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    Dangerous Situations

    I was actually more interested in events incidents situations that you have experienced here at home. USA I used to travel in Mexico quite a bit and witnessed 1 shoot out in the 80s between rivals, a car chase after the Tecate to Ensenada bike ride. And was searched at gunpoint it a surf...
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    Dangerous Situations

    I too had a similar question and have not heard a thing in response but we know it happens just look at recent news
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    2020 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 3.0L EcoDiesel

    Wow Lots of opinions but who of you is driving a jl? I am and have driven jeeps all my life since my first 1977 golden eagle 304 v8 cj7. The jkur was light years ahead of the tj and the jkur is light years beyond that. I had to add a 4 inch lift to run 315 70 17 on my jkur admittedly it...
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    Carrying Gas and Water cans on JKU w/ Smittybilt Atlas tire carrier

    Would love to see an overview picture with the smiity built carrier and both cans
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    Can the iPad really be used as an out-of-signal range, off-road GPS device?

    As I have said in the past until some company developers stable enough hardware with large enough memory to allow us to wander ( I too wander it’s on the side of my Jeep and my screen name on many a site) the software will be limited. Gaia I hear works great on apple but less so on android so...
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    Can the iPad really be used as an out-of-signal range, off-road GPS device?

    I come back to the same question how much memory is enough for the wester USA say Colorado and west.? I have this. Crazy fantasy that one day I am just going to take off and I know not where. Just go. For that day I would like to have as much asi can in terms of detailed. Coverage. Itriedthis...
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    06 100-series to 20 JLUR?

    Are you referring to the land cruiser Volvo or Jeep?
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    06 100-series to 20 JLUR?

    Not directly but I have owned both I had a 2000 cruiser 100 series lifted with 33s arb front bumper warn 10 k winch custom side rails 1.5 inch heavy duty steel tubing that ran from the arb bull bar to custom rock sliders and a swing away tire carrier. The other Aussie company. Name escapes...
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    Show off you Laptop/Tablet/GPS mounts please

    what app are you running? is it Gaia? Also how much memory does your ipad have and have you been able to reload large areas ? the 9.7 size seems like the perfext size > I am toying with usingthe grab hadle bolt to mount mine> Some day.
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    Can the iPad really be used as an out-of-signal range, off-road GPS device?

    So what iPad do you recommend for covering as much area as possible At as a large a scale as say zoom 15. If I understand it needs to have cell capabilities not just wifi? I see that you can get 512 gig and up to a tb but the prices are pushing a 1000 Thoughts?it seems like ltwould be less...
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    Hema vs Gaia

    Howard. You have come the closest to answering my queries about downloading maps I bought an android tablet. And a 128 gig micro sd chip then proceeded to download large areas of the west at a zoom level 15 the file sizes were 300 000 tiles or more and the first couple of downloads looked...
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    Garmin Overlander

    As I recall the Baja and the larger chartplotter came with reasonably detailed pre loaded topo with trails. What garmin or Magellan or anyone else needs to is actually fairly simple. Take the whole USA and download all the usgs 7.5 topo maps for the entire country into the memory . Enable a...
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    Garmin Overlander

    I love the lowrances I had > I had the baja in color and 9 inch built into the center console of my chevy truck custom mount. Their stuff is so much better than Garmin.
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    Gladiator XMT

    No disagreement there
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    Gladiator XMT

    I had both a jkur and a tacoma at the same time and there is no comparison. Thejlur sets the bar even higher I have friends that run TAP. They had a really nicely set up tacoma they sold it because it couldn’t keep up with their jeeps . Don’t get me wrong the tacoma is fine truck and good for...
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