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10 year driver, but just joined TB

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by ColoTB » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:13 pm

Guess this is my introduction!

My wife came home with a 2006 TB program car with about 15k miles on it 10 years ago and 210k miles later it's still treating us well. We had just moved to Dallas and I didn't see us ever driving it off road and we haven't until the last year. I honestly never thought of my TB as a off road capable vehicle, just a nice SUV for getting around that had 4x4 if it was ever need for snowy roads and such.

I found the site while doing a simple search for the largest tires that will fit on my stock TB. In Dallas, we rarely even used 4x4, but my wife and I moved from Texas to Colorado last year and just spent our first winter living in the mountains above Boulder (8400 ft). It's been quite the winter with 3 different storms dumping over 2 ft of snow on us all the while riding on great tires for driving around Dallas, but not so good for our new home and we were too broke to get new tires put on after moving up here. Luckily I have experience driving off-road or those tires would have really made it tough.

I've not done anything other than general maintenance in the 10 years we've owned our TB and don't know how much I will end up doing to it (it does have 210k miles). However since I'm wanting something about the same size that I can sleep in while camping on the weekend it's great to see the options out there as I was dead set on getting a older Cherokee to drive. I'm now thinking of sticking it out in the TB until it just dies. Right now it is our only vehicle and we drive 10 miles, 3k feet of altitude change back and forth to work every day. It's 6 miles of decently paved road and 4 miles of dirty, muddy, snowy, pot hole, washer board, rutted out road. I'm still surprised we've only been stuck once but the wife decided she wanted to just randomly drive into the 4 foot pile of snow on the side of the road. I've even taken it down a nice off-road trail new where we moved to and was surprised at how well it did.

Anyway that's my introduction. I don't see myself doing a whole build out on our old TB, but who know, I just might change my mind. After driving a 74 Bronco for 8 years, I know how the itch comes right after the bite and new tires might lead to new wheels, new bumber, lift, lights...etc.

And of course a picture from this last weekend after 33 inches of "spring showers".
TB SNOW.jpg


And at work Monday as the snow melted off.
TBintown.jpg
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by HARDTRAILZ » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:23 pm

Welcome to the fray
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by PROSPHOTO » Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:19 pm

Welcome from another noob to the site
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by Cable810 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:26 am

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by DirtyBacon04 » Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:26 am

That's a lot of snow... I just moved to Oregon, but everyone says I missed the heavy snowfall. Not quite looking forward to it.
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