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... I'd guesstimate that 80% of the vehicles that get stuck in the sand and need help to get out are 4wd Brodozers..

Well, if 95% of the vehicles on the beach are brodozers, then that statistic isn't a surprise. Just keeping it logical.

What's really funny is the tire style on brodozers is derived from a big trend in Hawaii....they put tall and skinnies on wider rims and over inflate to get floater tires for the sand there.

mndsm wrote: What's really funny is the tire style on brodozers is derived from a big trend in Hawaii....they put tall and skinnies on wider rims and over inflate to get floater tires for the sand there.

Wouldn't you want wide tires on narrower rims and underinflated for sand?

EvanB wrote:

mndsm wrote: What's really funny is the tire style on brodozers is derived from a big trend in Hawaii....they put tall and skinnies on wider rims and over inflate to get floater tires for the sand there.

Wouldn't you want wide tires on narrower rims and underinflated for sand?

Either tactic works. But you need bigger power to move big tires, and most of the trucks are old sr5 toyotas with 22rs.

Chadeux wrote:

That doesn't look all that high and they were kind enough to keep the wheels under the wheel wells.

These are seen by the dozen on I-15 by me with wider wheels, rock guards and bumpers, and no flaps. Sometimes slightly higher, never see the desert and the bumper sits at head height on my stock ride height Mazda 3. That makes me nervous.

Stancebros are easy enough to avoid and if they hit me it's in the crash protected areas. One of these hits me it's a high speed small overlap crash test.

I like cars where form follows function. The other way around is a something to prove lifestyle. Luckily they're also easy enough to avoid in a highway situation. I'd hate to get plowed into by one at a stoplight though.

I have this to say: he's going to wreck, cause a huge internet uproar that gets media attention. And then the lawmakers start cracking down on anyone with lowered suspension.

So we good (and safe) car people get beat with a stick by Johnny Law all because some hipster wants to get his rocks off to "hellafrush wheels, mang"

Chadeux wrote: For some reason I can't get /that/ mad at the brodozer crowd because frankly I think this is cool.

That makes my pants tight. That's a M1008 CUCV. 6.2L diesel, Turbo 400, Dana 60, GM 14 bolt with 4.10's and with that snorkel it can wade about 6' of water. That thing is awesome.

In reply to Bobzilla:

That one had an LSA in it at the time that picture was taken. Since then I think it got bigger tires on and a 4L80E/Atlas II combo, then it got parted out for other projects.

Chadeux wrote: In reply to Bobzilla: That one had an LSA in it at the time that picture was taken. Since then I think it got bigger tires on and a 4L80E/Atlas II combo, then it got parted out for other projects.

ok< NEVERMIND. You just killed it.

While this grumpy old guy thinks the whole stance thing is really stupid , I don't see any plate on the Miata. If he "built" it that way for shows and trailers it around I could care less if it's unsafe.If I were to see it being driven on the road I'd blow by and get well away from it. Each to his own.

No trouble with it not like it could go fast enough to hurt anyone except the owners pride.

Seriously get the right trailer for it though.

I cannot go back to a normal trailer after using one.

I have done dumber things with cars. We just did not have the internet to advertise it.

RealMiniParker wrote:

ebonyandivory wrote: What a good revenge tactic for the shiny happy person that tries to kill you with rolling black clouds of smoke? (Besides a .357 through the back window)

I've seriously considered packing some of this in my bike, for the next douchenozzle that rolls coal on me.

If you could puncture the can and toss it in the cab like shaving cream that would be awesome. Or bear spray.

But, a hand full of paintballs and big ball bearings thrown over your shoulder when you speed away would be just as awesome. The paintballs are just there so they can't follow you after you smash the piss out of the window and hood

In reply to Huckleberry:

I'd be happy if I could flatten one of his $300 tires and watch him try to get home on the spare.

Huckleberry wrote:

RealMiniParker wrote:

ebonyandivory wrote: What a good revenge tactic for the shiny happy person that tries to kill you with rolling black clouds of smoke? (Besides a .357 through the back window)

I've seriously considered packing some of this in my bike, for the next douchenozzle that rolls coal on me.

If you could puncture the can and toss it in the cab like shaving cream that would be awesome. Or bear spray. But, a hand full of paintballs and big ball bearings thrown over your shoulder when you speed away would be just as awesome. The paintballs are just there so they can't follow you after you smash the piss out of the window and hood

Firecracker, decent fuse, bed of thr truck. It would be like demolition man.

Huckleberry wrote:

RealMiniParker wrote:

ebonyandivory wrote: What a good revenge tactic for the shiny happy person that tries to kill you with rolling black clouds of smoke? (Besides a .357 through the back window)

I've seriously considered packing some of this in my bike, for the next douchenozzle that rolls coal on me.

If you could puncture the can and toss it in the cab like shaving cream that would be awesome. Or bear spray. But, a hand full of paintballs and big ball bearings thrown over your shoulder when you speed away would be just as awesome. The paintballs are just there so they can't follow you after you smash the piss out of the window and hood

Based on the behavior of coal rolling rednecks, I would guess he means bicycle...

Wouldn't be so bad if those 1st 2 were bagged. I've seen cars and trucks that look fairly normal, a little lower than stock when driving but when parked and the air released from the bags then it looks like that. If not then they are dangerous and I don't want to share the road with them.

In reply to ProDarwin:

No. Harley bagger. I'd follow them to their destination and discretely fill their exhaust with the Stuff.

Cheetos. Fill the exhaust with Cheetos. So when they start it up, Things get cheesy.

RealMiniParker wrote: In reply to ProDarwin: No. Harley bagger. I'd follow them to their destination and discretely fill their exhaust with the Stuff.

Color me surprised. I thought they only rolled coal when passing bicyclists, "hippies" (hybrids), and smaller foreign cars.

In reply to ProDarwin:

Happens to me on the motorcycle a lot- I usually just throw them one of these:

kb58 wrote: I'll add my vote for "do whatever you want with your own car as long as it doesn't endanger others on the road." These do.

Thre's a theory that they are endangering others, but is there any actual stats on how many people they've injured or killed? I mean, 33,000 people died last year on the roads and most of them were drunk or the victims of drunk drivers. Are stance kids actually killing people or are people like you just making that up as an excuse to hate something that is not done to your taste?

In reply to Chris_V:

The point where I decided stanced cars with 20 degrees of camber were blatantly unsafe was when I watched an Accord like that make a turn out of a gas station on a rainy day. He was doing no more than 10 mph as he made the left turn across a 4 lane (plus center turn) road and lost the rear end due to almost no contact patch (and no grip), coming within inches of slamming it into a garbage truck.

I don't know about them killing people, but I can tell you, people want to kill them when they come to a complete stop in the middle of a busy road to take 2 minutes easing over a speedbump, or dart across in front of you to make a left, then hold up 2 lanes of oncoming traffic while they negotiate a curb cut that wouldn't give a skateboard trouble, or swerve randomly into your lane to avoid a manhole cover, etc... Nobody needs that crap, and it makes collisions much more likely, even if they don't actually lose control because of the idiotic suspension.