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Old January 31st, 2008, 01:30 AM   #4101
 
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Can someone from the East Coast clue me on this shit? If you did that around here in the Midwest, it doesn't matter that you are a buffed out Mr tough guy, you would get your ass beaten senseless on principles alone.
as far as i can tell this is how it went:

youth of italian decent primaraly in the tristate area were looking for somone to look up to somone with style and power a beacon of light in their dulll drab world of unpopped collars and normal hairstyles



and then growing up gotti came on television care of A&E



and those italian youth decided they would act exactly like and try to look like the gotti kids because hey they are the son's of a famous gangster so they had to be cool

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Fuck you A&E fuck you
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The H2 is fairly competent offroad.
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Old January 31st, 2008, 05:19 AM   #4105
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Right, as the above picture demonstrates.... Oh, wait...
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In most terrain, but with a weight of 4 tons and all terrain tires, you aren't going far in mud like that.
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That kind of mud requires deep-cut, off-road tires.
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Even the front of the thing was bogging down, you can see part of the front bumper laying on the bonnet.
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Dropping any vehicle on one of it's tie rods will disable it.
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For that kind of mud, you need one of these

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Almost as competent as the X3 eh?
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Yeah as long as you stay out of deep mud/sand because it is too heavy and stay off of big off camber rocks because the chassis and tie rods are too weak.

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It's not just the tie rods. The steering knuckles have a bad habit of splitting in half. It was on the news in SF a year or two ago. A woman in her H2 bumped a post in a drive-thru, the impact cracked her steering knuckle and her front tire came off! In a bloody drive-thru! The impact could not have been more than a couple miles per hour.

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