2 door vs 4 door offroading
05-22-2014, 05:28 PM
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I wish I could have one of each. A 2 door dedicated off road machine and a 4 door expedition type build. Being I can only have one the 4 door has won out twice and both times my intent was to get the 2 door but just not enough room. I am jealous watching the 2 doors get turned around in places I can't without a little more work and the 2 doors do look better to me but that is a personal thing..
05-22-2014, 09:02 PM
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The longer JKU wheelbase and wider track width gives a broader stance, and thus greater stability on turns and that sort of driving, as other posters have said. Fire roads, getting to the trail, that sort of thing, just in terms of broadness=less chance of a rollover, and what speed you can feel comfortable whipping around sand turns, etc., I'd give it to the 4-door. That and the long, steep incline or decline, which is basically the stability thing in another context. And cargo space, of course.
But if bottom line I have to use my Jeep to twist around who-knows-what to get up on a crazy trail? Obstacle for obstacle, other factors such as tires being comparable, with the exception of some steep long inclines/declines, for most everything else I'd want a two-door if the obstacle was at the limit of the JK's capability. In the end, the two-door will to go where few other vehicles, including a four-door, can't go, in the limit situations.
Straight getting anywhere capability? probably two-door
Lots of other important stuff? Four-door
Both are amazing, different, but you can't go wrong either way.
But if bottom line I have to use my Jeep to twist around who-knows-what to get up on a crazy trail? Obstacle for obstacle, other factors such as tires being comparable, with the exception of some steep long inclines/declines, for most everything else I'd want a two-door if the obstacle was at the limit of the JK's capability. In the end, the two-door will to go where few other vehicles, including a four-door, can't go, in the limit situations.
Straight getting anywhere capability? probably two-door
Lots of other important stuff? Four-door
Both are amazing, different, but you can't go wrong either way.
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05-22-2014, 10:11 PM
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The longer JKU wheelbase and wider track width gives a broader stance, and thus greater stability on turns and that sort of driving, as other posters have said. Fire roads, getting to the trail, that sort of thing, just in terms of broadness=less chance of a rollover, and what speed you can feel comfortable whipping around sand turns, etc., I'd give it to the 4-door. That and the long, steep incline or decline, which is basically the stability thing in another context. And cargo space, of course.
But if bottom line I have to use my Jeep to twist around who-knows-what to get up on a crazy trail? Obstacle for obstacle, other factors such as tires being comparable, with the exception of some steep long inclines/declines, for most everything else I'd want a two-door if the obstacle was at the limit of the JK's capability. In the end, the two-door will to go where few other vehicles, including a four-door, can't go, in the limit situations.
Straight getting anywhere capability? probably two-door
Lots of other important stuff? Four-door
Both are amazing, different, but you can't go wrong either way.
But if bottom line I have to use my Jeep to twist around who-knows-what to get up on a crazy trail? Obstacle for obstacle, other factors such as tires being comparable, with the exception of some steep long inclines/declines, for most everything else I'd want a two-door if the obstacle was at the limit of the JK's capability. In the end, the two-door will to go where few other vehicles, including a four-door, can't go, in the limit situations.
Straight getting anywhere capability? probably two-door
Lots of other important stuff? Four-door
Both are amazing, different, but you can't go wrong either way.
05-23-2014, 01:49 AM
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I have a definitive answer, yes. ha ha.
You cannot go wrong either way. where people go wrong is buying a FJ or Tacoma and trying to follow a jk. that's the wrong answer. ha ha.
You cannot go wrong either way. where people go wrong is buying a FJ or Tacoma and trying to follow a jk. that's the wrong answer. ha ha.
05-23-2014, 03:15 AM
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05-23-2014, 04:42 AM
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05-23-2014, 08:44 AM
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Yours is yes I agree. U show me any where a stock jku has a wider track width than a jk!!! Perhaps you thought I said length and not width or perhaps u don't know the difference but coming as me and trying to say I'm stupid or something and in return u looked that way
05-23-2014, 09:12 AM
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Yours is yes I agree. U show me any where a stock jku has a wider track width than a jk!!! Perhaps you thought I said length and not width or perhaps u don't know the difference but coming as me and trying to say I'm stupid or something and in return u looked that way