Why Do This?

Why do some people lift the front of their truck and drop the rear? I’m presently in Florida right now and there are quite a few trucks running around with this suspension modification. I’m from Canada and haven’t seen this in my area. I’m not knocking it but just don’t understand it. I can’t imagine how you could haul anything. I guess unloading would be easy. I haven’t seen a Tundra modified like this.

Here is one at the local hardware store. This one is mild to most that I have seen.

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/DG_dPawYhjo?feature=shared

 

WHY??? WHY?? WHY??

 

Passive income & loads of free time OR somebody said it was cool!

 

or.......ran out of money to lift the rear....heh

 

Ran out of money half way though the lift

 

Ha, your response didn't show up until I posted mine. Great minds think alike

 

We think clearer at higher altitude!

 

When I was a kid, imports were hot. Now, high school kids think the squat is cool.

Some things get better, like getting rid of Jnco jeans. Some things get worse.

 

IIRC, you are further south, but that is a Polk County thing. You should see them come out of the woods (Polk County) when they have the annual Monster Jam in Tampa. It's definitely a RN gathering.

 

Must be fun to deal with the spare tire on some of them.

 

When I was younger in San Diego, we had a lot of stadium truck racing (Mickey Thompson) stuff, Baja racing stuff. A lot of the trucks were nose high. It seemed like that was better for short track racing and i think a lot of people tried to copy the look. What you see now is absolutely not Baja race copycat. Now called Carolina squat, on low profile tires poking way out, looks dumb, in my opinion. Absolutely zero functionality.

 

There's one squatted Tahoe in my area. I think that might be the only one I've ever seen in person.

 

I’d only seen this on the internet until our recent roadtrip. They started around Houston and saw them all the way to FL. One broke down on I-10 around MS or AL with a couple buddies trying to help.

 

Mine sits slightly nose up vs the rear. Someone did ask me if I lowered my tundra lol

 

Absolutely pointless. Thankfully va has a law against them now but it only came after there were a lot of accidents from the driver not being able to see what was in front of them. Since the law came about you still see them sometimes but they definitely don’t have va plates

 

Perfect for watching the occasional eclipse...or full moon

 

This ^^^ was exactly my thought as well. Used to be the race trucks and prerunners were usually a touch higher in the front, so of course everyone wanted that look. (sometimes the functionality, but usually just the look)



Boom... "California Tilt" was born. Everybody was building a "Prerunner" even though most of them weren't pre-running anything. Not gonna' lie, I kinda' like that look within reason. Like barely higher in the front.

I used to love sliding my truck sideways... rain, freshly paved with sand on it, woo hooo!! I feel like they slide a little more predictably with the back end lower.

Then like most "trends" everybody thinks "I need to go more extreme than everybody else" and "If a little is good, then more is better"

Boom... California Tilt morphed into Bro Dozers, then it spread to the Carolina Squat and it just turned ridiculous.

 

I'll give true "pre runners" a legit pass.

 

Welcome to Florida, as I sit in PA looking forward to going home LOL.

I see it a lot in Central and Northern Florida. It is as so many have said. It is also illegal in most, if not all states. Florida tends to let things slide until they have a reason, so my area is covered down with these. Its a trend and one that needs to fade away.

 

I seem to remember the origin of the squatted trucks were actually from southern florida/louisiana swamp areas where they raised the front of the truck to keep the engine out of swamps when forging. Not sure how true this is but yeah what a horrible trend its turned into.

 

Makes sense actually.

 

Smells like BS to me. Could just as easily lift both ends of a vehicle to stay above low water crossings. Having grown up in Louisiana, no one drives a truck into a swamp.

 

And then what really sucks is... They don't adjust the headlights accordingly (lifters as well)...

 

It’s the automotive version of this

 

Makes sense, I'm in Desoto county. Just about a half hour drive from the big mud fest they have yearly.

 

Weird it hasn't spread further north.

 

Bleep it! I'm from North Carolina, so it being called a 'Carolina squat' makes us look like morons. It's embarrassing.

It's illegal here, too, but you still see it.

 

It's okay to knock it. It's pointless and only a moron would do that to their vehicle. Especially a pickup.