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"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2) 04/24/2019 at 18:57 • Filed to: Mud, Vermont, Spring

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Want a better understanding of why I don’t have a Fiesta ST any more?

Watch this not-too-short, but also not-super-long (but admittedly quite boring) video I made today of my drive back from the local O’Reill y A uto P arts store...

The 2019 Hyundai Kona Limited has 6.7 inches of ground clearance (the lowest point is the rear control arm brackets , and is metal, not plastic) , vs. the 2014 FieSTa’s 5.3 inches (plastic, plastic, plastic and charge-pip ing).

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 19:52

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I think I understand  brodozers now.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 04/24/2019 at 20:12

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brodozers wouldn’t go near the mud

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 04/24/2019 at 20:22

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La rgely because they hover 8 feet above it and take a week and a half to detail.

smobgirl > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 20:34

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The parking lot at my dog’s kennel looks like those dirt roads. It requires some serious navigation skills in the Fiat. 

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 20:40

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Looks like Michigan roads.  one of the reasons my focus is so beat to shit  my poor struts are about done in   

TheRealBicycleBuck > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 21:11

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I used  to live down roads like that. It’s part of living in the country.

pip bip - choose Corrour > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 21:24

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interesting.

compared to our roads, yours are bad

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/24/2019 at 22:18

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The United States has terrible roads in general, but in most rural places they are really bad. Especially the parts of the country where there are four real seasons. Our gas may be super cheap compared to most , but that’ s because our fuel taxes aren’t nearly high enough to fully fund highway maintenance.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/24/2019 at 22:21

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W hen I was a kid I lived on a road like these, but then I moved to a metropolitan area and bought the FieSTa... then when I moved back out to the country I was rudely reminded why no one on my road growing up had a sports car.

HammerheadFistpunch > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 22:35

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You need a lifted powerwagon.  

pip bip - choose Corrour > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/24/2019 at 22:36

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we have high fuel taxes and still have crap roads. higher fuel taxes won’t solve the issue alone

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > HammerheadFistpunch 04/24/2019 at 22:43

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you’re right. I mean, not bec au se of these roads, just on principle...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/24/2019 at 22:44

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no, you’re right it won’t solve it , but if there were funding to pay for needed repairs, that’d be a step in the right direction.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/25/2019 at 07:29

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Laughs at your Kona’s ground clearance:

Honestly, you don’t so much need ground clearance for roads like that as you do small wheels+big sidewalls, something both the Fiesta and Kona lack.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/25/2019 at 07:30

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It’s not like they actually use the fuel tax for highway maintenance anyway...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 04/25/2019 at 12:35

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Except that I put 15" wheels on the Fiesta - both winter and summer- , and will be ditching the 18s for 16" -steelies on the Kona for winter and putting some UHP summers on the factory 18s. The spoke design of the factory wheels on the Kona traps snow and are a pain to get cleaned out, leading to constant wheel unbalance whenever the snow is more than 2-inches deep. Even with taller sidewalls the FieSTa was murderously uncomfortable on those bumps, to the point that the left side-skirt shook itself loose. Also, the extra two+ inches of GC in the Kona (and AWD) are the difference between getting stuck in the mud bog 50-feet after leaving my driveway, or just cringing at sound of the undercarriage scraping.