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Alrighty here i have a rant about huge ass tires. On another site a guy is talking about getting 49" Swampers (the new IROKS, and honestly 38s are BIG). Now i must ask, whats the point?! Isnt the point of a truck the ability to load it up to or beyond capcity whith gravel dirt lumber what ever, and tow trailers? Doest something like that take that ablility away? And i let em know how i feel about this too. Imagine if this guy lost controll of this rig and hit something small like one of us. I personally ,like having a chance of surviving a wreck. And if people can run the Rubicon trail in stock Mitsubishi Monteros and Isuzu Troopers theres realy no point in a tire bigger than 33s is there? If you get stuck in the mud thats why you go whith a buddy and have a tow strap or a winch. I just dont get it! Well anyway what do you guys have to say about this?

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

It's the same here too. I have seen 44's on a Suzuki Samari. To those guys tires are like horsepower, can't ever have to much. Never mind the truck won't turn the tires over, even in the mud. Or hit a good bump in the road and fall over.

come on man.........every truck person likes there trucks a different way.It the same with all car people no such this as tires to tall or to wide{pro streeters},to much horsepower,to loud,to flashy,to low.Just relax,take a deep breath,now drink a beer.lol

I like 35" tires, maximum. Any bigger is too big to me. But the point of the huge tires is for ground clearance. Why? I guess so they can drive across the river w/o getting their carpet wet.

But there are a lot of LUVs here that can no longer function as a practical truck. Their trailer toting & gravel hauling days are long gone. But they are cool none the less. Its all about personal taste. Some guys like 'em sitting high in the sky, some like 'em fast.

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'46 Studebaker truck "project"
'90 Trooper 4X4, 2.6L 5 spd

I fully agree with you guys. When I was in the market for a new truck, I definetly wanted a Superduty. So I started looking around, and this one guy had a big jacked up 4x4 Crew cab, with 38's about 12 inches of lift, etc. Nice truck and I would have bought it from him...but, when I went to pop the tailgate down, I had to reach UP, and the damn thing was chest level when its was down. I got thinking, how am I supposed to put anything back here, like a quad, or a toolbox?! Its pointless to even think about having these kind of trucks for any work purposes. Unless your 8 feet tall! After that i quit considering jacked up trucks for my purposes, and considered all of them "TOYS" Because thats what they are anyways....Ended up buying a F-350 crew cab 4x4, with training wheels, sooner have that then a jacked up truck anyways

i like big lifted pickups. 44's are to big for me, ut i like 38's and 40's. yes, there is a BIG difference in 40's and 44's. my ford will have 38's on it, and it wont be for the mud, for hauling stuff, or any of that, it will be my eye candy, and it will be my awsome looking toy that i will drive to and from school in, and do som burnouts and stuff. everybody has their own opinion, if every man on earth were the same, it would be hell on one woman.

my biggest problem whith huge tires is accedent safety(i dont care what other people do whith thier stuff, only when i think it threatens the safety of myself and others). If one of the 49" clad truck were to hit a LUV or worse a familly in a Honda i doubt they will walk away. Thats my beef. I understand the practiclity of alot of trucks goes whith mods but whith a truck on 35s you can still load it down if you have to, same whith a lowered truck.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

i was thinkin maybe those big tires could double as floats...alls you gotta do is hang a outboard from ur hitch and u dont even need to pull a boat anymore

Maybe they are compinsating for something

when i worked at the tire store i could never understand why a lot of guys buy swampers. Then jack their truck up and i never saw any mud whatsoever. I guess they just like the vibration goin down the road and replacing tires fast. like you said eye candy, I just couldnt afford to do that. But their was a few that came in with a lifted f 350 with mud on them
i would just buy a luv or toyota and lift it and put 33's on it and trick it out a lil and call it good thats just what i think

well i run 28" swampers on my LUV whith a 2" lift and it does everything i whant it to. And the most important thing to me, if i hit somebody ill meet them at the bumper, or if its a lowered import ill still meet them at the trunk lid or they will meet my bumper whith thier hood/headlights.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

i see some trucks in the four wheeler magazine that have huge tires on them, but they are off road trucks only. i see safety issues too. i would not want to be involved in a wreck with a truck with 40 somethin inch tires on it. it would probably end up like a monster truck ralley. the truck would hop on top of my truck and keep going.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

"A man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt a man doing it."

i dont have a problem whith them being towed(but i still dont see the point), its when one of these is on the road i have a problem whith it. Even whith all that wieght on a trailer, it wont roll over a luv or small car.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

i can see your concerns about safty, but magine what a big rig with 105,500 gross vehicle weight can do to you, it will smash you like a pancake. i heard a storie just today of the bearings in a outboard drum log truck wearing out, and allowing the dual wheel setup, and the drum to fall off and roll down the road. it passed the truck, and hit the back of a small pickup, jumped into the bed, adn then over the roof onto the hood adn kept rolling. it dont have to be a big rig either, a guy in a stock ford f-250 fell asleep this summer and drove across the highway and into my sisters little mazda pickup, and it killed her.

they are all deadly, it all depends upon the equipment being operated, and most importantly, whose behind the wheel.

everything does have that deadly potiontial. But modifying a truck that much makes the safty features of both vehicles useless.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

Ya know, they always have to make up for something that they are deficient or insecure about.

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More LUV than one man could ever need - Spread the LUV!
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I just laugh because I know that without some crazy low gears or lots of torque, they aren't going anywhere in the mud or out on the trail. I see lots of that around here on toyota, which are kinda gutless with stock tires on, then they have 36's or bigger. Basically it makes their trucks completely worthless. AND it only looks good on some trucks, and up to a certain point. Too big and it looks stupid. Especially if they have to cut the fenders up to make the tires fit without rubbing.

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No LUV anymore, but still in the GM truck family. Running a lifted 2002 Silverado Z-71!

i know alot of guys thaty run K-5s on 38s and my luv will go better than them on trails. Big mudpits they have to go through, where as me i can cut off the trail and weave through the trees and go around or just skim along the edge of the pit. Then theres breakage, all the full sized guys are always fixing thier rigs. Me im still running on original motor mounts and steering linkages! And i can still follow them, i just have to be creative whith lines. Thats why im not big on big trucks...

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

i luv my little luv! it has surprised the hell out of me were it will go. but, it looks like a little lowrider, and all of the guys at my school have big chevys and toyotas. i know a guy who has a ford pickup with 40's that still has the 4.10's. v8's can pull the tires easy, but yes, the breakage factor is much larger. mepr, yes i can go were all of the big rigs can, (if it takes going around it) but half of the fun is going through it. i like the looks of big tires on big rigs, but, my luv will do good for me.