Hey Scotty! I'm addicted to your videos! Need some advice..what is your thoughts on lifting trucks for offroad use? I have a 2018 Nissan Frontier SV 4x4 all stock and I want to start doing some offroading during the summer. I have been told by offroad enthusiast that I need to lift my truck, get bigger rims and all terrain tires. Do you think thats necessary? What are the negative impacts of lifting a truck? Thank you for your time.
2018 Nissan Frontier SV 4x4
28,000 miles
Automatic
It depends on what you mean by "off-roading". Don't let other people tell you what you "need". You will know when you need something. The path of lifts and tires and so on is a very expensive one.
The single best thing you can do is get good all-terrain tires. Otherwise, leave as stock the way the engineers intended because it can mess with the rest of the car’s systems and stress/wear them out. In short, you’d have to re-engineer the rest of the car to compensate, adding serious money.
Scotty talks about it here and he is not a fan of it either:
https://m.youtube.com/watch/jAzl8k9S4k8
Thank you both this is very good advice! I live in West Texas and we have dirt trails with some soft sand. Good to know the negative sides to lifting the truck and I definitely don't want to be shelling out too much money.
Unless you have $15k - $20k burning a hole in your pocket, do not give it a second thought.
There is a difference between lifting a truck, and lifting a truck the proper way. Doing it the right way costs money and things will wear faster and will break. It comes with the territory.
