She did great!!! I love Rav4's -- they are used as farm vehicles here in Colorado. They do great in the snow, great on rocky roads, being so light. Mud can be a little tricky, but at least they are easy to rock. I haven't been 4x4in' in my Rav4 in many years, but I did take her up the Mt Bross trail (but we had to turn around when we met a mini glacier). My Rav is '00 auto, AWD with limited slip. Go Rav4!
Mine is the last year of the first generation, 2000. I take mine to the lake and do some minor off roading, and it always proves to be a great little car. I love your build, and am hoping I can get mine looking something like yours one day. Mine only has 176k! Great job on the build!
That's really impressive honestly, I've been really excited to see how it did off road. A 3rd gen v6 would make for an interesting video too. Those rav4's are surprisingly quick given they're a 13-7 year old family oriented SUV
Cool video well done👍. After several different Toyota’s 4x4’s builds over the years they are for the most part tough vehicles! Your video made me smile when you put it to the test! I’m building a 98 Sienna with Rav 4 x4 power train now for Beach hopping down here in BCS...Adios
I wanted a smalloff-roader to work in my farm, after some research In 2017 I purchased a 1999 Rav4, just 4,500 Euros with 100,000 miles. It goes perfect. Whether not a pure of road Its capabilities are more than enough for a farm, and its reliability second to none. And when snow or difficult conditions it is a great asset. Go Rav4.
My father purchased one for 275,000php (4,960 Euros) here in the Philippines in 2014, still in good used. It was previously owned by a lady so it was only used for short distance travel. It still looks good.
We had 4 feet of snow and my rav4 that had not been started in two years.i had no choice i had to get out of the house.so i put my car battery in and turned the key,up she fired and off i went.i could not get over the capability of this little off roader 90s toyotas will we ever see the likes again.i dont think so
I've had a 98 Rav4 for the best part of a decade. I love it and as it's about to hit 300,000km, I've been considering changing it over for a new car even though it starts every time. Now you have me thinking if I should just rebuild it and enjoy it for another 10 years. BTW, if you hit that log more straight on the first time, you would have made it. Enjoy!
I could say many things you should do, put it doesn't matter, you made your best with what you got and what you know. Rav4 are much capable than that trail, belive me. I have a Rav4 99 4doors automatic, lift and with rooftent and put some surfing boards or climbing gear. It is great.
Last year my family tuned up our "Ghetto ass Rav4" by going to a trusty mechanic. New timing belt, pcv valve, water pump, oil pump, fuel pump, alternator, battery, all new tires. & I contributed to new spark plugs, spark plug wires, air filter, power steering fluid, valve cover gasket. The oil I put is Castrol High milage the OG green bottle & the oil filter is either Purolator 1 or Bosch Premium. Both I buy at Amazon for around 3-7 $ when they go on sale. I truly love the ghetto rav4 because it always starts, never seen a check engine light & it has enough power to go. Its so old both my older sister & i passed our DL test on it. That car is the car everyone uses when they don't wanna waste gas on their own car, 😂🤣 so they use the Ravvie.
Good video. Subbed! I love my RAV4. She is an '08 4WD V6. I sometimes wonder if I could modify her to off-road. I also dunno enough stuff or make enough money to make her capable of it. Maybe she is already capable? Oh well, I can dream regardless. Thank you for making quality content!
Hey drew! I really hope you see this comment! I own a 97 rav 4 and I don’t have roof racks! I’m really keen to get them but I don’t know where to look! I live in Tasmania, Australia! Please let me know where I should look and roughly how much they might cost
Hey Drew, I'm looking at a 99 Rav4 with a limited slip differential. I ran the vin through a Toyota decoder, and the limited slip and AWD are mentioned, but there's no mention of a center locking differential. If it's an AWD model, it should have the center locker also, right?
Correct, all all-wheel drive models have a locking center differential. It’s an auto locker for cars with an automatic and there is a push button for the manuals.
I told you if you needed some advice regarding engine power. I have a very heavy modified RAV4.1. But, I guess we would never know the REAL potential of this classical vehicle. I am mensajero.
Brother. What would this paint design be called I am thinking of purchasing one of these to either make it a Jurassic park themed or retro Jdm like yours?
@2:17 i would have got out for a moment and put the wood aside instead of fooling around for years if you do offroading not as a Sport only to get from point A to B, because there is no other way it would be exactly like that, the only goal ist to get to point B
It wouldhve made it over the log on first try, I have got two of them rav4s with bfgoodrich KO2 tires on them. Never had a problem. It looks like in the video you re using 3 seasons to keep up with the jeep lol
An off road trick for 1st gen RAV4's is to replace the stock 16" wheels with 15x6" Jeep wheels and use 215/75/15 AT tires. For bad mud scenarios, (heavy duty) snow chains on the rear (only) tires and locking the center differential could save the day.
