Barnaby’sdad
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Mall Crawling is serious business. It’s the reason I went with a Rubicon.
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Hard to survive the concrete jungle of Houston, water has no where to go! I've seen that ditch several times and I get it, it would be way faster for my personal Home Depot runs to get back home going south from there too. I suppose Lowes has a competitive advantage to keep it there
Suprisingly its not as rare as I thought. Can be fun when your successful and you get high five out of it! I've had two opportunities since owning the JTR in the greater Houston area. Once in Freeport near the mouth of the brazos to save sedan in the sand dunes and a truck that kinda sunk after a rain storm near sealy (again near the brazos now that i think about it).I don't know if I was excited to help someone or more excited to get to use the winch all of a sudden.
Reminds me of driving in S FL. was out in the TJ with my daughter one day, all the cars were driving through the 12+ inches of water in the inside lane (highest lane)... we were just cruising through the outside lane. Daughter al of the sudden yells roll up you window, but not for us, it was for the car we were passing that had all their windows down. (was only throwing wakes like you did in the video)You're not wrong about the water, that's for sure! Lowes is on the other side. This ditch separates HD from the self-storage next door. It's Hilarious how many people I've seen get stuck there.
The flooding gets nuts here and it barley makes the news. Here I am trying to get my wife from the hospital in my old Wrangler. Gets hairy after the 3-minute mark lol.
Ha!, awesome story. Hoping to have some adventures like that with my kids as well.Reminds me of driving in S FL. was out in the TJ with my daughter one day, all the cars were driving through the 12+ inches of water in the inside lane (highest lane)... we were just cruising through the outside lane. Daughter al of the sudden yells roll up you window, but not for us, it was for the car we were passing that had all their windows down. (was only throwing wakes like you did in the video)
This has not been my experience in my Gladiator. I had a situation where both rears were on ice and one front was unweighted. Locking the rear diff didn't help.The jks have BLD too, but BLD only works if the other tires have fairly solid traction, most likely he had close to no traction on the other 2 as well. I see it a lot out here in the sand and mud where they have 1 ok traction tire but the BLD just won't let that tire dig enough to really get going and cuts power too early so they slowly hop out or worse just dig.
Dude may have had a chance if he cut traction control completely and let it eat.
Ice and sand/mud are like the opposite in terms of what you want your tires doing though.This has not been my experience in my Gladiator. I had a situation where both rears were on ice and one front was unweighted. Locking the rear diff didn't help.
I eventually unlocked the diff, turned all the electronics back on, and applied gradual steady throttle and the BLD did its thing. It pulled me out with only 1 wheel on good traction.