"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
08/15/2015 at 09:47 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
08/15/2015 at 09:47 • Filed to: None | 4
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I imagine it saying, “I love you thiiiiis much!” and it becomes cute instead of douchey.
crowmolly
> Rainbow
08/15/2015 at 09:54 |
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Why are towing mirrors douchey?
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Rainbow
> crowmolly
08/15/2015 at 09:57 |
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I should clarify: they’re douchey on bro trucks that are too tall to tow anything anyway. If they’re being used, they’re okay.
The picture is misleading because that’s just a normal truck, but I didn’t really look hard enough for a giant chrome behemoth.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Rainbow
08/15/2015 at 09:57 |
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The regular mirrors on trucks these days are more than massive enough for towing. These extended mirrors are just overkill to compensate for a lack of driving/towing skill.
I have personally towed trailers with a Ford Panther-based car with much smaller mirrors and I got by just fine.
They’re also a bloody nuisance for pedestrians and cyclists if someone parks one of these like that in a parking lot or on a city street.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> Rainbow
08/15/2015 at 12:01 |
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No such thing as too tall to tow. Yes, it has gussets.
DogonCrook
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
08/15/2015 at 13:41 |
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How is towing a tiny thing with a car in any way comparable to say a gooseneck horse trailer?
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> DogonCrook
08/15/2015 at 14:08 |
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It’s comparable in the sense that those ridiculously extended mirrors are way overkill in both cases.
And the Panther car in question was an older one that had a 5000 pound tow rating.
The ONLY time mirrors like that are needed is when towing a trailer *significantly* wider than the vehicle doing the towing... or if the truck has one of those in-bed RV add-ons:
Stock mirrors on most new full size trucks are already good enough for towing most trailers... even goosenecks.
KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
> Rainbow
08/15/2015 at 14:22 |
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I only extend the power extending mirrors on the Silverado when I’m actually towing a trailer. Makes spotting the trailer axles easier.
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DogonCrook
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
08/15/2015 at 14:25 |
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The thing about tools such as big trucks with wide mirrors, is even though you don’t use them all the time you are kinda fucked when you do need them and you don’t have them.
I don’t have a right side mirror and I get by just fine, please remove yours, it just makes you a lazy bad driver because you can turn your head, and it takes up sidewalk space.
spazburn
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
08/15/2015 at 18:10 |
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So How many Times have you mudded it?
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> spazburn
08/15/2015 at 18:44 |
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Not my pic. Not my truck. GIS find. Just illustrating a point. There are commercially available two-foot-drop-hitches.
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spazburn
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
08/15/2015 at 22:06 |
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Okay np. Just hit me as a Bro Truck. Kinda like SUV’s in California.
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> DogonCrook
08/15/2015 at 23:19 |
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Well I rode my bicycle today.... and using 2 wheels was just fine. So please remove 2 of the 4 wheels on your car. They’re wasteful and making you lazy!
:-)
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> spazburn
08/16/2015 at 00:38 |
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Nah, it’s totally a bro truck. I work in a national park in a bit of a redneck area. You see brodozers like these pulling campers pretty often, and it always looks ridiculous. Fifth-wheels nearly scraping the ground with the back bumpers cause the front’s up so high, the two-foot drop hitch, usually a super sketchy homebrew job... These things are pretty top heavy and roll hard going around corners... now add something resisting and slightly restricting the truck’s movement. Not to mention the turning radius is shit on these before putting another 30 feet of vehicle behind it. It does work, but barely. The flip side is that you also see minivans pulling campers or boats that are obviously waaay too big for them.