Danny wheels a 4 door JK...rental!!!

[Dannyboy]

Got a friend in town who rented a 4 door Jeep JK. Pretty standard equipment, open diffs, 225 Goodyear tires. I pulled the airbag fuse and took it wheeling...with a video cam.



Any speculation on how it did?

 

[Stic-o]

oh no's

good thing there is no undercarrige scratch/dent mark down sheet for the rental company:

 

[davesexplorer]

In for the lulz.

 

[Tbars4]

...What did it look like when you returned it???...

...Waiting for the carnage report...

 

[Brian1]

Im guessing hard landings and the bumpstops are now 1/4" shorter :

 

[Dannyboy]

well, we didn't air down the tires at all, so that probably didn't help but we ran it out on the "testing grounds" where I take my Explorer most of the time. Lots of off camber hill climbs, whoops, rocks.

My review is that it's definitely a good out of the box wheeler, but no matter how you cut it open diffs with sway bars attached really hinder your abilities. We did manage to run it up a pretty impressive climb that was quite rutted out and the scent of burning Goodyear Wrangler RTS was quite evident. It flexed very minimal and lifted a tire a lot. Again, I'm sure with sway bars disconnected it would be a different story.

I only took the wheel for a bit (I lost my rights) and ran it along a ridgeline. I noticed the front end REALLY dives on the slightest touching of the brakes, especially in the whoops. I think I was clipping along over 40 and I realized really quick that a basic safety belt doesn't keep you in the seat nearly like my 5 points. The rear was really jumping around and I have video at one point where I get double bucked bringing the rear tires in the air and shortly after the front wheel smacked a rock pretty good. I managed to pacman a rim and cut 2 holes on the sidewall of the tire. Gonna have to report that one as a rock fell out of a landscape truck on the freeway.

I respect the truck though, a Rubicon with lockers and auto disconnect sway bar would have walked up all of this. A guy with experience wheeling can get that truck through quite a bit.

 

[Charlie]

Waiting to hear how returning it goes...

 

[Dannyboy]

Im guessing hard landings and the bumpstops are now 1/4" shorter :

That and the discs in my back.

 

[Stic-o]

:ttiwwp:

 

[GRNMACHINE]

Yes pics/video! I never understand why people buy rental cars...

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

i like those kind of jeeps the wranglers

 

[dkchrist]

I am not an unlimited fan, I like the traditional two doors like my '48 Willys

 

[Dannyboy]

couple pics I extracted from the video, my video editing program is sub par.
The Jeeps was lifting a wheel in the close up pic

 

[GRNMACHINE]

I hope you got the "rental insurance"..... Heh Heh

Looks like a lot of fun though!!

 

[Dannyboy]

litte video from the romping. I've been having a real hard time with my movie editing program lately so I'm just trying to do small little things to build confidence LOL My camera has 50x zoom, so it looks just like we're running down a dirt road but I slowed it down at the part where I bounced it pretty good. Also you can hear the tire go.

 

[slyfoxexplore]

That tire was loud haha nice video