From Sweden, Europe. I love my 2013 unlimited. I like it stock, no need for a lift, winch, bigger tires etc
Small complaints here and wishes.
I wish Jeep made it even more for overlanding/camping.
# As a option I would have a normal metal top like a normal vehicle as I have never taken the hardtopp of, to cold here and it rains. Benifits huge:snorkel: Safer, can have curtain airbags, no flash in the head :Wow1: easier and less costly to ad a roofrack. Insulation, less noise, against warm and cold weather. It should be a box, vertical sides, alot of mounting points for roof nets, lights, easier to mount cupboards and such for storage or small kitchen area. And a easy way to mount solar panels on the roof with holes in the roof for the cabels. Should be easier to use the ceiling for storage with multi mounting points, for towing rops, spades etc.
Examples from a Defender, the importent thing is vertical sides, use the space to the roof and at the rear side windows if preferd. Slightly higher roof.
#A sturdy tailgate where there are a space and a holder for a Jerrycan with water or fuel. Or maybe a sturdy bracket, where You can stick a holder for different stuff like jerrycan holder, a spade etc.
#Needs airducts at the back of the cubbybox because the rear passengers gets cold wintertime.
#Probably needs thicker wiring for the rear 12v outlet for driving some fridges.
#Needs a bigger and better stock deep cycle battery, if possible premade for dualbattery setup.
# LED light everywhere
#The rear seat should be totally flat when folded so it gets more comfy when sleeping.
#I wish the rear seat did not collapse, when I fold my rear seat I have to take out everything I have under the rear seat.
#A built in real good pure sin inverter at least 300w. There are no inverter at al on the export wranglers.
#Option to open more ventilation holes with bug net for sleeping inside.
#The stock bumper most be shorter and have better approach angles
#Have real recovery points
#Option with the nav a rear camera from factory.
#12v outlet and USB outleat at the rear outside of the cubbybox.
#larger windows, You get that with a slightly higher roof, and also more space for a roof net above Your head.
# Could have better ground clearance as stock, might have to put stuff higher up? But the vehicle could be some inches higher but not really as high as a Defender because it would not fit some garages. The Defender have better ground clearance but have the same wheel hight and have axles, so maybe the Defender have a bodylift so they could stuff things higher up, the difference between the wrangler and the Defender is rather big when it comes to ground clearance, how did they manage that?
The Wrangler looks little bit like a low toad:sombrero:
#Could have a smaller engine. The Landrover scv6 petrol engine is only at 3.0 liter and has 340HK and 450mn in Torque and that is much higher than the Pentastar gives.
#Needs a slightly bigger fueltank.
#Needs a slightly bigger cargo area, if the cut down the 16 inches long front euro bumper to 2 inches the could they could increase the cargo lengt with 14inches and stil retain the same total lengt of the Wrangler.
#creasy difficult to change bulbs, not nice to do that in a winterstorm. LED heating light would take care of that, never change it.
#On the 2015 Wrangler they took away the awesome storage with the sub, great that the sub went away but the destroyed the storage space. The should have putted it under the front passanger seat instead.
#On the NAV the should have a option for real detailed topographic maps
#Nice feature would be to recline the rear seat. I sit offen in the rear seat and I find it very comfortable as I offen sit there when taking photos of birds and mammals.
#Needs a mounting holes on the stock bumper for mounting Auxiliary lights. I mean just 2 holes that is sturdy for mounting so I dont need to buy expensive bracket or a hole front metal bumper for only mount some Auxiliary lights. It is creasy that it do not exist from factory.
#As a nature lover and nature photographer I would like to have a Wrangler in flat color military green with no ugly chrome, it has sadly lost a lot of the military heritage.
#Alu body would probably be good
#Payload should be better. Just speculating as I dont know
I think if You have a vehicle with rigid axles You need soft shocks to make it comfy and most wrangler owner use it as a normal vehicle with no load. Defender and Landcruiser 70 series have huge payload and solid axles but are not comfy on the road empty. You can always give the wrangler stiffer springs and shocks from Factory that might change the payload some, but ordinary people that dont do overlanding in the Wrangler would probably feel that the ride is to harsh. A sturdier ladder frame would cost more and weigh more. I think also a payload is also how fast a vehicle can travel, it should be safe at topspeed, and a Wrangler goes pretty fast compared to some other. I also think that Jeep is more cautious than other brand as it comes from US. I dont think that there are many vehicles that have a hugh payload and have solid axles front and rear and are comfy with no load and safe at top load and at similar size and weight to a Wrangler. I dont know but I might think if Defender were built in US it would not have twice the payload that it has compared to the Wrangler, higher payload yes because it has bigger axles and bigger and sturdier frame.
#I am not sure of this one. But that is for me as a like it stock. The Wrangler is rather wide, but it is becasue the wheels is outside the body, but if we made the body wider over the wheels the interior would be much bigger and also You might be abile to sleep in the rear seat and You would have a much bigger cargo area. The down side is for they that want to put on very big tires and it would not look like a Wrangler anymore, hmm maybe not
