Recent content by YBstranded

I grew up in Northern Idaho driving muscle cars year round. Yeah, I'm old, but at least I know how to drive in snow. Some great advice so far. Particularly the posts that advise to soften all of your actions. No sudden movements in steering, braking, or acceleration. Sounds like you won't...

Replaced the factory rock catchers with something a little more useful for getting to the roof rack and much less likely to snag on stuff off road. They were cheap at $290 and look great. Not as good as $900 rock sliders, obviously, but will work fine for my road trip down to Arizona this...

Parked next to another 5th Gen at work that was stock except for the new rims. Mine has a 2.5" lift and Cooper Evolution MT 285s which are listed at 32.9" tall.

Did a bunch of snow driving the last day or so and the Coopers did pretty darn well for MTs. Snow started out heavy and wet and super slick and they did amazing. Drove to work and it got cold and icy and they still broke traction far later than what I was expecting. Traction control light...

I'll play and will review my previous set vs. the set I just had installed... Tire Brand: Goodyear Tire Model: Wrangler Authority Tires A/T Mile Warranty: NA Your Mileage on/out of Tires: 15,000 Load Range: E Size You Chose: 265/70R17 Dry Handling X/10: 8 Wet Handling X/10: 8 Off Road X/10...

Too bad the price on Falken Wildpeaks went up by about $30 per tire recently. I went with Coopers instead.

Just a follow-up... The manager of the Walmart that did such a horrible job ended up apologizing profusely and gave me an $80 gift card, as well as reimbursing my debit card for the $55 mounting and balancing fee. I just ordered another set of tires for the 4Runner from Walmart and will NOT...

2.5" lift and stock 265 size. Have 285s and not sure they'll fit.

The Cooper Evolution MT was on sale in LT285/70R17 on Walmart.com for $161 , so I bought some and am waiting until closer to winter to install them. My current tire is the Goodyear Wrangler Authority in stock size and they look they would be great in snow, but they are awful. Tire compound is...

I have about 7000 miles on them and they don't look like they've worn at all. Still same mild noise level and still horrible gas mileage. 17mpg average all winter. But, we never really had a winter. Weird as hell. I've driven on them in two snow storms. In Northern Idaho. Crazy. They are...

Doubled the size of my bathroom last Summer and stripped it to the studs. Love it! Dad and I did all of the work ourselves as I have remodeled a few bathrooms over the years. I think it cost me around $4k when it was all done. Next project is turning a spare bedroom into a fortified giant...

Oh, and I forgot to add that on my work receipt was a note saying that the tires would likely have rubbing issues because they were oversized. I installed the factory 265/70/17 size. Morons...

My name is YBstranded, and I'm a victim of a Walmart tire shop... I bought a set of the Goodyear Authority tires online from Walmart because a Jeep I bought used a couple of years prior came with them and I liked them. I think I paid $140 each for them. I had the tires shipped to my house and...

I sent her a naked pics of me... Eating Spam... :wacko:

Installed an Aries brush guard today. Apparently these are quite controversial, lol. I had one on my previous vehicle and they saved me from quite a bit of front end damage from road debris. Some people hate them and some people love them. The biggest downside is that it killed my approach...