I think really you can get there in almost anything. It would certainly be easier to put a canoe on my wife’s Mazda 3 5-door’s bars (she has them for road trips) than it is 2 foot higher on my Xterra. I have put in at some bridges that I would have had to leave the Mazda on the road that I drove nearly into the water in 4wd. But I haven’t been to any place I couldn’t make it work with either vehicle.
@Overstreet said
Yes 4x4 will get you stuck farther from the paved road where the wreckers don’t go. (Have 2)Just don’t park on the big beach at low tide and come back to the now little beach after high tide.
The big beach small beach phenomena is on exhibit at the Cape Cod National Sea Shore Oversand Vehicle Area Ranger Headquarters.
But as far as Jeeps go, any thing done stupidly with a Jeep has already been attempted with a car…the Jeeps are usually salvageable.
My put in vehicle needed brakes.
Never felt them bad. Just looked before winter not something I like to do in cold.
Would have felt grinding in a day or two. It would still stop but not as good.
Rears next week. Probably didn’t need calipers but they’re in now anyway. Kayak trip next weekend. Glad I looked. Also want to go to river conn.com next week.
Ah, so much better.
At least those appear to be hat style rotors. Mine come off the bearing from the back, making it a very expensive job that’s not easy to do in the driveway.
@Sparky961 said:
At least those appear to be hat style rotors. Mine come off the bearing from the back, making it a very expensive job that’s not easy to do in the driveway.
So you have to pull the bearing first? Thats annoying. What vehicle is it?
I just throw the tranny into drive. Always stops the car. Who needs brakes?
@SpaceSputnik said:
@Sparky961 said:
At least those appear to be hat style rotors. Mine come off the bearing from the back, making it a very expensive job that’s not easy to do in the driveway.So you have to pull the bearing first? Thats annoying. What vehicle is it?
GMC Canyon. Same setup as my last truck, a Chev 2500 HD. Not likely the same setup as my next vehicle…
@DrowningDave said:
I just throw the tranny into drive. Always stops the car. Who needs brakes?
“Drive” stops your car? What does “Park” do?
LOL. I guess I messed that joke up. Oh well, at least you understood me.
@Sparky961 said:
At least those appear to be hat style rotors. Mine come off the bearing from the back, making it a very expensive job that’s not easy to do in the driveway.
Yes like my Dodge 3500 you need to pull the hub to get to the rotor. Really hard to get apart especially the first time before I could anti-seize the crap out of them. You end up ruining the bearing too real big cost! About 150,000 on the Excursion but I like the beast. Bought it to drag my road race car on trailer. Plenty of room decent mileage at 8000 lb. 22 down highway 15 average. High to get the 100 lb. Libra up and on but not as bad as you would think. May be 4th brake job which is good for me. Dodge 3500 I get about 15,000 on front brakes so I need to catch them before rotors need pulled so I don’t need to pull hubs. Well I’ll feel better going on my kayak trip next weekend.
I thought maybe there was a level of humour that went over my head. Phew! 
There are no squeaker alerts on the Wagner Severe Duty pads. As low as the were the rotors were not scored. Rears next week!
@kayamedic said:
Paddling vehicle is secondary to getting out of the house vehicle.
Us too; and, I might add, getting me 90 miles back and forth to work over gravel, low-water crossings, and primarily two lane roads. We live back in the “Sticks,” beyond state and county road maintenance. No 911 out here (seriously, our law enforcement and emergency services are long-distance calls). We’ve tried to get by with just one 4WD vehicle, but invariably someone, usually my wife, will get “Stuck” here. About 3 months ago added a Jeep Renegade to our Ford F-150 to get us around. So far, very impressed with it. Getting about 28-29 combined mpg and it drives like a sportscar that can go off-road. The interior is not quite as versatile as our Honda Element was, but so far we really like it.
My contribution, on behalf of the low-budget crowd:
The low roof makes it easy to load the boat; on the down side, I can only get FM radio when it’s raining.
I love it when the boat is worth more than the car that’s carrying it.
William Nealy’s definition of a fun hog … when the toys on the roof are worth more that the vehicle underneath.
Racking Over the Toy/Tool Play/Work Yin/Yang
(or Tied Into Each a Little of the Other)
Ahhh, those marvelous toys
we choose to deploy,
more valued than tools that we need.
But toys won’t find use
if one nut’s a tool loose,
and won’t work so we’re toyed with impede.