Letting the the GF drive it last week, I heard a loud grinding as she was baking up, I just stared as she drove away, I got a text a minute later: "I know, I know.. Sorry"

She said she put it in reverse and it diddent go in all the way, then she let the clutch out.....

So, I call that internal bleeding. I died a little inside to.

 

Scratched the tail gate removing the hard top for the first time. I did everything wrong. It bugs me every time I look at it.

 

The day I was crawling a rocky trail and slammed myself sideways in a tree hitting the center post on a tree, and bending my back door backets. All good now saw a mod where someone bedlined theirs, problem fixed, going back for that trail and tree soon.

 

yep, X2 on the dimple mod, first week here.

 

The first week I had mine a concrete truck in an adjacent lane dropped a chunk of concrete in front of me. It split in two pieces when it hit the ground. The larger piece hit the front face of my fender flare taking a nice size chunk out of my pretty painted Sahara fender flare. The other passed between the drivers side mirror and the door narrowly missing my arm, the mirror, and my A-pillar. I heard three sounds:

1. THUD!
2. WIZZZZZZ
3. 

Since then, I have gone on to scratch two more fenders on the trails. I'm now planning to bed-line them in sunburst orange so all is well!

 

1) While on a hill climb in the middle of winter with snow on the ground going through a narrow path that included a turn partway up the hill I slid into a sizable branch that scraped off a good portion of paint from the passenger side windshield frame.

2) First time using my hard-top hoist I didn't have it aligned properly so as it was pulled off the front dipped down and scraped the paint on the back part of the door on both sides of the Jeep. Learned how to better balance the hard-top after that one.

3) Knocked the fender flares and mirrors against trees a few times while sliding through mud. Just scrapes on the plastic though. Nothing got knocked off.

4) And since we've got lots of trees and bushes around here I've got the striping on the paint down both sides.

 

Scrapped:
Front diff cover
Rear Diff cover (started leaking at the bottom)
Control arm mounts,
Control Arms
rear shock mounts
front passenger wheel lip
Tcase skid
Steering stabilizer tie rod bracket

Dented:
muffler
gas tank skid
Front bumper corner
Rear bumper above exhaust tip
Crushed the tail pipe end, nothing a crow bar couldn't fix

Broke:
Trailer harness bracket got bent, vise grips fixed it up easy.
Plastic stupid air damn

I think that sorta cover the first 3 weeks, most of it was done the first weekend, i bought my Jeep to wheel!

Dealership was a little surprised to see it come in with all the scraps after about 800kms haha

I don't abuse my jeep I use it!

 

Less than a week old, ink hadn't dried on the loan papers...needless to say the wife wasn't real happy

Tree vs Mirror, Tree won



Tree vs License Plate bracket, Tree won again

 

Aside from a few pinstripes I'd never done anything to it in four years of wheeling.......until last weekend. Ran some of the toughest trails in NE with a group of friends and managed to ding every piece of armor on the Jeep. Both bumpers, both sliders, both diff covers and the t-case and gas tank skids. Still not a scratch on the body though.

 

lol!! X3...............