Originally Posted by Bushmaster

The JK itself is a good unit and lends itself to off roading however it will leak water through the air intake for the air con/ heater when in deep water. Yea it was designed as an off road vehicle but more of a mountain goat than a work horse. It doesn't like heavy loads as stock and does have flaws. Almost any 4x4 vehicle can be modified to do deep water crossings but 72 inches I doubt as a stock jeep without some water ingress.

Originally Posted by rob_engineer

I am only asking about stock condition. Reason is that my JKU safely got me out of my neighborhood during superstorm sandy. Water was between 20-30 inches. I drove through about 75yds of water that deep, passing by many vehicles that became stranded. I may have the need in the cuter to get a pickup truck and wonder how they compare regarding water depth.

Originally Posted by Mountain Man Tim

theres a good reason they tell you to never drive most vehicles in to water deeper then a couple inches, most of them arent made for it and will stall and leave you stuck there, possibly to be swept into deeper water downstream.

Originally Posted by SabrToothSqrl

those poor boats :(

Originally Posted by rob_engineer

I am only asking about stock condition. Reason is that my JKU safely got me out of my neighborhood during superstorm sandy. Water was between 20-30 inches. I drove through about 75yds of water that deep, passing by many vehicles that became stranded. I may have the need in the future to get a pickup truck and wonder how they compare regarding water depth.

Originally Posted by Mark Doiron

I do believe that there's some truth to Jeep's advertising that they test Jeeps on an off-road track that most other vehicles don't. Those lessor vehicles are often emblazoned "4WD" or "Offroad" in large letters on their rear end somewhere, but it has nothing to do with real-world offroad performance.

Want to know in a picosecond how to tell if a vehicle is not actually built for offroad? If its spare tire is stored on the bottom of the vehicle, then the engineers who designed it were not thinking of offroad. No one in his right mind wants to crawl under a vehicle to get a spare tire on sharp rocks or in mud, river, swamp, you name it that the word "offroad" really implies. What's the first thing that the offroad racers do with the spare tire on their trucks? Put it in the bed. If the OEM engineers didn't get the spare tire right, what else did they get wrong? Not saying these vehicles can't be modified for offroad. But am saying they don't come from the factory that way.