Surprise - It Turns Out You Don't Need to Spend a Ton of Money To Have a Ton of Fun! - Ep.5 

Thanks for the kind words!

You said this on the last episode we get it

@@lukemoen5156 ah I'm sorry I'll keep your opinion in mind next time before sharing my own 😊

@@lukemoen5156 and thanks man I'm glad I live in your mind rent free enough that you remember me. I'm touched 😁 I love my fans

Ignore the grouchy trolls. Nothing wrong with showing support to the channel.

@@xfactoroutdoors165 exactly, didn't know showing support to a legitimately awesome and creative series was so offensive lol. Dude is probably salty cause he drives the same Ford Ranger Andre had in the series

@All Ebike 💯

I think a lot of that is due to tire choice. The Jeep was the only one with a super aggressive off-road tire, the others used an AT instead which would be better all around but worse off pavement

Got to save that name for the $500 finale.

They used it

I was hoping to see an old Mercedes ml I've always wondered how they are off-road even if they're unreliable 😂

I have a blazer sitting on 32's i got it with 120 000 km got it for 3grand put maybe 8 into it now, including lift tires and upgraded suspension. And it goes where you point it

Mazda is pretty bulletproof!!!

You can put a YJ dana 30 under that Rang... B4000 in an afternoon.

@@mmiller1188 even if you just extend the stock radius arms there’s a few guys who make those d35 ttb front ends FLEX with some tweaking

Facts. My 98 F150 cost me less than 3k to build into a monster. Locked front and rear, 4:10s, winch hard mounted in the front, hitch mounted hitch in the tool box, ladder rack converted for tent, storage over the cab, 5 inch lift on 37's... thing is an absolute machine

@@hanksadventures4132 Sounds like a beast!

@@TheShift1313 yes sir. Bought the truck 3 years ago for $300 with a blown motor. Guy told me it would never amount to nothing cuz the motor and trans were shot... he went and bought a 25k Jeep that can't keep up when we go out on the trails. Lol

@@hanksadventures4132 that is great. Ive had mostly 80 to 89 f series and broncos and they all did great offroad. From no lift on 32s to 6in lift on 35s. My favorite was an 85 bronco. Straight 6 with a 4 speed manual. With its 6.7:1 first gear and then low range 4x4 that would crawl anything at idle. I have a WJ now but im about to sell it. I dont really get off road much

Exactly, the manual trumps the bloody automatics every time, more robust, more reliable, more fun

Haha very nice! I wheel a WJ too, I have yet to attempt an obstacle it hasn't made it up. I have the 4.7 V8, 4" RC suspension lift with extra 2" blocks, 32" Mts, and a winch + bumper, Such reliable and great overlanding platforms!

zj 5.9 here still Killin it on the trails

Agreed

WJ made this look easy compared to the other two. Just imagine if it had Quadra drive with the varilock axles.

Unnecessary

Moe, Larry, n Curly? Lol!

Lol

I owned a 99 but my had quadradrive and did hells revenge in Moab Utah which is rated a 6 with just 2" lift and Goodyear MTR's so I knew before they even started it was going to win on this easy trail.

Thank you for the kind words!

I have it on my bronco. It dominated the trails last weekend. Rock crawling, stream bed, everything. They’re finicky with alignment but fantastic all around setups.

@@VTOffRoadAdventures they don’t use that anymore but they do still use the twin I-Beam front suspension from the 60’s on the 2WD Super Duties. Like you said they are tricky to align but incredibly strong and durable.

My old c class Mercedes is in that era but it's not at all simple 😂 one of few motors with 2 spark plugs per cylinder, all types of computer modules. Yet somehow it still never breaks and it has the best AWD of any car I've driven. Definitely the golden years. Same for my 02 Camry I had too. Very reliable cars

@@tati-anaroseee4316 my wife drives an 02 E320 4matic it's great, it does have electronics but for the most part you can fix them with a hammer. I drive an 02 S10 when it's just me, if I have to haul the kids I have a 1996 Tahoe I drive. For work I have a 1999 f450. These older vehicles cost pennies to keep going compared to the newer equivalents.

@@chaddavis8751 wow out of all those I think the S10 and e320 would be my choice, I remember going up the mountains in an S10 in Sierra Vista and I was absolutely amazed at what that little truck was capable of. I've always had a soft spot for Mercedes ever since we had the e350 wagon that lasted 450k miles before we sold it. You have good taste in cars my friend, very few people do anymore.

Haha right

And the simplicity and robustness of the manual transmission is a huge advantage, automatics suck

There's no way in hell they're gonna find any trucks or SUV for $1k I've already checked all over the country and they've all got salvage titles and don't run

@@tati-anaroseee4316 somebody smart might show up on a motorcycle for $1000

Sadly, TFL Bids is history.

@@byronlarson5534 my 1999 does not have traction control. It has ABS and that's it.

Did it in my grampas lifted 2006 tundra with 400k miles on it, Toyotas are absolute beasts of road (at least the older ones)

I remember those earliest of videos, when Andre spoke Russian. Pretty darn funny. Back then, I figured he knew English but just liked to speak Russian as part of the schtick.

@@anthonyc1883 yeah, I always wondered how Andre got involved with Roman, but needless to say it's awesome that it all evolved into what it is today.

They pay around a thousand at purchase, then $2-3000 in repairs, probably costing more than any of these three !!

LOL You don't need an oxygen tank at 13,000 feet.

@@01Z06guy well, you don’t necessarily NEED it but it can definitely help

@@alexadamson1322 If you go up the passes in the San Jauns with oxygen, I hope I'm there at the time to get a good laugh.

3 geo trackers

They S10 would be the cheapest. he paid less in the first place and the jeep got bigger tires there going to cost more.

The tires are a commodity item really. It’s pretty well known that a decent set of general purpose off road tires will cost between $750-1250USD.

You can add all day long, but it won’t be 1/10th of a modern $60,000 leather lined mall crawler.

Looks to me like they all made it to the end so….yeah

Well i have a Chevy so im gonna have to disagree.

Thats because tommy knows how to drive and the other guys not so much. Sending it while off-roading is exactly how you break/damage something. Momentum should be the last option when trying to overcome an obstacle.

@@canyonero2050 Your missing the point those other two trucks held up better with the abuse they took. you're acting like this was supposed to be a technical school on driving offroad

@@wiks101 actually i think your missing the point. Using momentum as your man tool for overcoming an obstacle isn't telling us much about these trucks. It would of been better to see them try to crawl up the obstacles at lower speeds first. This would of given us a better representation of what these cheaper vehicles are capable of on there own power and ability. That is actually telling you something about the ability of the vehicle. If at that point the vehicle isnt capable enough to crawl it then by all means go ahead and send it and see how it does. Tommy showed that his Jeep was capable of crawling those obstacles all on its own without having to take the risk of blowing his already shotty transmission or bouncing onto a rock and breaking something. I really dont think the "point" of this series was to see if they could or could not break a vehicle by testing out their "sending" limits. Of course in all reality the ACTUAL point of this video was to produce a commercial for thier sponsor, BFgoodrich. Ps-that chevy blazer absolutely broke/damaged something by sending it to hard up that hill. At the end he even admits it was his fault for having to heavy foot on the gas pedal.

@@canyonero2050 no the point was " sending it every-time " is what made these videos cool and fun to watch - slow crawling 25 year old pieces of shit that no one would trust to go up alone into the mountains without a support crew and a trailer (TRX) does not make for good content

People use momentum up hills either out of desperation or like you said, for entertainment. In reality its too risky to take chances like that in your daily driver that has to make it to work the next day. Thats the scenario most of us relate too. Holds true for shit boxes and fully loaded Rubicons. Sounds like you'd rather cater these videos to people with disposable incomes which goes completely against the whole point of the video. If those trucks had broken they would have felt real stupid for pushing it when a little less could have kept them in the video, was a big gamble.

Get your hearing checked if that is what you’re hearing.