[LeftHandRubi]

Alasha said it.

If I was building primarily a trail rig, then I'd get whatever is cheapest because I'm going to put more HP, 60's, armor, atlas, etc on it. In fact I'm doing this right now.

I have a couple of '12s. Even though they are built, we treat these with care on difficult trails. I really hate breaking or denting them.

A wall like this is OK for a '12, nothing to fall into.

The gekko wasn't allowed into things like this, but with an "older" jeep I don't mind. Body damage can occur, and with a new jeep it sucks.

 

[LeftHandRubi]

With the '12 JKU (The Dozer) we have the weird shifting issue, engine over revs at times. I don't wheel it hard enough to make a difference, though. It works well. Like a car. :shitstorm:

With the '12 JK 6 sp (The Gekko), it is a pain in the butt on difficult trails. This jeep has 5.13 gears, rubi t-case, and it is hard to control at really low speeds. It needs an atlas 4 sp t-case or a hand throttle (don't know who sells one--that works with the JK fly-by-wire).

For big ledge/rock crawling I am a huge fan of auto tranny's. I've only burned out one of them in an '08 and I beat the hell out of that jeep with big tires and heavy weight doing steep climbs ( That was the T-Rex precursor-- burning out the tranny was the past straw then caused me to upgrade to hemi).