Jeep people are the best. Its like a clan! We all do the traditional Jeep wave here.
We had our 1st Jeep back in 1980. It was cheap and to be honest a piece of crap. I swore I would never own another one after it caught fire on day and burned up. The new Jeeps are totally different. Very nice interior, much better ride and put together much better. The only problem is they are damn expensive now but the resale is GREAT. We paid $30K for our 2dr Wrangler JK Sport. We put $6K worth the custom work on it. So it is worth $36K now. Kind of an expensive toy but its hard to say no to my wife. We put a new front and rear bumper on it with a bad ass winch, got a really obnoxious LED light bar put on the bumper that lights up about 200 yards like daylight. Its a work in progress still.
I had the chance to experiment with different tires back when I drove an F-150 4x4. I had Coopers, Goodyear, Thornbirds, ProComp Xterrains, and finally the Mickey Thompson. The Thornbirds looked very cool and are very aggressive but wore out in about 20K miles. Cooper and Goodyear had a rough/stiff noisy ride. The last two are my choice, the ride is very soft, noise minimal and you can easily get 40-50K miles out of them. Mickey Thompson is just a little cheaper and they also had a $100 rebate and free shipping. Never used the GF Goodrich but hear good things about them from Jeep owners.
You aint kidding brother. Jeep4Life. If you dont wave, you're not a Jeepster...period. or just a prude
Wont lie...I wasnt born in 1980 lolz. But my 1st vehicle was a 1979 Jeep CJ7 I bought for a 1K. Floor boards were welded together with beer cans, no lie, looked like a bazooka went thru it. Full frame-off restoration. ended up getting 10k for a selling price, couldnt keep it b/c needed gas mileage for college (8mpg wasnt cutting it). I still have the VIN number in case i can find someone to look it up for me and track it down, i want it back!
Very true on the new jeeps...the ride is so much more clean and can actually go a decent speed lolz. but the price is outlandish. you get a base model for cheap but if you want to put toys one it, you end up spending 10-20k with a nothing thought about it. That and if you go brand new, gotta put the toys on them but void almost all warranty. I want the new 4 door but priced it out with the toys i currently have and could easily spend 60k.
Ive always used the BF Goodrich All-Terrain and never had an issue out of them. I just put new ones on and ended up at around $1500 after all said and done. best option was this guy on craigslist that had 4 of them and had no idea what he had... one tire was crap so i used my spare tire, 2 tires were around 80% and another was around 60-65% and wanted $100/4 tires...lasted me a while.
Right now my Jeep has 265k miles on it lolz