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Old 02-12-2019, 12:16 PM   #141
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Old 02-12-2019, 01:19 PM   #142
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Took this photo a few days ago at the gas station... It looked like the wheels stuck out almost 10" or 12"!
Yea, that's a relatively new (to me anyway) thing I've observed recently when I take a road trip. I'll see at least one truck where the entire wheel/tire is outside the body of the truck.
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It looks like a toy! (a very expensive toy!)

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[B][SIZE="2"]"Your bumper's kinda crooked, bro!"
Rode over an 86 sharkfin antenna and got slightly cocked when the 86 scooted away.
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Old 02-13-2019, 01:14 PM   #146
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Why do the diesel drivers have some sort of pathological need to coal roll any small car?
It's an overreaction to being preached at for so long by environmentalists and told they have to apologize for their choices and how they spend their money. Don't like that I drive a truck? Then I'll show you and make it bigger. Won't shut up about my gas mileage? Then I'll get one with a bigger engine and dual tanks. Oh boo hoo carbon footprint? Eat my coal smoke.

I blame preachy hypermilers in Priuses for a large part of the brodozer problem. It's the same phenomenon that results in a Trump presidency.

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It is an epidemic, but at least the truck has some sort of purpose...
Usually when I see lifted trucks, they DON'T have a purpose. A truck built for real off-road use will have smaller diameter rims with large tires with a lot of sidewall, and the suspension will allow for travel (flex). I rarely see Brodozers set up like that. Just raising the height of the vehicle does very little for its offroad capability if the suspension is still stiff so that it can't articulate over obstacles while keeping the tires in contact with the ground. They typically use lift blocks that leave the axle nowhere to go, where a real offroad vehicle will use taller springs and different geometry for the control arms.

I see a lot of those trucks in Florida, but they were the absolute worst in Texas. Ironically it's Texas that gives the best description of them: All hat, no cattle.

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Here in Charlotte, 90% of them will never see anything but tarmac, and it seems like every one of them has their headlights aimed directly in my damned mirror
Plus you have the "Carolina squat," where those idiots only install the front half of the lift and let the ass drag like a dog with worms. Then the hood sticks way up where the idiot can't see where he's going, and the headlights point right into other drivers' faces.
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Old 02-14-2019, 01:28 PM   #147
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It's an overreaction to being preached at for so long by environmentalists and told they have to apologize for their choices and how they spend their money. Don't like that I drive a truck? Then I'll show you and make it bigger. Won't shut up about my gas mileage? Then I'll get one with a bigger engine and dual tanks. Oh boo hoo carbon footprint? Eat my coal smoke.


I never really understood this. Like if you're willing to buy the expensive vehicle and then deal with paying for all that gas, parking it, and so on, then knock yourself out. I don't know why people feel the need to complain so much about it.
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I never really understood this. Like if you're willing to buy the expensive vehicle and then deal with paying for all that gas, parking it, and so on, then knock yourself out. I don't know why people feel the need to complain so much about it.
Cause it's these idiots that are going to get more legislation passed since it is easy to point out. If you want your big truck fine. Don't go modding it to blow huge clouds of black smoke. It's pointless.

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Old 02-16-2019, 03:04 PM   #149
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Someone lifted my truck once. I got it back, but they had trashed it and it just wasn't the same after that.
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Old 02-16-2019, 03:43 PM   #150
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I always though the FRS and BRZ would turn into the new Civic or new Corolla.

Idk but thankfully, it wasn’t us that became the new Civics. The lifted truck epidemic took over. School I work at has over 17. Yes! 17. About 12 belong to h.s. Kids.

A while back a lifted raptor was going around revving and tail gating. Some gangster shot at the raptor guy from his car. Raptor guy still a douche doing the same.

Top two reasons I hate them are:

1) serve no purpose as they are daily drivers here. Home to store type of ride. During rain, it blows when I’m at a distance and the gunk the tires picks up reaches my windshield. They don’t got mud guards.

2) the annoying arse hell revving and tail gating.
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We have so many around here that purchase 250/2500 series trucks and don't haul or pull a damn thing with it. Just a status symbol. An F250 is pretty much worshiped like a God
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LOL And no doubt on a lifted truck forum there are loads of guys complaining about the sports car crowd whipping around, reving on them and just being douches in general.


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LOL And no doubt on a lifted truck forum there are loads of guys complaining about the sports car crowd whipping around, reving on them and just being douches in general.
I love number 4 Parking Lot where the author shows the photo below which illustrates why I don't want to park by a big truck. If I park in the middle of my spot and he parks close to the middle of his, I can't get out of the car.

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It's an overreaction to being preached at for so long by environmentalists and told they have to apologize for their choices and how they spend their money. Don't like that I drive a truck? Then I'll show you and make it bigger. Won't shut up about my gas mileage? Then I'll get one with a bigger engine and dual tanks. Oh boo hoo carbon footprint? Eat my coal smoke.

I blame preachy hypermilers in Priuses for a large part of the brodozer problem. It's the same phenomenon that results in a Trump presidency.
So... your position is that the environmentalists are actually worse than the coal rollers?

Okay I guess...
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