Offroading is like boating. The more you get out there, the more improvements you want to make to your vehicle. Some upgrades will be relatively major, but most of your new purchases will be inexpensive accessories for comfort and convenience. Amazon thanks you.
Equipment and Mods
Under-armor
Eventually, you will want to add extra protection to the underbody of your vehicle in the form of differential covers and skid plates.
As a Beginner, this is probably not a priority. Jeeps come standard from the factory with decent skid plates. As you evolve as an offroader, and begin to tackle more difficult trails – then upgrades such as lifts and underarmor are usually the next step.
Accessories: Airing Down/Up
In no particular order, here are some accessories related to airing down and airing up that we have for our Jeep. Feel free to email us with your favorite accessories and we’ll add them to our blogs.
Sway-bar Disconnects
Standard Jeep anti-sway bars are located in the front fender area, just behind your tires. The anti-sway bar end links are bolted to the axle housing at two mounting points, one on either side. Anti-sway bars prevent the cabin from swaying & rocking too much during highway travel at higher speeds.
However, at slow speeds when offroading, those same anti-sway bars reduce the amount of articulation (freedom of your axles to go up/down) and actually transmit more lateral vibration to the cabin when you drive over uneven terrain such as washboarding and rocks.
Learn about why disconnecting your sway bars is so important when you offroad.
Impact Wrench
Not necessarily a “must have”, but the new generation of portable, battery operated impact wrenches are very affordable and will spoil the hell out of you.
Storage Solutions
The problem with offroading is that you need to bring a whole lot of stuff with you to cover all sorts of contingencies as well as creature comfort.
The online world is full of products designed to organize your storage space in offroad vehicles. Prices range from under $10 up into several hundred.
Here are some of the storage solutions that we personally have in our Jeep, just to give you some ideas.