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I worked in a modern water testing facility in the lab for many years. Bottled water has far lower requirements than municipal water. We use to test stuff occasionally for fun. One popular bottled water had rat turds in it. We tested a few more got the same results. Fiji water is owned by the...

LoL USCG moved the load ratings up to 180lbs per person a few yrs ago. I think it was 160 prior to that. All the COVID work from home hours ie having less commute time and more time to eat healthier and work out my house lost over 50lbs. Wife has started going back and is shocked how much weight...

Your in Oregon. I’d go heat tape and pads. You’ll end up using them enough to be glad you did it. Can’t do it before the trip cooler with water in it. Winterize the Dweller system.

Yes often does site analysis. I asked her whats the typical bad situation. High speed, leaving the road to miss slowing traffic she said is a common one with bad roll overs. Getting off onto a road shoulder at speed, inexperienced driver turns back tward the road at speed and game over.

I met a gal that has her own crash analysis company. Her number one pet peeve is heavily loaded roof racks. She runs physics simulations on various types of typical setups especially for bad roll over wrecks. She really doesn’t like large roof boxes on SUVs especially the extra long versions...

The reason for the torsion bar is they found these long travel independent suspension trailers actually tow pretty poorly on the highway. Lots of talk about better shocks ie promaster van shocks improve things but don’t change the cause. I noticed the sway bar also and figured someone in the US...

My place is literally end of road canyon housing area 12 miles from the highway and not a drive thru location you just pass thru between point A and B. Also rare we have our own PD. I have a creek that runs behind my place and under our street between my place and my neighbors which creates a...

He doesn’t have a 4runner hence his question about it.

I bet there are 20 more they haven’t busted yet.

Having looked at the internals my self they are basically made side by side one gets 12v stuff the other gets 120v stuff. Would be interesting to look at the compressor to see if its the same and simply swapping out the power brick would it make 120v, a 12v fridge. ?

Pretty much every truck and SUV maxes out RAWR before reaching max gross weight when your hauling stuff or trailers. The bandaid weight distribution hitches can only lever so much by forcing the trailer and truck to act as a single stiff platform before you run into trailer axle rating issues...

Different countries also have different crash testing standards. A US spec Tacoma, GM Canyon, Ford Ranger gets a different frame which definitely has a crash fuse in the frame at the back of the cab. Not counting suspension differences which definitely change load carrying ability. The frames on...

The factory tires are typically a special tire thats more or less - less expensive and made so in production. If you don’t want to take a hit on on pavement performance ie mileage, noise, ride quality etc. There are hybrid AT tires now that fill that gap between highway tire and full on heavy...

Just a non traditional small builder RV market observation. Last month Taxa started doing manufactures rebates up to $1000 on the Mantis and less$ on smaller trailers. Today they are at $2000. This is a builder that sells typically to above average income house holds. Sorta the middle ground...

Apparently 4runners are magical and passengers weigh nothing there for have no impact on load capacity ??— per recent 4runner owner diatribe on another OPs thread asking for vehicle ideas for a full time Airstream plan.

Taxa is now upping the factory discounts $2000 on Mantis lower $ on smaller units. This is a small non Indiana/ non Thor builder viewed as being semi modern and bought by 20-40yr olds typically with sizable above average income. Its an interesting yard stick to watch Taxa pricing games as they...

Stealth Overlander has always been a thing. Those of us doing it are just good at it and never get called out by SEMA or articles on the front cover.?

Driving style 100% plays a big factor. My 4.7 is still on its original equipment. However a few throttle jockey buddies have gone through them like full sized Snicker bars on Halloween. High exhaust heat is what does them in, add that the 4.7 is easy to rev high rpms and you have perfect combo...

The headers get blown from running it hard and hot. The LC’s were prone to this as were the Sequoias when driven hard

Its ok let him load up his family that apparently weigh nothing then max out his tow rating it will be fine. I bet he runs after market over sized tires at factory door sticker PSI too because thats what the sticker says.