I love it when young people learn lessons…..Yes, bad driving skills will be hard on a vehicle. Manual or auto, dumb drivers have ruined so many vehicles. Maybe tell the camera guy to be quiet, he doesn’t add to the video.
My little brother was a Marine Combat Engineer. Before he went Army with the 101st. When deployed, in Afghanistan on a patrol with "joint forces" they needed someone with explosives experience. He said that he had experience as a combat engineer in the Marines prior service. Not only did Jaws drop because no one knew this fact about him, he got to set some charges. He was supposed to make a small charge. Which is was...for a marine combat engineer. People were backed up aways, and he told them to go back further. When they asked how much further back, he said about 50 more yards. No one thought they needed to go back thst far until he started running back towards them, didn't slow down, and kept going past. They decided at that point they probably better go at least as far back as he was!
I have LR3 /Disco 3. 358,000 km .Only issue suspension arm replacement at a reasonable cost,but the 4x4 has been brilliant while owning this vehicle. On a search for next vehicle to replace it.
I have a 2006 rubicon. I painted the top of the hard top white. HUGE drop in temps and much more comfortable. She gets an additional 1 mpg also. I suppose the air conditioning components will last longer as well.
Lets talk about the plastic that covers the instrument cluster it lookes like garbage. Already scratched. Come on you guys lets be honest Toyota is paying you to redeem their truck. Those trucks a garbage quality. Look at the Tundra and whats going on. Its a American quality truck with a Toyota badge. Look at the employee roster for Toyota of North America. Their all ex GM, Ford and Chrysler people that lost their jobs when the big three took nose dives. Branding means nothing anymore its all a illusion to fool buyers to pay more and get less.
I was always amazed by the humvee when it was broken or I actually got to use it in an off road setting. But the fact that just 1 was 200,000 to 260,000 dollars depending on the model was crazy to me.
The test wasn't the same because the snow wasn't even sticking to the ground. In order for the test be the same ice had to be covering the ground like last time.
“I’m gonna off-road in a heavy vehicle with IFS” 😂 Fwiw, front locker can help in those situation and limit the chance of a break by keeping wheels From gaining /losing traction like the break did where surges of torque hit the diff and broke it.
Yeah not a fan of brake actuated traction control systems on these newer vehicles whose engines are producing stupid amounts of torque. I don’t think the manufacturers are making the other components stronger to compensate. And worst of all it’s all just marketing bs so they can justify engines with less cylinders to customers and be able to say they have more torque ratings than the competition. If they want to have better wheel torque, just provide lower gearing. It be better on the engines too rather than trying to squeeze all this power out of these engines. And there comes a point where more torque is not more betterer- exactly the scenario you laid out being one. Another is slippery surfaces like mud or soft sand- last thing you want is gobs of torque. And it’s not like it’s even needed for towing-with these midsize trucks, if the other components like brakes and suspension are not beefed up it’s not gonna increase their towing capacity significantly anyway.
@@dadventuretv2538 the only brake modulated traction control I can think of that’s on an axle that can handle it was the 1999 to 2004 Land Rover discovery’s. They had this wabco brake modulating valve thing that would do what these modern SUV’s are doing but it was on a solid axle (open diffs tho). Of course, those disco 2’s are hot messes in a lot of regards but they had the idea right and the components to match it so it wouldn’t just break shafts or third members and what not.
@@dadventuretv2538 I don’t see why they can’t make stronger IFS systems. I watch those desert Baja trucks and some of them are 4 wheel drive ifs with 37”+ tires and 800hp and they aren’t snapping things a lot.
