Boise offers a lifestyle that blends city convenience with immediate access to the outdoors. Many residents commute during the week and head straight for trailheads, river access points, mountain roads, or high-desert terrain on weekends.
That lifestyle places very different demands on a vehicle than pure urban driving. Pavement quickly turns into gravel, washboard roads, loose stone, and uneven surfaces that punish cars not designed for it.
Outdoor commuting in Boise is not extreme off-roading, but it is constant exposure to rougher-than-average conditions. Gravel roads create vibration that loosens fasteners, stresses suspension components, and accelerates wear on tires, bushings, and wheel bearings…