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I was wondering if you could buy the front recovery hooks from the Overland and Dremel the non-Overland bumpers to somewhat discretely bolt the Overland recovery hooks (or probably any Trailhawk hooks if you want a different finish) onto the factory attachment points. It might be a relatively easy solution.
just takes ca$h...Overland bumper beam, bumper crossmember, fascia, etc.
My thought was to possibly avoid all that if you could just cut the bumper fascia and bolt the hooks onto the frame if the substructures were all the same. The Overland/Trailhawk may have different structures, though. I haven't gotten that far into it.
...reinforced for tow hooks
I wonder what that looks like? An entire crossmember, or just some sort of local bracing. Bolted on, or welded? I don't think I'll bother doing it on my new car as I'm hoping to trade it in on a Hurricane later this year, but I am curious what's involved, if you could keep the SR fascia and just artfully make some holes in it, etc. It's probably more difficult and expensive to install an Overland front end on it than just buy a Rocky Road winch setup.
Not when you factor in the winch price
they aren't
I looked at the mounting point for the screw-in hook, and it's further inward than the tow hooks on the Overland. You'd have to Dremel out an area to have the Overland hooks mounted on the other bumper types, and I have no idea if they're a simple 'bolt to the chassis' operation (ie if the bumper fascia was removed), or if you (likely) need other bits from the Overland to make it work. Swapping an Overland front fascia and other structural elements may be the only way, and unless you can find a wrecked Overland in the same color, it's probably cheaper just to buy the winch option from Rocky Road. I kind of wonder if you could buy the RR winch mount, and then just mount a center tow ring to it instead of a winch. I'm not a big fan of adding weight ahead of the axle, and don't really need a winch, but mounting a center tow hook might be an option. Rocky Road would probably be able to answer that, and might even be willing to figure out a way to make it work.
That's impossible!
I get the frustration and shared a similar wtf moment when I needed my SR towed due to a dead battery a couple of months back.
TPMS wouldn’t connect this AM, Uconnect has gone black and silent, but was fixed with a reset, audio has cut out repeatedly for a few seconds at a time, speaker and road-induced vibrations/rattles, and an extremely annoying rear seat squeak that seems to have gone away, can’t pair second phone from pax sear while driving, etc, but it’s only day 4.@Sarge > another deficiency list...stay f'n tuned!
