Rock crawling is all about the challenge of making it through a trail/obstacle that doesn’t look passable. We generally wouldn’t use a spotter unless someone is hella stuck or in a dangerous spot. No reason to get out and spot when everyone has a well-built rig and knows what they are doing.
Hours to make it over an…

Meh, closest places to me are 2-3 hours away. I’ve driven up to 9 hours for a weeklong trip. It is a rather odd hobby seeing as 80% of it is spending money on parts and working on your vehicle, and very little time is spent actually wheeling.

But yeah, I wouldn’t waste my time going ‘mudding’ if it was a 5 minute…

I spent 6 or so years of my life and countless thousands of dollars in the rockcrawling world. I have absolutely no idea how it is considered fun to drive around in an open field in a truck and spin the tires in the mud. Were these dudes just super drunk and stupid? What is exciting about that? Driving into mud and…

We used “womb broom” as a team name for Movember trivia last year. Our team won, so they had to keep saying it over and over. A couple women there were not pleased haha.

So much hate for the BMW. I did this very thing when I was in my late 20s, buying a 2007 E90 335i in 2010 when they came off lease. $28k for a $45k car with 23k miles, 300hp and a manual trans. Loved that car, it drove like an absolute dream. Definitely more fun than I imagine a BRZ would be. Regardless of the…

Well, you know how you squat down to fill up a tire when it’s on a truck. My truck at work has a slow leak, so it gets driven around a lot on low pressure, which I’m sure is not great for it. So every time I fill it up, I’m worried the damn thing is going to blow up right in my face. So I turn my body away from the…

It’s actually pretty reassuring that the old tire held up to over 200psi. Sometimes I get worried about filling a ~10 year old tire with 40 psi, especially if it has a few stress cracks in the outer casing. I always turn my face and balls away from the tire as I fill it.

Just drove 8 hours each way from NoVa to Savannah, GA last weekend. I’d say 70% of the assclowns holding up traffic driving going slow in the left lane were Jersey drivers. The remaining 30% were from NY. It’s like you guys go on vacation specifically to hold up traffic on I-95.

Based on the last couple flights I’ve taken with at least American and United, I don’t find this article to be even remotely true. Other than southwest, every airline I’ve seen puts you in a boarding group and you board when they call that group, no matter where your seat is on the plane or in each isle. Seat Guru…

Guess you guys haven’t seen Ben Treynor’s orange P1 decked out with teeth in the grille for Halloween...

Really good harness + short seatbelt tether + carabiner + SUV cargo tie down = has been fairly safe for my dog so far without any accidents

I’d like to add an article to your constitutional amendment making it a federal crime for anyone selling a vehicle to check the wrong box under ‘transmission type’.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been enraged when I find a unicorn car with a manual trans in great condition on Autotrader, only to look at the…

I was on jury duty a few years ago in DC and we had to go through TSA-like security every time we went in the courthouse. The guards would ask me to take a sip of my drink every time I came back from lunch. Seems legit to me.

On the other hand, if I was bringing in poison to kill someone, I guess I’d have to take that…

So you’re saying that loose tweets no longer sink fleets??

The article and pictures give no size or relative scale of the vehicle. The shape and size look very similar to the BMW X6, which is an SUV (or SAV, stupid BMW...)

Right, but the training explicitly says that telling someone when a carrier is leaving the dock and what ports you’ll be stopping at on your cruise are huge no-no’s. But then the Navy does exactly that, basically broadcasting to the world every time a ship is in it’s most vulnerable state.

Since when has SUV meant body-on-frame construction? Nobody called my Cherokee a crossover. And after having a lifted one, then sitting in a stock height XJ, it might as well have been a ‘tall car with larger tires’.

Coulda fooled me with that ride height and side profile. They don’t give any indication of the size or class comparisons, so judging by the wheel size, it appears to be between the Q5 and Q7 in my eyes.

I tend to agree with you here. And working for the Navy, they make sure to reiterate that fact every year with a stupid, long OPSEC training course.
But then they post on FB every time a carrier or sub comes back into port, or arrives at a foreign port, or is near any sort of point of interest.

I’ll tell you exactly what happens. You max out your credit card getting the engine rebuilt. And you don’t skimp on it because the car already had an aftermarket built engine, so you might as well build it back to where it was, maybe even stronger. Then you start to hate the car because you’ve been dumping a ton of…