TEQ

Uh, I've been schooled that Westcott does NOT use robotics for welding. They have folks like this on staff: https://www.instagram.com/camdenmills/ Wow. Makes me love my purchase even more.

Good question. According to the various sites: - Victory4x4 Strike Rear Bumper: 139lbs - Victory4x4 Blitz Front Bumper: 50lbs - SmittyBilt Winch: 70lbs - Westcott Designs Sliders: 115lbs So roughly 375lbs.

I haven’t done anything to it except daily drive it for the last couple weeks. It’s been a fun experience, as my usual daily is a 3rd gen 4Runner. My son is in from Hawaii so he’s been using it for the last week or so and I kind of challenged...

Wescott Design sliders came. Well packed. Wow, the build quality of these is amazing. Clearly robotically welded. Beefy as heck. One hole (right rearmost, on the bottom) needed to be elongated about 1mm to get the bolt in; i reported this to...

Ha! love the license plate.

Skid plate did its job. More than robust enough for this kind of abuse. It was easy to whack it a few times in key places to straighten it out.

Get the Lexus out. Put the TEQ in. Def no hole in skidplate.

Nope, just dirt. No hole (although it does look like it in the pic). I misjudged a hole about 1' in diameter as I was about to head up another rough spot. I was going too fast and the hole was deeper than it appeared (full of water). The...

Kennebec Notch.

Cleans up nice. I’ll get it on the lift this week to straighten out that skid plate.

Now Inigo has officially been broken in… Took him up to the Kennebec notch and some side trails. Lovely scratches along both sides from bushes, a nice scratch on the rear bumper, and a huge deflection of the skid plate. So. Much. Fun. Very...

Got all the lights working.

Not enough driving experience to know about wind noise. Don't be like me and not realize they don't come in a set of 2. Oops.

I struggle with this. I tow a lot and if I were to remove the rake, I'd have a TON of reverse rake while towing, which I don't want.

Purgatory

FWIW, I've started a thread for my new GX550: https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/inigo-2025-lexus-gx550-ot-in-incognito.1367224/ Uglina's happy to have another LC in the fam.

This is the build thread for Inigo - my 2025 Lexus GX550 OT in Incognito. Named Inigo after Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride - the rig arrived the week I got married (last week). The Options: Wireless phone charger 10.7-in color Head-Up...