Quote:
Originally Posted by Buehler445
Man, I was about to post and recommend a Trail Blazer/Envoy. Those were outstanding if not boring vehicles. I had precisely 0 problems with that 4.3 IL6 you can park it anywhere you want and turn it around in a phone booth. I’d buy one today if I could get a low mileage well cared for one.
I was trying to remember. I think the Traverse we had was AWD. Seemed like it was better in ice and snow than my limited experience with minivans (SILs had a Sienna and whatever the Pontiac one was. Montana?). I’d rather drive it than the minivans, but if I was a house to school commuter, I’d probably rather have the minivan.
RE FWD: people should seek out FWD. when I was in high school I had FWD cars and traversed some absolutely horrid roads that jackasses were getting pickups stuck in. It’s amazing what proper weight distribution will do for you. Only thing there is to worry about is clearance, and in my case, the condition of your tires (your guy here may have hydroplaned pretty hard on the turnpike outside of Topeka because I was running absolute rags. After I got control I pulled over on the shoulder and had to gather myself. )
|
My Envoy is just about hitting its expiration date. I should take it to Bwana so he could help me pack some tannerite in it and launch it into the sky. Too many Iowa winters with salted roads. I’ve had it about 10 years now. Just starting to not be cost effective with some repairs that are adding up. They made those through 09. I might look at a trailblazer if I can find one in decent shape within the right mileage range and hopefully not a ton of rust! Otherwise that vehicle will either be replaced with a Yukon or Tahoe. I need to do more research on specific years and issues etc. yeah that Pontiac Montana was the start of those vehicles. I think the traverse and Acadia got a wide stance and good look to them.
I might have shit my britches driving those worn tires on ice/snow! You can get away with letting them go bald like that down your way. I remember driving a 91 ranger 5 speed 3.0 RWD with 300 lbs of sand bags over the rear axle in the truck bed plus about 10” of snow on a one lane highway in a blizzard. Pre cell phone days. About 45 miles drive home took damn near 3 hours. Stupid idea to drive through but I survived without going into the ditch. Nowadays getting older it’s like eventually I just want to get back to having a good gas mileage vehicle and then a Silverado/Sierra or Yukon/Tahoe or even an old 4 runner and have one for each occasion. Nice to have a backup vehicle. I try with lots of things other than vehicles to have a one size fits all or one product for all specific purposes and situations and sometimes I just can’t make that work. Which is fine but when manufacturing, research and development, and quality control has all taken a huge shit since 2009 and even before that it makes a man have to sit down and think things through a lot more than he wants to do he can try and avoid costly mistakes…which a guy might just run into anyway! ****ing vehicles!!