Gonna be a snowy holiday up here in the mountains if this 10 day forecast holds up. I will be sure to post a pic of my ranger completely buried. In the meantime here is my old ford excursion on 33's buried after a 100" storm last February.
If you drive daily in snowy conditions, you owe it to yourself and the other drivers on the road to get a dedicated winter tire. For ice, nothing beats studs. I have had great luck on two previous ford trucks with General Grabber Arctic LTs. They are studdable and aren't as costly as some other...
I'm firmly in the 4x4 camp, but I will play devil's advocate a little bit and say that a properly setup rear wheel drive vehicle is fine 99% of the time. I drove an 02 econoline van for years in CO. I lived over 9000ft and traversed snowy roads daily. With 4 good snow tires I was fine most of...
Having 2wd is so limiting, especially in a vehicle with bad weight distribution like a pickup truck. Where I live, if you don't have 4x4 and snow rated tires, you are required to carry chains and use them when the lights at the bottom of the road are flashing (which is fairly often). You might...
I live at the top of an 8 mile, 6-9% canyon road that might just be the snowiest in the US. I use 4H to pull out of my parking spot, then 2H to turn and descend the canyon. Four wheel drive causes your front wheels to lose grip when turning, and I don't want to slide around every corner. Going...
Picked up some firewood for the fireplace this winter. 1/3rd of a cord plus a pallet filled the Scab bed to the rails. If I carefully stacked it I might have been able to fit more.
2021 XL/STX
I didn't really have a color choice when I bought the truck as it was the only base model Scab on the lot but man am I happy with the iconic silver. Grows on me every day. Pic from a desert sunrise.
I feel like the XL interior is much more user friendly. Two bigknobsb for temp and fan speed, a couple buttons for fan location and ac on/off. Just two big knobs for the radio as well. I also like the look of the classic speedo and tach with the small screen in the middle. It might be dated...
I live in Maine in the summer and Utah in the winter, so make the cross country trek twice a year. Have a decent commute in Maine which really stacks the miles up as well.
I took the STX stickers off my silver Scab as soon as I could. Seems dumb to advertise an appearance package and the truck is a lot cleaner without them.