Toyota Tacoma

[giant_mtb]

The mud flaps did indeed do their job. Ran into a couple spots where something like stepping down off of a large rock would scrape them.  So for super serious off-roading, they'd get gone...or broken.

[BimmerM3]

I also drive work trucks with almost 400 hp.

Right, plus the 944. But the low end of your range of regularly driven vehicles was much lower than mine.

You can get used to almost anything and be happy with it if you let yourself.

I don't know. Would a V6 Explorer have gotten the job done? Yeah, of course. Would I have gotten used to it? Sure.

But I'm pretty sure I'd have always wished I had bought the V8 instead.

[BimmerM3]

The mud flaps did indeed do their job. Ran into a couple spots where something like stepping down off of a large rock would scrape them.  So for super serious off-roading, they'd get gone...or broken.

Are they hard plastic? Couldn't you just get some rubber ones that would bend out of the way?

[MrH]

Are they hard plastic? Couldn't you just get some rubber ones that would bend out of the way?

I know just the ones...

[giant_mtb]

Are they hard plastic? Couldn't you just get some rubber ones that would bend out of the way?

Yeah they're hard plastic. I just got these ones over the winter. Stock ones were falling apart. No new mud flaps for a while.

[BimmerM3]

Yeah they're hard plastic. I just got these ones over the winter. Stock ones were falling apart. No new mud flaps for a while.

Heh, fair enough. I don't know if you're actually planning on doing any serious off roading anyway, so it may not even be an issue.

[giant_mtb]

Heh, fair enough. I don't know if you're actually planning on doing any serious off roading anyway, so it may not even be an issue.

Nah, nothing super serial.  Once I have some fresh tires I'll be able to go a little further and get a little muddier with confidence, but my mudflaps will probably live long lives.

[Rupert]

Right, plus the 944. But the low end of your range of regularly driven vehicles was much lower than mine.

I don't know. Would a V6 Explorer have gotten the job done? Yeah, of course. Would I have gotten used to it? Sure.

But I'm pretty sure I'd have always wished I had bought the V8 instead.

I mean, mind over matter and such.

[BimmerM3]

Nah, nothing super serial.  Once I have some fresh tires I'll be able to go a little further and get a little muddier with confidence, but my mudflaps will probably live long lives.

Right'o. I'd like to find some fairly easy trails to take the Explorer on just to see what it can do, but overall, access to all of the trail heads I've been to in CO have been much better than expected so far. That said, the space of the Explorer vs an Outback or Forrester has definitely come in handy, plus I've been sticking to fairly mainstream trails thus far.

[BimmerM3]

I mean, mind over matter and such.

Yeah, of course. But honestly, there's not a ton of upside to the V6. It would have saved me a grand or two on the initial purchase, plus about one MPG according to EPA ratings. I'd rather have THE POWAH!

[giant_mtb]

Right'o. I'd like to find some fairly easy trails to take the Explorer on just to see what it can do, but overall, access to all of the trail heads I've been to in CO have been much better than expected so far. That said, the space of the Explorer vs an Outback or Forrester has definitely come in handy, plus I've been sticking to fairly mainstream trails thus far.

It makes me really itch to get the Tracker going. It's so much smaller...lots of tight trails around here and paint scratchin branches. If you wanna go deep, it's gonna get tight... heh

[Rupert]

Smaller is always better, unless you're one of those mud bogging troglodytes.

[giant_mtb]

Smaller is always better, unless you're one of those mud bogging troglodytes.

No sir!  I just like to get places.

[BimmerM3]

Well, I ignoring the obvious solution of the Wrangler... there's a very good reason why Samurais have always been popular with the serious offroaders.

[giant_mtb]

Pegging the Raza Redneckometer at a backwoods makeshift campsite off the powerline.

[CJ]

You need bigger tires.

[Rupert]

He needs lesser lift...

Looks like a decent place-- a lot of those kinds of places are perma-trashed.

[Raza]

Pegging the Raza Redneckometer at a backwoods makeshift campsite off the powerline.

That's not quite as redneck as the dirt bike in the bed. Lots of people camp. And that looks like a Corona, not Budweiser or Keystone or something like that.

[MrH]

Well, there's like 5 full cases of Busch there too, but you city slickers can't see the camo cans like us dumb Midwesterners can.

[giant_mtb]

Well, there's like 5 full cases of Busch there too, but you city slickers can't see the camo cans like us dumb Midwesterners can.

Except camo cans usually only show up around here in the fall, before hunting seasons. #redneckfacts

[giant_mtb]

He needs lesser lift...

Looks like a decent place-- a lot of those kinds of places are perma-trashed.

It's a pretty new spot, was made this spring. Pretty easily accessible with a 4WD, so its glory probably won't last long once the wraith of teenagers finds it and they leave their shit everywhere 'cause they can't take empty beer cans home.

[Raza]

Well, there's like 5 full cases of Busch there too, but you city slickers can't see the camo cans like us dumb Midwesterners can.

Haha! 

Camo cans, for real?

[veeman]

I thought no proper redneck would drive a forrin truck

[MrH]

Haha! 

Camo cans, for real?

Yeah, you haven't seen those before?  It's pretty damn hillbilly.  giant is right, I think they come out around hunting season.

[CaminoRacer]

Don't want the deer to see your beer can and run away before you can shoot it.

[Rupert]

Is that a sun dial?

[MrH]

Don't want the deer to see your beer can and run away before you can shoot it.

Or even worse, the deer can sneak up and steal your beer.

[giant_mtb]

Haha! 

Camo cans, for real?

Oh yeah, it's real.

[Rupert]

Gods I hate camo.

[Soup DeVille]

Is that a sun dial?

Almost, but the sun is in the wrong place.