Marlin Crawler's New Rock Crawling Long Travel IFS Suspension System (#RCLT)

it is amazing how some companies dont want your money when you want to back the money truck up to their shop and give it all to them.

when i was trying to get my Crawl box, i was trying to go through RST but wyatt went dark so i went with inchworm and when he did get back to me i already had bought and his excuse was mom was sick and he was out of town. this was for like 3 weeks. this was all back in 2012. i got my box from inchworm in a week so i was cool with it.

 

Too bad inchworm is no more apparently just like the crawl boxes from MC. Apparently they aren't doing them anymore either not sure if that's true but wouldn't doubt it.

 

Jim sold his shit to Low Range Offroad who sold out to Trail Mart and they didnt bother to try and continue anything worth a shit

 

I have the verso case from TG which is supposedly based of the old inchworm dual gear case set up. But they are now obsolete too. But you can still buy parts for them. All those companies are owned by one big giant parent company which is why TG got it and LR ditched it. There are a lot of shared parts like that between them.

 

Fkn. Nailed. It.

now wheelers and all pro too. Sad, sad days.

 

They've been there Headstrong was the newest acquisition

 

y’all still waiting on this..??



Screw this company... wouldn’t trust them with a toothpick.. definitely not 7-10k of my hard earned money.

 

the kit is for YouTube/Instagram influencers only. It’s in the fine print. Lol

 

I had heard a rumor headstrong gave in too. What a bummer. They had great customer service. Surely that’s gone.

 

Idk, though they’ve all been acquired I have placed an order with all poo and Headstrong within the last few months and both experiences were fine. All pro responded within a few hours to an email I sent regarding an order and had it out the door that afternoon. Probably more streamlined service as far as getting orders fulfilled, and less consulting with the customer to make recommendations on products like Headstrong was known for.

They do seem to nix the unique products each used to offer over time in some cases.

 

I know Jon at AP was ready to retire when he sold to TG. He’s a diehard mini truck rock crawler and kinda lost his passion for the business when everything went overland-y. Happy for him to be able to retire in comfort after 20 years of All Pro. Jim at Inchworm was ready to retire when he sold as well.

 

There was also the bad taste in the community’s mouth from his poorly executed move to Montana and then back to CA, as well as the large amounts of customer service issues.

 

God I’m sick of those people.. hope there is special place in hell for them..

Best place to get an unbiased opinion and best review of equipment/gear and Tacoma shit is right fucking here..

 

I didn’t know about that much. Sad the old school good American Valued Small Businesses are getting bought out.

I have a few all pro products on my truck I’m not too happy with.

Thanks for the info. It’s good to know the whole story.

 

also, I gotta ask. What unit are you in that you get to play with 18s?

 

I can tell you most those influencer guys are reached out to by a company - then they offer something, and the person (youtuber) is like “Eh sure, why not?” You’d do the same thing if that was the position you were in and take up the offer.

Now is that right to do? Eh..

 

No doubt, he wasn’t passionate about the business and it suffered towards the end. I bought some leafs from AP in late 2016 and it took way longer than it should have.

No problem.

I’d rather some of the legacy companies at least have something financially to show for their efforts at the end of their owner’s careers rather than just close the doors. Same deal with Longfield after Bobby passed away. It was a bummer to see TG acquire the name, move manufacturing away from RCV and require more paperwork for a warranty than Bobby ever did. But on the other hand, I was happy for his wife Tina to be able to financially ride off into the sunset rather than just have nothing after Bobby died.

 

I get it.....But that can also influence opinion of the influencer....you got a good channel. Active on here, respect

Secret Squirrel Squad...

 

Some people get stuff quick

 

Yea he came on here or the RST thread to talk about how cool his sponsors were and how RST wasn’t that bad. Shameless plug much. It was pretty funny.