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who says rangers cant tow?


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the issue isnt so much towing- but getting stopped. Its all good until you need to stop quick. Then its bad-real bad.
 

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the issue isnt so much towing- but getting stopped. Its all good until you need to stop quick. Then its bad-real bad.
The brakes on that trailer don't have any issues stopping that ranger....or the truck on the trailer....three of those trucks.
 

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Those big red wheels are DUMB, they deserved to be pulled over for buying them in the first place let alone for all of the stuff they actually got pulled over for... For someone that doesn't use a truck they might look "cool" but that truck is nearly useless...
 

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So I watched the vidgya.....



This explains some things.


About....minsootuh.
 

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I'd rather them play with towing random things they shouldn't like that than "build" trucks like that F350... building junk like that makes people want junk like that and I'm tired of looking at it... I'm getting older and my tastes are changing a little but if I have something it has to be practical in some form, there has to be some type of reasoning behind it... I do all sorts of dumb stuff but spending cubic money to make a truck useless is dumb...

Ok, I don't know why it irritates me, maybe it's just me striving to apply logic to things?

Me I'm just hoping they did hook up the brakes to that mess, I'm with Bobby on this, as long as they have brakes that trailer will stop that load and the truck in front of it be it a Yugo or a Ranger...
 

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I'd rather them play with towing random things they shouldn't like that than "build" trucks like that F350... building junk like that makes people want junk like that and I'm tired of looking at it... I'm getting older and my tastes are changing a little but if I have something it has to be practical in some form, there has to be some type of reasoning behind it... I do all sorts of dumb stuff but spending cubic money to make a truck useless is dumb...

Ok, I don't know why it irritates me, maybe it's just me striving to apply logic to things?

Me I'm just hoping they did hook up the brakes to that mess, I'm with Bobby on this, as long as they have brakes that trailer will stop that load and the truck in front of it be it a Yugo or a Ranger...
ok honestly the height that truck sets is perfect for squeezing some big ol boggers under it and stop giving a damn about the paint and how sparkly it is.
 

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yeah, like 44-46" boggers on 17" wheels and now we're talking, then it could actually be used for something... as it is it's just a crappy tow rig that's only usable in the summer on dry days on pavement...
 

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yeah, like 44-46" boggers on 17" wheels and now we're talking, then it could actually be used for something... as it is it's just a crappy tow rig that's only usable in the summer on dry days on pavement...
Ive never understood the whole "massive rim wrapped in a rubber band" trend. A 16 inch rim is plenty big enough for anything.

Theres actually a video on youtube somewhere of a F350 diesel on some sort of those idiotic rims that the rim center actually blew out of cause it couldnt handle the weight.

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This IMO is about the perfect rim to rubber ratio.
 

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Ive never understood the whole "massive rim wrapped in a rubber band" trend. A 16 inch rim is plenty big enough for anything.

Theres actually a video on youtube somewhere of a F350 diesel on some sort of those idiotic rims that the rim center actually blew out of cause it couldnt handle the weight.

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This IMO is about the perfect rim to rubber ratio.
modern brakes don't fit in anything less than 17" wheels, that's why they've become the baseline
 

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