4X4... why didn't I
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Welcome to my world, Kyle. I bought my 2002 Ranger with no intention of offroading. Now I'm more less stuck with it for another two and a half years and I'm doing some limited building of it so I can continue to offroad it. Look at my avatar and you'll see I do take it offroad. My cardomain site (link in sig) has more info on how I've built it so far.
I hooked up with some guys locally via forums like this one and they talked me into taking my street truck offroad -- and the rest is history!
I hooked up with some guys locally via forums like this one and they talked me into taking my street truck offroad -- and the rest is history!
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I paid my truck off several months back, but my b/f just bought a 99 F350 4x4 that will probably be our main trail truck... we go camping, fishing, hunting, and quadding a lot. I foresee limited offroad use of my truck. It will basically be demoted to "city truck" (the SD is a s/c longbox... a little big to park in town).
I've been seriously considering getting a similarly equipped Explorer so we can have something to drive around town with friends. It's kind of hard to carry extra passengers with the dinky little jumpseats. But it would HAVE to be 4L 5 spd 4x4 with manual hubs.
It makes me sad to think of getting rid of my truck, but sadder to think my truck will see even less offroad use than it did last year. This bites. I hate doing the "why didn't I buy this instead" thing.
I've been seriously considering getting a similarly equipped Explorer so we can have something to drive around town with friends. It's kind of hard to carry extra passengers with the dinky little jumpseats. But it would HAVE to be 4L 5 spd 4x4 with manual hubs.
It makes me sad to think of getting rid of my truck, but sadder to think my truck will see even less offroad use than it did last year. This bites. I hate doing the "why didn't I buy this instead" thing.
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i know the arguments about not getting a 4x4 vehicle but it jsut doenst make sense to me. more money, bah. i see so many people who drop money into a 2wd just to make it go where a 4x4 goes. in the end it would be cheaper to just buy a 4x4 to start, plus 4x4 has a higher resale by far.
Andrew
Andrew
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Originally Posted by Mnemonic
The fact that 98 to 100% of the rangers on most car lots (at least in the Dallas,TX area) are 4x2.
Personally, I delt w/ a 4x2 for 4 years. I was like a lot of you, a poor college student just looking for basic transportation. I had always wanted a pickup and when I saw the ads for brand new Ranger XL's at my local dealer I made it happen. I then spent the next 4.5 years getting stuck on wet grass! The first winter wasn't so bad, as I had lots of good tread, but the next one was pretty rough. The last winter before I traded we had record snowfalls. I don't have enough fingers to tell you how many times I got stuck.. and I park in a covered garage too! .. Finally I realized I had the money. So I went to the local lot and pulled the trigger. 4x4 simply rules in the snow. No two ways about it..