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How high is your truck

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had no idea where to put this so it can go here.
Been driving around alot latley looking at heights of drive-throu's and max height area's and its left me wondering just how high do some of the bigger trucks get, if any of you no how high your truck is can you please post up i think it would be interesting to compare, and yes im talking max height including any racks or anything you have way up there.
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Or you could also post up any area's that you can't go.
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I know what you mean, there are times when I am in a car park building and feel the roof-rack is about to rub on the roof, but when you get out and have a look there is still quite a bit of room. I have a 4WD Mazda MPV, not lifted just tallish and low ceilinged parking buildings.

In some cases I am sure that width is also an issue. Some Safaris with big and therefore wide tyres must fill up parking slots etc
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my old prado with spot lights couldnt fit anywhere with out them you could JUST, enough that people watch and wait for you too hit in the low bits in riccarton mall and it is 2.10 i think.

no idea what the new truck will be
toymota thats stock standard.
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as low as possible.... with 35's on the highest point of the roof is 1850 high
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With the roof rack on I can't fit into a 2.4m stud garage, well I can but the trusses push the suspension down. With the ladders on its about 2.6M
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My Hilux used to just squeak into most parking buildings in town with 33's on, and the MU - well I only ever tried going into the one beside the Hotel Grand Chancellor on cashel st in Chch, and the plastic height-warning-tube thing hit the windscreen at about my eye-height - I backed straight back out :P

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SupraLux wrote:My Hilux used to just squeak into most parking buildings in town with 33's on, and the MU - well I only ever tried going into the one beside the Hotel Grand Chancellor on cashel st in Chch, and the plastic height-warning-tube thing hit the windscreen at about my eye-height - I backed straight back out :P

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Even in my old datsun ute the dude came running out waving his arms cos I was going to take out the car park sign...
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cool, very very cool
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Re: How high is your truck

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rangimotors wrote: how high your truck is


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ummmmmmmmmmmm... Image feckin?!

possibly fit bigger tyres too...
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swampa wrote:as low as possible.... with 35's on the highest point of the roof is 1850 high


How did you manage that?

I just slapped in 50mm of body lift to clear my 33's and with slightly longer shackles and borderline flat springs i sit above 2m.
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Surf on 35 inch tyres. 50mm body lift and longer shackles, 1.95M tall
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no body lift and a well set up coil setup, still have plenty of travel both ways and it flies over the rough stuff, moved the body, moved the front diff, just the usual stuff, thats with bfg,s on, slightly lower with simex tyres on
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Post by Engineer »

anyone been through dunedins meridian car park?
my trucks only got the 50mm coil lift and m/t's but between the top of the surfs wee spoiler thing on the roof an the beams holding the level above ya's floor up i have about an inch..i hate driving through there.....especially after they drop the arm down on ya truck and laugh it off :evil: :evil:

but yea none of you boys would wanna try get thru there!
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94 IFS Surf..31" tyres.....50 mm lift springs.....1.80M
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Engineer wrote:anyone been through dunedins meridian car park?
my trucks only got the 50mm coil lift and m/t's but between the top of the surfs wee spoiler thing on the roof an the beams holding the level above ya's floor up i have about an inch..i hate driving through there.....especially after they drop the arm down on ya truck and laugh it off :evil: :evil:

but yea none of you boys would wanna try get thru there!


dads standard prado can't even get in there. sirens go off and lights start flashing.
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Mines only just over standard height :P

But by the time the 50mm body lift, 300mm suspension lift, and 39.5" swampers are on, she's getting up there :roll: :roll:
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the highest point on my saf above the rear doors ie roof 1780mm
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Petemcc wrote:sirens go off and lights start flashing.


A few years back i used to love walking in through there just to freak people out. The sensors set at 195cm I think. I made a past girlfriend nearly shit herself once. Good old immaturity :roll:
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old cruiser was 2.3m at tha ass end. way to high for maccas
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1.95m without my roof rack :shock: :shock:
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BJ70 at 1935mm. That's on the high side, near the back - and it changes when I climb on the truck to measure it :? Width is my issue. This usually gets worse at altitude but doesn't show up too much in carparks where most folk seem to give the old girl a fairly wide berth -- have yet to get any "carpark dings" on her! Actually, I should bloody ring State and ask for a concession on my policy for 'discouraging wanky door-opening in public carparks' :twisted: !
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Post by albundy »

Highest point on roofrack on the saf is 2.20metres. Highest point on front (cb aerial) is 2.50 metres. I have marked the roofrack height on the aerial up front so I don't get caught out in the bush with low hanging trees. I just fit in to my work carpark, on the lower floor mind you.
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albundy wrote:I have marked the roofrack height on the aerial up front so I don't get caught out in the bush with low hanging trees.
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Ha! Just the other day, I came trundling back up a bushy wee track I'd been exploring, when the glint of a shiny thing caught my eye... "What's that shiny thing hangin' from yonder tree?" I asked myself. And there it was, my pride and joy No.8 Aerial. Bugger.
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Post by meece4x4 »

1720mm Factory standard height,
Ferozaush now sits at 1830mm (with roof off) and not including CB aerial not as high as youse guys .. but pretty high for a little Diahatfoot. :lol:
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Post by Jerry »

Zuk is 1.80m
Cruiser is 1.95m (Garage Door height is 1.96 where it lives :lol: )
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Mines not high enough! :o
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Post by kaney »

new truck is 1.85m, cause when its 1.9m toll wont carry it as a car, it would be classed as a truck and would cost near 1500 rather than 600
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toymota thats stock standard.
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