Here's what I know. I owned a 2 door TJ. It is not good for the following:Originally Posted by UselessPickles
A) Long distance travel
B) Carrying lots of people
C) Carrying groceries (unless you waste your time folding up rear seat)
D) Gas mileage
E) Going Fast
F) Queitness
G) Having "awesome" technology like adaptive cruise control, blindsind alert, adaptive headlights, etc.
So yes, yes I do know something about you. You are someone, like the rest of us, that doesn't care about points A, B, C, D, E, F and G. If you did, you would not have a bought a Jeep, or at the least, you would have bought the 4 door Jeep to deal with points B and C. At that point, most of us realize this is a completely impractical vehicle (specifically the 2dr) and we decide we might as well go big and make it look sweet, make it do what it's designed to even better, and let this be the toy it was designed to be and not have our families make fun of us. Don't look at us as attacking you, we are actually cheer leaders, cheering you on based on our own expensive experiences. What you chose to do with the opinions is up to you, but I would say, go big, enjoy the Jeep for what it is GREAT at... Off roading, taking the top off, making you and your passengers smile when you roll up to a stop light with your big ass tires and everyone havin' a good time, spittin' cherry seeds out the side makin' faces at the other cars like "yeah you wish you were with us!"
Check my sig - manual trans. Truth be told, I might be at 3.75 gears, can't remember, but I know it's not the gearing of the Rubicon.
Sounds like your science has made your decision for you. I wish you the best. I have 35" tires now, and I'm upgrading to 37" or 38" tires. Could have saved myself $2k by going to that size to begin with, thought I'd pass that learned lesson on to you before you made the same type of decision I had done.
Good luck Pickles, and just know, am actually on your team, my post was not an attack on you.
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