Commuting in a "bro truck" /rant

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Pavement queens... that is a good one.

The best way to describe them is:
POSER
"a person who acts in an affected manner in order to impress others. synonyms: exhibitionist, poseur, posturer, fake;
informal show-off

If they are faking it in their trucks, they are faking it elsewhere.

Hey, if you are an accountant that drives a F150 so that you look handy, same problem.
 
I do find it hilarious when there's a massive lift on a Silverado 1500, with 37" tires, then when he passes by you see that tiny little axle underneath that's just screaming for its life because it's about to die under all that stress of the big tires. And they use 10" blocks under the leaf springs as a lift, a fake lift.
 
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
I do find it hilarious when there's a massive lift on a Silverado 1500, with 37" tires, then when he passes by you see that tiny little axle underneath that's just screaming for its life because it's about to die under all that stress of the big tires. And they use 10" blocks under the leaf springs as a lift, a fake lift.


I noticed that on the 1500s and some 2500s, they have some rear axle housing that looks like a Fox Body Mustang would spin the tubes loose. A friend of mine had a 02-03 4.8L 2wd 1500 and it looked like the rear end housing was from a SRW 3500 but with 6 lug axles.
 
Originally Posted By: hatt
I drove all over town today. Did not see one jacked up pickup on flotation tires with a stack in the bed. I may have seen a Superduty on 37s. But they may have been smaller, it's hard to tell. I did see a bunch of Earth killing pollution machines flying around for Sun and Fun. Who need an airplane anyway?



Excellent point about planes. I will also add cargo freighters. Between ships and planes they pollute exponentially more than every passenger vehicle on earth. Even if everyone drove a bro truck. Yet people cringe when VW had some high NoX emissions on their cheaTDIs. That freighter that brought your japanese hybrid over was belching out pure pollution burning bunker fuel the whole way.
 
Full Disclosure: This is the closest thing to a Bro Truck i have ever owned

It was a very nice 6MT laramie ram on stock suspension and 255/85/16 BFG MTs. It had insanely good off road traction since my tires were skinny. I pulled someone out that a tractor could not recover. It still got low 20s in fuel economy since i didn't go with super wide tires. I really wish i kept that truck but i sold it to get out of the payments that were rather high for my income at the time.
 
Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
What this threads shows pretty clearly is just how many nutcases we have on BITOG that should be minding their own business.
"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? "


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Originally Posted By: MCompact
Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
What this threads shows pretty clearly is just how many nutcases we have on BITOG that should be minding their own business.
"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? "


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I can't F&*&ing see it b/c of the bozo's lights in the lifted truck in my rearview!!!
 
Originally Posted By: dareo
Full Disclosure: This is the closest thing to a Bro Truck i have ever owned

It was a very nice 6MT laramie ram on stock suspension and 255/85/16 BFG MTs. It had insanely good off road traction since my tires were skinny. I pulled someone out that a tractor could not recover. It still got low 20s in fuel economy since i didn't go with super wide tires. I really wish i kept that truck but i sold it to get out of the payments that were rather high for my income at the time.


The tires are too narrow. There isn't enough lift. There aren't 10'' stacks coming out of the bed. There is no carbon on the fender from it puking out black smoke.
 
I got pulled over in that blue cummins and the cop gave me a fix it ticket for lack of mud flaps. He said it was lifted and therefore had to have mudflaps, i said, no this is exactly bone stock. "Your tires are big and wide" No officer these tires are only 255 wide, the original truck is 265 wide. I eventually beat the ticket.

It never rolled any coal, in fact i had a smarty tuner set to max fuel economy. It still cost $150 to fill up at the time. I hit the CC limit at the pump of $125 and had to go in and pay again to get more diesel. I had a third of my income going into that truck and its nearly $5 a gallon diesel fuel.
 
If it doesn't raise the bumper height for safety reason, and the driver isn't driving like a lunatic (cutting people, rolling coal, etc), I have no problem with what other people drive.
 
The practice of people modifying their (insert toy, appliance, tool, house, computer, whatever - in this case "truck") to suit their personal taste, desire and/or requirements is as old as the day is long. Other's "rants," dislikes or problems with it are as well. They rationalize some reason it's wrong and go about their business with their jealousy unwittingly sated until the next thing somebody does to annoy their little mind.
 
My main dislike with the bro truck is rolling coal. I don't like the idea of insufficient air to properly burn the injected fuel.
The styling isn't to my taste, but neither is the idea of having a supercharger sticking through the hood, or being so low you bottom out everywhere, but aesthetics are personal choices which is why we wear different clothes.

Taste is too subjective to be right or wrong, but practicality is easily measured, and when you lift yr suspension to the point that yu have to climb up the front wheel to get in the car you're doing something wrong..
 
It comes down to wanted to get laid. They think (and sometimes it works) that the big truck will attract women. Same with a flashy sports car, air-bagged Civic vibrating from bass, etc. "Look at me" = please look how cool I am and want to talk to me.
Some guys grow out of that phase, or come to realize that you don't attract a well-qualified mate in that way.

but when you're young and dumb, who cares
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It is nothing to do with jealousy at least for me. Its more of me seeing a perfectly nice vehicle ruined by horrible modifications. Thats how i feel when i see a really nice new truck super lifted to uselessness. Or any number of other horrible modifications.

Now if you have a nice car/truck with some good performance enhancing functional modifications i am very happy to see that and happy for its owner.

I just cringe seeing good vehicles getting butchered by what someone thinks is actually a good idea.
 
Sounds like jealousy. Who cares what someone does with a vehicle. Especially a new vehicle. It's an appliance. I may could see if it were a classic, rare, or historically significant vehicle someone was butchering. Your idea of horrible, ruined, useless, etc is different than someone else. I think high end sport cars/supercars being owned by 80 year olds doing 10 under the speed limit at all times is a waste. But whatever.
 
Just to add to the rant, why is it that police will ignore the Bro trucks with obvious and numerous major safety and environmental regulations while they pull over every grandma and grandpa with a cracked tail light? I have witnessed this in action on my street. One summer some yahoos kept parking their jacked up truck with a bed full of empty beer cans, along with several lieing around the truck. That vehicle parked like that for weeks, while other normal cars were ticketed and towed for being parked slightly illegally right next to the truck. Every morning I would go pick up the cans where they had been parked the night before.
 
The thing I don't understand, having a friend who owns a modified and lifted diesel truck, is the money wasted.

He does not use his truck for "truck things" so he could own a really nice car for the money he spends on repairs. He has been through a few transmissions, major engine and suspension work, etc. For all the money he spent he could be in a really nice BMW M5 or other car that at the end of the day still looks nice and doesn't handle like a brick. His truck is actually uncomfortable to ride in the suspension is so stiff and the performance built transmission has hard jarring shifts.
 
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