i think there is some truth to that but not those exact numbers. ive seen many a lifted truck that i know doesnt go offroad cuz the owner doesnt want to mess up daddy's truck. those are mostly at the highschools in houston area that ive seen or there are a few at my apartment. those ones are obvious because they fit the defenition of a "bro" truck

 

You call this a pavement queen?

I use mine as an earth mover...

 

We all have Pride in our Rides and that is why we spend endless hours and dollars making them different from the 95% of people that never put there vehicle in 4wheel drive. Embrace the clowns that made that silly assumption that you never try to break your rig in half doing what your buddies say is impossible. They noticed your ride not the bone stock silverado sitting next to it. There is nothing that feels better to me than someone noticing the work I have put into something. Especially a vehicle. I have owned extremely fast muscle cars, cars and trucks so low that they would remove centerline reflectors out of pavement (bot dots) and trucks that would run over those vehicles. Any time anyone said "nice ride" I would always smile and thank them.

By the way, that is one nice truck you got there.

 

If I saw your truck I would call it a pavement queen....

Let's face it, your truck from that picture in your sig NEVER looks like it goes offroad. Most don't that look like yours.

Co-workers always call my truck a mexican truck. I really think they do it to get under my skin.

 

Ya, mine has been called a "Pavement Princess" or "Street Queen". I just look at 'em and laugh. What they don't know is I take mine off road as much as possible. She is in 4 wheel drive more than 3 or 4 times a month. I just like to keep her clean. Nothing wrong with that.

There are a lot of trails (wide open) around here and old farm roads up in the mountains to have fun on! I like to get lost on them, then turn on the GPS and find my way back! By the time I get back, my truck is brown/grey, not red.

People who say that are just jealous!

 

I used to get that all the time with my 4 door Wrangler. It saw plenty of offroad.

 

I couldn't sleep knowing that two old guys at McDonalds don't fully understand me.

 

I've been on both sides of the coin. When I was in H.S. I had a friend that had a father with a sweet lifted F150 4x4 that was constantly clean and he was a mechanic for the Ford house. I had never once seen it dirty. I made a comment about what a waste it was and was imediately corrected in that he won't bring it home dirty. Even if he comes back from hunting at midnight he'll go by the garage and clean it before going home.
Then now with my own, it occationaly goes to car shows. I have to take pictures of my truck in the muck to get people to believe that it ever sees dirt.

 

yeah well lets just say if you saw a 90's somethin 4x4 with the same lift and size tires as me that was all cleaned up, would you call it a pavement queen?

oh and btw i love your truck. i really don't see the mexican in it.

how about i change my sig to this haha


ha funny funny, they were just an example. it's just about an everyday thing.

 

I don't understand why some people think that keeping a truck clean and taking pride in it is a bad thing? Why would I want to leave it covered in mud and mess the paint up all the time when I pay my hard earned money to have a nice truck in the first place? Its just ignorance IMO

 

exactly, i like to see the color of my paint.

 

I got 99 problems but a ditch aint one. Your truck, who cares right? A lot of people don't get lowered trucks either. So the lifted and lowered guy do have something in common. Yay....

 

Don't worry about what people think...they don't do it very often

 

Mud riding is not offroading

I've had a built up 4x4 since I learned to drive and everyone who sees it tells me "that thing must eat it up in the mud" I hate mud riding, its just a good way to tear up your vehicle. Everyone that sees my truck goes straight to the stereotype that I go muuuuuud ridin.

I'd rather break a CV joint on the rocks or bust a u joint than have mud in all the electrical components and in every crack and creviss of my truck. Everyone that I know who mud rides on a regular basis has nothing but problems with their electrical system, all of their bushings and joints squeek and every time they have to work on their truck they have to deal with caked on mud and rusted bolts. But here in Louisiana that is what people do to "offroad" since there is no mountains or trails, just muddy cane fields. I prefer to ride out to Moab, Colorado, Superlift's ORV park in Arkansas, Katemcy rocks, etc and do "real" offroading. Something more challenging than driving through a mud puddle with the throttle to the floor. But to each his own.

 

Tell them to look at the undercarriage. It's damn near impossible to get all the mud off your truck. Eventually when your truck is 10-15 years old you'll get rust from all the mud sitting in the fender lips and on the bottom of the body. If you don't get rust, the whole underside will be covered in surface rust.

If I had a brand new truck (which the only thing I'd buy would be a superduty), I wouldn't take it in the mud. Too much work to clean it properly.

Just make it easier on yourself and go buy another ford truck for $1000 that has rust and dents, build it up, and go flog it out in the woods. If you break something you can trailer it back home and fix it whenever.