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serviceable i guess is relative. imagine putting 25k on the tires, tearing sidewall in the backcountry, and then driving home 300 miles on the spare which is actually a different size now because it doesnt have any wear on it (becuase it was not incorporated into the rotation). how much it...

interesting point. i was assuming the warranty will be less than the life of the tire in typical use so it wouldnt matter. wouldnt know how it really pans out.

we go far beyond that regularly and it took a couple trips to know it was going to be fine and for us to stop stressing. it helps to park where you feel uncomfortable and get out and look at the truck from front and back. you see immediately that you likely have a wide margin before you roll...

i think that depends on how likely you feel you are to need the spare, and how far from the tire store you will be when you blow a sidewall. we go offroading and 'overlanding' a fair bit and we are happy to have a matching fifth tire in case we need it. i want to buy a matching rim with TPMS so...

its been a while, but from memory i think you take that top bolt out and then pull the top of the seat into the car and the rest is straightforward. i think the lower side just clipped in.

looks nice. and no cutting the rear vent seal like i did (although im not sure the slot cut makes any difference). we've been happy with the booster so far.

fold the mirrors back before offroading in Saipan: Drive this for a mile and it gets you here:

We went from living our outdoor adventures in a minivan fitted with an indoor bed/storage/solar to the ranger with a cap. So not an SUV comparison but similar in terms of living spaces. We sorely miss the minivan experience when it’s raining. We used to be able to park, get in the living space...

of these options, any thoughts on which one seals best if its bouncing around? we are thinking about investing in 2-5g gas storage to supplement for the long offroad trips, but in our case its going in the bed under the camper shell with all our stuff, instead of strapped to a fancy rack in the...

my wife would really like driver and passenger mirrors on the visors. we have the XL package which has no mirror. i hate the clip-on ones she put on becuase they stick out, they are ugly, and i scrape my head on the metal clips that hold them in place once in a while. i dont mind putting a...

thanks longterm follow up: still works great. its a cheap asian electronic thing from amazon, but holding up well.

i'll chime in. we have been offroading and crawling around in a stock truck. the skid plates get a lot of action. but only when we are really offroading, not dirt-roading. now granted its hard to know whether we would really be taking transmission/whatever strikes (the skid plate does lose you...

which kind of sounds like, the ranger will not do water particularly well. just sayin'

another google-maps bogus-directions 'offroad', where we were minding our own business on a nice road but google is confident that trying out some random maybe-once-a-road-no-longer-a-road is the shortest way to get there. this time after driving jungle dirt track for twenty minutes we get to...

you can take that argument as far as you want. locker?? Your skill level will determine where you can and can’t go. big tires? Your skill level will determine where you can and can’t go. I don’t see any reason to dismiss technology that helps us get farther from the highway. If I wanted the...

First time roving around the jungle- we convoyed with a land rover and a jeep on a trail that used to be a tourist ATV rental trail before covid hit. needless to say the jungle has taken the road back, and it felt more like going throguh a car wash than driving on a road. you basically assume...

that looks great. I bet my wife will love that drive and camping.

that sounds like a good tip- i love under traveled forest roads. probably wont be back in the 48 states for at least a year, but colorado is definitely on the list for a repeat romp. after that post, we ended up doing imogene pass, black bear pass, and ophir pass which was a super fun link up...

unexpected offroading if the best kind of offroading sometimes. here we are somewhere in the jungle on a "road" that google maps put us on. sometimes i wonder about how google maps decides whether something is a road or not. but at any rate, we got shut down so many times on these "roads"...

oh- so every time you turn even a little bit the fog on that side lights up? then your car is going to look like a rave with these dual lights if youre going throguh a parking lot. depends on whether that is what you are going for...