TRD 4x4 Sport off road capability

I recently got a 2018 sport. I had originally wanted an off road but couldn’t find any around me. I settled and am happy with a sport. I’m just curious as to how well it will do off road in mud & such. I won’t be taking it through major trails or anything real serious but just for playing around every now & then. Does anyone have any videos of playing around in their sport?

 

You will find the Taco is a most capable offroad truck. I find slower is better. Not as dramatic as high speed crash and bang but until I get factory backing that's the way I roll.

 

All of these TRD trucks are SR5s with packages. The stock OR comes with the basics for off-roading but depending on who you ask there are a lot of trails where even a stock OR will fail hard.

OR's get better tires, skid plates, off road shocks, locking rear diff and crawl control. The crawl control and locking diff are the only options you can't upgrade your regular SR5 or Sport to later on.

The Sport has a street tuned suspension but with decent off-road tires and shocks it could probably do 90% of what an OR can do.

 

4x4 Sport is plenty capable. I push my truck and rarely use the OR's nanny's. Mostly just run in 4hi and occasionally 4 low for steep climbs.

 

Get some better tires and you will be fine.

 

Better tires and you’ll be golden on mild trails. The only time I’ve ever even tried to use crawl control, I was up a creek without a paddle and it was pointless lol. In most off road situations, more is less as far as throttle.

 

It will go much further bone stock than your courage will.

The absolute only mod is a decent tires.

 

Sweet, thanks guys! Looking forward to having some fun!

 

The Sport is adequate, the Off-Road is better! (good-better-best)

 

It’s plenty capable and will probably do everything you want.

I wanted the locker and crawl for the “oh shit” situation but I have yet to use the locker and haven’t even engaged 4L on the 60 mile stretch of beach that I go to regularly.

 

That’s nice to know. I’m going to Florida in the summer and was wondering how I would do in the sand

 

I own a sport and have no issues with sidewalks

 

heres a video of me offroading with my sport..nothing extremely challenging but the sport handles everything with ease from my experience. my only mods from stock are TRD or suspension swap (cost me 200) just slightly softer than the sport suspension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzy_GCYQrhI

 

Awesome

 

i know lots of guys with Sports going offroading. I think it's more important to hone your skills.

 

That may be hard lol
I had an 05 pre runner then a Scion FR-S and now this so I haven’t gotten to do to much off roading. My pre runner went everywhere I took it and never got stuck. So I’m sure with a 4wd I can easily get it

 

Where did you get the TRD or suspension swap done? Possible to send a link?

 

As long as its mud type off roading, just go to Amazon and get yourself some $125 traction boards. I have some for my OR and find them more useful most of the time VS. the locker or CC/MTS for getting unstuck. Better tires and traction boards will take you farther than your wife will want you to take your new truck anyways...

 

i just bought the used shocks off another TW member..
they are almost always available on the classifieds section for 3rd gen.

I installed them myself, not a hard job at all.

 

It really comes down to the type of wheeling that you do. The major difference in the Sport and OR is the locker and crawl control and those systems are useful in some situations but not all.

If you’re doing a lot of off camber trails, the locker would be nice. I have never seen anyone actually use crawl control but I feel like it’s a last ditch effort kind of thing.

As people have posted, the tires on the OR are different but they are garbage anyway. Get a decent set of A/Ts and you should be pretty happy for mild trails.