New Jeeper

[Smudgeone]

Hi All,

I will be picking up my Jeep on Monday,  Its a stock Rubicon and will most likely be staying that way for a while longer. I'm looking for trail or maps that can handle a stock Rubicon and I will hopefully be checking out your club meetings. I travel for work a lot so the weekday meetings might be a bit hard to commit to. I got the jeep as both a daily driver and a weekend hobby so I hope I can avoid thrashing it.

My high school car was an '89 Cherokee and while it was a rusted piece of crap, it was fun to screw around with in the coulees and back roads around home. I'm hoping I can have as much fun, if not more in an actually capable car.

[raf2379]

Should have kept th Cherokee much more capable at getting grocery than a rubicon. Kidding aside you will find that the stock rubi will do most trails out here easy, unless its yellow. Come out to some open runs and find out for your self how well it handles the trails out here, you will be surprised.

[hornblower]

capable car.

 

[Smudgeone]

Ugh, I need to get the Jeep nomenclature back... I had a hard time calling my Cherokee anything other than a Heep. Had a wheel bearing fail while I was driving it and lost a rear wheel on the highway, stalled and stuck more often than I care to admit, and broken radiator hoses more times than I'd like to repeat.

I've been driving a Suzuki SX4, so car is still stuck in my head till its a distant memory.

[w squared]

A stock Rubicon will do most of the open, publicly known trails in this area without much of an issue. You've already got a 4:1 transfer case, lockers, MT's, and solid recovery points. As you spend time on the trail and learn about your vehicle, you will be shocked at what it can do if you keep up your end of the bargain - which is picking the right line and trusting your Jeep.

[Slewfoot]

Kidding aside you will find that the stock rubi will do most trails out here easy, unless its yellow.

[raf2379]

just kidding with you

[Slewfoot]

just kidding with you

I know 

Seriously though, what Raf says is quite true - a stock rubi can get into and out of some serious trouble...you WILL ba amazed at what it can do 

[Smudgeone]

My all-too shiny new Jeep. Here's to some new adventures!

[BUKI]

You really should get a winch though, Darren uses his all the time

[Moezer]

nice looking jeep man, grats for ur new ride

[Kanueh]

I agree with the winch comment, it only takes getting stuck without one once to see how beneficial they are. Congrats on the new purchase!!

[w squared]

Very nice!

The honest truth is that that Jeep will do just fine for almost all of the terrain in this area unless you really go out of your way to look for gnarly obstacles. Adding a CB, a winch, basic tools, a jack for trail use, and some recovery gear (snatch block, tree saver, a couple shackles, and a recovery strap) and maybe upgrading your bumpers would have you set up VERY well....but even before you look at that stuff, you're set up for a lot of fun!

Enjoy it...and remember - it's only the first bit of body damage that really hurts.

[Slewfoot]

My all-too shiny new Jeep. Here's to some new adventures!

Don't worry - the shiney part - that will be taken care of for you, and you're going to have a lot of fun with it should you venture off-road   Just prepare to get a second mortage to cover all the mods and upgrades you're going to want.

You really should get a winch though, Darren uses his all the time

You're just jealous because I'm getting such a good return on the investment

[Smudgeone]

Enjoy it...and remember - it's only the first bit of body damage that really hurts.

Ugh, my Suzuki didn't make it through its first weekend before some jerk in a big dodge let his girlfriend bash the entire side of the car with his door. It was like a 2 foot scrape starting at the mirror and ending in a dent on the door...  It was still sub 100km.

I think I can handle some self-inflicted damage.