I think of that every time I see somebody with their spare on top. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

waaaa! my browser wont open it, it keeps gettin timed out!
$@#%$%$%!!!!

i have mine up top becasue it will not fit anywhere else, i just dont drive like a moron, it works out great.

I think anyone who has ever been personally involved with a vehicle hovering at the tip over point, cringes when they see extra weight added at the top.

It seems strange and amazing just a slight tug or pull on a tow strap attached as a safety line high up on a 4-5000 lb vehicle hovering at the point of no return can make the difference between a roll over or, getting the wheels back down on the ground.

It looks fake and hard to believe, that is until you personally experience it..

my tire still weighs less then my loaded Thule box, I still believe if you drive mostly on the highway like I do in a safe manor you should have nothing to worry about as you never should get to the near point of rollover. just my opinion. i guess that i never knew that using your roof rack was such a sin <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />!

Shame on you for using your roof rack for carrying things, you naughty, naughty 4Runner owner!!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> I load my stock roof rack and Thule bike rack with gear all the time. I just don't drive like an idiot while it's loaded... only when it's unloaded. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Wow! what a complet idiot!
#1 I'd say wrong tires first off!
#2 wrong driver! looks quite inexperienced at driving period! The vehicle tipped in the direction that the tires were turned. This woulda happened on pavement too judging by the way the person was driving. I think they would've tipped regardless of what was on top. Had they buried the left front tire, they would've flipped end over end I would think

Somebody please explain the proper procedure when in this situation, back end fish tailing in water.
On my photobucket I have posted My Challenger convertable I had, believe it or not it had a posi rearend, with the strongest 318 I have ever experienced (all top end) One time I got this sedate looking beast loose going around a right turn in the rain, and I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, I literally found myself sitting in the passenger seat! BUT I didn't wreck it though! I managed to get control of it again, but I couldn't tell you how I did it, It was all instinct.
I learned an important lesson that day!
....to give the fricking thing back to the ol' man! With the inherent weak front ends those cars had plus posi traction plus rain plus stupid kid gettin on it in the rain, Hell, I'm lucky to be alive!
I guess I deserved the huge bruise I got on my arse from the gear shifter!

I think the link is dead.

nope! it's still there!
jo