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Originally Posted by Slow_s10
Not a truck that is raised a reasonable amount for what you really plan on using it for. For example My good friend used to have a Sonoma that we raised 2 inches and put some slightly larger tires on. All said and done the bumper maybe sat 3" higher than it did from the factory and still well within the door area of any average passenger car.
Trust me I know the kinds of trucks that you are talking about... the ones where I am eyeball level with their tailpipes. The same ones that have usually never seen a speck of dirt under their tires. But for what it's worth this discussion was concerning the saftey of the truck being driven not the other cars around them. Meaning how likely are you to cause an accident because of the reduiced performance of your truck while EOCing or being lifted, not how fatal that accident is going to be to the cars around you. Besides those folks are the exception to the rule the majority of people who lift their trucks don't take it to those extremes.
The sad part is you guys have me here defending lifted trucks when I was originally coming to defend engine off coasting. If you are coasting in a manual transmission equiped vehicle as long as you really understand how it is going to handle and brake when there is no power steering and if you do run out of vacuum and have to brake manually. I have no doubt in my mind that it is no more dangerous than driving with the engine running.
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I think the highest lift in the off road club that is still driven on the street is 6" and 37" tires, which puts the bumper about one foot above stock. The trailer queens arent much higher with 40+ tires. Any higher and it would start to become too unstable for the trails.