I have an 04 Rubicon. Never had a minutes problem out of it except for having to adjust the drum brakes often....but because my wife rides it some and she loves to ride the brakes down a hill....as far as the IRS vs. SRA.....I am a fan of SRA, I can hook my bass boat to the thing and pull it behind the house with no change in ground clearance, but I do understand the ones that like IRS too. I wonder why honda does not offer a SRA/IRS option on the Ruby instead of going with only one choice? You could have whatever you wanted then. Ahh, if it was only a perfect world!