for over the past decade I have been buying building and installing aftermarket modifications
onto Jeep Wrangler Vehicles now this list that I'm about to go over is subjective to the things
that I probably wouldn't do again this entire channel was built about using your Jeep and
building it the way that you want to so if you don't agree with them more power to you and I
say go for it and add those modifications onto your Jeep and if you want to argue with me in
the comments I'd love to chat down there as you know we respond to all the comments it's your
Jeep build it exactly how you want to these are just some things that I probably wouldn't do again
headlight or tail light guards there's a wide variety of these available on the market and for
a JL Wrangler I would say I would never install these things unless you are looking for the look
of it and you really enjoy that style I am not bashing anything about style in this video so if
you like the way it looks I would say 100 go for it when it comes to the actual utilitarian use
they don't really do much they're pretty expensive and they go so closely to the headlight or tail
light but if anything does hit them it's going to damage them just as badly Brian and I were
just talking back in the day in the yjs and tjs you could get bigger tail light guards and front
mesh guards for the yj's headlights and and turn signals in the front and if you would hit things
with those it would actually protect them nowadays for the JL and Gladiator they're just not going
to protect it so I would say if you're looking for protection that's not going to be the way
to go number six wheel spacers this one's very controversial once again wheel spacers have been
around for a very long time basically what they do is bolt onto your wheel mounting surface and
give you an extra inch inch and a half inch three quarter so you can run a larger tire on a factory
wheel you can poke it out wider so you won't hit any of the control arms at full lock but
overall I just don't run them I'm kind of a guy that likes to have less is more so when I look
at that I have five extra bolts that I need to then check I need to torque and I'm spacing it
out about an inch and a half I know if you run an aftermarket wheel that has the proper backspacing
it's still poking out as far I just don't put the full trust into a Billet or an aluminum spacer
it's one of those things that I've never liked to do I'd rather upgrade the wheel and spend a
little bit more than to run those on there and the next thing is that in Most states they will
not pass inspection with the wheel spacers so you end up having to pull them off to go in to get it
inspected and then reinstall them it's kind of just a mess when you could just put the right
offset and be done with it right off the bat number five Drilling in and adding body armor
to your JL Wrangler this one's going to be really controversial for the guys that go out there and
wheel the snot out of their Jeep I've personally installed the Evo manufacturing Corner guards on
my JK I had to drill a bunch of holes I had one of the rib nuts actually slip it wouldn't let the
Allen key bolt actually get tight so that kind of stuck out a little bit at the end of the day
I never hit them on the trail so I installed these Corner guards had to drill probably 10 to 15 holes
on either side and at the end of the day I kind of damaged the body panel too so I had to drill all
those holes which gives the potential for rust the potential for kind of crinkling underneath
there and I probably would only do this if I already damaged the panel so if I damage the
corner and I needed to cover it up and give it some more protection because I'm going out that
crazy that's when I would do it but I would say for me I stick away from it right away in the
beginning you've got a brand new Jeep I hate to drill holes in it unless you really really need to
number four a cold air intake I will say on a JL with a 2-liter with a 3 6 or even with
a three liter diesel adding a cold air intake doesn't increase the performance in any way that
I would really like it too I would say You're Gonna spend four to five hundred dollars you're
going to eliminate a very close to watertight system that comes from Factory and you're going
to add on something that's probably not going to increase your horsepower or Torque anywhere
to where it would actually be a nominal increase that you would feel at the seat of your pants and
you're just opening yourself up to other issues if you guys have a running and open cold air intake
that just has a filter there you are susceptible to any water any moisture getting into your engine
and as you know water going into intake does not agree we had a Jeep a long time ago at JL that
had those two mixed together and the engine said goodbye and left the chat so do not do a cold air
intake that has a very open filter and then plan on submerging that very deep because it's not
going to end too well in my opinion if you want a cold air intake a true cold air intake spend a
little bit more and go with a snorkel the snorkel does serve two purpose is it's going to get you
colder and cleaner air but then it's also gonna if you go pretty deep in water it's going to prevent
that from coming into that intake that's at the lower point for me I have a two liter turbo if
I was going to do anything to help increase the throttle response it'd be one of those throttle
programmers but not a cold air intake I'm going to leave it the exact way it's set up for now number
three buying the wrong size tire and I don't mean buying the wrong size rim size for the rim that
you're trying to put it on I mean buying a smaller Tire because it's what you can fit versus the tire
size that you want or you will end up with I'm guilty of this I've bought a set of 35s eventually
knowing I was going to 37s and then a few months later I add the lift and now I have to sell those
35s that I just bought just mounted balance paid to have everything done so I would say if you guys
are looking for a tire size if you want to go to 40s if you know you're going to 37s whatever that
would be wait until you get the lift kit on there don't just try and make it look cool for the time
being I know we all want to I'm impatient as well but go for the right size tire if you know you're
going to end up with a that point you want to buy once and cry once and tires are not cheap so
spend the money the first time get the right lift kit and add on that perfect size tire for your
build number two is going to be wiring a single switch inside the cab of your JL or Gladiator in
the recent years we have been very fortunate to have a ton of switch systems available for the
JL and Gladiator including Factory auxiliary switches s-pods aux beam Rough Country a lot
of people make switch systems that you only need to run the switch panel inside the vehicle these
switch panels give you access to pre-fused power that already has all of your relays everything
under the hood and it's very easy to connect accessories I personally would unless I had an
older Jeep that I was just putting one switch in I probably would never run one single relay with
a switch inside the cab to drill the hole and have to run everything in and out it is so much cheaper
so much easier and so much more efficient to get a switch panel make sure that it's run properly
and then just run all your accessory positive and negatives right underneath the hood I have
the auxiliary switches in my Jeep from the factory but there are a ton of great options
for you to get out there and a ton of different price points I'll leave a link in the description
of one that I've heard works pretty well direct from Amazon alright guys number one please don't
hate me please don't cancel me for this Jeep Community this all depends on how you plan on
using your Jeep which I like I said all these are subjective but I would say number one is probably
extreme Recon package I know I added it to my Jeep I tell a ton of people to add it to theirs
and I would say there is a great purpose for it if you don't plan on ripping off the suspension
ripping off the wheels and tires and eventually re-gearing your Jeep I added the extreme Recon
onto mine thinking like I do every other time I'll probably leave this one kind of stock for now
right away install the Clayton three and a half inch lift 37s on bead locks and basically removed
most of the things that came with the extreme Recon package the only thing I've really got left
would be the 456 gearing in the axles the bigger brakes and the hinge gate tire and reinforcement
as well as a couple increased strength brackets but overall was that worth the four thousand
dollars that's kind of subjective right there I would say the biggest value with that package is
the fact that you can resell the tires pretty well with the wheels and tires in a package those go
for about three thousand to thirty five hundred dollars whereas the Rubicon standard wheels and
tires only go for a thousand to Fifteen depending on where you're from there's good value in it and
if you do not plan on ripping everything off it is a great package that's fully covered under
warranty and looks really badass right out of the gate for me I don't know if I would have done it
again I ripped everything off and I'll probably go to bigger gearing if not different axles down
the road so I don't know if I would have added the extreme Recon for the little bit of benefits
after I've ripped everything off this one's very controversial but I would say if you're looking
to only go up to a 37 Max or you're not planning on to rip the wheels and tires and suspension off
it's a great package if not I probably wouldn't do it again all right guys well I appreciate you
watching this video this is some of the probably the mods that I wouldn't do again once again these
are all very subjective so everything that I went over today are things that you might like to do
on your Jeep and I'm not going to knock you for doing any of that because at the end of the day
it's your vehicle you're making the payment on it and I do not want you to think that I want
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