Thursday, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:55
If the Hilux can not do what you want it to, sell it and buy something that can, it will be cheaper and more reliable.
You will be amazed what they can do standard, I needed to do a 4wd course for work just after i got my Hilux and we used our own vehicles. He walked us round the track (crawled some of it) first and not having done much off road driving thought the Hilux would never make it through. Everyone else had cruiser utes and Patrols. Strangely enough it poked through in low low without even slipping a wheel (std highway terrain) and just rubbed one of the side steps on the way round.
In all of the news reports you have seen from disaster relief organisations around the world using Toyotas, how many ARB stickers do you see on them? They are mostly stock. The cars are donated and they do not waste money modifying them, they dont need it.
I have worked for some remote rail construction companies and all the Hiluxs are stock standard out there and they do take a hammering and yes they do break, but mostly cause they get driven by people that dont care about them.
Then there is always the pissing competitions round the
camp fire, but you will need to sink a good 30 grand into stuff you will never really need before you would even want to join in the conversation.
Go and have a look at newhilux.net and see how much money people spend on them without ever having been in a situation where they actually need the stuff and carry on when they put lift kits in and wheels 3 or 4 inches larger then realise the brakes dont seem to work very
well and it has no pulling power and the transmission over heats, so they put a chip in it then bitch cause Toyota didnt want to know about it when they melt a piston under warranty.
But it all boils down to it is your car and could be looked at as a hobby, but be prepared for a lot of work and expense on something you will either write off or sell for a fraction of what you spend on it in a few years.
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