Weighing My Options: Suggestions, please

[csgbrewer]

You guys are going to scare him into not buying one.

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[ASSFROW]

The bump tubes are an abomination and should never have been on a Jeep. Any lift worth buying will come with track bars/brackets to correct for changes from lifting. And saving your thousands of dollars by not buying the XR is the same as selling the take offs if not coming out ahead if you plan on lifting it anyway.

Whether it's better or worse for lifting is a different discussion than whether the XR package is a good value. The best your going to find knuckles for is what $800? The tires $1500, decent wheels at least $1000. The package on my Jeep was $4000, but I got 20% 0ff my Jeep, so it seems like a decent deal to me. If someone is planning on full lift maybe a slightly lower value, but with 1 inch spacers, long travel shocks and 37s you have a very capable Jeep without changing anything else.

How Jeep screwed us in stock with 35s. They should have bumped properly and given us short body long travel shocks. This can be fixed for as little as $400 with long travel short body shocks as good or better than stock and paying someone to cut and weld the bump tubes.

 

[roaniecowpony]

I am beginning to understand what was meant when someone said that engine options are an emotional topic around here. I get it; they are both awesome at being bad (he says with his best imitation of Bill Clinton: it depends on the definition of the word bad).

With few exceptions, just buying a jeep is an emotional decision. Darn few "need" one to just go about their daily lives. It's all about "want".

 

[ASSFROW]

You guys are going to scare him into not buying one.

Hopefully not. The Wrangler XR may not be perfect, but it's still a million times better than anything else out there that comes with 35s. I wouldn't go back and not get an XR if I had the choice for the difference in cost. The big complaint is it's over bumped in the front. It's literally just an inch of unnecessary bump. These guy are going bonkers over an inch. Would I like to have that in of up travel, yeah, but it's like my foreskin. Would I like it back, yeah, has is affected my life or stopped me from hittin every "trail" out there, no.

 

[roaniecowpony]

You guys are going to scare him into not buying one.

He doesn't seem like the scare-dee-cat type. He's the calculating type. He's studied this decision for more than a year. He just posted here to give us undie bunchers something to banter about.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Hopefully not. The Wrangler XR may not be perfect, but it's still a million times better than anything else out there that comes with 35s. I wouldn't go back and not get an XR if I had the choice for the difference in cost. The big complaint is it's over bumped in the front. It's literally just an inch of unnecessary bump. These guy are going bonkers over an inch. Would I like to have that in of up travel, yeah, but it's like my foreskin. Would I like it back, yeah, has is affected my life or stopped me from hittin every "trail" out there, no.

Too much information.

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