we are live. this place is for four wheel drive SUVs that actually leave the pavement now and then, or that somebody is planning to take off it. 4Runners, Wranglers, Broncos, Grand Cherokees, Defenders, the GX460 and anything else with a transfer case and a back seat. pickups are welcome to read along, there are bigger truck forums for the bed and payload questions.
there are three boards and each one carries a symbol off a ski area trail map, since half of you already know them from the lift line. 4x4 SUV talk is the green circle: the rig itself, what to buy, which trim, what fails at 120k. Trails, lifts and recovery is the blue square: tires, lifts, lockers, winches, permits and where you went last weekend. Buying and auctions got the black diamond, because spending thirty or forty grand on a used 4x4 is the run where people get hurt.
about me so you know who is deleting your spam. i ran a road grader for the forest service on the Black Hills for 26 years, mostly the gravel you are all driving on to get to the fun stuff, and i retired two springs ago. i have a 2009 JK Unlimited Rubicon with a lift i installed wrong once and right the second time.
house rules, the napkin edition: year, model, trim, lift and tire size go at the top of any question. buying threads include what you paid. nobody sells anything inside a thread. anybody on the payroll of a dealer, lender, shop or parts counter mentions it when it matters. no trail locations for anything closed, illegal or on private ground. and be decent to the Jeep people, they have suffered enough with the death wobble questions. the about page has the wordy edition.
new accounts go through my inbox until the bots lose interest. send me your rig and the county you wheel in. hank