It poured like a mofo yesterday in NY and there were puddles like a foot deep on my way to the train station.

Figuring I had an indescructable truck I ran into them at 40 MPH in auto mode and instead of cutting through them like a speed boat I was abruptly slowed to a crawl and yanked over to the side of the road.

I know the stock tires suck, but would REVOs do any better in this situation or am I trying to break the laws of physics?

I had REVOs on my old truck but I have never experianced rain like that.

I don't think anything would have helped with the weather you guys had up there this week. NY potholes are the worst. Hitting 'em that fast often will tear your $hit up! It is not a tank! :D

Tires can help with traction but what you're talking about is bogging down and the only cure for that is to slow down. Like Spyda said, the water splashing everywhere like that is hard on the truck. Take a look at your engine bay and I'd bet that you'll find all kinds of splash marks in there and that's not good. 40mph through deep standing water is asking for an accident or around here, we get a ticket for Wreckless Driving. ;)

[QUOTE=spta97]It poured like a mofo yesterday in NY and there were puddles like a foot deep on my way to the train station.QUOTE]



Thats what you call them.."puddles"..lol....I drove through a pond on the Conduit...All of a sudden i see people backing up and stopping...I was about to back up also but this guy in a 2008 white Escalade was looking at me...Smiling and I am thinkin he's saying to himself he's not going to put that clean truck in there...I slowed down to a crawl and shift to 1st and just walk through it...He finally caught up to me and his Escalade was dirty white...lol
I believe he piss a couple of people off as he was blocking them from going through and got splashed...:D :D


Be prepared for tonight...I got flight cancelling around here...JFK

[QUOTE=spta97]It poured like a mofo yesterday in NY and there were puddles like a foot deep on my way to the train station.QUOTE]



Thats what you call them.."puddles"..lol....I drove through a pond on the Conduit...All of a sudden i see people backing up and stopping...I was about to back up also but this guy in a 2008 white Escalade was looking at me...Smiling and I am thinkin he's saying to himself he's not going to put that clean truck in there...I slowed down to a crawl and shift to 1st and just walk through it...He finally caught up to me and his Escalade was dirty white...lol
I believe he piss a couple of people off as he was blocking them from going through and got splashed...:D :D


Be prepared for tonight...I got flight cancelling around here...JFK

I saw the warnings for tonight - we'll see. The weather guys have been wrong a lot lately.

Tires can help with traction but what you're talking about is bogging down and the only cure for that is to slow down. Like Spyda said, the water splashing everywhere like that is hard on the truck. Take a look at your engine bay and I'd bet that you'll find all kinds of splash marks in there and that's not good. 40mph through deep standing water is asking for an accident or around here, we get a ticket for Wreckless Driving. ;)

I like to test the trucks limits when there is no one else on the road (I was the only idiot going to work apparently). A lot of them snuck up on me because I really couldn't see too well due to the bad rain. Needless to say, I was soaked when I got into the office :mad:

I had to drive home once from Newark through 2+ feet of water due to a flash flood. Not fun. Plenty of stuck cars with the water up to the windows. I was in a Jeep Grand Cherokee. You can't drive through deep water with anything fast short of an Abrams. You need to go 10-15mph.

I like to test the trucks limits when there is no one else on the road (I was the only idiot going to work apparently). A lot of them snuck up on me because I really couldn't see too well due to the bad rain. Needless to say, I was soaked when I got into the office :mad:
ROFLMAO!!! Too funny!!! Seriously, please be careful though.

The late 90's Chevys used to have a Tranny vent near the top of the tranny that would let water into the top of the tranny and burn it out. There were guys with blown trannys from either going in too deep of water or from going fast enough to make it splash into the vent. I just hope we don't learn the hard way that the Armada has a low vent too.

Took the Mada swimming huh...lol....just move to SoCal and you wont have to worry about that anymore...oh and don't go so fast next time...lol

Took the Mada swimming huh...lol....just move to SoCal and you wont have to worry about that anymore...oh and don't go so fast next time...lol

It's the sub-part looking chicks and entitlement attitude that keep me here :rolleyes:

Actually, I really like cold weather. SoCal would be just too hot for me.