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Originally Posted by BlackCloud
Damage to equipment in use is ok. Take every reasonable precaution, but sometimes you lose that knife, a crampon rips your pants, a marmot bites a hole in your tent, and a branch falls on the T4R.
What is totally unacceptable is some self obsessed ass clown who dings your door in the parking lot.
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So much this.
I'm also a bit of a car car nerd, in terms of washing/polishing/waxing/etc.
I come from sports cars, and mine were driven on time attack style tracks, and they weren't 'track cars'.
You're gonna get some rock chips. You're gonna get some rubber streaks, and if you're over confident you might get some more if you slide off track. The same is true of a 4Runner/Jeep/Tacoma/whatevs.
We buy these things not to be museum pieces, but because they're a tool to engage in a hobby, but that doesn't mean you just #SendIt into a stand of hawthorne trees like a clown. A 2 stage polish session, a good coat of wax, and a porter cable will keep bringing it back to like new in a TON of cases. Unless it's a black one, and then may god have mercy on your soul...
However, if you ding my fu&#ing door in the Costco parking lot I will drag your car into a ditch filled with farm runoff...
