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: First time off the pavement.


gazoo
10-05-2004, 08:31 AM
First offroading....

I had to help a buddy out at his construction site, which was a new housing development. Tons of wet clay and mud. The E handled flawlessly. When the front tires began to spin the rears picked up the slack. Don't think i'll ever get a 2wd car again!

downside:: I'm totally feemin for some more offroad action. Guess I'll wait for the snow.

-g

Theelements
10-06-2004, 11:13 AM
Well im glad to hear that it did well.

Borg Queen
10-29-2004, 10:50 PM
At the end of August we drove up to Lake George for some camping. We rented a boat and camped out on one of the islands on the lake. The Marina has a dirt parking lot. It had rained 3 days straight before we came. Sure enough I drove the Element into to the parking lot and went thru a big mud puddle. My initial reaction was "Uh oh". As I pulled out of the puddle the front tires spun a bit but the rears took up the slack and I pulled right out of it. I finally found a patch of semi-dry grass to park on. Without AWD I think I definitely would've been stuck.

Did good. I'm definitely up for some off roading this winter. 8)

Type X
11-01-2004, 09:58 PM
[quote:421cd4a4a2=" "]First offroading....

I had to help a buddy out at his construction site, which was a new housing development. Tons of wet clay and mud. The E handled flawlessly. When the front tires began to spin the rears picked up the slack. Don't think i'll ever get a 2wd car again!

downside:: I'm totally feemin for some more offroad action. Guess I'll wait for the snow.

-g[/quote:421cd4a4a2]


did you use your mudflaps :D

u know ...the ones u never sent me pix for? lol

only 12 more days till i'm down there causing havoc in MD 8)