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Some things I would recommend you avoid with a M1009, at least until you get very comfortable with it: Water/wet mud. These trucks have something like a 20" fording depth, but you have to check every fluid afterward, and change any that are contaminated. If you take your truck through water, be...

I take my M1009 out in gravel pits and use it to recover stuff in 2 feet of snow all the time. They take a beating. You're right. All I meant was don't do CRAZY stuff with it if you want it to last, unless you upgrade it a lot or have the means to fix it when it breaks.

Coming from a guy who drives a mostly stock M1009, and Loves the thing to pieces (ie once got rid of some looney-toon girl because she didn't get along with his truck :P) I can tell you that it will cost a bajillion dollars and just as many man hours before you can take that thing off road...