Hi!
New to the forum from Brownsville, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, at the extreme southern tip of Texas. I'm recently retired, age 73, and purchased a 2019 Cherokee Trailhawk, a few months back. My previous vehicles were stick shift Chevy SWB 4x4 pickups, and more recently a 2dr then a 4 dr Wrangler. But I'm downsizing now.
I'm concerned a bit about the Trailhawk. Great traction from a low range and the locking rear diff, good approach and departure angles, but low breakover and not much wheel travel. I'm not going canyon rock crawling but would like to take this thing on the trails in Big Bend Ranch State Park (next to Big Big National Park, but more primitive and less frequented), and southern New Mexico.
In the "old days" (pre-2009 when the Cartel wars started), I did a lot of four wheeling in the Sierra Madre Oriental of northeast Mexico - very rugged, steep, rocky trails which necessitated tall high profile tires.
Gene, Brownsville, Texas
New to the forum from Brownsville, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, at the extreme southern tip of Texas. I'm recently retired, age 73, and purchased a 2019 Cherokee Trailhawk, a few months back. My previous vehicles were stick shift Chevy SWB 4x4 pickups, and more recently a 2dr then a 4 dr Wrangler. But I'm downsizing now.
I'm concerned a bit about the Trailhawk. Great traction from a low range and the locking rear diff, good approach and departure angles, but low breakover and not much wheel travel. I'm not going canyon rock crawling but would like to take this thing on the trails in Big Bend Ranch State Park (next to Big Big National Park, but more primitive and less frequented), and southern New Mexico.
In the "old days" (pre-2009 when the Cartel wars started), I did a lot of four wheeling in the Sierra Madre Oriental of northeast Mexico - very rugged, steep, rocky trails which necessitated tall high profile tires.
Gene, Brownsville, Texas
