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    No quarell with your member statistics. My point is actual performance versus expectations. Our trucks are a fifteen plus year old design. Old SUV technology . I think VX's suffer from not looking old, but in fact are practically antiques. Expecting 21st century ride characteristics may not be realistic?

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    I have to totally agree with Sue. I understand that its a truck and won't feel or drive like my Izusu Axiom for example. But my real truck (stock Chevy) is able to negotiate nasty, bumpy, washboard roads with little or no impact on the coffee cup between my legs. Even though I account for the short wheel base of the VX and try to drive accordingly, its a 5 mile an hour (or less) creeping along drive. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this vehicle is either mis-engineered or intended for paved road use only.
    Last edited by Maddawg : 09/29/2012 at 06:58 AM
    3" suspension lift, shocks: Rancho 9000, tires 33"x11.5", wheels 16"x8", offset= 0, no front sway bar

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maddawg View Post
    ... no impact on the coffee cup between my legs.
    Darwin much???
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

    Put a smiley after you say that Bub.

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    Sorry Tom, that one's over my head. (Charles Darwin?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
    Darwin much???
    Quote Originally Posted by Maddawg View Post
    Sorry Tom, that one's over my head. (Charles Darwin?)
    possibly about having hot coffee between youz boyz thighs...and decreasing chance for reproducing yungun's maybe? ya know Darwin's "survival of the fittest"...er, um, I mean dumbest....
    Don't know if it's over our head or just under Tom's? ....
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    Hahahahah, never would have got that without your help Kat! But I think its cold that hurts the little swimmers, not heat. Either way its not pleasant.

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    Y'all think too much.

    Riding around in any car with a scalding hot beveridge in a flimsy cup in close proximity to such a sensitive manly organ is not a sign of being a mental giant.

    Doing it in a vehicle with the bumpity ride quality of the VX ... that's just Darwin Award material right there.



    There's the smilies for ya so you know I'm just rattlin yer cage. After all I'm the one that had to learn the hard way that you should never, ever, ever, never, ever hit a basketball with a baseball bat (KAT - hubby can tell you what the theoretical outcome would be).

    But at least I'm NOT the one who tried to use my shoulder as a wheel chock.

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    Nope, it's the heat. That's why they hang, man. "Ya gotta keep 'em separated!"

    Also, easiest way for a dude to tell if he's running a fever is when they're like dragging on the floor.

    And there's today's bio lesson. ;-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vendetta View Post
    Nope, it's the heat. That's why they hang, man. "Ya gotta keep 'em separated!"

    Also, easiest way for a dude to tell if he's running a fever is when they're like dragging on the floor.

    And there's today's bio lesson. ;-)
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    Yup, it's the heat...that's mostly why I don't have any kids....first hubby had hardly any swimmers........oops, that might be TMI....

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    How the heck did 2 different threads degenerate into the same conversation at the same time???

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
    How the heck did 2 different threads degenerate into the same conversation at the same time???
    it's what we do....

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    Geeee, and all I said was.................lol.

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    There's the problem ....


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    I needed a good laugh.

    This conversation... just nuts.


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    Quote Originally Posted by RickOKC View Post
    I needed a good laugh.

    This conversation... just nuts.
    I see what you did there.

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