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Don't waste your money on that thing. Just buy some sandbags and throw them in the bed.
I recently switched back to a truck after having a Tahoe for 3 years and a sports car before that. I have been noticing that I am experiencing hydroplaning more in the last couple weeks than I ever did in my previous 9 years of driving.
I mentioned this to a friend and he told me about a water bladder you can add to the bed for additional weight. Looks like this
Costs like 140 bones though and I would hate to drop taht on something that doesn't work very well.
Anyone ever try a system like this?
Don't waste your money on that thing. Just buy some sandbags and throw them in the bed.
yeah i guess that would be the cheap alternative. plus make it look like I use it on the reg.
chode reg are you dumb? you might as well just pay mookie to ride around in the bed
haha
didn't say i was going to buy it. just lookin for something to fix me from sliding all over the place. i forgot how much trucks are prone to that. between the 'ho and the Z I am re learning how to drive trucks again.
lol oh ok. you should drive slower you maniac. I'm about to go back to a truck also.
i dont drive babies. im not taking the time to with a child seat
That's what I am having a hard time with. In the rain I have been driving slower, well at least accelerating slower. Anytime I'm at a stop and moderately accelerate I get nervous now, when it's wet out.
I don't ever remember having this problem in the past, unless I was just being stupid and intentionally doing it.
Babies can't ride in teh bed? What do we livein commie Russia now?
roads are just tier in houston. smegma all over the roads that slicks up in the rain and
That's the truff if I ever heard it.
crofl yeah no
oh teh noes!!!!11!!1!!?1!!!
that can't be true
ty tires FTL....
its fun to do bad things.
bull you little eaves dropping
yeah fo sho. hope they run a $59 special from HOU to LUB
perhaps. they are pretty much brand new but nothing special. Run of the mill tire, similar to what would come stock.
What truck is it?
I have a 1999 Ford F-150 and it has a 2nd gear that supposedly prevents the tires from peeling out...im not really sure how although i think it says in the manual...but the engine definitely sounds different in 2nd gear...it does help too
Another thing you can do is obviously don't step on the pedal so hard...and another thing that really helps is to let your truck start rolling before you push the pedal and that usually helps..
and other than that if you start peeling out or hydroplaning just let off the pedal don't keep pushing it... the person behind you if you take long haha
05 Silverado
Yeah I let up when it happens, seems that I seriously dont hardly push on the accelerator at all. I start out REAL slow now as I'm tired of it happening...obviously.
It has nothing to do with tires or what gear your truck is in.
Its has to do with uneven weight distribution in rear-wheel drive vehicle.
You can be the best driver to ever grace the road and youre still going to hydroplane on wet roads, no questions asked.
Your engine is the heaviest part of the vehicle and it obviously sits on your front tires. The rear (drive) tires have only a bed sitting on top of it...an empty bed at that.
You either drive in 4WD High or drop some weight in the bed. Sandbags are the way to go, the bladder you propose just seems...very yuppy-ish.
Chode is it a single cab silverado? I had that problem when I had my 2000 Silverado Single cab. The back end was just too light. It helped when I got bigger tires but not that much.
yeah does seem like a waste of money. heading to lowes to get some saw horses, guess ill get some sand bags too.
unfortunately i downgraded from 4wd to 2wd.
no, ext cab.
I guess I'll just have to keep trying to drive slower and slower
I just dont ever remember this being an issue with any other truck i have. Ive heard of it being an issue in ice etc but I've never had any problems in the rain.
Try getting some bigger AT tires, that could help.yeah does seem like a waste of money. heading to lowes to get some saw horses, guess ill get some sand bags too.
unfortunately i downgraded from 4wd to 2wd.
no, ext cab.
I guess I'll just have to keep trying to drive slower and slower
I just dont ever remember this being an issue with any other truck i have. Ive heard of it being an issue in ice etc but I've never had any problems in the rain.
Single cabs hydroplane a lot.
My ext cab has never hydroplaned unless I did it purposefully.
I love 02-06 silvys. She will treat you good, other than the hydroplaning.
go back and get the 4 wheel drive version.
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