Twin Magnolias
Adventurist
What's up, fellas? It's been a (longish) minute since I've been around on these boards. I let work an other things crowd in and, well, you know how it goes. Me and the family have still been doing the camping, river rat, general wanderer kind of thing, but not as much as we once did. With Covid giving us a much needed time at home to hit a little bit of a reset, we started reevaluating a few things and the Jeep was one thing that we weren't 100% happy with.
In 2016, we bought a new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and put just shy of 100k miles on it in four years. However, with a family of four, and a dog, we were running out of room in that Jeep. Having permanent overland-y type mods weren't possible because I needed the cargo space in the Jeep to be flexible to handle anything from a family vacation, to a hardware store run, or lugging around band gear. The lack of storage space, and limited tow capacity of the Jeep caused me to start looking elsewhere.
I stumbled across this 2019 Colorado ZR2 with only 8k on the odometer. The previous owner downsized from a full-size truck, drove it for a few months and then traded it back in on a bigger truck. He put the Leer cap on it, and that's why I wanted this truck over several others in the area. Well, that and the low mileage, pristine nature of the truck. I cheaped out on the JKU and bought an Unlimited Sport, thinking I'd upgrade it to be better than a Rubicon. What a money pit of an idea that was. This time, I'm starting with a baseline that needs very little upgrading, giving me more money to invest in trips, not parts.
Initial upgrades planned:
In 2016, we bought a new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and put just shy of 100k miles on it in four years. However, with a family of four, and a dog, we were running out of room in that Jeep. Having permanent overland-y type mods weren't possible because I needed the cargo space in the Jeep to be flexible to handle anything from a family vacation, to a hardware store run, or lugging around band gear. The lack of storage space, and limited tow capacity of the Jeep caused me to start looking elsewhere.
I stumbled across this 2019 Colorado ZR2 with only 8k on the odometer. The previous owner downsized from a full-size truck, drove it for a few months and then traded it back in on a bigger truck. He put the Leer cap on it, and that's why I wanted this truck over several others in the area. Well, that and the low mileage, pristine nature of the truck. I cheaped out on the JKU and bought an Unlimited Sport, thinking I'd upgrade it to be better than a Rubicon. What a money pit of an idea that was. This time, I'm starting with a baseline that needs very little upgrading, giving me more money to invest in trips, not parts.
Initial upgrades planned:
- CargoGlide bed slide - that was the best thing I did to our JKU, and we have a fridge that will live permanently in the back of the truck
- Lighting - interior lights for the cap, and maybe some exterior camp lights, spot/flood up front