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Originally Posted by 08-G35s/6MT
The WRX is rated at a 1,000 lb towing capacity...
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And this video proves what exactly? It gives me the impression that you have never towed anything with a vehicle. I'm 200 lbs and I can tie a rope to my daughter's Mustang, put it in neutral, and pull it down the street, but that doesn't mean I have a 3,400lb towing capacity.
What you aren't counting are the conditions (slope, mud/water depth, soil type), distances of the 2 stuck vehicles in question, and are they running and able to provide any sort of help in their own extraction like the truck in the video obviously could? Snowy roads are a different animal all together my friend.
I'm sure that on a flat road with both vehicles in neutral a Ridgeline would be able to pull both trucks in question. But 10,000 lbs of dead weight stuck in the mud and uphill out of a pond.....no way. All that camarowguy's story tells me is that the driver's of the trucks that got suck didn't know what they were doing. If one guy is stuck in mud, the tow vehicle doesn't "go to get him out", he stays where he has traction and runs a cable/tow chain to the disabled vehicle.
To many variables, you can punch holes in this story all day long, so I call
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