weak New York!

[GreatWhite]

went to new york this week and there were lifted truck population was pretty poor the whole time I was there an unleaded superduty and an avalanche ( sorta a truck ) and neither was spectacular

 

[daniel3507]

crazy new yorkers. I was in South Carolina for a week over the summer and only saw maybe 3 lifted anythings. I figured I would be seeing a lot more there. Hell every time i go somewhere here i see at least 3

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

a new yorker driving a 4x4 in the snow...........

Now thats freakin scary!

 

[frankserrano]

i lived in upstate new york for 10 years so i think i might know a bit about the trucks there. sadly enough, very few are lifted but the majority of them are 4x4's. my cousin, for instance, has two badass trucks, 2002 chevy HD with the 6.0 and a 2000 chevy 2500 with a 454 big block, both 4x4 and both with absolutely no lift.

i'm in the works of convincing him to jack the HD up

 

[WNY964x4]

what part of NY did you go to , because around me lifted trucks are a dime a dozen

 

[WNY964x4]

a new yorker driving a 4x4 in the snow...........

Now thats freakin scary!

i do all the time , but i live where we get 4 feet of snow in 2 days , there is a reason we have a plow truck

 

[JohnnyO]

Depends where you were in NY. NYC, not much need for a lifted truck or truck of any kind.
Upstate snow belt, and I used to live in Watertown, you really don't want a lifted truck or you'll just flip it that much easier on the snow and ice. Conventional wisdom there is that smaller trucks like Rangers and half-tons go better in the snow than heavier 3/4 and 1 tons. Less overall weight to haul up a hill or provide extra momentum to send you off the road and into the ditch. Also most everybody Upstate is a farmer and a lifted truck just means you've got to lift crap that much higher to get it in the truck. They just don't have much use for it.
The only thing that ever stopped me was visibility, never traction. Sometimes you literally cannot see much past the edge of the hood in broad daylight, or at least at much daylight as there is in a blizzard.

 

[WNY964x4]

Depends where you were in NY. NYC, not much need for a lifted truck or truck of any kind.
Upstate snow belt, and I used to live in Watertown, you really don't want a lifted truck or you'll just flip it that much easier on the snow and ice. Conventional wisdom there is that smaller trucks like Rangers and half-tons go better in the snow than heavier 3/4 and 1 tons. Less overall weight to haul up a hill or provide extra momentum to send you off the road and into the ditch. Also most everybody Upstate is a farmer and a lifted truck just means you've got to lift crap that much higher to get it in the truck. They just don't have much use for it.
The only thing that ever stopped me was visibility, never traction. Sometimes you literally cannot see much past the edge of the hood in broad daylight, or at least at much daylight as there is in a blizzard.

yea , i live up by buffalo , and most of the lifted trucks around here are either show trucks or mud boggers that only come out when the weather is good , and never see much road use , and yea , most guys around here daily drive ranger's , half ton's , or jeeps and the like , and i have only ever been stopped by visibility too , and usuall that is only when you cannot see your hand in front of your face , other than that , just drive , i get a kick out of driving in PA or any state south of here during the winter , 4 inches of snow on the ground and everyone is all in one lane doin like 40 , as i cruise by at 60 laughin.

 

[JohnnyO]

Yeah, we don't get as much snow here and people aren't quite as used to driving in it plus they have a definite aversion to buying actual snow tires. That said, PA isn't a walk in the park either because there are more hills than in NY and in my opinion we get more ice here.
In Upstate NY it doesn't get warm enough to melt the snow and turn it to ice whereas here the temp usually fluctuates between 25* and 35* and you get ice all the friggin' time.

 

[Jason]

PA is a cake walk really. We use salt that melts the shit on the roads, for the day at least. then it freezes overnight. I drive to Warren to load all the time and the roads are magically better once I pass that "Welcome to Pennsylvania" sign on 62.

 

[chittybangbang]

From wiki:Lake-effect snows on the Tug Hill Plateau (east of Lake Ontario) can frequently set the daily records for snowfall in the United States. Syracuse, New York is directly south of the Tug Hill Plateau and receives significant lake-effect snow from Lake Ontario, averaging 115.6 inches (294 cm) of snow a year, which is enough snowfall to often be considered one of the "snowiest" large cities in America.[10][11] The communities of Redfield in Oswego County and Montague and North Osceola in Lewis County, all on the Tug Hill Plateau, average over 300 inches (760 cm) of snow a winter.[12] In February, 2007, a prolonged lake-effect snow event left 141 inches (360 cm) of snow on the Tug Hill Plateau.[13]
Central New Yorkers know how to drive in the snow.

a new yorker driving a 4x4 in the snow...........

Now thats freakin scary!

Can you locate NY on a map?

Depends where you were in NY. NYC, not much need for a lifted truck or truck of any kind.
Upstate snow belt, and I used to live in Watertown, you really don't want a lifted truck or you'll just flip it that much easier on the snow and ice. Conventional wisdom there is that smaller trucks like Rangers and half-tons go better in the snow than heavier 3/4 and 1 tons. Less overall weight to haul up a hill or provide extra momentum to send you off the road and into the ditch. Also most everybody Upstate is a farmer and a lifted truck just means you've got to lift crap that much higher to get it in the truck. They just don't have much use for it.
The only thing that ever stopped me was visibility, never traction. Sometimes you literally cannot see much past the edge of the hood in broad daylight, or at least at much daylight as there is in a blizzard.

Ditto ...what he said

 

[koda6966]

I know about 30 people with lifted trucks, and regularly see another 50 or so on my weekly commute. You were in the wrong part of NY.

Oh, and there's a lifted BII that I always see parked at Walmart in Norwich. Wonder if they're a member on here.

 

[Mark_88]

I saw one today...guy was doing his laundry...an F450 club cab lifted about 10 inches...

I thought...geez, glad I don't have THAT much laundry to do...

 

[WNY964x4]

this is oswego after the october storm of 2006 , i think that was 2 days of snow

oswego and that area gets it the worst

 

[wrecking-crew]

this is oswego after the october storm of 2006 , i think that was 2 days of snow

oswego and that area gets it the worst

damn. ive havent seen that much snow in my whole life