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ChooChooMan74
Explorer
Mar 28, 2014

Posts about weight got me thinking (RANT of sorts)

The title says it all. I hear so many people saying "you will be over", "you need a truck with a V8", "You can't tow with that size vehicle". This is especially true to a newbie, trying to get into ...
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fla-gypsy
Explorer
Mar 28, 2014
Being overweight doesn't mean you will encounter a tragic, catastrophic failure, it means that you have increased the risk of having one. The tricky part is you cannot calculate what that risk is easily. Without a doubt it will have an impact on the vehicle of some type in safety performance, maintenance cost and service life.

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