brantjs

I drove it to Denny's...wife and kids took me to breakfast for Father's Day. Been driving it everywhere since Friday since I'm waiting on a part for my car (camshaft position sensor went out).

Put 28 gallons of fuel in...works out to 13.11 mpg for the previous tank. Drove the truck to work thinking the storm might start before I left work and flood the streets like it usually does when it pours. My car wouldn't make it out if that happened. Instead the sun was out when I left for the day, go figure.

Per our local news, we had 708 crashes on Friday due to 2 inches of snow, with 921 total for the weekend attributed to the snow back on Friday. At this point I would accept slow driving as long as it was moving.

Drove it for the first time in 2 weeks to work due to impending snow on Friday. Glad I did because it started an hour before I left...gotta love living in the 'south' where people don't know what snow is or how to drive in it. It took me 3 hours to drive 25 miles all on the highway. Found out the Transforce HT tires are crap in snow too.

Mine are black. Not sure which length you are looking for, but here are the wheel to wheel ones in black in stock: http://www.amazon.com/Smittybilt-C0789CC-N-Fab-Black-Nerf/dp/B001CF1B50/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356319610&sr=8-1&keywords=C0789CC.

Plug the nfab part number into amazon...I got mine with free shipping from them.

Let my wife drive the truck. She had a fender bender in her minivan the other day and I don't have rental coverage on my policy, so she's driving the truck until her car gets fixed. I'd make her drive my car instead, but she doesn't know how to drive stick and after one attempt to teach her I decided it wasn't in my car's best interest.

Finally aimed the 4 PIAA 520 SMP ATP lights mounted to the front of my truck (smittybuilt light bar) last night. Drove to my hunting spot this morning and they were awesome.

In VA we don't have emissions testing, only safety. It's a separate sticker that goes in your windshield, done every year. It's really just a basic inspection for brake pad thickness, ball joints aren't failing, tires have enough tread, windshield wipers aren't torn, and all lights work and headlights aimed properly. There's a whole bunch of other inspectable criteria, but that's all the shop has to sign off on. Some shops are more thorough than others to try to generate business, but most just try to cover the basics and move on to the next car. The place I go it takes 10 minutes from pulling into the garage bay until I'm done. It costs $16, and you have to pay whether it passes or fails. If it fails you get a pink sticker in your window that says FAILED and you aren't supposed to drive it other than to/from a repair shop. I think the reinspection is free if you take it back where it was originally inspected. I feel like even though it's a inconvenience for me since I take care of my vehicle, I've seen plenty of vehicles failed and I'm glad they are being taken off the road until the basics are fixed.

Drove my truck to the Jimmy Buffett concert at Jiffy Lube LIve near DC. Packed 6 people in my cab to go to the concert from where we were staying, and used the bed to set up the port-o-tent since they wouldn't let us put it in the parking lot. Truck averaged 15.6 mpg round trip (about 400 miles total), which is the best I've gotten since I bought it last year.

The part number referenced comes with 2 remote start key fobs, the sticker for your glovebox that replaces AP8 with AP3, and a set of instructions for the tech to follow (including the authorization code). They follow the directions, input the authorization code when required, and you're good to go. I just had this done after Christmas this year, and they charged me an hour of labor for the reprogramming. The old key fobs will work fine (they just don't have the remote start button on them).