How do you guys feel about lifted trucks?

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by ermax

Can't speak for these jacked up trucks but my Suburban was terrifying to drive in sweepers when I first got it. The weight transfer is super lagged. ….People feel safer being higher. I just don't get it.

Same with my Suburban which technically is factory jacked up (its a Z71).

I've considered putting air ride on it just so I could lower it since I drive it on the road 99.8% of the time. I've driven really jacked up trucks (belonging to other people) and unless you are running through mud somewhere I just don't get it.

[TommyW]

Higher the truck the smaller the pee pee

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

girls getting into trucks video

Most of them were way more graceful than I was the week I drove the standard height F150 with no running boards.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by ermax

Can't speak for these jacked up trucks but my Suburban was terrifying to drive in sweepers when I first got it. The weight transfer is super lagged.

My Dodge are 4x4, 4 door, standard height with stock 20 inch tires. Surprisingly, they handle very well.

[Leonardo]

That girl drops her phone and doesn't even realize it! LOL!


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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Most of them were way more graceful than I was the week I drove the standard height F150 with no running boards.

Pretty sure some of them are applying their stripper pole training.

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Not good, not good at all. Especially the ones that venture into the city? what are you doing here with your elephant ear mirrors? Gonna knock goddamn light poles down with those. One guy was lifted with a widened track that was so wide that he wouldn't fit in the lane and was blocking traffic, causing congestion. You HAVE to have a personality of umm... a certain kind, let's just say... in order to drive that, I just can't envision a nice normal dude driving it. There has to be something off there

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Not good, not good at all. Especially the ones that venture into the city? what are you doing here with your elephant ear mirrors? Gonna knock goddamn light poles down with those. One guy was lifted with a widened track that was so wide that he wouldn't fit in the lane and was blocking traffic, causing congestion. You HAVE to have a personality of umm... a certain kind, let's just say... in order to drive that, I just can't envision a nice normal dude driving it. There has to be something off there

Well at least they could get through all the unplowed roads and entrances that I am told that your "backwoods hicks" leaves behind.

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well at least they could get through all the unplowed roads and entrances that I am told that your "backwoods hicks" leaves behind.

Yes, during a snow storm these would be quite good, in the same way that a clock that doesn't work would show the right time twice a day.

[DarkPira7e]

In Vermont, most of the people who have these lifted trucks definitely drive like you'd expect someone to drive a spring-cut 96 Civic. It is an epidemic, but at least the truck has some sort of purpose, I just hate them because they typically do 30+ MPH over the speed limit and tailgate / park horizontally.

When they have their 16" wheels with a 13" Skyjacker lift kit and super swampers, it's hilarious to wonder how much money they've spent on it. Then I remember that thousands of people put huge wings on their cars, do coilovers, forced induction, and their car is only driven on normal, public roads, mostly doing around the speed limit. Oh well. Next time you see one, just remember that they're a different kind of car enthusiast, maybe it'll put them in a different light - doesn't mean you can't hate them though

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Yes, during a snow storm these would be quite good, in the same way that a clock that doesn't work would show the right time twice a day.

Actually in snow they would probably totally suck since those tires would just slide around. Now if there is ever a mudslide...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

People that heavily modify small cars by engine swaps, lowering or other changes that impact the safety devices design are taking an accepted risk for their own safety. Jacking a truck up 4 feet in the air is taking a risk with everybody else's safety. What could be a minor accident with the same truck at stock height all of a sudden turns into a multiple fatality. It takes a special kind of arrogance to say "fuck everybody else on the road".


All in all I am glad I do not have to deal with them on a regular basis.

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

In Vermont, most of the people who have these lifted trucks definitely drive like you'd expect someone to drive a spring-cut 96 Civic. It is an epidemic, but at least the truck has some sort of purpose, I just hate them because they typically do 30+ MPH over the speed limit and tailgate / park horizontally.

When they have their 16" wheels with a 13" Skyjacker lift kit and super swampers, it's hilarious to wonder how much money they've spent on it. Then I remember that thousands of people put huge wings on their cars, do coilovers, forced induction, and their car is only driven on normal, public roads, mostly doing around the speed limit. Oh well. Next time you see one, just remember that they're a different kind of car enthusiast, maybe it'll put them in a different light - doesn't mean you can't hate them though

Wings and coil overs don't kill people (usually). Four foot high bumpers kill people.
They are different all right.

[ermax]

I'm also curious what their fuel bill is like considering how they drive them like sports cars.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by ermax

Not sure how someone could live in this neighborhood on a cops salary. We are talking about 5,000-11,000sf homes on the river.

Things that make you go hmmm...

Originally Posted by Leonardo

It floods every year where I live. If my honda ridgeline won't make it through, then we use our F350 as the "ferry."

Ever thought of moving out of a flood zone?

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I just wonder how people get in and out of some of them.

My truck lowers at the press of a button an then raises at the press of another, or automatically.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I've considered putting air ride on it just so I could lower it since I drive it on the road 99.8% of the time. I've driven really jacked up trucks (belonging to other people) and unless you are running through mud somewhere I just don't get it.

Air ride is awesome. Also it rides better.

Originally Posted by TommyW

Higher the truck the smaller the pee pee

Just because it's true doesn't mean you have to say it. Ouch!

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My Dodge are 4x4, 4 door, standard height with stock 20 inch tires. Surprisingly, they handle very well.

That's because Rams since at least 2009 have had independent suspension, not primitive solid axles.

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

In Vermont, most of the people who have these lifted trucks definitely drive like you'd expect someone to drive a spring-cut 96 Civic. It is an epidemic, but at least the truck has some sort of purpose, I just hate them because they typically do 30+ MPH over the speed limit and tailgate / park horizontally.

Trucks are invisible to police. How many times have you seen a truck pulled over vs a Civic? They sell a hell of a lot more trucks, and I'd say they're a small fraction of the vehicles I see pulled over. Especially white trucks that look like work trucks. I've driven five different cars past CHP blocking our canyon entrance, and they are always stern and asking for an ID. I pull up in the truck, and the CHP are all smiles. "Go ahead!" A big truck is working class white ID.