As someone who likes to do my own car maintenance, those high hoods look like hell. I’m average height and I’d probably need a damn stepladder to change the oil.
It is also funny when people lift their work trucks, landscapers do this a lot.
I will always have a memory of me at the dump with a tiny 90s toyota pickup bed full of heavy brush wrestling with it next to a landscaper with a lifted dodge ram who was doing the same thing but every single thing they lifted they had to reach up and into the bed of their truck as opposed to me where I just picked the awkward bundles of brush up at a comfortable waist level…
I will never not find it hilarious that bros are always lifting their trucks to go offroad too and yet in terms of offroad capability the most important thing for clearance is the differentials (“pumpkins”) on the axles which can get easily smashed… and lifting your truck doesn’t change the height of those…
So now your allignment is probably fucked, who knows how breaking mechanics have changed at highway speed!? your suspension is no longer set up for the vehicle you have because you changed it… and you have taken a machine thousands of people very carefully set up to make it work nicely together and jacked a random variable way off that erases all of that and messes with systems in the vehicle you can’t even begin to predict off the top of your head.
edit oh yeah and the single most important thing about technical offroading beyond the basic requirements in suspension and drivetrain is the length of the wheelbase of the vehicle, long wheelbase vehicles are fundamentally severely limited offroad because they constantly bottom out, so modern large pickup trucks fail atrociously at the offroad step on design principles alone. A short wheelbase 2 door jeep wrangler is infinitely superior offroad to a long wheelbase pickup.
It also makes it so if you hit an old lady at 17mph the hood hits her in the upper chest or head and kills her instantly vs. a normal car that would hit her at the waist non-fatally and scoop her up unto the hood.
I am so tired of people driving these murder machines, they also tend to speed in them and these are the absolute worst vehicles to speed in both for the survival of the driver (some of these trucks like Ford F250s, the roof was made super light to reduce rollover risk in safety tests which means the roof doesn’t survive rollovers) and everyone else around them.
literally this weekend I saw an accident where a tiny Karen in a lifted F150 hit a cement curb of boulevard at 60km/hr, ripping off the front suspension. I was first on scene, she said she didn’t see the boulevard.
I’m sure she’ll sort it out with the road’s manager.
Oh yeah I can’t imagine how difficult maintenance would be with such a tall engine bay. I also like to do my own maintenance, very easy on a car like mine.
As someone who likes to do my own car maintenance, those high hoods look like hell. I’m average height and I’d probably need a damn stepladder to change the oil.
Stepladders are now common in service centres.
There is no engineering reason those hoods have to be so high. Buyers like the road intimidation effect that screams, PAYLOAD. HURRRRRR.
It is also funny when people lift their work trucks, landscapers do this a lot.
I will always have a memory of me at the dump with a tiny 90s toyota pickup bed full of heavy brush wrestling with it next to a landscaper with a lifted dodge ram who was doing the same thing but every single thing they lifted they had to reach up and into the bed of their truck as opposed to me where I just picked the awkward bundles of brush up at a comfortable waist level…
I will never not find it hilarious that bros are always lifting their trucks to go offroad too and yet in terms of offroad capability the most important thing for clearance is the differentials (“pumpkins”) on the axles which can get easily smashed… and lifting your truck doesn’t change the height of those…
So now your allignment is probably fucked, who knows how breaking mechanics have changed at highway speed!? your suspension is no longer set up for the vehicle you have because you changed it… and you have taken a machine thousands of people very carefully set up to make it work nicely together and jacked a random variable way off that erases all of that and messes with systems in the vehicle you can’t even begin to predict off the top of your head.
edit oh yeah and the single most important thing about technical offroading beyond the basic requirements in suspension and drivetrain is the length of the wheelbase of the vehicle, long wheelbase vehicles are fundamentally severely limited offroad because they constantly bottom out, so modern large pickup trucks fail atrociously at the offroad step on design principles alone. A short wheelbase 2 door jeep wrangler is infinitely superior offroad to a long wheelbase pickup.
It also makes it so if you hit an old lady at 17mph the hood hits her in the upper chest or head and kills her instantly vs. a normal car that would hit her at the waist non-fatally and scoop her up unto the hood.
I am so tired of people driving these murder machines, they also tend to speed in them and these are the absolute worst vehicles to speed in both for the survival of the driver (some of these trucks like Ford F250s, the roof was made super light to reduce rollover risk in safety tests which means the roof doesn’t survive rollovers) and everyone else around them.
literally this weekend I saw an accident where a tiny Karen in a lifted F150 hit a cement curb of boulevard at 60km/hr, ripping off the front suspension. I was first on scene, she said she didn’t see the boulevard.
I’m sure she’ll sort it out with the road’s manager.
Oh yeah I can’t imagine how difficult maintenance would be with such a tall engine bay. I also like to do my own maintenance, very easy on a car like mine.