Do lifted trucks with huge swamper tires...

[myusername]

Not sure why you are asking, but if they are yours, get them siped. It will dramatically increase wet traction.

 

[jtvang125]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Well lowering your car is just jeapordizing the safety of yourself but lifting a truck is jeapordizing the saftey of others.

When that lowered car slows to a crawl on a 55mph road to go over a pea sized bump I would say that's jeopardizing me.
Also the people who raise their vehicles risk a much higher liklihood of rolling their vehicle over.

I owned a lowered car before and drove it for 5 years. This thing was pretty damn low too and never did i have to slow to a crawl over bumps or dips. Yes I did have to slow down but so did all the other cars.

We can go at this all night but I'm sure we both can agree that it's not the car that's dangerous but the person behind it.

 

[Eli]

No, less. Granted, it will depend on the tread design.. but blockier tread will make it harder to hydroplane.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: myusername
Not sure why you are asking, but if they are yours, get them siped. It will dramatically increase wet traction.

Sipes are more useful for snow. Look at full wet race tires: wide, open tread patterns to pump the water away from the contact patch.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: jtvang125

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I got rear-ended by a jacked-up toyota pickup. I'm sure lucky there was no one in my back seat b/c that stupid POS truck pushed my trunk lid through my back window and almost to the back of the front seats.

I've said it many times here and I'll say it again. Lifted trucks have no place on public roads. Cops should be pulling them over and handing them fix-it tickets. They just aren't safe.

Do you have anything but heresay to back that up? I'm sure it sounds logical, but there was also a time when SUVs were more prone to roll-overs (ford explorer) and people would still argue likewise.

I tend to agree that trucks that are intentionally lifted EXTREMELY high off the ground, much further than factory, can be dangerous. Though at the same time there are many vehicle attributes that can be dangerous. Not all vehicles are made the same nor do they have the same specifications. The only way to make it the safest is for everyone to drive nearly identicle cars with the same general specs, but that just isn't realistic.

Many trucks come from the factory very high off the ground. It's a necessity on worksites and off-road applications.

I'm talking about extreme lifts mostly. I do realize that some vehicles are a bit higher and some are lower than others.

Look at any vehicle with an extreme lift and look at where their bumper would meet up with 95% of all cars on the road in a rear end, front end or side impact collision and tell me that that's not a safety issue.

And there have been fatality accidents involving trucks with extreme lifts to back up my observations.

Ok, then I would tend to agree with you, and yes I'm sure there are accidents of the type you are talking about, but I'd like to know if there is historical data that further supports the point. It's probably hard to come by if it even exists, seeing as how it's a very specific topic.

The bumpers of most trucks and SUVs is at a height equal to the height of my head in my car. This is without any lifting at all. I don't have a problem with it generally, except how my line-of-sight is severly restricted because of these vehicles.

Now on the flip side of the coin, lowering your car is dangerous. You are lower and would suffer more in a collision. You have to slow down to a halt to turn onto any incline and your line-of-sight is even more restricted.

Well lowering your car is just jeapordizing the safety of yourself but lifting a truck is jeapordizing the saftey of others.

yup. manufacturers of even taller vehicles to atleast somewhat try to make sure that forces are directed to lower parts of the vehicles they hit no matter what the bumper cosmetically looks like it is. jacking up your vehicle totally nullifies all that. its reckless disregard for the lives of others. if any idiot is pro life or %@# religious they need to be slapped upside the head for driving on of those.