Well everything ground to a halt over here in the UK this week, with snow falling in most areas.. as usual no-one is prepared!!

I wasn't going to make it to work, so we decided to head out, get the oldest to pre-school and head into town on the basis that we should be able to get through OK and we did.

On the way to town, just passing a Polish 7.5 ton truck with 5 ton trailer I noticed he was stuck on the ice, so offered him a pull as the traffic was backing up, we hooked a strap between the 2 and I pulled him all the way up the hill, he gave me a small reward for helping him.

 

Mmmmmm fresh milk sammiches!!!!

 

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sounds cool man....there arnt a ton of trucks over there are there?

 

No not many over here and most of them are probably wrapped up snug in the garage, but mine is used in all weathers, worked hard when I need it to, as well as being my pride and joy

 

I bet its badass then....My aunt lives over there in Weybridge, Surrey and was griping about only having tiny cars in the snow.

The member Armaby on here has a pretty nice truck and lives over there and always talks about how much fun he has having one of the only ones in the area

 

lmao I misread what he wrote....I thought he put that it was snowing a bunch and he took his kid to school, then went into town to get some BASICS. When most people flock to the stores in bad weather, the first things to go are bread and milk. I guess they just make fresh milk sammiches all day



I failed on the reading part of things

 

To bad you didn't get some pictures of you towing the truck. They would have been cool to post.

 

Yeah, wasn't really an option to be messing around with cameras, but this is the kind of thing I was pulling, it was fully laden with matching size trailer....

 

Harby - just a quick question...you have UK-spec there...is there any difference between a US or Canada model truck and yours? And my truck is the same year as yours, but you have different tail lights.

 

Hey

The main differences are the way the lights and indicators work, as with all american vehicles not specifically built for the UK, it has to be converted, including adding a rear fog light and having orange indicators front and rear and side repeaters in the wings. Mine was officially imported by Chrysler/Dodge USA and came with 3 years warranty from new. It also has a high grade alarm/immobiliser to meet the insurers security requirements for new vehicles.

The lighting conversion wasn't the best using 2 core mains cable so I had to tidy it up to make it look OEM and I've also re-connected the orange side lights in the headlights.

The other main difference is the purchase cost, equivalent to double the cost in the US!!

Paul