Utah Driver
Well-Known Member
I bought this last year from my dad. Finally got to take it off road in Moab. It's a heavy beast. LOL. One weakness I found is that huge muffler that hangs off the back. I looked at some other newer SUVs for reference and they do not have that. Just something to be aware of. If you do some serious off roading you'll probably smash the hell out of the muffler. I scraped the air dam under the front end quite often. The over all ground clearance was pretty good for the roads with the built up high center. I did some hot rodding in 4L and it was really a blast to drive. One thing that I was really impressed with was the downhill assist mode. This is my first vehicle with such a feature. I was at the top of a big hill with loose gravel on top of slickrock and big holes. I turned the downhill assist on, took my feet off the pedals and drove all the way back down the hill without touching the brakes once. Very nice! I attached a couple of photos of my adventure. Of course pictures don't really show how steep something is. If you zoom in it looks like the wheels do not travel straight up in the wheel well. I dunno. I thought I heard some grinding in the front left that I have to get checked out. Anyway, thanks for looking. For reference I have 20" rims.