why in the hell won\'t u-haul rent a trailer to explorer\'s?

beg borrow or steal another truck to pick it up from u-haul, then hook it to your explorer when you get home. When ya drop it off, tell em the chevy truck you were towing it with broke down, and it was either you return it with the explorer, or didnt return it at all.

I had to do that when I used a dolly to bring a Barracuda down from Idaho. I had rented from the same place 3 weeeks prior with my brothers ranger to bring one up from LA, but when it came time to go to idaho,m they said no go. So I picked up the dolly with my old mans E-350, swapped at home and got the job done.

Keep in mind, if you do this, dont bother buying there insurance, as they wont cover you anyway. And also remember that if anything happens, its gonna cost ya$$$
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i don't get it too much. so they are not renting it to explorer's because of the tires? to be exact the firestone tires? well i don't have those tires, i have michelle tires which are nice.

and about roll overs, who in the hell is going to take hard turns with an SUV, nevertheless with a trailer?

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On 2004-08-24 22:16, CaptVirgilHilts wrote:
What other vehicles do you own?
Let me guess? a Pinto, an Audi and a Suzuki Samarai. Damn your screwed![img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] Stu
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HEY! I got a Pinto with a trailer hitch that tows cars and trailers. It gets there in a hurry too[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

I complained quite a bit to the local store here. I called and asked them about reserving one, they said no problem just drop in and pick it up. So I tell the guy I'm pickin up the car, go to get the dolly and whoops, cant sell to explorers. Doesn't matter that I rented a dolly there a year ago for the same explorer. I will never do any buisness with U-haul ever again. Bastards.
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They make a killin on their prices during peak season also. It cost me 200 bucks for a car hauler from Oregon to MD for 10 days in April. June it was $900 for 10 days!!! We bought a trailer way too heavy for our truck for $800 at the last minute, hauled my car to CA and then sold it for $750 to a guy that needed to haul a bobcat which is what the trailer was used for before we bought it. It's now doing it on the opposite coast.
I'll never understand some of thier regs and pricing.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]

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What other vehicles do you own?
Let me guess? a Pinto, an Audi and a Suzuki Samarai. Damn your screwed![img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] Stu
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My buddy has a Suzuki Samurai... That thing kicks a**. We went up to Connecticut to my other buddies place for a week and we drove up this insane mountain. We started off on truck trails, then quad trails, then dirt bike trails, then there were no more trails and we kept going. We went over boulders several feet high with flat faces, fallen trees, rocky grades that were nearly vertical, and some other amazing stuff! Have a look-see, we took pictures. Not enough, and at many of the tricky spots we forgot to take pics.

http://home.comcast.net/~corydunkle/.../zuki/zuki.htm

Amazing for a little 1.3 liter 4 banger. I've driven the thing and it's a blast. That 1.3 liter is gutless but the things are so fun. They all came with 5 speed manual transmissions. Even powershifting the thing at nearly 7 grand it could hardly get out of it's own way, but that bugger sounded like a big truck hauling ass. It gives such a rough ride, the manual steering creaks a bit, the shifter is a crude long-throw, no carpet, a soft top... It's like you're one with the machine in the most primal sense. No luxury or power features (except the power brakes), just a touch little truck that really makes you feel like you're driving.

A guy he knows that goes to the Suzuki off-roading events tows his off-roading Samurai wth his stock Samurai, on a flat trailer. Not bad for such a tiny engine.

Not to be a heathen or anything, but when I get some extra cash it's gonna be a toss-up betweena 200 cube six banger three on the tree Falcon or other small classic Ford, or a Samurai. I really want to get an old '60s 4x4 Bronco with a 289 and 4 speed, but they are too expensive. Then I could go off-roading with my buddy and show him what Ford muscle can do at his own game. As it is though, he's fairly impressed with my Gal.

I dont mean to diss on samurai's, as I like them as well, but those pics are way too tame. Thats 2wd territory.

get some pics of it on 3 wheels and on the verge of tipping over, thats cool 4 wheelin.
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When I was working at a gas station and during the end of work rush there was like 30 cars out there and 12 pumps. It was my first time at this station and wasn't used to so much business. So trying to figure out what pump they were at when they didn't think to look at the number I asked this guy if he was at the pump with that jeep looking thing out there. He informed me it was a Samurai. I just laughed and said well, I don't know the names of all these new fangled rigs so it's a jeep looking thing to me.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] Cute little boogers though!

I've had a couple of Explorers, including the one I have now, and haven't ever had any problems just driving. I will say, though, that I got in an accident with it once when the car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid them, which is actually the right thing to do with ABS brakes. That truck truly got a mind of it's own, and was impossible to control. I was able to avoid rolling, somehow, but wound up in someone's lawn on the other side of the street. It was scary as hell, and taught me a lesson. They're definitely prone to massive body lean when the circumstances are right. I've had Broncos, Blazers, and a Suburban as well, and it's not just a "truck" thing. The Explorers are just too much of a cross breed between trucks and cars to really handle like either. Newer ones might be better - mine were a '90 (or '91?) and a '96.

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I dont mean to diss on samurai's, as I like them as well, but those pics are way too tame. Thats 2wd territory.

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My buddy has videos of that I watched when he went down to ZukMill, or some such thing in West Virginia, and from one other event he goes to. He went through stuff there a bit worse than in those pics. Keep in mind, his truck, at the time we we took those pics, was entirely stock. That's how it came from the factory, and it's got something like 170,000 miles on the original enverything. He's gone through water so deep the engine is nearly entirely under water and water is by your feet, and even charged through water well deeeper than the hood. Compared to what some of the really mean built up rigs can do, sure those pics don't compare (though they don't do justice to some of the stuff we went over, looks flatter in the pics). But for a stock production ECONOMY vehicle, I'd say it's pretty darned impressive. I assure you a 2wd truck wouldn't have been able to get over a lot of the obstacles we went over up there, and probably woulda got stuck in the deep mud puddles we were sinking into. He had it in 2wd through some of the mud at the beginning of the trail and had to put it in 4wd to make it through.

His brother has a Samurai too, and that one is all jacked up on big tires, it's got a bigger engine, lockers, etc. Then engines only a little 1.6 liter though. Unfortunately he just wiped out a couple main bearings about a month ago when he went down to West Virginia for the off-roading thing. He was climbing terrain so steep his oil pickup was no longer in oil, and apparently didn't notice until too late. Sucked because he broke it on the first day out, so he was without a truck the rest of the week for off-roading.

Anyway, my buddies got his Samurai all stripped down and taken apart now. He's going through the whole thing and putting a lift kit on, bigger tires, new rear end, steering, brakes, and I'm sure some otehr stuff I'm forgetting. I went over the other day and gave him a hand with some of the rust repair and paint prep work. It's coming along nicely, but body work is definitely slow-going. Better to do it right the first time though, than to do it again.