Looks awesome! I still want a manufacturer to reproduce that roof rack!

 

pdxbubba, you definately have some photoshop skills thats for sure! Looks great... I like the idea of narrowing the edges like that.

 

Looks great to me! I don't know about lightening the vehicle--how heavy is that plastic anyway?

 

I don't think he meant lighten the vehicle, I think he meant lighten the the original SEMA bumper.

 

I honestly dont notice much of a difference, besides color and the rear bumper being more square. What exactly was done?

 

Yeah, so basically the computer moniter at work sucks and had a chance now to look at the pic, and I can see the difference. Looks awsome. Nice photoshop skills.

 

The front bumper "wings" were shortened a bit.

 

Now why didn't jeep make the patriot look like that. Thats what the patriot should look like.

 

pdxbubba could you change the color of that patriot to white? I would be interested in seeing how a white patriot would look since mine is white.

 

Um, yeah, can you design a rear one to match, and then have it fabricated? That would be great!

 

Hmm, that might look good on the Compass too!

 

I couldn't get the white quite right tonight but did get a decent gold.

I did mean lighter in weight than the SEMA version. This one also has a full roof rack and new rear bumper, too.

To make sure it was street legal here, I put one of those flexible, truck mud-flaps behind the rear tire hanging off the new bumper.

 

OOOOOO, Daddy like! Maybe one more thing, can you trim the wing tips to match the body lines? The little piece that sticks out next to the turn signal looks strange. Oh, and one other thing I'm looking to have made is a replacement for the plastic rocker/seam weld trim. I'd like to have the seam encased in a removable steel rail. Adding rails under the plastic only reduces clearance. Then, we're going to have the lower 1/3 coated with some sort of bed liner product (basically from that middle angle line down, including over the wheels). I'm asking a lot, but a good rendering would be handy to take to a fabricator. You rock!

Last thing, can you slap a receiver in that front bumper for a portable winch?

 

A little more added and tweaked...

 

I like it. I am imagining it on a white patriot and it would look awsome.

 

i want

 

That's just about it! Can you extend that rail forward to the wheel well and nix the little plastic trim piece just behind the well? It looks AWESOME. Can't wait to have it built! Your work is MUCH appreciated. It will be handy to take to a fabricator and just say, 'that's what I want'.

Also wondering what it would look like with fog lights integrated into the bumper like the new Wranglers.

Are you saving these as new revisions? It would be cool to see how this all progressed, and maybe have a few 'final options'.

Another mod I've always wondered what it would look like: rectangular headlights, like the old Cherokee. They may fit the angular lines a little better.

 

its a shame they didnt follow this idea more closely for the production model

 

here are a few color choices.. starting with the requested white

 

it would also be nice for the off road crew to have some body armour added aroudn the corners and over the lights?

I know nothing of this type of thing so maybe not?

 

i also did the 'square' lights - commander style.. dunno if i like it or not..

and here is the nose protection & fogs requested..

 

i also did the 'square' lights - commander style.. dunno if i like it or not..

hmm, not a fan of those headlights on the Patriot. There's a thread around here somewhere with photoshopped pics of the Liberty, Patriot, and Commander all with the different headlights, I really wish I could find it again. Anyway, I really like the gold one with the step rail and round fog lights on top (the one in post15), it looks a lot beefier. It'd probably look really good in Jeep green for the entire body instead of the black bottom half. But they're all pretty sweet regardless!

 

while we're at it, the plastic trim on the rocker panel under the doors needs to go.

I'm pretty sure it could be replaced with a 2X4 rectangular steel bar with caps welded to the ends. It would stick out a little further than the body line, and act like rock rails without the loss in ground clearance.

 

Post 15 in this very thread! With Rock Rails

I agree, the trim needs to go. I also like that Grill Guard, suzq044. I kind of like the squared off headlights, but see the point about round = Jeep too. Good work all!

Any way someone could combine the grille guard mod with the post 15 rendering, and maybe add wrangler fog lights into the post 15 bumper, feel free to lose the shackles (receiver shackle will work fine).

 

I was wondering if you would share the silver ones with and with out the Brush guard in a higher resolution... I could use a new desktop background!

 

awsome love the colors. My white pat would look cool. By the way in my opinion jeeps should all have round headlights. To me that says jeep. Thats one thing I like about the patriot is the round headlights. One reason I didn't like the new liberty the headlights don't look right. They should have kept them round.

 

The dark lower portion is meant to represent a tuff-coat product (bedliner), which you can get color-matched.

 

Dawson,

Dude, you would be a hero if you got somebody to make this setup. The ideas on this thread are awesome. Suddenly the Patriot become a really mean looking off-road machine. Great job everyone. I'd love to see this produced!

 

I posted a thread about getting someone to design these parts in wireframe and I will explore finding a manufacturer for them... Only got a couple replies. We'll see where it goes from here. We are going to coat our Pat with the bed-liner this spring, but it doesn't stick to plastic, so we need the steel bumpers, and I need my rails built too.