My 4x4-low use, thoughts and videos

Took it off roading this afternoon to see how it did. What I found are a few things. Pros: The fog lights are great for lighting up the road right in front of you, the 4x4 low crawls wonderfully, the approach and exit angles seems pretty good when I did a few step ups and downs, and the multi terrain select works great on the moguls and sand I put it through. You can really tell its working when on vs off and it helped with wheel spin in sand and when one wheel was off the ground or slipping on rock. Cons: holy crap crawl control is loud, I wonder what kind of wear it's putting on the truck. It does work really well for climbing and is silent, but descending is crazy loud. Also, the suspension or something creaks a surprising amount when it is being stretched over bumps and holes, hopefully that quiets down and is normal.

Vid 1: uphill moguls in 4low wiht MTS set to mogul. Very little wheel slip, did great, you can hear the suspension creak a bit.



Vid 2: Crawl control at speed 2 downhill. Works, but is loud, I turned it off and just did it myself. Still did great though.

 

Nice.. My 4runner has hill decent assist or whatever it's called and it sounds like that..

 

Good info.
I don't hear creaking on mine.

 

Well, hmmm. Even when moving the suspension to its limits, up or down?

 

I think they all actually do this if you use the crawl control.. Not sure if your just not hearing it or were just not on the same page lol

 

The creaking isn't the crawl control, it's just when the suspension moves a lot. The crawl control noise is the brake modulating the speed. No noises on the road or smoother four wheel drive situations.

 

Ok well, that's what I was talking about.. the noise the crawl control makes.. The suspension noise goes without mention.. I think i just misunderstood..

 

I haven't noticed it yet.
All I hear is rocks under the tires in this video. My other video is of crawl control and all you can hear is the brakes.

 

Get some rock sliders stat! Cool vids, thank for posting.

 

nice looking truck!!!!

 

Could be the plastic bed just popping my 2014 does it.