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Was gonna give you grief about moving to an IFS, but then thought- oh, wait...I’m on the gx forum. I’d also be a hypocrite, given my gx gets a ton more wheeling then my solid axle rig.Knowing that the 200 series is essentially dead and all but very few are sold, I went ahead and did a thing.......
I got caught in the winter blast in NE Texas last night coming back from a weekend of goose/duck hunting in Arkansas. I ended up doing 20-30 mph on roads that I normally run 75-80 mph on for over four hours, it turned a normal nine hour trip into a 13.5 hour ordeal real quick lol. I have never had to go around so many downed trees and spun out vehicles in my life and I lived in the direct path of the eye of Hurricane Harvey lol. It's crazy how quickly an average winter storm can get out of control in an area that isn't equipped with the gear necessary to properly prep roads prior to such an event.
I was grateful to have such a capable and readily stocked vehicle to get through the weather and tackle the road conditions with ease while so many others were stranded or wrecked out on the side of the road. I have never had the Nitto Ridge Grapplers in snow and ice and after driving them through 5-6 hours of driven heavy, wet snow last night I can honestly say that they work quite well in that mess. My hunting partner who rode with me spent the majority of his life in Maryland and Pennsylvania and even he was blown away by the weather and road conditions.
A few pics taken on main highways along the way last night.
I was hoping we'd get a little bit of that in the DFW area, but it only flurried for a short while with no accumulation north of Dallas.
Just gotta love the capabilities of our GX's! The reason I love the GX's over 4x4 trucks is the All-Wheel-Drive. When you're driving in and out of that stuff, you don't need to worry about constantly putting it into 4 wheel high and taking it out again as soon as you hit clear pavement.I got caught in the winter blast in NE Texas last night coming back from a weekend of goose/duck hunting in Arkansas. I ended up doing 20-30 mph on roads that I normally run 75-80 mph on for over four hours, it turned a normal nine hour trip into a 13.5 hour ordeal real quick lol. I have never had to go around so many downed trees and spun out vehicles in my life and I lived in the direct path of the eye of Hurricane Harvey lol. It's crazy how quickly an average winter storm can get out of control in an area that isn't equipped with the gear necessary to properly prep roads prior to such an event.
I was grateful to have such a capable and readily stocked vehicle to get through the weather and tackle the road conditions with ease while so many others were stranded or wrecked out on the side of the road. I have never had the Nitto Ridge Grapplers in snow and ice and after driving them through 5-6 hours of driven heavy, wet snow last night I can honestly say that they work quite well in that mess. My hunting partner who rode with me spent the majority of his life in Maryland and Pennsylvania and even he was blown away by the weather and road conditions.
A few pics taken on main highways along the way last night.
Where are you at Gio?I was hoping we'd get a little bit of that in the DFW area, but it only flurried for a short while with no accumulation north of Dallas.
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I hate that the Expo1 doesn't have an integrated hitch, leaving the OEM hitch is a clearance issue and I'm not a fan. Dobinon's isn't bad but it doesn't have an integrated hitch either and I don't care for how the spare sits outboard of the side of the GX. If forced to pick one today it'd likely be the LFD like @Washingtontaco ordered, my only complaint with it is the body line at the rear. There's something for me to nitpick on all of them but hey, if we are spending $3K+ we have the right to be picky IMHO.
Stand by, LFDs pictures are not the greatest. I plan to install mine prior to powder coating, see if any issues then off to powder coating.
Yep, no way is that bumper acceptable. I've been relaying this to information to LFD so this is not an issue from theirs. For top dollar I want bolt on, no Prado problems.
