I wanted to put this out there for all to learn from my experience. I'm sure when all the dust settles I will have done some things well, some things OK, some not so well, and through it all- I will have learned from a very expensive experience.
I started with a new 08 JKUR. I had no idea where my build would take me but learned as I went. I ended up with front and rear bolt on CO's, 37" Nitto Trail Grapplers, plenty of skids and hardware to protect from some body damage. I beefed up the axles and drive train to where It would get me through some of the tough trails in Moab.
I had just picked up my rig from ORE in So Cal form having some of the last touches done on my long build list. I parked it on my trailer (first learning mistake through this experience-in hind sight, I should have pulled it off the trailer and pulled in in front of the trailer), and put the locks on the trailer. I had one on the tongue, and had just bought two more for each side of two wheels (through the two wheels on each side). I had pulled the trailer sideways through 3-4 parking spots and some of the staff form the hotel were parking in front of the trailer. I returned from a long day at Disneyland with the family to the hotel to discover my Jeep and trailer were gone!
The responding officer told me it had been more than six hours since anyone could say they had seen it and that it was over the boarder in Mexico.
I notified my insurance company and had to wait the 20 days in hopes of recovery before they would even talk to me about replacement. I was able to push that up to about 15 days. I just faxed over the 60 plus pages of receipts that I have for almost every mod I had done to the jeep. Now its a couple more days for them to evaluate and tell me what they are going to give me for it. I will post up the results and how it ends up, but I thought some might want to know what I have thought about so many times before.....what would happen if I lost/totaled the Jeep? What would insurance come through with? Learn with me....
I started with a new 08 JKUR. I had no idea where my build would take me but learned as I went. I ended up with front and rear bolt on CO's, 37" Nitto Trail Grapplers, plenty of skids and hardware to protect from some body damage. I beefed up the axles and drive train to where It would get me through some of the tough trails in Moab.
I had just picked up my rig from ORE in So Cal form having some of the last touches done on my long build list. I parked it on my trailer (first learning mistake through this experience-in hind sight, I should have pulled it off the trailer and pulled in in front of the trailer), and put the locks on the trailer. I had one on the tongue, and had just bought two more for each side of two wheels (through the two wheels on each side). I had pulled the trailer sideways through 3-4 parking spots and some of the staff form the hotel were parking in front of the trailer. I returned from a long day at Disneyland with the family to the hotel to discover my Jeep and trailer were gone!
The responding officer told me it had been more than six hours since anyone could say they had seen it and that it was over the boarder in Mexico.
I notified my insurance company and had to wait the 20 days in hopes of recovery before they would even talk to me about replacement. I was able to push that up to about 15 days. I just faxed over the 60 plus pages of receipts that I have for almost every mod I had done to the jeep. Now its a couple more days for them to evaluate and tell me what they are going to give me for it. I will post up the results and how it ends up, but I thought some might want to know what I have thought about so many times before.....what would happen if I lost/totaled the Jeep? What would insurance come through with? Learn with me....