A little update to this thread. We honestly haven’t done much to our 5th gen except drive it and basic maintenance. It’s been a great vehicle for us. In fact, we just explored some trails with it in southern Colorado and it handled all of them with ease.
With that said, our Ridge Grapplers had nearly 75k miles on them, still had roughly 30% of the tread left but seemed to be prone to flat spots and there were some cracks, cuts and gouges that were concerning. Never really had any issues with them though. The Pro Comp wheels have also aged. One is stained from something that was sprayed on it and the rest had faded to the point that they just didn’t look good anymore.
Upgraded the wheels to some Method Racing 317 in that beautiful titanium finish wrapped in some 285/70/17 Ridge Grapplers. We were pleased with the last set of tires so we kept that the same.
We also updated the fog lights to some Diode Dynamics SS3 SAE/DOT pro yellow pods. The previous fogs were some china Rigid knock-offs I received for almost nothing. Huge improvement with these SS3 lights! I was hoping to capture the difference with my iPhone but, pictures just don’t do these justice. Nice, horizontal pattern like a fog light should be.
We also upgraded the snorkel head to a Sy-Klone prefilter. Tired of collecting bugs and worrying about it collecting snow and rain. Hopefully this keeps the air filter a little cleaner!
I also finally got a chance to detail it and get a coat of wax on it. It still cleans up nice!
