During Overland Expo 2021, our friends from Blue Ridge Overland Gear filmed a walk-around tour of Lola, our 2019 Jeep Wrangler JL Rubicon. Check out the video tour of the build, and shout-out to our pals at BROG for the great video.
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TrailRax Pak Rax are one of the most innovative and useful additions you can get for a Jeep Wrangler - they afford the opportunity to store cargo and gear on the outside of the rear windows with a modular rack and frame. The opportunities for storage are nearly endless, with options to mount everything from recovery boards to Rotopax water tanks and storage boxes.
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Bringing a US-made vehicle to Europe can be an awesome way to explore and travel, but if you plan to register your vehicle in a foreign country, you need to be prepared to make modifications in order to make the vehicle comply with safety laws in that country. Today we’re documenting what it took to modify our 2019 Jeep JL Wrangler to European spec - specifically to pass the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) inspection process in the United Kingdom. I couldn’t possibly hope to capture every modification needed for every vehicle, so this is really aimed at those of you with Jeep JL Wranglers that are US spec.
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Alright ladies, let’s have a safe space here to talk about the business. That being the business of peeing in the woods.
We’ve come a long way since the ol’ squat and find a non-poison ivy leaf to wipe with. Thanks to some modern day inventions, peeing in the woods as a lady has never been easier, more sanitary, or more eco-friendly.
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Let me preface this whole thing by saying I’m not an expert — there are people who professionally ship vehicles to Europe regularly and are probably better positioned to assist with specific questions about your shipping. But there is also a dire lack of information on this topic on the internet, so I’m trying to fill that void by providing my experience on shipping my 2019 Jeep Wrangler JL overland build to the United Kingdom.
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Off-road vehicles take plenty of abuse – our paint has marring and scratches from tree limbs, rocks, and other trail debris; our undercarriage is rusty and scuffed from the unfortunate encounters with rocks; and there’s no part of the Jeep that has avoided a nice crust of mud. For that reason, we invest in body armor, skid plates, and any number of protective accessories to try and limit the damage and costly repairs that accompany off-road driving.
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If you have ever gone camping with us, you know that we’re really big on food. Specifically, we’re big on eating well at camp. Not that eating well means we have to eat glutenous, high-calorie meals — eating well refers to our desire to make our camp kitchen an extension of our at home kitchen.
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We love to travel - after all, that’s one of the things that we enjoy most about overlanding! A chance to explore new places, meet new people, gather new experiences, and expand our horizons. A few months ago we were approached with an opportunity to temporarily move to the United Kingdom, and we jumped at the chance. Few travel experiences can relate to the broadening that comes with actually living in a foreign country.
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Almost two years ago, we had our friends at Bull Run 4x4 install the first lift kit on our Jeep Wrangler JL Rubicon. At the time, we were just starting to dabble with the concept of overlanding, and it was limited to a rooftop tent and the odd weekend trip. We hadn’t upgraded to heavy custom drawer systems, a winch, full auxiliary power system, or any of the other goodies yet, so the Jeep was relatively lightweight (or closer to stock weight).
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The more gear we add to the Jeep, the more we loose a precious commodity - visibility. Organizing and taking up all the available space in our overland Jeep usually comes at the cost of reduced visibility, specifically out of the rear view mirror.
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Jeeps are not known for their acoustics or audio. Even the upgraded Alpine sound system available in a Jeep Wrangler leaves something to be desired. Yet music is such a key component to all of our adventures. We have a “Jeep Cruise” playlist that has been the soundtrack to hundreds of off-road miles. So it’s a shame knowing that the quality of that audio experience has always been a bit…. lacking.
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As you probably have already discovered, there’s not much you cannot buy on amazon.com these days. It is almost a game to see what sort of curveball request you can lookup Amazon and I’ve learned to not be surprised when that oddity can be delivered in 2 days or less.
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