- Well, here it is the 2022 Toyota Tundra.
And this one is the limited with the TRD Off Road trim,
and so far I love it.
I've got little over 500 miles on it,
and it's been incredibly comfortable,
the power delivery is great
and it's smooth,
it's quiet on the highway.
But I figured it's time to take it off road now.
So I have air down ready to go.
But unfortunately 'cause of the limited
comes with 20 inch wheels,
it's got big wheels,
small tires so I've gone down to about 20.
Anyway, let's get going
and I'll talk more about the vehicle
and the trail that we're on.
(engine revving)
The trail that we're on today is Onion Creek road,
just outside of Moab in Utah,
and it is a beautiful trail at the best of times,
you've got Creek crossings,
huge cliffs,
formations all around you,
but today it is snowy.
So I think it's actually even prettier
than the last time I was here.
I'm not sure how far we'll get.
It does actually make a big loop,
it goes up into the mountains,
but the snow as you go further up gets deeper.
So we may not make it all the way,
we'll have to see.
(engine revving)
So one of the things I noticed about this
is driving on the road it does kind of drive
a little bit like a truck.
It is very comfortable ride,
but it does have a little bit of that,
I guess it's a shimmy from the lack of weight in the back,
but off road this is incredibly comfortable.
Right now we're at 20 PSI
where normally I'd go down a little bit lower
in my old Vic the 4Runner,
but this is way more comfortable
than the 4Runner ever was off road,
and visibility out the front of this
is actually pretty good,
especially considering it's a full-sized truck.
I've ridden in and I've driven other trucks
where the nose goes out really far
and you really can't see over the top of it very well.
Whereas this, the nose kind of goes down
and the view out the fronts actually very similar
to my 4Runner if not a little bit better.
And I think maybe the higher seating position
helps with that a little too.
So we've just reached the totem on Onion Creek
and I figured we'd talk about the screen a little bit.
Right now up here,
the 14 inch screen is awesome for navigation.
I have got a GPS pulled up
and which is the main one I use for navigation
and you can see I've got my routes on here,
my way points on there,
but you can switch over and you can use onX as well.
Right now I don't have any of the maps downloaded on onX
I forgot to do that before we came out here,
but that's another useful for finding trails
and navigating along trails.
And except this 14 inch screen is fantastic for that.
The screen also has a bunch of cameras
which are very useful for off road driving.
If I push the little view button here,
it switches over to the camera view.
Now right now this is probably the most useless view,
that's the panoramic view,
and that's because I'm in park.
When I shift to drive,
and open up that camera view,
you've got a choice of a bunch of different camera views.
This one, I particularly like for parking,
'cause you've got a top-down view
and it shows where your wheels are going.
So if I'm going forward,
and I turn my wheels to the left,
you can see that it shows where the inside tire's going
and that could be useful for off road as well.
And then this is the front camera showing
basically from the center of the grill
where the Toyota badge is.
When I shift into reverse,
does the same thing.
So this time I've got back up camera,
shows where the wheels are going to be going.
Shows actually where your tow hitch is too.
And then same with the top-down view.
So it shows what your back wheels are gonna go,
and it shows what your front wheel is going to swing out.
But you can switch to different views here.
So I've got
this one shows my, it's a forward looking camera
from the two wing mirrors,
shows where my tires are.
So you can see which way they're facing.
And then you can switch,
I mean you can choose back up.
I can look down the back,
these are the back wheels here.
And then there is also a off road camera,
which basically it looks straight down from
the two wing mirrors,
shows you where your front tires are going here.
So if I turn you can see which way they're going.
You got information about pitch and roll.
And I can switch the camera views that you see here too.
So, this one actually kind of shows
exactly where your tires are,
where the bottom of your tires are going,
again I can look out the back.
I can look down the sides and out the back.
So a bunch of different camera views.
I really like 'em.
I think this is gonna be great for rock crawling.
Well, maybe not rock rolling,
but you know some of the tighter trails
where you maybe don't have a spotter,
you can see exactly where you wheel placement is.
It helps when driving a larger vehicle like the Tundra.
So we just came to a mild slope
and I figured now's a good time
to show you some of the other off road features
that we have.
To do that we do need to shift to four low.
I have actually already shifted to four high
using this little shifter here,
and all I have to do is while driving along
between zero and 55 miles an hour,
just push this down and pull it down to four high.
To go to four low,
I shift to neutral,
push it down into four low there,
and now I'm in four low and I can tell
'cause I got a little light on the dash that says four low.
So now I have the option to switch
between several drive modes.
If you look here at the style
I have got multi-train selects,
so when I push that I can now spin the dial.
When I spin the dial up on the dash,
you can see I can choose between,
I've got rock,
mud,
sand and mogul,
and that changes how the traction control on here responds.
I'm gonna put it on mud for now.
And then the next thing I've got on here
is Crawl Control or Downhill Assist.
And that also pulls up something up on the dash here,
where I can select the different speeds
that I want this to go.
And it's basically like an off road cruise control,
it breaks for you,
puts the gas on for you.
It's not something I used a lot on my 4Runner,
and one of the reasons was just
'cause it was kind of obnoxious in the 4Runner.
Very, very noisy.
But if I take my foot off the gas,
or I take my foot off the brake right now.
Crawl Control will take over
and it will start driving me down this hill.
So I got feet off the pedals
and it is just slowly driving me down the hill.
I go it on the slowest speed at the moment.
And it is completely quiet.
And then if I wanna go a little faster,
I can just turn this dial up.
So now I'm going on the fastest speed.
And again, it's controlling all of the braking,
all of the driving.
This is one of those things
that's supposed to be really good at getting you unstuck
just the way it controls the wheels
and the brakes on each individual wheel.
It is supposed to be very, very effective,
especially in sand.
And these features are features that are unique
to the TRD Off Road package
that you can get on the SR5 limited
and 1794 edition.
And you'll also find it on the TRD Pro
when that comes out.
Another thing that is unique to this is the rear locker.
So if you get really stuck
or you anticipate getting really stuck,
you have this button here
that's available in four low.
So I'm actually gonna start rolling down this hill
and push it,
and it will engage the rear locker.
I've got a little light flashing here.
It's taking a minute.
This is the first time I've actually put the rear locker on
and I don't need it now.
In fact it's probably gonna actually make things worse
as I go around this corner.
And it is now locked in the rear.
So that's something that you're gonna wanna engage
as you approach an obstacle
where you think that you might need
an extra little bit of traction
as to maybe got an actual twister.
Basically you're gonna have to anticipate
if you are gonna lose traction in one of those back wheels
'cause it takes a little bit of rolling to get it engaged.
So not everything about the Tundra is great,
it does have some downsides
Toyota did make some strange decisions
like having 20 inch wheels on the
TRD Off Road version of the limited.
Those are far too large.
You don't get nearly enough tire on there.
So I plan on switching those out for 18 inch wheels
and putting bigger tires on
and I'm thinking probably 37s maybe 35s.
I do worry I'll ruin it if I put 37s on,
and then on the front end
there is a noticeable lack of any recovery points on here.
I do think that's gonna be something
that's gonna be easy to fix
and it's gonna be remedied pretty quickly.
And then the only other thing is
the lack of decent skid plates.
Even on the TRD Off Road model
they are plastic skid plates and they barely cover anything.
And I was very disappointed by that.
Especially when you look at the specifications
it lists skid plates
and I don't think those really count.
Well that is the end of Onion Creek trail
and it has been an incredible day.
I've been here in the summer,
I've done Onion Creek trail in the summer
and I thought it was beautiful then.
But coming here in the snow is just something else
and driving in the snow has been a lot of fun as well.
This Tundra has been incredible.
I am so happy with this purchase
and just everything about it I love.
It does have a few downsides,
especially when you consider some of the things,
some of the off roading things that are missing from it.
But obviously those are easy to fix.
You just got to consider that
when budgeting for the vehicle.
If you wanna see more like this in the next few days,
I'm gonna be taking it on a bunch of trails
around here in Moab.
I want to do Hells Revenge Trail and Fins N'Things,
but I need a lot of snow to melt
before I'm gonna do either of those.
But subscribe to the channel and see what we get up to
and how we end up building out this Tundra
over the next few weeks.
After the last couple of days on the trail
in four wheel drive,
I am down to 17 and a half miles per gallon,
which is not bad for trail riding.
Definitely a lot better than I got in my 4Runner.
Not as good as I got on the highway
driving this through Denver,
I got about 22 miles per gallon in the traffic.
And then when I went across the mountains in Utah
that did drop down to just under 20.