I wonder why every time there is a thread on octane, lift geometry or regearing before it's over someone is dragging someone's fat alcoholic mother into the conversation.
I'm sorry but I think most of the time the person that is quoting all the statistics or math or whatever has the least experience of actually doing it... And I think that's just to support the fact that they really don't know what they're talkin about..
anyway I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings and I may be as wrong as I can be so accept my apologies if I am... And I don't think I'm the Forum police...but all you have to do is take the Jeep down to the shop and tell them to put the right ratio of gears for the tire size in it and write a check.
It's more important to deal with a competent shop than it is to know all the statistical probability.
Anyway that's my rant... I'll shut up.
I'd be careful with that idea. The "math or statistics or whatever" is what allows people to draw their own conclusions on a topic versus blindly accepting what others on a forum say. At least in my opinion, forums should be a place where people can have discussions over what conclusions they have come to. Having some debate about how people have come to those conclusions and what assumptions they used to do so is perfectly healthy. Everyone has had a different personal experience, so it is very hard to rely just on that.
I'll try to give an example. The shop that is doing my frame swap loves metalcloak fenders. At one point, the owner at this shop told me the best way to fit my 35's was to get metalcloaks. I could have blindly taken that advice due to the fact that the owner has been in the Jeep business since before TJ's even came out, or I could do a little critical thinking, some reading, and maybe a little math to come to my own conclusions. I've decided that metalcloaks would do me no good, contrary to what the guy with tons of experience told me.
At least in the scope of this thread, the reason why so many of these discussions devolve into insults is because people are condescending when trying to show their point. It is just like politics, there is no discussion, just people claiming they are 100% right.