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Have been browsing the forum for a few months now, getting some ideas. My wife decided she wanted a Jeep, guess she was bored with her older Lexus, so we went shopping. This is the 5th Jeep we have owned although all the others fell into the catagory of a winter beater as we lived in the northeast at the time and Jeeps are great in the snow. She had seen a 4 door Arctic around and fell in love with the Winter Chill color, so the mission had commenced, problem was they made a limited number of them and the 2013's were arriving. Denton Jeep helped us locate one and it was on the way. She prefered the unlimited, I wanted the 2 door, and just as luck would have it all that was available was a 2 door, darn....... We are going to bring it to Big Bend at Christmas time and do some backroad exploring, we have never been there and what better way then in a Jeep. She had to go to Fargo North Dakota for work for a few days so here was my chance to do some modifications before the big trip. I decided on a real front bumper and a winch of some sort, who knew that there would be so many choices. I ended up going with the Warn elite front bumper and a 9500 Quadratrac winch. The instructions said about 2 hours on the bumper installation time and 1.5 for the winch, ya right!!!!!! Total time was 9 hours, but I did it the right way, torqued every bolt and used blue loctite, no sense having anything come apart. I need to get some custom battery cables made up so I can run them properly as I do not like them going through the grill. The Warn bumper is very well made, if anybody backs into it in a parking lot I expect they will be sorry that they did. If anybody is interested in what it actually takes to install this bumper let me know and I will write it up. Guess I will be adding the Warn rear bumper as soon as I can save some more $$$$.
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