Originally Posted by don123160

Hey. Do you like the new lockpick 550? I would be using it mostly for iPod integration and wondered if it was worth it for just the iPod. Is it easy to control the iPod?

Originally Posted by JKashat

Seriously? You don't know me or anything about you. You don't know what I donate or do to help people. So, please don't go so far off topic to call me out in that way. Me and my family (thankfully) do pretty well, and I spend accordingly. I donate to charitable causes and attend charity events on a regular basis. Purple Heart, Salvation Army, and even Refugees of war. When I attent I give money to the Church too. And, I help support my wifes family, who father has been out of work since shorty after we got married back in 2008, and who's mother works full time because she has to, even though she'd rather be spending more time at home with my wife and her grand daughter. Way to burst a guys bubble and make him feel like shit. All I wanted to do was share my excitement for my new Rig, and mods, like SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE on this and other forums, regardless of the type of vehicle. Unbelievable.

And, to answer your question, before I got the Jeep, I had a 2009 Infiniti G37S Coupe that was completely modified. I sold that for my 1st JK after I found out my wife was pregnant with out first child. I loved that thing, and wish I didn't have to sell it but at that point I decided that something with 4 doors that had useable cargo space and that could be driven all year round was necessary. Enter the JK. I wish financially I was able to keep the G37 as a summer (fun) car and get the JK as my DD but that wasn't possible. Yes, you could call my previous JK a mall crawler if your like, and that's fine. I used my JK as a DD with the intention of some weekend offroading, but that honestly never happened. I for one am not the guy who is gonna take a brand new rig for hard core offroading to come home with "pinstriping" and damage that I'll have to hope the insurance will cover.

Not that it's anyones business, but I sold my 2010 for $37,000. I only owed $22,000 on it, all the mods were paid cash. The rig alone without the mods was worth $28-30,000. I had over $20,000 into Mods. So, depending on how you look at it, I did really well on the Rig and lost on the mods, OR I lost on the Rig and got my most my money back for the mods. Either way. I was left with a little under $15,000 after bank and misc. fees. I wanted my 2012 to be as nice as the 2010 it was replacing. After deciding to do this build myself, instead of taking it to AEV for a "turnkey vehicle" I figured the money I would be saving (in labor), I would put into additional modifications. I ordered much more right off the bat because I got good deals through Jason @ Rebel Offroad and because I am planning on paying this JK off and keeping it, not selling or trading it in, ever. Unless, circumstances change that I had to.

...Oh yeah, I even donate blood (not referring to when I'm wrenching, lol) to Red Cross because I have a rare Blood Type which is considered to be a "Universial Doner"

Originally Posted by Chill_JK

Any recent pics with the mods installed? Seems to me you ought to get some advertising $$ from Jason and others for being such a showcase of what can be done!

Originally Posted by jfleur91

This build is awesome keep it up.