How do you guys feel about lifted trucks?

[Tomm]

Originally Posted by rice_classic

Oddly enough, as I've gotten older I've become more liberal in my acceptance of what people do with their stuff for a few reasons - I value their passion and enthusiasm as well as their right to do what they want with their stuff. Stanced car, lifted truck, giant chrome wheels, donk'd... don't care. We can ridicule in jest because fun, but genuinely don't care.

I agree, but I would also add that you gotta be willing to take the ridicule to dish it out. Lots of kids these days can't take it without going mental.

Originally Posted by rice_classic

The only point in which as which I start to draw a line is when their passion affects my health/wealth/personal space. If a truck is too lifted where the tow hitch is skull height to mom in her minivan - that's not cool. The stanced car with a 90dB exhuast or loud subwoofers at 3am - f' that guy.

Jeez grandpa take out your hearing aides when you sleep. (jk) I leave my house at 0330 and I'm running nameless longtubes, motiv op, tanabe fp, and agency power cat back - it's not quiet... My neighbor asked me last week why I didn't go to work a couple days last week (had a cold) because he couldn't hear me leaving (to put it in perspective, he lives a quarter mile away from me). So I might be in this class - no sound system though. Guilty.

Originally Posted by rice_classic

I did catch my shin on a large tow-hitch that stuck out 1.5' from the back of a truck in a crowded, poorly lit seattle parking garage - I found that way more offensive than any lifted truck I've ever seen.

You might as well go buy a truck now, you've been christened.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by rice_classic

Oddly enough, as I've gotten older I've become more liberal in my acceptance of what people do with their stuff for a few reasons - I value their passion and enthusiasm as well as their right to do what they want with their stuff. Stanced car, lifted truck, giant chrome wheels, donk'd... don't care. We can ridicule in jest because fun, but genuinely don't care.

The only point in which as which I start to draw a line is when their passion affects my health/wealth/personal space. If a truck is too lifted where the tow hitch is skull height to mom in her minivan - that's not cool. The stanced car with a 90dB exhuast or loud subwoofers at 3am - f' that guy.

I did catch my shin on a large tow-hitch that stuck out 1.5' from the back of a truck in a crowded, poorly lit seattle parking garage - I found that way more offensive than any lifted truck I've ever seen.

Ok, gotta ask. What is "donk'd"?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Ok, gotta ask. What is "donk'd"?

[Tomm]

Originally Posted by DandoX

I feel like you can tell a truck that's lifted for actual off road use vs brodozer. 90% of the time those same trucks would perform just as well if not better offroad in their stock form (excluding offroad tires). Lifting a truck or SUV more often than not ruins the vehicle instead of improving it.

I find most lifted trucks seriously obnoxious. The worst though is when they think they are driving a sports car, drive way too fast for that size and height. Then in a parking lot they damn near stop to go over a speed bump. Its so frustrating when I go over speed bumps faster in my stock 13' FRS (which has a stiff ride) than these giant brodozers.

I find it funny when Im cruising on a B road, going fast but not dangerously fast and a brodozer comes up on me on a straight road and tail gates me. Like they need to go so fast on a straight part of the road, but the second a couple corners come up the FRS slams around those corners no problem at speed while the brodozer slams their brakes, then catches up on the straight part to try and make up for it. News flash to these brodozers, no one thinks your truck is fast because you can mash the pedal on a straight road.

I can't argue with your experiences with brodozers (thanks for the new term) but I can give you my own anecdotal evidence from just last weekend. This young dude in a mazda 3 tried to race me but his way of trying to get me to race was to swerve into oncoming traffic (2 lane road) and then swerve back in our lane, twice. Then he proceeded to warm up his tires by jerking his car back and forth in the lane. Then he proceeded to slow down to 25mph in a 45 zone trying to get me to pass him illegally which of course I knew he was going to punch right as I would start to pass him so I didn't try. Then he acted like he was going to turn into a subdivision and then didn't. I eventually passed him legally. I was pretty tempted to call the cops on him with how reckless he was swerving into oncoming traffic. This was while I was in my FR-S, now had I been in my wife's truck I don't think that would have happened but that's the price I pay for having a modded twin. The point is a$$hats drive cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes.

[Tomm]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Can I get a derivative?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Tomm

Can I get a derivative?

Ummmm sure.

[Tomm]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Ummmm sure.

lol, i had a feeling you were going to take it that direction.

[Rogues Gambit]

Damn file size limits...

Got a Ram Rebel, only wanna do a Coilovers to get it up from 1in to 2in lift and call it a day.

Not into big lifts, though I don't exactly know where to off-road in Jersey either

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Rogues Gambit

though I don't exactly know where to off-road in Jersey either

I'm told most of the streets count as offroading these days...

[Rogues Gambit]

Originally Posted by soundman98

I'm told most of the streets count as offroading these days...

Ever drive in NY? They don't call it the concrete jungle for nothing.

Then again, drove through them with my Audi, which probably explain after all the years I've had it, my old PF01's were developing hairline cracks