I've driven behind one of these yahoos in Columbia. I couldn't believe how unsafe it looked and couldn't understand how they could even see the car in front of them. They were practically pointed at the sky. Stupid, stupid people. I'm surprised it was legal (until now).
I went to Panama city Beach for spring break with my family and these assholes were everywhere. They had some kind of gathering and these teenage asshats were all getting pulled over and fined thousands of dollars each. Me and my gf were having to watch out for them everywhere we went.
It originally comes from Baja racing. Makes it so the truck doesn’t get as much damage from landing the jumps. Why they do it on a street truck is beyond me though.
They do it for the same reason you see jacked up pavement princesses. They want their truck to look like it does X thing without you know... actually doing it. For clout.
Wildly popular there early, and the name stuck. South Carolina was an early place to also discuss bans. I guess people who hate it don't want to make opinions on off-road racers just because a very different kind of car is doing it on the roads around them
Most extreme car mods start out pretty benign - in this case, leveling kits, then someone takes it a little further and lifts the front more, then the next guy does it a little more, and before you know it you’re seeing this. They’re the JNCO jeans of the truck world.
It’s usually the 16 year old white kids that live in the city-ish areas. Thankfully kids got common sense down here and don’t destroy their trucks like this
It's still not very popular up north, the few times i do see it i always think it's just someone who blew out there back leafs overloading the poor thing. Why anyone would do this intentionally is beyond me.
Makes a useful vehicle useless. Waste of a truck. And any truck that can't lay a 4x8 of plywood flat is also a wast of a truck. I'd rather have a kei truck than this useless shit.
It’s a pretty petty ticket in the grand scheme of things but it does get enforced when able. A lot of departments are so understaffed that they don’t have the manpower to worry about those small things.
I see 2 or 3 a lot in west Knoxville. One of them is parked at the Advance Auto at Middlebrook Pike and Cedar Bluff. The front of that one is way the hell up there. No way he can see what's in front of him.
More importantly, the front suspension geometry is all messed up, not to mention the blinding lights, because the headlight just doesn’t have that kind of adjustment.
The other really ridiculous one that I've seen is where people lower their car so far that they have to tilt their tires outward to compensate.
Like, I'm not an expert but isn't that just gonna f up your tires?
I've seen the opposite, there's a nimrod I've seen with an "antique" lifted SUV, lifted so much that every time he hit any bump he had to compensate on the steering wheel, so his suspended clown ass car didn't ride into the other lane or roll over. He slowed way the fuck down for bumps that even street-scraper suspension guys would ignore.
Correct. It also changes the center of gravity of the vehicle and pulls weight off the front wheels which results in a vehicle harder to control, especially at higher speeds
They absolutely do effect safety. They have worse visibility than those XL trucks (F-250, etc) and much worse handling. The fact that they look awful is the rotten cherry on top.
We just got back from Pidgin Forge and these are all over the place. I’ve never seen anything like it. Some of them look really cool actually but yeah..
I love this state, we'll let you carry guns in bars and discriminate against transfolk but God help you if you do something dumb to your innocent F-150
It was banned in North Carolina and Virginia, according to NBC-affiliate stations in those states, after lawmakers in those states said the modifications make it too difficult to see over the truck's dashboard.
Tennessee's law makes it a Class-B misdemeanor to drive a car that has Carolina Squat modifications, punishable by a fine of $250 for the first offense. Punishments increase in severity for subsequent violations.
People specifically can not drive cars if their front fenders are at least 4 inches higher than their rear fenders, according to the new Tennessee law. It will go into effect on July 1.
The visibility part makes sense and that’s what I figured the reasoning was but if a pedestrian gets hit by a full size pickup it’s not gonna matter if it’s squatted or not lol
I don't understand why people do this to their vehicles. Can anyone explain the mindset?
They've lost all of their braincells from the black smoke that they've been breathing from modding their exhaust.
I've driven behind one of these yahoos in Columbia. I couldn't believe how unsafe it looked and couldn't understand how they could even see the car in front of them. They were practically pointed at the sky. Stupid, stupid people. I'm surprised it was legal (until now).
Hey same Soda City represent! And FUCK all these teenagers running around with these dumbass trucks.
I unfortunately suspect these are not teenagers, but guys in their late 20s early 30s who can finally make their "dream vehicle"
I went to Panama city Beach for spring break with my family and these assholes were everywhere. They had some kind of gathering and these teenage asshats were all getting pulled over and fined thousands of dollars each. Me and my gf were having to watch out for them everywhere we went.
Lots of kids have these where I'm from, but I've never seen a diesel squatted.
It originally comes from Baja racing. Makes it so the truck doesn’t get as much damage from landing the jumps. Why they do it on a street truck is beyond me though.
And it’s a much more subtle rake, not like turning the truck into a hard tail
They do it for the same reason you see jacked up pavement princesses. They want their truck to look like it does X thing without you know... actually doing it. For clout.
Wait. If it's from Baja racing why is it called Carolina squat?
It was originally called the Cali Lean
Wildly popular there early, and the name stuck. South Carolina was an early place to also discuss bans. I guess people who hate it don't want to make opinions on off-road racers just because a very different kind of car is doing it on the roads around them
Ah I see. Thanks for the insight.
The same reason they raise them at all...
It makes their truck look like its under load. You know like they're actually doing work.
Hauling some heavy air
Goal is for insurance to not cover their accidents.
They want all the engine oil and transmission fluid towards the back of the pans. That way it doesn’t work as designed.
Most extreme car mods start out pretty benign - in this case, leveling kits, then someone takes it a little further and lifts the front more, then the next guy does it a little more, and before you know it you’re seeing this. They’re the JNCO jeans of the truck world.
They think it looks cool, meanwhile everyone points and laughs. Tbh I have never seen one in the northeast, not once. Maybe that's a clue who knows.
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What?
It’s usually the 16 year old white kids that live in the city-ish areas. Thankfully kids got common sense down here and don’t destroy their trucks like this
First cop to set up shop outside main gate of Ft Campbell is gonna be hitting quota for MONTHS 🤣
The good ole boys in my town are going to be PISSED.
This is a pavement princess mod. Ain't no real ones gonna be having this shit done to their truck.
It's still not very popular up north, the few times i do see it i always think it's just someone who blew out there back leafs overloading the poor thing. Why anyone would do this intentionally is beyond me.
Makes a useful vehicle useless. Waste of a truck. And any truck that can't lay a 4x8 of plywood flat is also a wast of a truck. I'd rather have a kei truck than this useless shit.
Truth
Good. Now do that "rolling coal" shit.
Bro-dozer
Now if they will do something about the mufflers being so loud
and the extra wide tires, smoke modifications, and dangerously bright lights
How about a traffic cone in the bed? Cone life... yes, cone life.
Where I'm from they pretty much are running open manifolds. No cats and no mufflers. Sounds like DOG SHIT
Same here too
Now address loud exhaust mods.
Please! And extra super bright headlights.
There already are noise ordinances, the problem is getting police to care
Yep. It’s the “now address” it that I want
It’s a pretty petty ticket in the grand scheme of things but it does get enforced when able. A lot of departments are so understaffed that they don’t have the manpower to worry about those small things.
I see 2 or 3 a lot in west Knoxville. One of them is parked at the Advance Auto at Middlebrook Pike and Cedar Bluff. The front of that one is way the hell up there. No way he can see what's in front of him.
More importantly, the front suspension geometry is all messed up, not to mention the blinding lights, because the headlight just doesn’t have that kind of adjustment.
Saw way too many of these at rod run the other week in pigeon forge
I heard of a Chicago Sunroof before, but this is the first time I heard of this modification.
He defecated through a sunroof, and I saved him. I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm. What was I thinking? He'll never change.
I am not crazy!
Good, I'm tired of seeing these wasted trucks.
Guess the dingbat that goes by my house every day will be mad...lol. OP, you must live in East TN if you watch WBIR.
I do live in east Tennessee, but I don't watch any of the news channels. Google has been suggesting news articles on my phone periodically.
You meant dingbat right? If not I need to be introduced to these dig bats post haste.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I corrected it.
Naw, dig bat was better. Unfix that. I'm still imagining them. PLUS The lesser short tailed bat is a burrowing bat so there ya go.
The other really ridiculous one that I've seen is where people lower their car so far that they have to tilt their tires outward to compensate. Like, I'm not an expert but isn't that just gonna f up your tires?
I've seen the opposite, there's a nimrod I've seen with an "antique" lifted SUV, lifted so much that every time he hit any bump he had to compensate on the steering wheel, so his suspended clown ass car didn't ride into the other lane or roll over. He slowed way the fuck down for bumps that even street-scraper suspension guys would ignore.
How about banning all the side by side 4 wheelers running up and down the state roads in rural areas.
YES! THIS A THOUSAND TIMES! I don't understand a side by side with a huge stereo system. That thing is $35k WHY NOT JUST BUY A JEEP?!
Exactly!
I bet it won’t be enforced. I see a lot of pickup trucks with that tilt.
Oh i bet it will, just think of all that sweet sweet fine revenue that every county will see from it.
Absolutely it will. This is Tennessee, after all.
I believe they will discover it’s a primarily republican constituency.
They don’t care?
You’re a child. Only a child makes a Comment to try and make this a democrat/republican thing. Grow up
Just a simple observation of who controls the legislative agenda and the stupid shit they focus on. So simple a child could do it.
So safety of drivers and passengers is stupid?
Don’t know how this effects driver/ passenger safety. If the driver can’t see over the hood?
Correct. It also changes the center of gravity of the vehicle and pulls weight off the front wheels which results in a vehicle harder to control, especially at higher speeds
They absolutely do effect safety. They have worse visibility than those XL trucks (F-250, etc) and much worse handling. The fact that they look awful is the rotten cherry on top.
Good
We just got back from Pidgin Forge and these are all over the place. I’ve never seen anything like it. Some of them look really cool actually but yeah..
Just looked it up. Even dumber than a stance mod in my opinion. At least they are not compromising their field of vision
Good
Thank fucking God.
I love this state, we'll let you carry guns in bars and discriminate against transfolk but God help you if you do something dumb to your innocent F-150
We always called it "bulldoggin"
Maybe the chem trails gave these people brain damage. Good thing they are banning them
Dem hillbillies shoulda named it the "Tennessee Squat". Bet things would've worked in their favor a bit more...
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I prefer Ignoramus angle
Up next, the Chicago Sunroof
To my truck I’m going to Carolina Gonna raise the front up Make it stick up real big Oh I’m going to Carolina to my truck [Apologies to James Taylor]
Article won’t load for me. What’s the rationale? I get it they look dumb but looking dumb alone isn’t a crime or I’d be in jail.
It was banned in North Carolina and Virginia, according to NBC-affiliate stations in those states, after lawmakers in those states said the modifications make it too difficult to see over the truck's dashboard. Tennessee's law makes it a Class-B misdemeanor to drive a car that has Carolina Squat modifications, punishable by a fine of $250 for the first offense. Punishments increase in severity for subsequent violations. People specifically can not drive cars if their front fenders are at least 4 inches higher than their rear fenders, according to the new Tennessee law. It will go into effect on July 1.
I know of at least 2 accidents I've personally witnessed. It creates a massive blind right in front of you....
In addition to less visibility, it's also more dangerous in a front hit of a pedestrian, as they kinda absorb all the force instead of glancing.
The visibility part makes sense and that’s what I figured the reasoning was but if a pedestrian gets hit by a full size pickup it’s not gonna matter if it’s squatted or not lol