Right. But doesn't this reinforce Atrus' point? We like to believe that "everything breaks, it's a *****, live with it" then assert later that one company's manufacturing techniques suck air vs. another. The point being, that some companies seem to be able to produce a machine which lasts 100k miles, while another can't seem to make one last past 40k miles.
There are differences in quality control.
I'm wicked happy with my jeep. And the notion that all libby's after '02 weren't meant for off-roading? Not too sure about that. I feel bad for Atrus and his wheel bearings and agree that a 40k failure for dual wheel bearings seems... highly suspicious.
I wheel my '04 on rocks to the point where I'm peeing blood when I get home, I've got 77k on my jeep and the only problem I've had is I've been diagnosed with a bad pinion bearing in the rear diff-- which I haven't fixed yet. Was it my wheeling that killed it, or was it, as the tech from Dean's Transmissions said about the Chryco 8.25 "it's the luck of the draw with those".
Every thread where someone has a failure, someone else will pop in and say "I've driven 60,000,000 miles and never had a failure, must be you". Yeah? Well I've never had a window regulator fail, but that doesn't lead me to believe that window regulators aren't a problem in the libby.