Recall done, Not road worthy

[MattF]

Didn't the brand new Hilux pickup fail the elk test? What chance has any older Surf (or any 90's SUV) got with much more weight higher up than a pickup?

Drive to the car your driving.

Exactly. No matter how many times this subject comes up though, they ne'er listen. They think the vehicle is the safety factor. The muppets should have their licenses revoked.

[MattF]

Matt tends to slither or stomp, never steam.

Is that good or bad?

[JUDWAK]

i agree
some dudes must think ARB
stands for
a
removable
bar





























just watch out for a deer running out on you

[TonyN]

just watch out for a deer running out on you

Any deer running out on me will be in the freezer inside 1/2 hour. Why swerve?

ARB's stand for lack of flex offroad, bin them and get stiffer longer shocks.

[Albannach]

Its really not that hard to change a set of pads on a surf, 10 mins with a haynes manual is perfectly adequate.

I don't mind folk changing pads, it's when they start stripping down braking systems and then posting 'How do I put it back together?' type questions that annoys me. Even changing pads has its dangers; how many amateurs will have run out into the road, or into a wall, or into someone because they didn't know to 'settle' (or whatever their particular colloquialism is) the pads after fitting them?

Even the ARB argument that's going on here, most folk don't seem to understand why it's there in the first place never mind understand what it's doing.

If you don't trust someone to do that, how do you trust them to be able to drive properly? thats much harder.

I don't trust anyone, full stop!

[JUDWAK]

iam nutts about off roading
but safety first
iam not the only one to ride in my truck i may be the only driver
and dont ever want to lose even a bit of on road handleing
there for i would rather keep my ARB's on
and kill em in the name of off roading





i have only ever ran 2 birds over and i had no choise
i have hit trees cars walls bushs hedges but never a animal
given no chance to hit eather the dog walker or the dog
sorry mate i know its not right but i would hit the walker
i have ploud through a hedge coz a cat ran in from of me
iam a big softy when it come to animals








watch out for a deer running out on ya tho

[TonyN]

I don't trust anyone, full stop!

I knew you where going to say that.

[biosurf]

Any deer running out on me will be in the freezer inside 1/2 hour. Why swerve?

finally the voice of reason.

[Albannach]

I knew you where going to say that.

[wishbone]

[QUOTE=Albannach;528552]You don't have to see anyone else mention it, I'd only be self-proclaimed if I wasn't actually qualified.

QUOTE]

Ok I see where you're coming from now.

Rob.

[Cant Get Right]

I hit a pheasant today, damn thing broke my aireal





























No deer about though

[adpsimpson]

I hit a pheasant today, damn thing broke my aireal

with your ARBs removed? lucky you didn't roll, eh?

(I'll go climb back under my rock now!)

[Gaspode]

I hit a pheasant today, damn thing broke my aireal






No deer about though

I work for Royal Mail, the rural drivers often come back with a brace of Pheasants, they must be the dumbest birds ever, they just look at the van as its coming towards them, you would have though natural selection would have done its work and made the survivors more car-savvy, but no, so much for Darwin..



As for animals, I wont swerve for any of em, I do brake tho, but the deer I killed just leapt out before I could do anything, if it had been a second later it would have run into the passenger door or the wing, hope someone made use of it!






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[yoshie]

I wrote a reply 8 pages back, but deleted as I couldn't be arsed with the whole arb debate again. Where has the "plane on a belt" nights went, this whole forum has became a tad anal of late.

[adpsimpson]

you would have though natural selection would have done its work and made the survivors more car-savvy, but no, so much for Darwin..

They're not wild though - they don't even breed outside captivity. They're introduced as chicks, fed for a year, then shot. So smart or not, they're not going to last out the year. Unlike hedgehogs, which apparently now more often run away from danger instead of curling up.