I picked up a huge screw in a rear tire today on a busy street in Boulder. I pulled off, looked, thought (only a couple of blocks to my tire dealer....) and decided I wouldn't make it. So I got out my jack. First time in the Syncro after seven years and miles of back roads. Well, the jack would not fit into the rear passenger jack point! It fit into the two fronts, and sort of fit into the L rear. The rears had been smashed up. In an instant I determined that I could never bend the metal of that jack point open.... AAA to the rescue. Now I need to have those pulled down to open them up so when I go 30 miles on 4x4 roads like Wheeler Geologic Area--and have to change a tire--I won't be SOOL. The body shop that used floor pots to pull my skid rails down a little can probably take care of this, but has anybody else had this situation and what did you do? I'm just glad it happend in Boulder instead of Nowhere, Utah! Richard |
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