15min from the house. Day of 4x4ing and hiking.

[beaverretriever]

Yesterday was just so amazingly beautiful. This is all 15 to 30min from our front door. The recent rains just made the whole desert so vibrant!

Hiked a total of about 4.5 miles. Sat on our tailgate and ate lunch on a dead end road, did some 4x4ing (really only needed 4x one time). Great day and we were out for about six hours.

Have a great rest of your weekend.

 

[BingerFang]

Great photos! How’s the gladiator? I want one. I could get rid of my truck and my Jeep with one of those..

 

[beaverretriever]

Great photos! How’s the gladiator? I want one. I could get rid of my truck and my Jeep with one of those..

We absolutely love it! It's loud as hell inside even though I put aftermarket sound deadending and a Hot Head headliner kit in it and the mpg is less than stellar (16 or so mpg with 35s). Other than that it's super great. I think this is around my 58th vehicle I have owned and I still get a huge smile every time I get in it or look back at it. It's pretty stock sans the wheels and tires, head liner and tuner. The mpg and noise isn't too bad considering we have only put 7800 on it since new over a year ago.

We do use it for what it was intended for and love to go on dirt roads camping all over the west. We are not rock crawlers and didn't want the Rubicon so we went with the Mojave which was set up for fast dirt roads with the Fox 2.5 internal bypss remote reservoir shocks., wider track etc; it just floats across rough washboard etc. I don't think we would have bought one if the Mojave version wasn't available. I didn't want to get into changing out all the suspension etc to work right. I have done that on so many trucks already. Oddly enough the Mojave was the first production vehicle (2020) to include hydraulic bumpstops as part of the full integrated system. Pretty neat!

Jeep Gladiator Mojave Equipped with FOX Shocks & Hydraulic Bump Stops - Throttle.News

The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Mojave was introduced earlier this month at the Chicago Auto Show, which is the first desert rated Jeep 4x4.

throttle.news

Good luck and feel free to shoot me a message if you have any other questions. I know there are others on RDP that have some really trick Gladiators and know a ton about them that may chime is as well.

 

[satellitemike]

Where you at?

 

[Riley1]

Great photos! How’s the gladiator? I want one. I could get rid of my truck and my Jeep with one of those..

We absolutely love it! It's loud as hell inside even though I put aftermarket sound deadending and a Hot Head headliner kit in it and the mpg is less than steallar (16 or so mpg with 35s). Other than that it's super great. I think this is around my 58th vehicle I have owned and I still get a huge smile every time I get in it or look back at it. It's pretty stock sans the wheels and tires, head liner and tuner. The mpg and noise isn't too bad considering we have only put 7800 on it since new over a year ago.

We do use it for what it was intended for and love to go on dirt roads camping all over the west. We are not rock crawlers and didn't want the Rubicon so we went with the Mojave which was set up for fast dirt roads with the Fox 2.5 internal bypss remote reservoir shocks., wider track etc; it just floats across rough washboard etc. I don't think we would have bought one if the Mojave version wasn't available. I didn't want to get into changing out all the suspension etc to work right. I have done that on so many trucks already. Oddly enough the Mojave was the first production vehicle (2020) to include hydraulic bumpstops as part of the full integrated system. Pretty neat!

Jeep Gladiator Mojave Equipped with FOX Shocks & Hydraulic Bump Stops - Throttle.News

The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Mojave was introduced earlier this month at the Chicago Auto Show, which is the first desert rated Jeep 4x4.

throttle.news

Good luck and feel free to shoot me a message if you have any other questions. I know there are others on RDP that have some really trick Gladiators and know a ton about them that may chime is as well.

I think they are a great all around vehicle. We tow our boat with it (≈6000lbs). We trail it, and tow it behind our RV. We opted for the diesel and get just over 20mpg on road trips, though the current price of diesel means it doesn’t really pencil out like it did when we bought it.

 

[beaverretriever]

Where you at?

We live in Lake Las Vegas. All the photos are down the lake road on the way to Valley of Fire.

 

[beaverretriever]

I think they are a great all around vehicle. We tow our boat with it (≈6000lbs). We trail it, and tow it behind our RV. We opted for the diesel and get just over 20mpg on road trips, though the current price of diesel means it doesn’t really pencil out like it did when we bought it. View attachment 1187325 View attachment 1187326 View attachment 1187327 View attachment 1187328 View attachment 1187330

Wow, nice set up all the way around. Your Gladiator is awesome and I love the color! We actually ordered white with LEDs (have to ad them after the fact ) but the pandemic caused such a mess we ended up with the blue but ended up loving the color and always stands out in photos.

What a tow rig! Almost as good as an F150

 

[rivermobster]

I think they are a great all around vehicle. We tow our boat with it (≈6000lbs). We trail it, and tow it behind our RV. We opted for the diesel and get just over 20mpg on road trips, though the current price of diesel means it doesn’t really pencil out like it did when we bought it. View attachment 1187325 View attachment 1187326 View attachment 1187327 View attachment 1187328 View attachment 1187330

Jeep guys...

Let's take the Damm doors off this thing!

SxS guys...

I gotta get some Damm doors on this thing!

 

[Riley1]

Wow, nice set up all the way around. Your Gladiator is awesome and I love the color! We actually ordered white with LEDs (have to ad them after the fact ) but the pandemic caused such a mess we ended up with the blue but ended up loving the color and always stands out in photos.

What a tow rig! Almost as good as an F150

Thanks, We like the Sting Grey, but there are so many of them. We have a ruining joke every time we see another. One of us will say “You know, there’s other colors, Lol”
Wife wanted Gobi which wasn’t an option. If I were buying again, it would be Hydro Blue or Snazberry.

 

[steamin rice]

That looks like a great day. Kudos to you for taking advantage of what's around where you live.

 

[c_land]

I think they are a great all around vehicle. We tow our boat with it (≈6000lbs). We trail it, and tow it behind our RV. We opted for the diesel and get just over 20mpg on road trips, though the current price of diesel means it doesn’t really pencil out like it did when we bought it. View attachment 1187325 View attachment 1187326 View attachment 1187327 View attachment 1187328 View attachment 1187330

Is that secret pass?

 

[Riley1]

Is that secret pass?

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yes it is.

 

[2Driver]

Great photos! How’s the gladiator? I want one. I could get rid of my truck and my Jeep with one of those..

Thats what I did. Wish I still had the 2017 rubicon recon, big time sellers remorse there damn it. lol.

Id move back if I could find a low mile 2017.

 

[mjc]

Great photos! How’s the gladiator? I want one. I could get rid of my truck and my Jeep with one of those..

I am thinking of doing the same but really don't want payments on anything.

 

[jeepdog]

Thanks Steve that video is bad ass...Beaverretriever great thread, we should plan some RDP jeep runs.

 

[BingerFang]

I am thinking of doing the same but really don't want payments on anything.

Same here. Currently my only payment is my mortgage and it feels pretty good!

 

[beaverretriever]

Thanks Steve that video is bad ass...Beaverretriever great thread, we should plan some RDP jeep runs.

My wife and I would like to make the trip to Jarbidge Nv. It is the most remote town in the lower 48. There are easier wayst to get there, but we want to go through the south up on dirt. However, I am not sure I would want to do it without at least another off-roader with more experience than me.

However, in the meantime, if anyone every wants to do some dirt roads around SoNev or AZ, I'm down!