were those tires run at low pressure on highway...looks like heat failure honestly.
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i had them at 25-35psi, anything more made for a very rough ride, They had alot of repairs by me, all the local tire shops didnt want to mess with em even stroble in Sville before they shutdown.... for what they are ill purchase another Set if i ever had the $ ..... and they are REgrooveable....
look at tthe sky (SE) around 6:35 tomorrow (Mon.) am to see 5 planets in line. First time in 11 years.
Venus should be the brightest, also Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter.All with any aid, although I like to use a pair of Binoculars
Venus should be the brightest, also Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter.All with any aid, although I like to use a pair of Binoculars
So, Truck Norris, my F350, was stolen over the weekend.
We were in Columbia for a youth church basketball tourney, staying at a Hilton Garden Inn next to Columbiana Mall. I Woke up at 6AM Sat, went down for coffee and to get my iPad out of truck to read ih8mud - BAM ! my truck was gone.
Notified the Columbia police, made a report.... Tried to track my truck down on the Viper Alarm....but I didn't have the GPS module installed. My son suggested I use 'Find My IPhone' GENIOUS ! to find the iPad. Tracked my iPad to a hotel 7 miles away, called the po-po back, told them where my iPad was at 330AM - and drove over to the site to meet them.
All the while, I had been setting the alarm off in panic mode, starting and stopping the truck with remote start, trying to alert anyone who might be wondering why the truck was going bixerk.
Found my truck, lost the drivers door lock :
Stereo had been removed,
And my iPad was gone also. Didn't take the radar detector, the CB, the spare change - or the $400 Yeti in the back of the truck.
I guess stealing my truck was cheaper -for them - than paying for a cab ride home.
I solved the case, and determines either Yogi or Smokey - the bear - stole my stereo and iPad. Had to be a bear, since the Yeti proved again to be bear proof. True story.
We were in Columbia for a youth church basketball tourney, staying at a Hilton Garden Inn next to Columbiana Mall. I Woke up at 6AM Sat, went down for coffee and to get my iPad out of truck to read ih8mud - BAM ! my truck was gone.
Notified the Columbia police, made a report.... Tried to track my truck down on the Viper Alarm....but I didn't have the GPS module installed. My son suggested I use 'Find My IPhone' GENIOUS ! to find the iPad. Tracked my iPad to a hotel 7 miles away, called the po-po back, told them where my iPad was at 330AM - and drove over to the site to meet them.
All the while, I had been setting the alarm off in panic mode, starting and stopping the truck with remote start, trying to alert anyone who might be wondering why the truck was going bixerk.
Found my truck, lost the drivers door lock :
Stereo had been removed,
And my iPad was gone also. Didn't take the radar detector, the CB, the spare change - or the $400 Yeti in the back of the truck.
I guess stealing my truck was cheaper -for them - than paying for a cab ride home.
I solved the case, and determines either Yogi or Smokey - the bear - stole my stereo and iPad. Had to be a bear, since the Yeti proved again to be bear proof. True story.
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Man, sorry to hear... Glad to know you got it back, though. So are you allowed to upgrade to a super fancy new double DIN stereo with all the fixin's or are you going to put a stock one back in? Single DIN stereo + Single DIN CB? It was very considerate of them to not cut your stereo wires. Hopefully they just wipe your iPad and reload it - I always panic at the thought of someone having access to my account information. Did you wipe your iPad remotely?So, Truck Norris, my F350, was stolen over the weekend.
We were in Columbia for a youth church basketball tourney, staying at a Hilton Garden Inn next to Columbiana Mall. I Woke up at 6AM Sat, went down for coffee and to get my iPad out of truck to read ih8mud - BAM ! my truck was gone.
Notified the Columbia police, made a report.... Tried to track my truck down on the Viper Alarm....but I didn't have the GPS module installed. My son suggested I use 'Find My IPhone' GENIOUS ! to find the iPad. Tracked my iPad to a hotel 7 miles away, called the po-po back, told them where my iPad was at 330AM - and drove over to the site to meet them.
All the while, I had been setting the alarm off in panic mode, starting and stopping the truck with remote start, trying to alert anyone who might be wondering why the truck was going bixerk.
Found my truck, lost the drivers door lock :
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Stereo had been removed,
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And my iPad was gone also. Didn't take the radar detector, the CB, the spare change - or the $400 Yeti in the back of the truck.
I guess stealing my truck was cheaper -for them - than paying for a cab ride home.
I solved the case, and determines either Yogi or Smokey - the bear - stole my stereo and iPad. Had to be a bear, since the Yeti proved again to be bear proof. True story.
G Man is a genius, BTW.
Door lock HAMOM?
Erik, did the police check the video surveillance at either hotel? Can you continue tracking your iPad? Sorry to hear, that sucks.
Wow! Not Truck Norris! I would keep an eye out for that iPad on find my iPhone. If it shows up on there you can send an alert tone and display a message. A nice F U would work. You can also wipe it if that would make you feel better but obviously you have to have cellular or have it connected to wifi which they cant do if it's password protected.
Bastards man. Did they just drill out that lock? Didn't look like a rookie job...
Bastards man. Did they just drill out that lock? Didn't look like a rookie job...
I have the stock head unit in the attic; I could put that in or :
I could replace the Pioneer Nav unit with their new Flagship head unit, the 8100NEX..
I am leaning toward the latter...
Ipad was wiped after I recovered the truck and found the iPad was gone. I picked up an iPad Pro today, and restored from the cloud. It was a forced upgrade...really. @Beau Diddly - once I initiated the iPad erase, I lost the ability to track it. Not that I ever expected it to come back online, anyway. And if it did, I didn't want t risk having someone process any of my personal data.Neither the Hilton Garden Inn (stolen from here), nor the Embassy Suites (dropped off next to) have outside cameras. The Extend-a-Stay, $79 / night - no questions asked - actually DOES have cameras, and the detective was going to review them today. He had 3 grand thefts from over the weekend that he was working.
Nah, drilling takes too long and makes noise. Took a half inch punch, and one whack-a-mole with the hammer and then reach in and push the rod up that operates the door lock. MY MISTAKE was having the alarm in 'valet mode' - which only locks the truck, but did not activate the Viper Alarm. THAT was an expensive life lesson.
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THAT SUCKS!!! At least they didn't push it into a pond or light it on fire or something!!
WOW...glad that you got it back, even if it is damaged...could have been much worse.
Way to go G-man
Way to go G-man
ExPo with a nice tribute to the Defender, which is officially out of production.
We Pay Tribute to the Land Rover Defender on Its Final Day of Production
I know they're not Cruisers, but I wouldn't mind having a Defender in the fleet.
We Pay Tribute to the Land Rover Defender on Its Final Day of Production
I know they're not Cruisers, but I wouldn't mind having a Defender in the fleet.
Good article Kyle, thanks for sharing. I've always liked the Defender, in fact I saw an old white one on a flatbed truck this afternoon, westbound on I-26. When they turned their back on the US market in the mid-90s, I don't know who I blame more, the DOT or Land Rover.
In some respects, you could make the case the LC died with the FJ. The 200 has more in common with the Range Rover than it does with older more capable LC. I'm sure a Toyota PR dude would tell us there's no market for a rugged 4x4 in the US. Speaking from experience, Jeep reliability is in the toilet, so why do they dominate the market that Toyota would say doesn't exist? Marketing, and they do a good job of it. There's no competition, no Bronco, Blazer, LC, nor Pathfinder. If the TRD brand team marketed their pick-ups and a real LC as Toyota reliable and capable, they would own Jeep. I'll get off the soap-box now, sorry.
The Defenders are cool, but if I were to cheat on my LC, it would be with a G-Wagon (late 80s, early 90s).
What makes the 200 less capable? You could probably drive one around the world with nothing more than AT tires and winch.
Same with a Range Rover. In fact there's a pretty good video of some RRs taking on the trans America trail.
The 200 is less capable out of the box because of its size, width mostly. Terrible approach and departure angles due to low lying body moldings.
It actually has more in common with an escalade than a RR. A RR by comparison is much smaller and still retains great approach and departure angles.
A RR or G-Wagen would destroy a 200 on most trails except wide open ones. I go back to the UK once every few years and normally pick up the 4x4 mags over there. Every year they do their top 10 4x4 and every year my grandma sends me the issue. one a few years ago had the cruiser dead last or close to it against the others. Mostly due to width and departure angles. Their tests are hill climb, hill decent, approach angle, departure angle, wading depth, squeeze test.... between a narrow portion of the trail. It scored last in just about everything except for hill decent due to its excellent decent control system it pulled up even with the RR. Their tests are much more indepth than 4wheeler SUV of the year tests.
The others in there were Patrol, Jeep Rubicon, Defender, RR, LR3, G500 and a few others i'm forgetting.
Now this is stock and you can address the approach and departure angle with a lift and aftermarket bumpers. But not many people are going to spend money to modify a 80k vehicle they just ought. Personally if you want a 4x4 from toyota buy the 4runner and spend the extra 40k on modifying it or if you need somthing bigger the 4x4 sequoia would still give you 25k for lift, lockers, bumpers, etc..... over the 200.
That's just my 2 cents.
Toyota themselves have said they make the 200 in the US market for loyal toyota customers that have clawed their way up the payscale and now want the toyota flagship vehicle that comes with great luxury.
No where do they mention 4 wheel drive at all. In fact at every 4wheel drive show/event i've been to that toyota sponsors in some way they send a FJ Cruiser, 4runner and tundra as their demo vehicles. Never seen them send a new cruiser.
It has all the electronic gizmos to be great off road I think they just made it to large. I mean I like large vehicles but I think they went the wrong way... they should have kept the sequoia as their large vehicle and focused more on the land cruiser legend and ability out of the box. They hit the peak in 97 and since then out of the box ability has gone down. Not saying I don't like the 100. I think it is great for the mild wheeler and makes a great expo vehicle. The 200 fits into that also just, not as well as the 100 does.
It actually has more in common with an escalade than a RR. A RR by comparison is much smaller and still retains great approach and departure angles.
A RR or G-Wagen would destroy a 200 on most trails except wide open ones. I go back to the UK once every few years and normally pick up the 4x4 mags over there. Every year they do their top 10 4x4 and every year my grandma sends me the issue. one a few years ago had the cruiser dead last or close to it against the others. Mostly due to width and departure angles. Their tests are hill climb, hill decent, approach angle, departure angle, wading depth, squeeze test.... between a narrow portion of the trail. It scored last in just about everything except for hill decent due to its excellent decent control system it pulled up even with the RR. Their tests are much more indepth than 4wheeler SUV of the year tests.
The others in there were Patrol, Jeep Rubicon, Defender, RR, LR3, G500 and a few others i'm forgetting.
Now this is stock and you can address the approach and departure angle with a lift and aftermarket bumpers. But not many people are going to spend money to modify a 80k vehicle they just ought. Personally if you want a 4x4 from toyota buy the 4runner and spend the extra 40k on modifying it or if you need somthing bigger the 4x4 sequoia would still give you 25k for lift, lockers, bumpers, etc..... over the 200.
That's just my 2 cents.
Toyota themselves have said they make the 200 in the US market for loyal toyota customers that have clawed their way up the payscale and now want the toyota flagship vehicle that comes with great luxury.
No where do they mention 4 wheel drive at all. In fact at every 4wheel drive show/event i've been to that toyota sponsors in some way they send a FJ Cruiser, 4runner and tundra as their demo vehicles. Never seen them send a new cruiser.
It has all the electronic gizmos to be great off road I think they just made it to large. I mean I like large vehicles but I think they went the wrong way... they should have kept the sequoia as their large vehicle and focused more on the land cruiser legend and ability out of the box. They hit the peak in 97 and since then out of the box ability has gone down. Not saying I don't like the 100. I think it is great for the mild wheeler and makes a great expo vehicle. The 200 fits into that also just, not as well as the 100 does.
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This belongs on @ErikinSC 's rig: Toyoda " Yoda Inside " Funny - Chrome Automotive License Plate Frame
If not dead, on life support, then they pulled the plug with the 200. Kyle, I don't feel the 200 is an inadequate 4WD, in fact it's still has Toyota dependability, but the design has migrated toward wealthy soccer moms and away from it's iconic roots.
Jeep has 6 models covering every spectrum of off-road rigs, trail ready to mall ready. The LC and TRD brand team seems to have been in some identity crisis and have turned their back on the original intent of the LC, rather than as Al mentioned, allowed the Sequoia to be the Escalade. At least when LR killed the Defender, they kept the LR3.
Good summary Al, you said it better than I could.
And don't get me wrong... there is nothing wrong with buying and owning a 200 if that is your cup of tea.
If I was going to buy a new SUV for off roading and overlanding it would go.
LR4
G500
4 door rubicon
no real order there. But anyone of them is a great platform right off the back.
Now I also don't hate on large vehicles as my current "adventure" vehicle is a diesel suburban. The 200 is light years ahead of it in terms of capability but it has some things going for it that make it a player.
It is very basic but I am going to have some fun with it. Learn to weld and SAS build some bumpers and sliders, NV4500 swap, rack etc....... and really push the limits of such a large vehicle. Mostly for overlanding but I won't be afraid to take it on some hard trails and mess it up, reason is is that the thing cost me all of 1K and avter all is said and done should come in under 6k and parts and body panels can be found anywhere and dirt cheap that overcomes the shortcomings of such a large vehicle. Also Being 6'8 I need a large vehicle if I plan to build a sleeping platform for the back of it.
It will also be used as my tow vehicle for my 40 series or mini truck build I have had on my mind.
And one day I will get another 80 followed by a volvo C304
If I was going to buy a new SUV for off roading and overlanding it would go.
LR4
G500
4 door rubicon
no real order there. But anyone of them is a great platform right off the back.
Now I also don't hate on large vehicles as my current "adventure" vehicle is a diesel suburban. The 200 is light years ahead of it in terms of capability but it has some things going for it that make it a player.
It is very basic but I am going to have some fun with it. Learn to weld and SAS build some bumpers and sliders, NV4500 swap, rack etc....... and really push the limits of such a large vehicle. Mostly for overlanding but I won't be afraid to take it on some hard trails and mess it up, reason is is that the thing cost me all of 1K and avter all is said and done should come in under 6k and parts and body panels can be found anywhere and dirt cheap that overcomes the shortcomings of such a large vehicle. Also Being 6'8 I need a large vehicle if I plan to build a sleeping platform for the back of it.
It will also be used as my tow vehicle for my 40 series or mini truck build I have had on my mind.
And one day I will get another 80 followed by a volvo C304
@Beau Diddly @lt1fire
Good convo and view points. I've been really interested int the 200 build that cruiser outfitters is doing on ExPo, but I see your points on the 200 and how it's being marketed. Toyota is all in on the 4Runner being their off road savvy SUV at this point. I often find myself how the 70 series would fair in this market, but can't wrap my head around where it fits into the line up.
Good convo and view points. I've been really interested int the 200 build that cruiser outfitters is doing on ExPo, but I see your points on the 200 and how it's being marketed. Toyota is all in on the 4Runner being their off road savvy SUV at this point. I often find myself how the 70 series would fair in this market, but can't wrap my head around where it fits into the line up.