My wife used to get a little frustrated with how much time I spend wrenching on the LX, but she was sure glad I did when the LX performed flawlessly on our way home to Layton, UT and Coeur d’ Alene, ID for Christmas break 2008. We ended up hitting a major blizzard just outside of Sydney, NE on I-80. It was a complete whiteout and we couldn’t even see the reflector side markers at the side of the road. The freeway was closed at Evanston, WY, so we gassed up in Little America and made a detour up through Kemmerer, WY, over to Bear Lake and down into Logan, UT on snow packed roads. When we hit Brigham City there was a 20+ car pileup on I-15, so we were even further delayed on our trip home. In all, the LX was running for 27+ hours straight with the exception of a few gas stops!
Last spring I decided I just had to get a set of 315/75R16 Coopers for my birthday. I had been pretty impressed with the performance of the Coopers in the snow, ice, mud, rock, and the street so I decided to stick with them for another round. The night of my birthday a drunk in a stolen classic car ended up crashing into the LX in our parking lot. I had grown tired of scraping the stock hitch on trails and I needed a place to store my 315 spare so I called up Luke at 4x4Labs and ordered one of his dual swingout bumpers. I also contacted Mike at Bump It Offroad and ordered a set of his tube slides. I picked up the sliders in Greeley on my way home to UT for the summer and Luke shipped the bumper to UT. I highly recommend both of these vendors. Both were great guys to work with and they make a high quality product.
