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Winter Weather Etiquette

Old Feb 7, 2013 | 07:55 PM
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So today I broke 3900 miles on the jeep! I also had the pleasure of testing the 4wd in the wet, slushy, nasty, beautiful mess. I do love my Jeep.

Enroute to a quick snowboarding session at Alpine Valley, the guy in front of me found himself in the ditch, and I found myself an opportunity to pull out the recovery gear! I stopped and offered a hand, which he was very glad to take. He strapped a 30k lb tow strap around his front sub frame, secured with a D link shackle and I looped it through my hitch. Less than 5 minutes later (mostly waiting to avoid traffic on the freeway) he was back on the road and my son and I were back on our way to snowboard.

I was very pleased with torque in 4w low. I had absolutely no problem getting him out.

I thought I would just share the experience!

Cheers!
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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 04:16 AM
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Cheers to a good deed done
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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 04:19 AM
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I call that paying forward...well done fellow Jeeper!
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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Tbindas
So today I broke 3900 miles on the jeep! I also had the pleasure of testing the 4wd in the wet, slushy, nasty, beautiful mess. I do love my Jeep.

Enroute to a quick snowboarding session at Alpine Valley, the guy in front of me found himself in the ditch, and I found myself an opportunity to pull out the recovery gear! I stopped and offered a hand, which he was very glad to take. He strapped a 30k lb tow strap around his front sub frame, secured with a D link shackle and I looped it through my hitch. Less than 5 minutes later (mostly waiting to avoid traffic on the freeway) he was back on the road and my son and I were back on our way to snowboard.

I was very pleased with torque in 4w low. I had absolutely no problem getting him out.

I thought I would just share the experience!

Cheers!
Where were you? I thought I saw a jeep pulling someone out yesterday. I may have passed you on my way to pull out a friend's plow truck!
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 06:51 PM
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I have a silver wrangler unlimited and I was on 43 south. I believe I was south of racine ave.

Did you get them out?
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