I've been reading this site for a while and I thought it was time to join. Partly as I like to share experiences but also this is clearly a great place for JK advice!

A year ago I bought my first jeep - a 2008 JKU as our main family car. I chose it because our 27km dirt road out of here is a bad excuse for a road and anyone living here with an IFS vehicle spends a lot of time and money on their front end (which I don't like), and my wife wanted dual airbags. That narrowed it down to two vehicles on the market with a solid front axle and dual airbags - a JKU or a Toytoa VDJ79. With the landcruiser 3-4 times the price we went jeep and I'm very happy with it. It's been very good offroad round the property, we can actually get out after a storm (we were cut off by high rivers and deep mud in our camry) and I'm not constantly paranoid about the state of the suspension struts every single corrugation! Gearing is a little high but changing that is a bit too much trouble at the moment. I've since sold my old landcruiser and bought an IHC 11ton truck and am still restoring my WWII chev C15A so have gone all American in my vehicles!

It hasn't really had any mods, just a new bullbar (would prefer a full width, there are plenty of animals you hit without being able to help it here) and new cooper tyres. It's not really set up for hardcore offroading as it is a family car, but it gets a fair workout round the property and I love it. It actually has a running problem but I'll start a new thread for that.

 

If that's your house in the background it almost looks like our house!

Jeeps are fun. Mine gets me everywhere I need with ease. Welcome to the forum!

 

Thanks! Yep it's a joy to use offroad. That is actually the owner's house - our is similar but yellow... We/work live on a property (22000 acre farm) and the owner only uses his house about once a month