Have you used the crawl control? I mean really used it?

I've read where guys have said, "they'd rather be in control" or I can "drive better than the crawl" etc. This fall I used the hell out of it in some crazy terrain, have the scars on my truck to prove it (still pissed, need some sliders) and all I can say is that feature on the offroads is crazy incredible. It will take you places (my opinion) that you simply can't go with your foot on the gas. That with the rear differential locker engaged, it simply blew me away.

Going downhill you get the noise, and the jerking so to speak, but uphill, wow. Worth the price of admission.

Need to get this painted....... Rough fall.

 

Yep, used it a few times on some of those frame-twisting types of obstacles, and super steep rocky inclines. It just finds traction where any other mode will not, all while keeping things under control.

 

Well its a hard lesson learned

You're not alone though

 

More than one thing being true at once. There is a type of skill involved with off-roading technical terrain in which, at least for me, MTS has been more useful. However, crawl control can do things that a driver simply cant do by how it directs power to certain wheels based on traction it senses. That being said, technical driving is becoming a lost skill these days I think.

 

This is the first vehicle I've owned and offroaded with the option to use it. I haven't yet. I've tested it out to make sure everything works, but it's gonna be pretty tough for me to get in a spot with a stock truck that the crawl control makes a significant difference. I've had a few double-locked jeeps on 35's, and Never got into a spot yet with the taco where I've thought "yah, having this feature would help"

I'd trade all the crawl control and multi-terrain select stuff if they'd just let me lock the rear locker anytime I wanted.

Locker > computers. But maybe I'm just old and bitter.

 

CC is excellent ascending and descending loose undulating trails, though the brakes get a tad hot descending

 

Have you seen the 2wd low mod ? Might be a bridge depending on what you're lookin to do

 

I haven't. I didn't think it was a thing you could do on the 3rd gens. Might need to do some investigating.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-2wd-low-range-for-the-3rd-gen-tacoma.614743/

 

Ahhh, still low range though, even in 2wd.

Plenty of times a locker is useful in 4 high or 2wd, like keeping the ass end spinning together when you're trying to go faster than 8mph in snow.

Maybe I'll just rip it out and put in an ARB.