Hi, I'm Chris — founder of Campsite Carbon. It started with my own Jeep: a 2015 JKU, my first Wrangler. I fell in love with the “Lego block” nature of these things instantly — how much you could make a Jeep your own. But I also ran into a lot of low-quality aftermarket parts along the way, and that frustration is really where Campsite Carbon began.

Our first official product was a complete bolt-in vacuum pump relocation kit with a true plug-and-play harness — a first on the market at the time. We painstakingly sourced OEM-style connectors and hand-build every harness in-house, instead of selling a cheap plate and telling you to cut your factory harness and splice in. That approach — everything designed to be completely bolt-in and 100% reversible, installable with basic hand tools — has stuck with us ever since.

The real gamechanger moment came from a problem I couldn't find a good solution for. We tried three or four different aftermarket doors-off mirrors and were let down by every one of them — shaking, poor visibility, cheap materials, always some compromise. So we set out to fix all of it. By then I'd picked up a brand new 2022 JL as a test mule, and we designed a mirror completely from the ground up: bolts on in minutes, and deploys with a spring-loaded button right in the cab — push the button, slide the mirror out, no tools, nothing to lose. People were buying them faster than we could make them, and that's when we knew we had something. It gave us the confidence to keep innovating across the Jeep platform, and eventually other vehicles too.

Today we balance in-house production with premium industrial MJF additive manufacturing through a trusted domestic partner. MJF gets us fit and finish that's about as close to injection molding as you can get, without tens of thousands of dollars in tooling for every SKU — which means we can stay flexible and keep developing new products quickly. We also work with trusted suppliers for CNC machining, powder coat, and anodizing to keep quality consistent batch to batch. Every part is still designed, kitted, assembled, tested, and documented in-house, under our own roof. We shifted the majority of our printing to that outsourced MJF partner at the start of 2026, and it's been one of the best moves we've made — more consistent stock, shorter lead times, less rework.

At the end of the day, we build where we see a real need for something better — or where nothing exists at all and we think there should be. I'm a designer by trade and a perfectionist about fit and finish. I don't release anything I wouldn't run on my own vehicles.