blazer's off-road ability
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RE: blazer's off-road ability
I think the reason a lot of us blazer people don't like jeepers..it's not the vehicles them selves...jeeps are better suited out of the box for off roading...it's the type of person the tends to choose a jeep over other vehicles..it's the attitude that goes with them....me in my blazer....I think really hard about what paths I'm going to take..as I know my trucks weaknesses...where as the typical weekend jeep wrangler driver blows through every thing and wonders why his vehicle gets stuck....I know I know..the attitude isn't completely singled out with the jeepers....it just seems like a lot more of them have attitudes than other off roaders...just my two cents!
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RE: blazer's off-road ability
yea, my mom has an 03 wrangler, with a 4 inch sky-jacker lift, and some big tires. i look at it like the jeep was designed for going off-road. and i look at the blazer as an suv, suitable for both on and off road. a civilized vehicle to drive on the road and also has some good off-road capabilities. i love both the wrangler and the blazer, i feel they are two different vehicles, but i love how my blazer can carry 5 people with room in the back. the jeep although very sporty and having its "classic jeep" look, lacks rooms, i guess cause of its short wheel base, which makes it probably the most nimble and capable 4X4.
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RE: blazer's off-road ability
ORIGINAL: Paddle_grl
I think the reason a lot of us blazer people don't like jeepers..it's not the vehicles them selves...jeeps are better suited out of the box for off roading...it's the type of person the tends to choose a jeep over other vehicles..it's the attitude that goes with them....me in my blazer....I think really hard about what paths I'm going to take..as I know my trucks weaknesses...where as the typical weekend jeep wrangler driver blows through every thing and wonders why his vehicle gets stuck....I know I know..the attitude isn't completely singled out with the jeepers....it just seems like a lot more of them have attitudes than other off roaders...just my two cents!
I think the reason a lot of us blazer people don't like jeepers..it's not the vehicles them selves...jeeps are better suited out of the box for off roading...it's the type of person the tends to choose a jeep over other vehicles..it's the attitude that goes with them....me in my blazer....I think really hard about what paths I'm going to take..as I know my trucks weaknesses...where as the typical weekend jeep wrangler driver blows through every thing and wonders why his vehicle gets stuck....I know I know..the attitude isn't completely singled out with the jeepers....it just seems like a lot more of them have attitudes than other off roaders...just my two cents!
The look onhis face was priceless when I flew threw that mud hole with my Lumina Z34 and didn't get stuck
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RE: blazer's off-road ability
id say they do pretty good...
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pretty close. but yea not stock. im sure i could have made it through most of that with stock size tires if they were mud terrains. i was pretty impressed at some of the stuff my truck did do stock. but now with 31's its amazing what it will do!
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i have a stock '964x4 4dr and me and two of my buddies ('98 Silverado, '02 F150) went muddin' yesterday. There was a lot of mud and the two guys doubted i could keep up. i ended up leading and at the end the two guys were so impressed that i made it without getting stuck. We're going back today and bringing the camera, so you can see how well a stock handles in the mud.