Perfect tire size at 81 mph

[Steel City 06]

Here in PA you get well acquainted with hard acceleration. Consider this typical on-ramp:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.428...cdPIIdL_MK6fz_ig!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Traffic in the left three lanes has a 55 mph speed limit. Literally everyone does 70+ though.

Meanwhile you have a stop sign, very little visibility to people coming up the right lane, and about 50 feet to accelerate to 70 mph. Then you have to do a jersey slide across an exit lane or two (while everyone is also switching lanes towards you) into the center or left lane to make it into the tunnel, where people inexplicably instantly slam on their brakes and do 40 instead.

Then there's your average Pittsburgh intersection:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.414...BRgJU698mbNF18lg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Spin the camera around and count the roads. Same here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.382...RFtEW8t_kqy249Ww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

 

[JMT]

Here in PA you get well acquainted with hard acceleration. Consider this typical on-ramp:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.428...cdPIIdL_MK6fz_ig!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Traffic in the left three lanes has a 55 mph speed limit. Literally everyone does 70+ though.

Meanwhile you have a stop sign, very little visibility to people coming up the right lane, and about 50 feet to accelerate to 70 mph. Then you have to do a jersey slide into the center or left lane to make it into the tunnel, where people inexplicably instantly slam on their brakes and do 40 instead.

Then there's your average Pittsburgh intersection:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.414...BRgJU698mbNF18lg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Spin the camera around and count the roads. Same here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.382...RFtEW8t_kqy249Ww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

WTH is going on in that intersection? Nuts!

 

[WVJeep304]

Here in PA

Yeah... I despise PA as well, specifically Pittsburgh. I used to travel the country extensively by road, so I've got a decent list of places I hate and/or won't return because of traffic, roads, speed traps, people, etc .

 

[g.hayduke]

I personally would be afraid of doing sustained 70+ in a tj. Both due to a possible failures as well as handling. You can have the tj maintained well (as you see it) but in a 20 some year old jeep? Things can fail without warning. God forbid if all of sudden there's a DW.

If I couldn't do 75-80, it would be unsafe to drive on the interstates and most state highways in the SW US where Iive. I'd be severely limited as to where I could wheel. Fortunately, 80 mph is no problem in my rig.

The TJ at 80+ is perfectly safe if you maintain it properly and have adequate steering and brakes to go with any other mods done.

 

[ChasUGC]

I had it. 46,000 miles, all stock components. Hit a pothole and you'd almost break your wrist. 100% stock Rubicon.

Adding 4" of lift and 35s with proper hardware solved it. Also once you hit about 92 mph or so, it rides smooth as glass.

So, you obviously broke something over the pothole. Then, you fixed the broken components with a proper lift.

 

[1o1proof]

End 45 speed limit, end speed zone, etc means speed limit is now whatever it normally is on state and county routes. So in New York that would be 55, in Kansas it would be 65, etc.

I hoped that he was just trying to be funny….

 

[AndyG]

100% agree with this. ^^

DW tends to happen around 42-50mph too. I’ve had it, but it never triggered at 60 or 70mph. It was always at 42-50mph.

He is dead right- no clue why but like 47 mph is soooo common.

Only high speed DW I had was a bad track bar in an f250. Had to change drawers that week.

 

[Cooper Smith]

He is dead right- no clue why but like 47 mph is soooo common.

Only high speed DW I had was a bad track bar in an f250. Had to change drawers that week.

When my tires showed their age and lost balance DW kicked in right at 45 MPH.