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Long Canyon, Moab.
Bigger tires really shorten the 250 optically.
Took my GX to the trails today in the San Bernardino Mountains by Silverwood Lake and Lake Arrowhead (CA). Was initially intending just to stay on the forest service roads (Cleghorn, Pilot Rock, Miller) to get familiar with the GX. Within a mile declared familiar enough and started hitting the off shoots and challenges.
The GX was absolutely a champ. I had a chance to try everything, 4H, 4L, Center Locked, Center/rear locked, Crawl Control, DAC. The crawl control and DAC were particularly noteworthy for their consistently and smoothness. The camera views in 4L were really great to see what was in front of me on climbs. The wheel tracks and predicted wheel position was spot on and really helpful. My modded and basically analog-world Tacoma had no such black magic.
I like the inclination and roll indicators. I wish they displayed more specifics. I did learn (multiple times) that if you exceed 30 degrees inclination (up/down) or roll (left or right) the color in the meter turns from blue to orange. I do not know if there is a point where it turns red.
With the cameras and pitch/roll indication I was comfortable having it on 3 wheels at a couple different times. On one descent I knew I would probably going to have to teeter-totter it when decending a particularly challenging off shoot. Sure enough it did go from driver front in the air to the passenger rear hanging and it was very smooth and controlled.
4L worked really well to bring engine braking into use. 4H did not have enough engine braking. As some on have noted with their LC 250’s the transmission seems to be constrained to lower gears in 4L. I was playing with he manual shifting and it appears to be limited to 3rd or 4th gear at the highest. I say seemed because it was 4L and in 3rd gear and I commanded it to 4th and it said 4th, but the rev’s didn’t change. So, will have to try that again.
As expected, ran out of angles (approach, departure, break over) and out of ground clearance on multiple occasions. I expected that and was being careful. I’ll take a closer look under the GX tomorrow.
Finally, while I planned this to be familiarization it quickly turned into ‘let’s see what it can do? What else can it do?’. So, while I did not intent to explore the local flora, on the side shoots and obstacles it was a given. I’ll judge tomorrow how hard and resilient the Lexus clear coat is when I clean up the truck.
I’m really pleased. Today was a test flight. Hitting trails isn’t my GX’s primary mission. Primary mission is get me in comfort a couple hundred miles to baja and then out exploring; to do the same to my trout fishing 220+ miles away and then get me to the fish comfortably when and where I want to go. In that use case it is fantastic. Oh, and ventilated seats, had them going the whole time.
The Mark Levinson stereo still sucks, avoid it if you can.
Pix, pix and pix.
The GX was absolutely a champ. I had a chance to try everything, 4H, 4L, Center Locked, Center/rear locked, Crawl Control, DAC. The crawl control and DAC were particularly noteworthy for their consistently and smoothness. The camera views in 4L were really great to see what was in front of me on climbs. The wheel tracks and predicted wheel position was spot on and really helpful. My modded and basically analog-world Tacoma had no such black magic.
I like the inclination and roll indicators. I wish they displayed more specifics. I did learn (multiple times) that if you exceed 30 degrees inclination (up/down) or roll (left or right) the color in the meter turns from blue to orange. I do not know if there is a point where it turns red.
With the cameras and pitch/roll indication I was comfortable having it on 3 wheels at a couple different times. On one descent I knew I would probably going to have to teeter-totter it when decending a particularly challenging off shoot. Sure enough it did go from driver front in the air to the passenger rear hanging and it was very smooth and controlled.
4L worked really well to bring engine braking into use. 4H did not have enough engine braking. As some on have noted with their LC 250’s the transmission seems to be constrained to lower gears in 4L. I was playing with he manual shifting and it appears to be limited to 3rd or 4th gear at the highest. I say seemed because it was 4L and in 3rd gear and I commanded it to 4th and it said 4th, but the rev’s didn’t change. So, will have to try that again.
As expected, ran out of angles (approach, departure, break over) and out of ground clearance on multiple occasions. I expected that and was being careful. I’ll take a closer look under the GX tomorrow.
Finally, while I planned this to be familiarization it quickly turned into ‘let’s see what it can do? What else can it do?’. So, while I did not intent to explore the local flora, on the side shoots and obstacles it was a given. I’ll judge tomorrow how hard and resilient the Lexus clear coat is when I clean up the truck.
I’m really pleased. Today was a test flight. Hitting trails isn’t my GX’s primary mission. Primary mission is get me in comfort a couple hundred miles to baja and then out exploring; to do the same to my trout fishing 220+ miles away and then get me to the fish comfortably when and where I want to go. In that use case it is fantastic. Oh, and ventilated seats, had them going the whole time.
The Mark Levinson stereo still sucks, avoid it if you can.
Pix, pix and pix.
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Last pix.
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Additional comments after cleaning up the truck. The paint is in great shape and cleaned up well with just a little work. I’m pretty pleased. The piano black on the mirrors, however, will bear their marks forever.
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Additional comments after cleaning up the truck. The paint is in great shape and cleaned up well with just a little work. I’m pretty pleased. The piano black on the mirrors, however, will bear their marks forever.
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@tacoshawn i an glad you didn’t say: hold my beer. 
You had me until the last picture...that's a definite cringe but glad you're enjoying the heck out of it!
We would love to have a 250 Series join us at this years 70 Series Meet & Greet.
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