ajkitebrder40
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- Adam
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- '21 JLUR, Hydro Blue
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I've always debated moving to a 2 door, mainly because I've found them more fun to drive, I don't have kids, I never use the back seats, just the storage area. The main thing stopping me is my use case, so here goes, let me know if I'm missing something:
Daily:
Back and forth to the beach to surf/kiteboard/foil. So other than in the winter, everything fits inside the JLUR, when the hard top goes on, my foilboard (5'8" x 28" SUP) goes on top on racks because it gets a bit tight with the hard top on far as the width on it's side to the top of the hard top, but really no issues. In the summer, I roll with a bikini top for rain or no top, and so the boards go inside or in the case of a 2 door, out the back.
Trips:
Here's the issue, on trips it will be the wife and I typically, or me alone. I like the idea of being able to sleep inside the Jeep (I have a DeepSleep mattress for the 4 door). I put the boards on top, and I have Inno racks to lock them in. Obviously, that won't work even for just me when on trips, so.....obviously a tent will fix it, but......any other easy to deploy solutions to sleeping inside the Jeep with an air mattress that would work?
Again, my brain says just stick with the 4 door, that's what I've had and I'm used to it and it does everything I want, but a part of me has always wanted a 2 door (I've gone from XJ to a '93 Toyota Pickup to JKU to JLU, so.....other than the pickup everything has had 4 doors).
Quick edit based on comments - I would remove the backseat immediately (along with the carpet and replace with Armorlite, but that's a whole other subject).
Daily:
Back and forth to the beach to surf/kiteboard/foil. So other than in the winter, everything fits inside the JLUR, when the hard top goes on, my foilboard (5'8" x 28" SUP) goes on top on racks because it gets a bit tight with the hard top on far as the width on it's side to the top of the hard top, but really no issues. In the summer, I roll with a bikini top for rain or no top, and so the boards go inside or in the case of a 2 door, out the back.
Trips:
Here's the issue, on trips it will be the wife and I typically, or me alone. I like the idea of being able to sleep inside the Jeep (I have a DeepSleep mattress for the 4 door). I put the boards on top, and I have Inno racks to lock them in. Obviously, that won't work even for just me when on trips, so.....obviously a tent will fix it, but......any other easy to deploy solutions to sleeping inside the Jeep with an air mattress that would work?
Again, my brain says just stick with the 4 door, that's what I've had and I'm used to it and it does everything I want, but a part of me has always wanted a 2 door (I've gone from XJ to a '93 Toyota Pickup to JKU to JLU, so.....other than the pickup everything has had 4 doors).
Quick edit based on comments - I would remove the backseat immediately (along with the carpet and replace with Armorlite, but that's a whole other subject).
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