Great photo and great looking Jeep!

As I am quite ignorant of the off-roading pastime I'm struggling to figure out what the orange thingy is there for. I'm guessing it's to extricate your car when it gets well and truly stuck??

 

I think it's a jack. I friend of mine who has a Jeep has it too and some gas tanks.

 

Right you are, sblvro. A 48" HiLift jack. Many Defenderites carry one atop the roof rack. They come in red and black, but being as my theme was "primer and orange"* I rattle-canned mine orange, just like the bow-shackle recovery hooks on the front and rear bumpers. With those 37" tires, running at 8-10psi, puncture flats are pretty much non-existent -- I never got one in the last 4 years of running them. But at that low pressure if you are crabbing sideways across a hill you can roll a tire off the bead because of the very big side-loads. I did that twice. Once it just burped all the air out but didn't leave the bead and I was able to refill. The other time, though, it came clean off the bead and I had to change it. Here you can see the spare is completely flat and off the wheel bead. Ironically, I had no HiLift that trip, but that's because I had a friend with me in his 06 Rubicon, and there's no sense both of us carrying those heavy jacks.






*actually, the color is "Anvil" but it's a non-metallic gray that has a "shiny primer" look to it. First seen on the 2013 10th Anniversary Rubicon Special Edition, then a production color in 14 and 15.

 

​​​​​​You must be from the sophisticated part of Georgia or this story would have ended with a can of WD-40 and a match.

 

:rofl: You jest, but when I got back to the tire store in Moab that’s exactly (or very nearly) what they did! Never pulled it off the spare tire carrier on the back of my Jeep, sprayed some crap in it (not WD), lit it, and hit the valve with a big bump of compressed air. Burped it back onto the bead. Charged me 10 bucks.

If I could do that on the trail I’d be the Tire Whisperer or something. I wouldn’t even carry a spare (or wouldnt have with the Jeep.)

 

I've been going back and forth between P300/P400 and after seeing this, I think I'm comfortable with P300. If it works for this guy...

 

I have the P300 and have been happy with it. Plenty of power to get up to speed quickly. I haven’t towed with it, so can’t speak to that. But for everyday driving I’ve been happy with it.

It has also treated me well off road. Plus the steelies look great and are more functional. In my opinion they match especially well with the white roof.

 

​​​​​​Not to mention I am getting over 23 mpg combined city/hwy with my p300 and I am still within the break in period.