk about a pain. Took 12 hours.
Sam
Spend the 500 on tools instead and install it yourselfHi, I just purchased a fab four bumper for my JL. I’m missing a couple of the tools to put it on and reached out to a shop for a quote. They said it was going to take them 4 hours and wanted over $500 to install it. Does this sound right or way too high? It is a bolt on bumper and I thought they were pretty quick and simple to get on. Thanks!
Absolute worst part. Had I known, I would have bought new lights.It took me more time to get the wiring harness and light out of the plastic bumper
I'm always fascinated by the amount of time it takes most guys to do anything on their Jeeps. It's almost always 2 hours. That's like saying their poker is always 10", they always shoot a round of golf in the low 70s, they can climb Everest without oxygen, and make $150k a year on a slow year. Ha!
I admit it took me 2 hours to remove my OE bumper, 2 hours to install my Smittybilt XRC, and it'll take at least 3 hours to install my Smittybilt Gen3 winch. I was a jet engine mechanic in the USAF, have wrenched on cars for 50 years, built 3 Jeeps and race prepped a Miata. I'm going to say I'm an above average backyard mechanic. I admit to shooting over 100 in golf so I don't do that anymore, I'm not a porn star, I barely made it up Mt. Whitney, and I'm retired from a government job.
Oh, and I installed my step rock sliders in about 2 hours and think it looks silly.
Same here. Except for me it was the dogs trying to lick my face while I was lying on the ground torqueing things.That is insane. My front took a couple of hours, with basic tools, while drinking a beer, trying to control my kids, trying to find the right bolt in the mix of 500 random fasteners ROAM sent me, and texting with friends. Seriously if I had actually been focusing I probably could have done the whole thing in 45 minutes and I am NOT a professional mechanic in any way.
An interesting perspective.Well see, you are accustomed to the slow pace of the government job. You had no real boss trying to have you keep up to a certain pace and get shit done in a real world setting. Just messing with you as well.
Government jobs and contracts crack me up. Do just enough to not get fired, fast enough to meet some out there timeline, don't include everything in the initial bid so you can bid the whole job again.