Its practical if you rockcrawl, rockcrawl in large groups, live/wheel in areas that get hot in the summer.

Tire carrier bumper was one of my favorite mods. freed up a TON of space inside the jeep, and helped distribute the weight of the rig more evenly. (granted not a ton, but it helped)

 

I understand you can see more but live somewhere where it rains alot/has alot of mud/ gets below 0 and you will rethink it..

I would rather put the tire on the rear of the roof than anywhere else... hardly anything else goes up there.

 

higher center of gravity brings the fail however.

 

Spare tire on the roof
non cut fenders with bigger than 30s
big lifts

 

Slightly higher center of gravity yes but you save like 100lbs in weight so I guess it depends on what your goals are.

 

how do you save 100lbs of weight? its still there, you just moved it much higher.

 

Think he's talking about the weight of the tire carrier bumper.

 

Control arm drops.
People paint random parts the most ugly colors
Rims bigger than 15s

 

Exactly.

 

Most of us who wheel have aftermarket/custom rear bumpers anyway. The tire carrier portion doesn't add too much weight. even so, thats weight in a place the xj could use it!

 

Steering stabilizers and throttle body spacers

 

Don't have to tell me. Tire carrier bumper is on the list. I don't like the idea of blocking visibility out the back window, but I dislike the high center of gravity having it on the roof creates even more.

 

Just offset it to the drivers side so it doesn't block your rear view.

 

A 33" or 35" tire will still block most of the back window. That's what mirrors are for anyway.

 

Thats where mine was. didn't bother me at all. I thought about adding a small rearview mirror to the top right of the windshield to get a better view back there, but visibility was never too much of an issue for me to actually do it.