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<blockquote data-quote="Fuzzy Dice" data-source="post: 1027102" data-attributes="member: 15696"><p>I daily drove mine and it was amazing. Super smooth ride on the crappy city streets around here. I actually found parking to be easier with the Raptor than a car (seriously) because of the visibility since I always back into parking spots. This was my first full size pickup so the mirrors are like 3x the area of a car mirror that I'm used to, I felt like I could see everything! It also helped that I had higher offset wheels and I could watch my tire sidewall and line it right up with the parking space line.</p><p></p><p>The main thing I disliked for daily driving was the suicide door on the SCAB. It's a pain in the ace to get things in/out of the back seat if you're parked even remotely close to the car next to you. A lot of times at work I ended up squeezed and I'd have to shuffle all my stuff from the back to the front seat, then close the small door to have enough room to back myself out of the way of the swing of the front door (if that makes sense). Basically there's not room for me to have my work backpack on AND close the small door. Also I bet there were a half dozen times when I slammed the front door closed without having closed the small door yet and it just goes "thunk" against the truck and bounces back open... you feel like an idiot.<span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="font-size: 9px">---------- Post added at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:10 PM ----------</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span>I should also note that the width of the truck was (in my mind...) a big reason I just totaled it. Even after almost two years of daily driving I wasn't completely used to how wide it was and when I moved over in my lane to avoid some debris in the road, my tires caught the curb. Not the first time I've curb checked.</p><p></p><p>This time though the curb was more at an angle than perpendicular to the main road surface so I popped right over it and into the sandy/muddy dirt on the other side which sucked me over and I half t-***** half sideswiped a guard rail and retaining wall...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fuzzy Dice, post: 1027102, member: 15696"] I daily drove mine and it was amazing. Super smooth ride on the crappy city streets around here. I actually found parking to be easier with the Raptor than a car (seriously) because of the visibility since I always back into parking spots. This was my first full size pickup so the mirrors are like 3x the area of a car mirror that I'm used to, I felt like I could see everything! It also helped that I had higher offset wheels and I could watch my tire sidewall and line it right up with the parking space line. The main thing I disliked for daily driving was the suicide door on the SCAB. It's a pain in the ace to get things in/out of the back seat if you're parked even remotely close to the car next to you. A lot of times at work I ended up squeezed and I'd have to shuffle all my stuff from the back to the front seat, then close the small door to have enough room to back myself out of the way of the swing of the front door (if that makes sense). Basically there's not room for me to have my work backpack on AND close the small door. Also I bet there were a half dozen times when I slammed the front door closed without having closed the small door yet and it just goes "thunk" against the truck and bounces back open... you feel like an idiot.[COLOR="Red"] [SIZE=1]---------- Post added at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:10 PM ----------[/SIZE] [/COLOR]I should also note that the width of the truck was (in my mind...) a big reason I just totaled it. Even after almost two years of daily driving I wasn't completely used to how wide it was and when I moved over in my lane to avoid some debris in the road, my tires caught the curb. Not the first time I've curb checked. This time though the curb was more at an angle than perpendicular to the main road surface so I popped right over it and into the sandy/muddy dirt on the other side which sucked me over and I half t-***** half sideswiped a guard rail and retaining wall... [/QUOTE]
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