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I think his point is that, regardless of how many wheels are getting power, the best way to improve winter driving is by getting winter tires. FWD, RWD, AWD, and 4WD all stop exactly the same. I hate hate hate fwd cars in the winter, but i'd take my old fwd Fusion with winter tires over my awd...

You are correct. My point is that having the front wheels provide power as well as steering makes it a lot more likely that the fronts will lose traction, leaving you with little to no steering, often resulting in under-steer. The same applies to awd/4wd cars, but when proper application of the...

As a counter to that, I've had all four tires break loose in a similar situation. It's a lot harder to regain control if your steering tires have already lost traction. The only time I use 4x4 is when 2wd doesn't have enough traction to get me out of an intersection without becoming a hazard, or...

To an extent, yes. Annoying isn't necessarily unsafe. A lot of times the LEDs just seem brighter due to the short wavelength being more abrasive to your vision, but aren't affecting your night vision recovery. The oem ones may be annoying, but usually aren't actually blinding you, whereas poorly...

Dont mistake what I said. I'm not talking about the all LEDs. Some are much worse than others. The problem with the new OEM LEDs, I believe, is the the optics are so precise that the cutoff is very defined, and the light just below the cutoff is extremely bright. Combine that with beams that...

Tire squeaking is caused by binding. The jerking in 30 year old trucks is U joint binding. The jerking in new trucks is not the same as jerking in old trucks.

Nothing will break, but it could accelerate wear to the transfer case if there is any sort of discrepancy between the front and rear wheel speed. The jerking/lurching when you turn isn't caused by binding, btw. That's caused by your brakes trying to equalize your left to right wheel speed...

Pretty much that. #5 is debatable, but my GF seems ok with what I came with. That said, a new F250 with a 7.3 Godzilla Tremor package wouldn't hurt my feelings if I could fit one in my driveway.

Nebraska uses salt, salt brine, or GEOMELT/brine mix (beet juice and salt brine). In regards to undercoating: I haven't decided between CRC heavy duty corrosion inhibitor, ACF50, WD-40 Specialist long term corrosion inhibitor, and Fluid Film. Fluid Film is lanolin based and stays gooey. Can...

What? The locker will disengage at a certain speed? That doesn't sound right. Dont you have to be stopped to lock and unlock it? Also, I wont buy a truck without a skid plate unless it has a lot of ground clearance. I've ripped off too many air dams on snow drifts. A skid plate has become a...

Every manufacturer has lemons. Every manufacturer has cars that are bought by people that cant take care of a car. I will never avoid a car based on what problems someone's neighbor had. Even Toyota and Lexus, arguably the most reliable manufacturer, has plenty of horror stories.

That's not at all true. I'm very confident my $70 Hikary Ultra bulbs are as good if not better than the $150-200 bulbs sold by Headlight Revolution. In fact, I'd wager the $40 Nineo gen 2 are nearly as good as the identical $150+ SV-4. The problem with drop in LEDs is how inconsistent they...

I was in the middle of replying to this and it disappeared... Well, in any case, it's my mistake on disputing the brightness. It was the Beamtech bulb I was thinking of. However, I can tell you as a matter of science that the beam pattern is absolutely not superior to halogen. The light output...

I need to put you to work cleaning up the tail section of my bike.

As a good cheap alternative light upgrade, assuming the low beam has a glare cap built in to the headlight bucket, you can use a standard $7 Philips H9 bulb. It should fit in the H11 housing. All you need to do if I remember correctly, is trim a tab in the H9 plug to fit in your factory plug It...

Shoot. I wish I had seen the Auxito recommendations before everyone went out and bought them. One of our members on our Tacoma forum has done a lot of testing, and the headlight thread in general (over 100 pages now) along with a lot of time in doing other research has really illuminated (hee)...

I'd recommend a light with a thinner profile such as the Hikari Ultra or Kitana. Both a ranked very high for projector use in the bulbfacts rankings, and a lighting guru on Tacoma world is testing the Hikaris now. Most of the LEDs he's tested performed fairly poorly, but the ones that share the...

Put it back in the car so it isn't so bored. Throttle bodies are like kids. You just need to give them something to do.

The statement about LEDs having poor beam patterns is not true for all LED bulbs. The ones that have slim arrays and thin boards are designed to mimic the filament of a halogen bulb. Those ones have a much better beam than the old design with chips like the cree xhp series (square array with a...

I was leaning toward the bronco being the captor, but I don't think the skids are the issue. My Tacoma has baby skids as well, but still has rock mode. Pretty sure the Ranger plates are on par with the Pro taco skids, which are thicker than mine.