I know a guy running the Goodyears on an XJ, I’ll ask him what he thinks and reply back here in a few hours.

Video is fascinating, btw. I still worry about heat build up with the distance, but short range low speed, it makes sense.

The not airing down thing has two reasons: A: The tires grip well enough I haven’t felt it necessary even on pretty smooth rock and just like lockers I don’t start doing special things until I feel I have to. And B: I haven’t had a puncture issue yet.

Cooper AT3's are the best wet weather AT tire for pavement driving you will find IMO. I had Bridgestone Dueler Alenzas H/T’s on the TLC when I bought it, ABS would chatter away in the wet. 3 months before I shipped the truck to East Africa, I put AT3's on, ABS system still functioned but no ABS except on extreme panic…

I know that while a company like Volvo has prioritized safety as a key differentiating factor of the cars they sell, the reality is that plenty of other people make perfectly safe cars.

Not true in high humidity and temps. In a jungle, you want ALL the DEET you got, since your sweat and the condensation waters it down from the first second.

In temperate climes though, I’m with you. I would even argue that anything over 30% is generally overkill unless you’re really high activity.

Not true in high humidity and temps. In a jungle, you want ALL the DEET you got, since your sweat and the…

Living in a repressive country generally means the government cares less about the people anyway, this is unsurprising. I expected it to be a little more developed world driven.

Here I personally see deathtraps daily and at least a fatality a week, all more or less enabled by a government more set on control than the…

Merica. Morons. All. Doug.

They have a different mindset from Porsche and BMW. If you can afford those options, the salesman upsells it during the ordering, or informs you that the model before you is “special.”

For Hondas and Toyotas? Yes. Daihatsu designs in particular seem to bob along for a while if you don’t open the doors. Fiats, LiFans and Ladas, not so much.

Source: Experience watching Corollas, Yaris and Vitzes being washed away down alleys and streets in African flash floods. They survive most of the time in cities,…

I could not help myself

Thanks for helping make my view of this article more Acura.

Honda did. But yours sounds just as satisfying if a little more frustrating.

No, it is terrible, as a tourist it is a novelty. As a local you are trying to fight through the happy tourists and inept or reckless other locals to get to work on a broken transportation system above or below ground. Though after living in East Africa for a while now I think I could anticipate the antics of the taxi…

Yeah, the A440 is a good transmission but IMO not worth rebuilding. I babied one along and if I had kept her longer I would have done the H55 swap. That or just pull everything and put a 4.3 V6 or 350 small block Chevy in. Damn thing was so slow that in DC when I got on the expressway I had to put the 4 ways on to…

I star you for saying the same thing I did months ago. Hopefully the same knucklehead doesn’t show up and call you a liar too because he claims he only sees TLCs and Land Rusters in his neck of the woods in the bush.

Detergents haven’t been the same since the greenies declared war on phosphates. Damn watersheds.

I have been searching for a way to describe current culture in general, worsening SA is definitely a good descriptor

In most of the world nobody drives petrol Hiluxes, they’re all diesel.

I have never seen one, not south or East of the Med at least.

Having wrenched on both models, no, not quite.