In other jeep news my wife decided she would go through her mid life crisis a bit early and trade the mini van in on a new wrangler 4 door (she claimed the van wasn't fun
). It really caught me off guard because 1. She's never been interested in even test driving a new jeep and 2. When I thought I'd kill the idea by having her have her van appraised at carmax they offered her 1.5k less than what we originally paid for it. The used car market is insane right now.
Once she found out we wouldn't lose a bunch of money the search began. Most dealers wanted MSRP and that was a tough pill to swallow. Eventually, I found a dealer in San Jose offering 7% below MSRP and picked picked up her new wheels. The only catch is it is a factory soft top jeep so we ordered a hard top and will need to install the wiring for the hard top - doesn't look easy but at the same time not overly difficult. But, we'll have both tops now so that will be nice.
Meet the newest member of the family.
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The plan is to let her drive it for a bit then add a 2" lift, 35s, and GR front and rear bumpers. The rental jeeps in Moab were built with that size lift and I was really impressed with how it did when
@Midnight LJR's friend rented one and wheeled with us.
She's already itching to get it on a trail so I'm thinking signal peak would be a fun trail for her to break it in.