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JustWaitAFrekinMinute JustWaitAFrekinMinute is offline
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Default Back to the Dakota..

On 6/7/2013 2:28 PM, True North wrote:
On Friday, 7 June 2013 14:18:42 UTC-3, JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote:
On 6/7/2013 12:50 PM, John H wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:01:20 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:




Drove a BIG F150 last night... hated it. I mean, it has everything I


need but I just don't like driving that huge monstrosity... Think I


would get over it soon enough?




I went from a Toyota 4Runner to a 4WD Silverado 2500HD. Pretty big jump. Get used to it pretty


quickly - or hit a lot of stuff.




John H.






Yeah, it was funny... I had to let the guy back it back in after the

test drive cause I couldn't find the button for the mirror This one

had the 5.4Triton engine, it did have some balls... But again, the

smaller Dakota with the 4.7 seemed to actually have better

acceleration... with no load.


No backup camera?
First time for me with the Highlander and it's great for close in work..such as lining up ball to trailer coupler.


Not in my price range... But I really don't need one, like I said
before, I can back 'em up. I hook up my Jeep by myself all the time. I
pull within a foot or two of the ball and jump out. Then I do a visual
of how far I need to come like 11 inches, 14 inches whatever (point A to
point B)... Then I get in the truck (leaving the door open) and look at
the lowest corner of the door and the point it covers on the ground.
Then look at a point exactly the distance behind that point as the
distance from "point A to B" and focus on that point. Then I back my
truck till the corner of the door is at that point, jump out and hook it
up. I usually get within a half inch or so and the hitch drops right on
for me... Of course when you jump out you note if you need to make a
left or right correction too.