View Poll Results: Where do you draw the line between Built and Bought?
It is BUILT if you buy aftermarket parts, and you put them on and BUILD UP your own vehicle.
95.45%
It is BOUGHT if you buy parts instead of FABRICATING your own lifts,bumpers or fender flares
4.55%
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Built or Bought - Where do you draw the line?
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Built or Bought - Where do you draw the line?
We have all seen the posts and stickers on rigs "Built Not Bought".
But what do you consider Built Not Bought?
If someone buys an aftermarket bumped from Detours, and installs it himself/herself that bumper was bought, but the rig was built up by them.
If someone buys a lift, and installs it themselves, the lift was bought but the rig was built.
But where do you draw that line? If someone does not FABRICATE their own bumpers or lifts or whatever, do you still consider the rig bought, or do you consider it built because it is not stock?
But what do you consider Built Not Bought?
If someone buys an aftermarket bumped from Detours, and installs it himself/herself that bumper was bought, but the rig was built up by them.
If someone buys a lift, and installs it themselves, the lift was bought but the rig was built.
But where do you draw that line? If someone does not FABRICATE their own bumpers or lifts or whatever, do you still consider the rig bought, or do you consider it built because it is not stock?
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Built to me means you buy the jeep stock and then build it up.
Bought is opposite, someone has built the jeep and you bought it already built. That's just IMHO
Bought is opposite, someone has built the jeep and you bought it already built. That's just IMHO
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Personally, I would consider it bought if you bought aftermarket parts and you paid someone else put them on (even if paying with pizza and beer).
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My old SRT-4 and my new XJ are hybrids of this idea. I'm no expert what I can do I will do but I have some friends that help me out when I start getting out of my realm of expertise. I wouldn't say my cars are bought. They've been tended to by me and my friends, there's dirt under my fingernails too lol
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So if you took your stock rig to a pro and said "here's what I want, call me when it's done"? Is it built or bought? You didn't buy it already built up, but you also didn't do any of the work yourself.
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Could we throw people's ideas in? As in you built it your way/it was built the way you wanted it. NOT the way someone else wanted?
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It's built if I buy stuff and put it on, since my fab skills are limited to say the best.
It's bought if I pay somebody else to put it on, or bought it already done.
It's bought if I pay somebody else to put it on, or bought it already done.
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well seeing that around me 100% of the shops will not put a lift on, everyone that has a lifted truck out here has done it themselves or with a friends help.
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For God's sake. Who cares?
Bottom line, if you didn't build the Jeep from your bare hands from recycled melted down pennies then you suck.
Bottom line, if you didn't build the Jeep from your bare hands from recycled melted down pennies then you suck.
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X2 i mean cmon guys if you aint making everything by scratch thats on it then its bought. heck all my pistons are made outa recycled popcans i threw over the fire and forged!