TravisRogers
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- First Name
- Dan
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- Jun 19, 2018
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- Location
- Annapolis, MD
- Vehicle(s)
- 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Sahara
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Just put Rubi rims and tires on my stock Sahara. Thought I’d put the answers to all of the questions I had in one thread.
Fit:
- Perfectly. No rubbing. Even the spare.
- If you buy them with TPMS, the new sensors will sync to your vehicle automatically.
- Your original lug nuts fit fine
- All five Rubicon wheels easily fit into a JLU with the seats down
Noise:
- Yeah, they’re louder. Not like “Chad with 40s, a light bar and a beer in a Koozie” louder but definitely louder than the stock street tires–as one would expect.
MPG:
- I get about one MPG less with these on the highway (I have a 40 minute all-Highway cruise control commute every morning). They definitely feel heavier and take more gas petal effort to turn. I'm spending a lot less time in eighth gear on the highway which you'll probably only notice if you have OCD like me. Like the real OCD, not the kind we throw around like, "Oh, my house is so clean because I have OCD." Because we all know your house is only clean the one day a year you invite people over and it took your whole family, fourteen trash bags, and a relationship counselor to get it to where it is now. And we're just making conversation. It's not even all that clean. We can smell your dog, Karen.
Ride:
- They're much driftier. I just made up a word. It's not surprising given the type of tire but it's the first thing I noticed on the highway. If your Sahara had wandering issues, this will make them worse. It takes some concentration to not drive like you're drunk.
- They're more forgiving of hard bumps like pot holes and bridge joints. The knobs absorb a lot of harshness which is great for people who live in Maryland, where highways are built by blind orangutans.
- They're bouncier. In a good way. Like a truck. The way your grandfather would have wanted it before he died from polio.
Speedometer:
- Mine is the same. The tiny difference in size doesn't seem to have a big enough effect to matter. I checked it with a GPS app.
Look:
- I couldn't be happier. I mean, with enough medication we could all be happier, but the wheels look phenomenal. It completely changes the look of the whole vehicle. They stick out just the right amount and they're just the right amount of aggressive before you have to start calling your friends "brah" and get a calf tattoo.
What I wish I had known before:
Nobody wants your immaculate Sahara takeoffs. You know, just in case you talked your wife into letting you buy the Rubicon wheels under the guise that you'll "recoup some of the money by selling your Sahara rims." Had mine listed everywhere for $250 – flawless with TPMS – and finally sold them to someone who was putting them on a non-Jeep truck.
In my opinion, this upgrade is a great value if you don't want to open Pandora's box with a lift and 35s. When I crunched the numbers, I was looking at $3,000 for wheels/tires I wanted and $2,000 for a lift that included everything you'd eventually add on anyway. The Rubi wheels with TPMS were $1,200 and upgrade the look and feel enough to make it feel like a beefier vehicle.
Fit:
- Perfectly. No rubbing. Even the spare.
- If you buy them with TPMS, the new sensors will sync to your vehicle automatically.
- Your original lug nuts fit fine
- All five Rubicon wheels easily fit into a JLU with the seats down
Noise:
- Yeah, they’re louder. Not like “Chad with 40s, a light bar and a beer in a Koozie” louder but definitely louder than the stock street tires–as one would expect.
MPG:
- I get about one MPG less with these on the highway (I have a 40 minute all-Highway cruise control commute every morning). They definitely feel heavier and take more gas petal effort to turn. I'm spending a lot less time in eighth gear on the highway which you'll probably only notice if you have OCD like me. Like the real OCD, not the kind we throw around like, "Oh, my house is so clean because I have OCD." Because we all know your house is only clean the one day a year you invite people over and it took your whole family, fourteen trash bags, and a relationship counselor to get it to where it is now. And we're just making conversation. It's not even all that clean. We can smell your dog, Karen.
Ride:
- They're much driftier. I just made up a word. It's not surprising given the type of tire but it's the first thing I noticed on the highway. If your Sahara had wandering issues, this will make them worse. It takes some concentration to not drive like you're drunk.
- They're more forgiving of hard bumps like pot holes and bridge joints. The knobs absorb a lot of harshness which is great for people who live in Maryland, where highways are built by blind orangutans.
- They're bouncier. In a good way. Like a truck. The way your grandfather would have wanted it before he died from polio.
Speedometer:
- Mine is the same. The tiny difference in size doesn't seem to have a big enough effect to matter. I checked it with a GPS app.
Look:
- I couldn't be happier. I mean, with enough medication we could all be happier, but the wheels look phenomenal. It completely changes the look of the whole vehicle. They stick out just the right amount and they're just the right amount of aggressive before you have to start calling your friends "brah" and get a calf tattoo.
What I wish I had known before:
Nobody wants your immaculate Sahara takeoffs. You know, just in case you talked your wife into letting you buy the Rubicon wheels under the guise that you'll "recoup some of the money by selling your Sahara rims." Had mine listed everywhere for $250 – flawless with TPMS – and finally sold them to someone who was putting them on a non-Jeep truck.
In my opinion, this upgrade is a great value if you don't want to open Pandora's box with a lift and 35s. When I crunched the numbers, I was looking at $3,000 for wheels/tires I wanted and $2,000 for a lift that included everything you'd eventually add on anyway. The Rubi wheels with TPMS were $1,200 and upgrade the look and feel enough to make it feel like a beefier vehicle.
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