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JL Sport here,
Traded a Renegade for my first Wrangler JL Sport, came with 2.5" lift, Rubi rims and tires, door sill plates, and window tinting. yeah not quite brand new, had 4500 miles on it. But hey it's new to me. Currently the only mod was to the tail light added the OEM LED's, waiting for the rock sliders to arrive, nothing but the pinch seam for now.

It's kind of funny how i ended up with wrangler in the first place, i had taken my Renegade in for an oil change, went in early before the sales floor even opened. Checked in at the express lane and was told it will be around 2 hours, with nowhere to go, i started walking around and got to talking with a kid mounting balloons on some of the cars. The guy starts following me and finally says you seem to be focused on the Wrangler. I said yeah i really want a Rubicon, but need to hold out a little longer. After looking and talking i noticed that i only had a few things that i really wanted, heated seats, LED Lights, power locks, and a manual transmission. Looking on the lot they didn't have what i was looking for, not color, not anything really. I found out after words they keep most of their inventory off site, what is that crap. Anyway, while i was trying to blow off this sales guy, he pull ups in a sport, the one i mentioned earlier. Well as it turned out i went in for an oil change and drove home with a new 2018 JL Wrangler sport. The Techs can really work some magic in the shop let me tella, what a difference. lol

The only thing i really miss is the power locks with proximity sensor, until i take off the doors. lol.

I do have one question, reading the post and i find myself even looking to doing it, why does everyone add the Rubi equipment to the sport? Is it cheaper than just buying aftermarket?
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Haha I hear ya! I took in my TJ for an oil change and test drove a JL. Man, the difference is incredible. I ended up ordering a Sport S ;)
 

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I do have one question, reading the post and i find myself even looking to doing it, why does everyone add the Rubi equipment to the sport? Is it cheaper than just buying aftermarket?
I’ll give my response:
- it could be cheaper: $1200 for 5 wheels/tires, $200 for suspension, $120 for bumper w fogs, sliders are really cheap if you want those
- quality is known
- you know it will fit and you know what the ride will be
- resale ... heavy mod’d Jeeps don’t normally resale as well (I think). Mopar added parts at big discount could help resale
- they seem widely avail on JLWF and CL

My $.02 for what it’s worth.
 

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JL Sport here,
Traded a Renegade for my first Wrangler JL Sport, came with 2.5" lift, Rubi rims and tires, door sill plates, and window tinting. yeah not quite brand new, had 4500 miles on it. But hey it's new to me. Currently the only mod was to the tail light added the OEM LED's, waiting for the rock sliders to arrive, nothing but the pinch seam for now.

It's kind of funny how i ended up with wrangler in the first place, i had taken my Renegade in for an oil change, went in early before the sales floor even opened. Checked in at the express lane and was told it will be around 2 hours, with nowhere to go, i started walking around and got to talking with a kid mounting balloons on some of the cars. The guy starts following me and finally says you seem to be focused on the Wrangler. I said yeah i really want a Rubicon, but need to hold out a little longer. After looking and talking i noticed that i only had a few things that i really wanted, heated seats, LED Lights, power locks, and a manual transmission. Looking on the lot they didn't have what i was looking for, not color, not anything really. I found out after words they keep most of their inventory off site, what is that crap. Anyway, while i was trying to blow off this sales guy, he pull ups in a sport, the one i mentioned earlier. Well as it turned out i went in for an oil change and drove home with a new 2018 JL Wrangler sport. The Techs can really work some magic in the shop let me tella, what a difference. lol

The only thing i really miss is the power locks with proximity sensor, until i take off the doors. lol.

I do have one question, reading the post and i find myself even looking to doing it, why does everyone add the Rubi equipment to the sport? Is it cheaper than just buying aftermarket?
Nice man! Did they charge you for that oil change! Lol
 

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Cross posting to keep the thread going ...

Here’s my Black Sport S with some Rubicon take offs added thanks to JLWF members. It’s my first wrangler. 2nd Jeep(‘01 GC which I liked). Coming from a ‘15 535xi lease.

18 JLU Sport S
“Mods”:
- rubicon wheels/tires
- rubicon springs/shocks
- rubicon front bumper with LEDs
- ROAM sidesteps (body)
- MOPAR hitch
- small antenna with poor reception
- removed sport stickers and plastidipped Jeep / trail emblems and key holes
- to do: window tint on fronts
- to do: add rigid LED cubes I picked up
- to do: waiting for inspired lighting LED headlights to be delivered
- to do: waiting for hinge protector film to be delivered.

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Love it man!

Should get my wheels tomorrow and install all my stuff Sunday. The Roam Frame Mounted steps/sliders haven’t shipped yet so that’ll have to wait I suppose
 

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Ill be swapping over my JK bumper to the JLU once it shows up, might be the first one running a 8274 on the front :D

But yah, unless your dealer is extremely uptight, they have no problems with modded jeeps. Ive got a good relationship with my service department here that they will let me take the parts and swap them on my own time so I am not down a Jeep for a day. ive warrantied wheel bearings, driveshafts, seals and pulleys with no issues on my JK and its lifted about 3.5 on 35's

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Dude that’s going to look sick on the JL because it’s rockin on the JK lol
 

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Love it man!

Should get my wheels tomorrow and install all my stuff Sunday. The Roam Frame Mounted steps/sliders haven’t shipped yet so that’ll have to wait I suppose
Nice! My steps were an easy one person instal.
 

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Not sure how I have missed this thread over the past 3 months but I found it and I'm in it now...
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Yeah man we’ve been waiting for you to show up.

I dug this one up from 50 pages back lol I was about to create a thread because I got sick of seeing the same old stuff that doesn’t apply to me being a non-Rubi, and this old thread popped up and I contemplated making a new one but was like screw it I’ll just post up and revive this one.

Really in my opinion the Mods should sticky this one because this is literally our only real thread on the forum..
 

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Might be a dumb question but are the Rubi take off wheels 33’s?
They spec at 33 but measure just shy I believe.

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32.8” per BFG website.

The 285/70R17 BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 has a diameter of 32.8", a width of 11.5", mounts on a 17" rim and has 635 revolutions per mile. It weighs 51.4 lbs, has a max load of 2755/2535 lbs, a maximum air pressure of 50 psi, a tread depth of 15/32" and should be used on a rim width of 7.5-9".
 
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Might be a dumb question but are the Rubi take off wheels 33’s?
Yes they are, 33".
Technically a hair less than 33" and the original wheel where a little more than 32", so there's not much difference on the speedo.
When I have the cruise set to 100km/hr I'm actually doing 102km/hr according to my Android GPS speedo app and Waze.
 

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Have to add mine too... I do not have the upgraded rear axle. My fault for not researching enough and falling in love too quickly. However, 4000 miles and no issues. Good steering, welds, etc... and only one recall for cruise programming update. Maybe in future I will get axle upgrade with locker, but so far no issues getting me to where I want to go. I still smile every time I walk out to the driveway or parking lot and look over and go “yea that’s mine!’’

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