What did you do TO your Jeep JL today?

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Installed Redline hood struts - three years later than I should have.
 

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My Wrangler has the distinction of having factory windscreen wipers with the shortest service life I've ever experienced: barely 7 months.* Their performance just fell off a cliff.

And so they were replaced without further delay.

*That figure is net of the period of time when I was using dedicated winter wiper blades.

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You're right. The packaging should garner at least another month of usefulness.

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Got them put on tonight. Not bad install just little tweaking of hinges to get properly aligned. Big difference between Tube Doors from an air flow perspective. Definitely more open then full doors with windows open. Really like the position of arm resting on sill while driving. Looks to be about 3” lower. The fit and finish is really nice. Matter of fact, I may transfer the Proximity locks over to my full doors.

Here is a couple pics comparing full door, half door, and tube doors. Along with a few inside pics.

Overall pretty pleased at the moment. :)
Sorry for all pics

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Where did you get the side vent decal? I assume it's a decal.
 

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Where did you get the side vent decal? I assume it's a decal.
I had them and hood done by local graphics shop. Wanted a little thicker red outline then what most companies provide.
 

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Not my Jeep, but helped my bud replace his winch and rotate his tires.

He had the Badlands winch and added the rope and a wireless controller to it. Well the wireless controller failed and sometime during the night it turned the winch on and tried pulling rope in. The rope did not break as it was rated for over the 12,000 pound pull of the winch. The winch just kept pulling and pulling, tweaking the winch mounting plate a little bit and while it did not great the rope, It did damage it. The winch got hot enough that it melted the negative power cable until It broke and cut the power to the winch.

While I tried to talk him out of putting another badlands winch back on...... He had bought the free replacement warranty, so we put his new badlands winch back on. This is like the 5th one I have seen fail. I think he is lucky that it did not catch on fire and burn his Jeep down.

Only a Jeep owner. $60,000 vehicle, hand me the grinder and a can of flat black spray paint. Note: I have said this myself....
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So just a quick breakdown of buying a Badlands winch.

$300 for the initial winch
$180 for the "best" warranty
$129 for the synthetic rope.
$39 for the wireless remote
$20 for the Fairlead
Then another $180 for the warranty on the free winch.

Total price for running a Badlands winch on his Jeep $848+ tax $898. But at least he has a new Badlands winch.

At least Harbor Freight is easy to deal with, they just handed him a new winch and out the store we went.

I also think he is lucky that he had a high quality Poison Spyder bumper that did not collapse in on itself. While it did bend the winch mounting place a little bit it was still usable.
 

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Not my Jeep, but helped my bud replace his winch and rotate his tires.

He had the Badlands winch and added the rope and a wireless controller to it. Well the wireless controller failed and sometime during the night it turned the winch on and tried pulling rope in. The rope did not break as it was rated for over the 12,000 pound pull of the winch. The winch just kept pulling and pulling, tweaking the winch mounting plate a little bit and while it did not great the rope, It did damage it. The winch got hot enough that it melted the negative power cable until It broke and cut the power to the winch.

While I tried to talk him out of putting another badlands winch back on...... He had bought the free replacement warranty, so we put his new badlands winch back on. This is like the 5th one I have seen fail. I think he is lucky that it did not catch on fire and burn his Jeep down.

Only a Jeep owner. $60,000 vehicle, hand me the grinder and a can of flat black spray paint. Note: I have said this myself....
Jeep Wrangler JL What did you do TO your Jeep JL today? 1631930128806


So just a quick breakdown of buying a Badlands winch.

$300 for the initial winch
$180 for the "best" warranty
$129 for the synthetic rope.
$39 for the wireless remote
$20 for the Fairlead
Then another $180 for the warranty on the free winch.

Total price for running a Badlands winch on his Jeep $848+ tax $898. But at least he has a new Badlands winch.

At least Harbor Freight is easy to deal with, they just handed him a new winch and out the store we went.

I also think he is lucky that he had a high quality Poison Spyder bumper that did not collapse in on itself. While it did bend the winch mounting place a little bit it was still usable.
For piece of mind , I installed one of these ……

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….. just in case my winch decided to go all “Christine” on me ……. I wired it to my auxiliary switch so there’s no power to my winch unless I push the button. Might be something for your bud to consider…….
 

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For piece of mind , I installed one of these ……

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….. just in case my winch decided to go all “Christine” on me ……. I wired it to my auxiliary switch so there’s no power to my winch unless I push the button. Might be something for your bud to consider…….
Good idea. I’ve got a warn 10s and aev front bumper sitting in the corner of the dining room (I’m divorced so....) to be installed. Got the warn power interruption kit sitting on top of the pile.
 

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For piece of mind , I installed one of these ……

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….. just in case my winch decided to go all “Christine” on me ……. I wired it to my auxiliary switch so there’s no power to my winch unless I push the button. Might be something for your bud to consider…….

got a link?
 
 
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