Xplodor
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- Joined
- July 5, 2001
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- City, State
- Riverside, Ca
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '01 XLT 4x4
Guys n Gals,
Being a X-j##p owner myself, the Rubicon is bad @$$!!! But here is the problem. If you do ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING as far as lift mods, body lift, or even just a new set of bigger tires the warrantee is void, no ifs, ands, or buts. I don't care what false promises a salesman may make to you trying to sell one, but as far as Jeep is concerned, any mods like tires, etc... They are voiding the warrantee. Now if the dealer opts to pay for warantee work it's up to them. So this is my take on it:
It's cheaper to buy a Rubicon then it is to make one.
GREAT rig, but don't spend the money on it just yet if you plan on running bigger tires and doing some rockcrawling. This thing will hold its own offroad just stock, but as we all know, tires help clearance, and unless you can stuff some 33s or 35s on them, and just swap them out when you take it in for work, it's going to be a slight problem for those worried about warantee.
All in all, IMHO, I'm going to wait a few years and buy a slightly used one that hadn't seen too many trails. There are a lot of people out there with $$$ that are buying this thing just because it is so nice, but have no plans on taking it on any hardcore trails. The easy way to figuer it out when I go to buy one is see how many rock marks are on the undercarrage, cause we all know with those size tires there's going to be a lot of Rubicon undercarrage on the rocks of some of these trails. Until then I expect to build up Xplodor.
Who knows, I may eventually do a Coilover SAS and never look back at j##p again. These things can carry soooo much more gear!!! Who needs a tent on over night runs when we can have a full size air matress in the back of our X!!!
Being a X-j##p owner myself, the Rubicon is bad @$$!!! But here is the problem. If you do ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING as far as lift mods, body lift, or even just a new set of bigger tires the warrantee is void, no ifs, ands, or buts. I don't care what false promises a salesman may make to you trying to sell one, but as far as Jeep is concerned, any mods like tires, etc... They are voiding the warrantee. Now if the dealer opts to pay for warantee work it's up to them. So this is my take on it:
It's cheaper to buy a Rubicon then it is to make one.
GREAT rig, but don't spend the money on it just yet if you plan on running bigger tires and doing some rockcrawling. This thing will hold its own offroad just stock, but as we all know, tires help clearance, and unless you can stuff some 33s or 35s on them, and just swap them out when you take it in for work, it's going to be a slight problem for those worried about warantee.
All in all, IMHO, I'm going to wait a few years and buy a slightly used one that hadn't seen too many trails. There are a lot of people out there with $$$ that are buying this thing just because it is so nice, but have no plans on taking it on any hardcore trails. The easy way to figuer it out when I go to buy one is see how many rock marks are on the undercarrage, cause we all know with those size tires there's going to be a lot of Rubicon undercarrage on the rocks of some of these trails. Until then I expect to build up Xplodor.
Who knows, I may eventually do a Coilover SAS and never look back at j##p again. These things can carry soooo much more gear!!! Who needs a tent on over night runs when we can have a full size air matress in the back of our X!!!