Long Travel BS Thread

I don't think the pegs would clear. It's 53" wide at the tailgate. Most bikes are over 20" wide even with the pegs folded...unless those two spares are pizza cutters I don't think they would. Where there's a will, there's a way, maybe try lifting them over the side?

 

if i wasnt paying a ridiculous amount for college i would

 

maybe try squeezing the tires between the two bikes? i was able to fit a 35x12.5 between the rear tires of two so maybe youll be able to fit a second that sits on top of the pegs between the two bikes.

 

I went with vinyl mainly because my trucks gona be at pismo 10xmore than anywhere else so sand will be easy to vaccume of em. Otherwise i would have done cloth for sure

 

That makes a ton of sense, I am constantly vac'ing beach sand out of my cloth seats. I have always preferred cloth for a daily driver because it stays cooler and breathes better...BUT you need to scotch guard the crap out of them before you install them. Their black cloth has a bit of a bad rep for fading if you don't. I would also warn anyone looking at Corbeaus that the side bolster gets blown out fast and does not maintain its shape on the drivers seat because your mashing it getting in and out of the truck.

 

Have you test fit those seats on your truck? I think there are too wide, are you keeping the center console?

 

Can I get some opinions from some of you guys? I'm in no way going to bash on a company publicly or anything like that but I'm having a dilema...

What would you do in my shoes here??

If you have seen my post before I have been trying without success to get ahold of McNeil racing since October 10th and have sent a total of 3 emails and had 3 phone calls to them never returned in that time, dec 2nd JuansTaco hooked me up with Mark McNeil's contact info so I called him dec 2nd and left VM and 1 hr later got a call back, I got a bit of the info I was looking for and he said he would personally email me within an hour with some pics. (I was trying to decide if I wanted to go with their hood or not since there are 0 pics of it on a 95-2000 tacoma on their site and also see difference between their 'standard' 6" and their 'extreme' 6") Dec 3rd I get a email saying had delay here are pics, I emailed back less than hour later and hadnt heard back from him so I called today since I'm trying to get this stuff ordered I wanted to see if I could get the fenders/bedsides at the 15% off they were just running monday as a sale and was told no 10% off is best he could really do.

$300 fenders + $400 bedside = $700 total 10% off is $70, 15% off is $105.

here is my problem, I honestly can afford the extra $35 but I'm kinda peeved that after trying to get ahold of this company for almost 2 months they cant even give me the deal they gave everyone the begining of the week??

I'm honestly thinking of just saying F-it and going with another company, I like the looks of the Mcneil glass but this seems to be a poor start to being a customer of theirs.

 

military tires everywhere



Get them cheaper than that username?

 

^ all of the other glass companies are like that too. I don't know why, they could move a lot more product with better customer service. Try ordering through a third party like SDHQ, Polyperformance, or Kartek. If you were local to SoCal I would say to go to the shop directly, but since you aren't I would go through a company that is semi-local and can get shit done.

 

Well you are the consumer. If you don't like how they are handling this you have the option to buy elsewhere. They don't have to give any discounts. All glass companies are hard to get a hold of and take work to get the products....so you really have to be patient or work through a shop that can order on your behalf.

 

Why are you selling your truck? ^

 

Well, yeah, but I have connections. That's about right for retail pricing on those though. Also I wouldn't run those bias plies if they were free. I burned up several sets on HMMWV's while in the Army and they are complete garbage. They did ok in wet snow, all other conditions worse than a racing slick traction wise. They also flat spot bad...

 

Yeah I dont want to seem like I'm demanding 50% off and free shipping or anything like that, but just strikes me wrong way to not even get the discount they were running few days ago for the aggravation. As for local company did you see where I'm from lol I don't know of a fiberglass place around here within hours of drive time. I dont really like the whole they are all like that part either, bad customer service just goes with the fiberglass territory is not encouraging.

 

I meant buy them from a reputable company that is close to the glass shops in socal, so they can deal with it and you don't have to. The truth is unless you are racing and buying five sets of TT bodies a year your business doesn't matter much to them. It is what it is. You don't like it, start up an east coast glass shop.

 

Liking the lowrider ram style better?

 

Got ya. I don't understand why they run 16.5 wheels?

 

Ah ok I see what you meant, on the me starting a glass shop HA HA HA no. I have basically 0 artistic talent and can admit it, sure I could try and get someone else to do the work and I run the company from behind my big desk but thats how problems start. Back to original post I guess I'll just have to mull it over for a bit and see what I come up with.


On the hummer tires front 16.5's used to be the way to go on a heavy pickup they just kinda died out of favor. I used to have dually with 16.5's, a trailer with them and our skid steer runs them. I dont think anyone would have predicted they just stop using one size rim and switch to another after 30+ years of running that size. (kinda like how tacomas came with 15's then 16's now 17's/18's etc)

 

k thanks for input. I don't really need 2 spares, I could carry 1, but I was thinking obviously laying 1 35" flat would take up a lot of space, and having just 1 vertical in the center could look kinda weird. And I definitely don't want a swing gate carrier on rear.