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My thought as well.

So, for those not in Colorado reading this - there’s a section of I70 just west of Denver that is probably the most dangerous piece of interstate highway in the country if you’re heading westbound. It has everything - you lose a lane to a merge at the top, then there’s a ~2 mile descent down a...

It is. I’m afraid it’s going to be that way for a while as they rethink that section of highway. Pretty unnerving with no shoulder on either side if you’re next to a semi.

The test right now is Floyd Hill westbound. All the construction has the road completely torn up, then at the bottom there’s a pothole field all around the hard left turn.

Not for nothing, running E load tires at 45+ PSI at highway speed over broken pavement isn’t totally safe. Mainstream suspensions aren’t built to compensate well against that kind of movement at speed, and the truck will feel like it’s jumping all over the place. Especially so if the pavement...

Same. Windshield damage is part of life where I live. My insurance has a zero deductible glass policy so I pay nothing to replace them.

My plan is to put a set of snows on the 20” wheels that come with my LC. DMV2 or Hakkas, depending on what is still available in mid December. Then next spring I’ll buy some refurbished OEM 18” Tundra wheels from Detroit Wheel & Tire (~$1K) and put some Nokian nAT tires on those.

Useful to use this site: https://tiresize.com/calculator/ …to compare diameters and revolutions per mile on various tire sizes. That’s the only relevant measurement on a spare tire; width doesn’t matter.

I mentioned Detroit Wheel & Tire above, so I’ll link them here. They are a very good source for reconditioned OEM wheels. Prices are higher than you might find on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, but a) they always seem to have what I’m looking for and b) they have a good track record for...

I bought some replicas for a BMW E60 I used to have. They were $650 on eBay and would have been around $2400 if I’d been able to find OEM wheels on resale, from Detroit Wheel & Tire or something. They never balanced entirely, I always had a highway speed vibration I could not get rid of. I...

Yeah, I’m not clear how the windshield would either. It’s just a reflective surface.

Welcome! Denver guy these days but I grew up in ATX, Westwood HS 89 and UT 93. Still get down there when I can.

Here is a nice explanation of the science at play. This company claims to have developed a way around it, of which I’m not familiar. Their way around it is a manufacturing change car companies would have to make.

Looks fantastic. I agree that titanium color works well with the Heritage Blue.

I split time in Colorado between Castle Rock and Avon. Last year I put a set of Wildpeak AT3 on my Tahoe and I agree with you. They are pretty good in mid-deep snow but nothing special on hard slick. The Michelin Defenders I had before, which aren’t even 3 Peak rated, were at least as good. So...

A lot of transmissions seem to do that, especially if you don’t entirely stop. Our GLC300 really tries to do it, you practically have to gun it from a stop to get it to go to 1st. I had a 2005 E60 BMW that I loved. It had a horrible tendency. If I coasted just a little through a stop, the...

I have a daughter at UW and a close friend in North Bend, so I get up there a lot. It’s beautiful there, rain or shine.

Curious what you drove before you got the LC. They have near vertical windshields and will naturally be more susceptible to damage than most vehicles. Hard to avoid, but some insurance companies offer increased glass coverage.

I had a 2004 Explorer, obviously not a hybrid, and it ran strong until I got rid of it at 140K. Probably longer. It had suspension issues but that’s about it. We have a Bronco Sport (still not a hybrid) now that a daughter drives. It did cough up a water pump at 30K but otherwise not...

Except this one, apparently. Objectively this isn’t a review of the LC250, it’s a comparison of the LC250 with a GX460, making points that wouldn’t likely be of consequence to anyone not making that exact comparison, nor to many who are. It felt like he was setting the LC up to fail in a few...

Nobody ever mentions the Defender around here, which is odd because I do think the design of the current LC and GX derives from the current Defender. I have to believe some cross-shopping is going on. I figured the Defender would be my next vehicle for a long time and came close to ordering...

It’s notable that the GX gets them but the LC doesn’t. So Toyota has spent the design, development, and assembly money and, as people say here, heated seats are available on an LC in other markets. This all tells me that it’s a decision made to differentiate the GX in the US and to drive a...

Sure enough. I don’t see the ones you bought in my results; I suppose inventory is different between the US and Canada.

It might be the design. A super hot seat warmer is a thing you think you want until you get one and can only run it for a couple minutes before it gets uncomfortable. Maybe Toyota did some tests and decided the lighter touch would be preferable over the long term.

All the 18” wheels that come up on a Costco search for me have +18 offsets. That’s pretty aggressive. Yours fit ok?

I use it but I’m always a little disappointed at how fast it goes away.

I’ve hesitated to post this in response to any of these inflator threads because I’m sure guys around here use super industrial products and will laugh at my $31 inflator. But here I go. https://a.co/d/8dAxpu1 I have one of these in every car and have had to use them once or twice. They’ll...

Might be pretty easy then, if there’s already a powered post-crossover speaker line right there. You’d feel the output but questionable whether it would be low enough or loud enough.

I had a BMW E60 that located the OEM woofers under the seats. I had occasion to upgrade the entire speaker system with a packaged speaker set that a German car audio specialist offered, which included those subs. So I have a point of view here. Undeniably it’s effective to have subwoofers...

Plus, the space created around the battery is the only significant covered storage in the vehicle.