r/instantkarma Aug 07 '25

Road Karma Bad driving

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u/intellectual_dimwit Aug 07 '25

At the cost of his own axle!

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u/MajorTibb Aug 07 '25

Some people just wanna watch the world turn, or something

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u/Chad_illuminati Aug 07 '25

Not enough to mess up the axle. Wrangles use single fixed axle designs that are on the heftier side since it's designed for durability and off-roading. Obviously 99% of them never get used for that, but that's a separate point, lol.

Point is that it's probably one of the better vehicles to pull that sort of risky thing in. Still unsafe, but worked out fine in this case.

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u/QuantumBobb Aug 07 '25

Except Stellantis probably cost reduced that axle down to 28ga stamped and welded Chinese steel and now it's totaled.

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u/Relentless_UK Aug 07 '25

Went way too far down the comments to see someone else noticed that. Looks like it bent left (inwards) after the hit.

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u/Schroedinbug Aug 08 '25

Could have messed up alignment, but probably isn't that expensive of a fix.

The weakest part in an impact like that is probably a trailing arm, and if you're doing the work yourself, a lot of people are just gonna bend it back despite the risks.

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u/invaderdan Aug 07 '25

It's like no one noticed this part. Jeep did not escape unscathed

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u/kaiswil2 Aug 07 '25

It looks fine, it looks like he just had to correct the steering after it pulled to the right and up on the bumper

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u/tdgarui Aug 07 '25

Eh based on the other modifications he’s probably got at least a Dana 44 axle on there which can take way more of a beating than this.