I am 100% with you. I was so close to buying a base. If the locker was an option, I would have for sure. In reality, a mandatory set of good tires on the base, with traction control, will likely have taken me everywhere I ever tried to go. What I hated was every time I added something, it required me to add more stuff and the price shot up to the next trim level. At one point I was almost going to pull the trigger on a Badlands for $47,500 just to get the 7 speed with the creature comforts I was getting in Big Bend mid package. At the end of the day I had to do what made sense within reason. I did get a locker, but stickered at $40k and not the $31k a base with locker would have been if it was an option. I looked at it like a happy compromise. I had a 2012 Jeep with no locker and I'm telling you, their traction system was amazing. That thing would constantly shift power from a wheel spinning to the other side in 2wd. It was like a electronic version of a torque sensing limited slip. I would hope that Ford's is similar some 9 years later......The aftermarket will be crazy on these things within a year or two. You'll likely see lockers and tru tracs ( front hopefully ).I really wish they just let me get the $750.00 rear locker, that was a very annoying move in my mind and left Jeep with a little to work with on the bottom end. Thanks for the encouragement, I don't have any plans for rock crawling and the 4wd would properly be fine but I'm the guy that thinks what if lol
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