Itās not courteous itās the law. Itās dangerous for following traffic and you are liable for what could happen. Seriously Iām not sure what is wrong with people.
No offense here, about a dozen states have specific laws about this. In CA they figure it's covered by this generic one about water and chicken feathers. Being behind one of those chicken trucks it's amazing how many feathers come flying off. Dang birds must be defeathered by the time they get where they're going. CA has lots of vehicle code laws that many are unaware of. Better to know before you get a nasty surprise. A few years ago a friend got nailed for towing a small trailer at 72mph in the far left lane of a freeway with 3 lanes. He didn't know he was supposed to be at 55mph and in the right two lanes. Expensive $800 lesson in CA towing vehicle code. CHP don't seem to be enforcing too much these days but why give them a freebie opportunity to pull you over. If this only affected the person with the snow I wouldn't care. Take care and hopefully have or will get your Bronco soon.
Thatās no excuse for leaving snow on your carā¦ itās laziness. Here in Vermont, you will get pulled over and ticketed for that. Itās very dangerous - and we see serious or fatal accidents every year from people not clearing excess snow from their cars.
During your commute in Wisconsin, if you need to hit the brakes aggressively and your roof-slab of snow comes down over your windshield, I hope your POT is clear; and I mean that.
pure happiness, glad to know the Soft top passed that test. lol
well maybe the first message was enough I agree, but you can be pretty far back and get hit with a giant, frozen slab that flies through the air like a glider. Ask me how I know - just following an 18 wheeler after a minor 2-3 inch ice event is dangerous enough on our highways. The trailers are never cleared on top.
We went up to the Sierras for Christmas and got absolutely dumped on, 1-2 feet of snow in 1 night. I didn't quite realize just how much snow we were going to get overnight, and as we were staying at a hotel I had to park outside overnight.
The night before:
The morning after:
I was not prepared at all for this amount of snow, no brush, shovels, anything. But like every good Cali boy, I did have a pair of flip flops in the back that I was able to use to clear my windshield lol
There was also quite the snow berm that had been built up in front of the truck from them plowing the parking lot. Again I didn't have a shovel, so I decided to just yolo it and was able to drive over it pretty easily after putting it into 4H.
A downside of the soft top of course is no re-window defroster, so I had to manually try to scrape the snow off the back plastic.
After clearing enough snow to be in a somewhat drivable state:
In hindsight my big concern would be I don't know how much snow the soft top can actually support. Thankfully the top didn't out right crumble or give out. Sitting inside you can definitely see the top material sagging down inbetween the cross supports. I could also see the top over the rear quarter windows was very strained. After the snow finally melts I'm a little curious to see if there has been any deformation of the top due to the weight, I'll also have to test the functionality to make sure it still folds back easily.
As for the roads and winter conditions we were mostly driving around on snowy roads, sometimes sanded, moving later into the day of slushy and icy roads. This is a stock badlands on 33" K02s and I left it in 4A all day and it was an absolute beast. No slipping or sliding and felt very composed the whole time. I felt very confident, even with seeing at least 5 cars that had slid off the road during the day. Here's some final pictures driving around during the day.
Welp, just got my new winter desktop background.We went up to the Sierras for Christmas and got absolutely dumped on, 1-2 feet of snow in 1 night. I didn't quite realize just how much snow we were going to get overnight, and as we were staying at a hotel I had to park outside overnight.
The night before:
The morning after:
I was not prepared at all for this amount of snow, no brush, shovels, anything. But like every good Cali boy, I did have a pair of flip flops in the back that I was able to use to clear my windshield lol
There was also quite the snow berm that had been built up in front of the truck from them plowing the parking lot. Again I didn't have a shovel, so I decided to just yolo it and was able to drive over it pretty easily after putting it into 4H.
A downside of the soft top of course is no re-window defroster, so I had to manually try to scrape the snow off the back plastic.
After clearing enough snow to be in a somewhat drivable state:
In hindsight my big concern would be I don't know how much snow the soft top can actually support. Thankfully the top didn't out right crumble or give out. Sitting inside you can definitely see the top material sagging down inbetween the cross supports. I could also see the top over the rear quarter windows was very strained. After the snow finally melts I'm a little curious to see if there has been any deformation of the top due to the weight, I'll also have to test the functionality to make sure it still folds back easily.
As for the roads and winter conditions we were mostly driving around on snowy roads, sometimes sanded, moving later into the day of slushy and icy roads. This is a stock badlands on 33" K02s and I left it in 4A all day and it was an absolute beast. No slipping or sliding and felt very composed the whole time. I felt very confident, even with seeing at least 5 cars that had slid off the road during the day. Here's some final pictures driving around during the day.
I didn't really feel them other than when I was cleaning them off. They seemed to have the normal pliability.
The road conditions varied between snow, sleet, and pavement. I think slippery mode defaults to putting you into 4H and I didn't want to drive around in 4H on pavement, so for ease I just left it in 4A. I guess I could try next time to put it in slippery and then manually change to 4A.
These are probably the same people that cruise at or below the speed limit in the left lane. They wait until they have traffic backed up 5-10 cars deep then leisurely get over let everyone pass them go right back overā¦ā¦ ugh. I wish I knew his society turned in to this.
