Most of these points are valid and come from experience. I’ll give my point of view from what I have went through and learned over the course of building two jeeps up and last year buying a lightly used evo built rig with almost all the good parts on it.
On my 2012 Jeep that I bought new and did all the work myself, except the minor welding. Doing it this way, it really easy to spend way more money than you think. I put a RK lift and a set of 37. I regeared and spent a ton of money on my stock axels, which was a mistake. I put rock sliders, skid plates, bumpers, roll cage and much more. Then I decide, I want bead locks and new tires. My point is a lot of people start a build, dump money into stock axels and then want new axel or want bead locks after buying aftermarket wheels already. Well the end result was I had a solid rig that served my great for five years. But again my point is, I had a ton of money into it. 40,000 plus for the Jeep and another probably, up into to the 20’s. That was hard to admit.
Fast forward, the new used Jeep that I paid 68,000, that I’m totally happy with and have no regrets. I have so much more, for not a lot more money. The thing that’s hard to swallow, is when your building, it’s a gradual stream of money. When you buy it’s all up front, but your not throwing good money at bad money.
For the record, this rig is bad ass for the east too. It rock crawls awesome and handles these roads in West Virginia unbelievably. I’m not saying this is the way everyone should go, but it made sense to me at the time.
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