Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive

phraza · Post by **phraza** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:36 am

Anyone watch this on Sky Discovery the other night?

http://www.skytv.co.nz/Default.aspx?tab ... t_id=39596

Was on at 8:30 not 9:30.

Was pretty sweet, watching the beast of a hilux down in the south pole. Well when it wasn't broken down.

CLUMZ1 · Post by **CLUMZ1** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:17 am

looked good, got it recorded on mysky, need to go back and watch it

tuk · Post by **tuk** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:45 am

not to take a spare rim/tyre on a trip like that seems like youl be asking for trouble. bet the plane ride in and out to weld the rim wasnt cheap....

phraza · Post by **phraza** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:50 am

tuk wrote:not to take a spare rim/tyre on a trip like that seems like youl be asking for trouble. bet the plane ride in and out to weld the rim wasnt cheap....

Hah yea i reckon, then trying to get a new wishbone sent down from the states... wouldnt be an overnight courier!

andy3542 · Post by **andy3542** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:30 pm

watched it and was pretty cool. a few things though like spare parts you would've thought they'd have brought... :oops:

Wouldve liked to seen more of the build proces and design

KZN185 · Post by **KZN185** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:10 am

wouldnt be good tv if they brought spare parts with them now would it....

phraza · Post by **phraza** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:29 am

This is true... tonights episode should be interesting

DDAN · Post by **DDAN** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:20 pm

They should of gone with a beam front axle they were pissed of when they broke the wish bone, the salesmen said it was bomb proof haha

MK1TNA · Post by **MK1TNA** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:45 pm

DDAN wrote:They should of gone with a beam front axle they were pissed of when they broke the wish bone, the salesmen said it was bomb proof haha

I thought the same thing but an ifs has better clearances the a beam wich would help in deep snow the other thing was they should stop pumping the tyres back up so much, when top gears toyota went to the north the tyres were pretty flat the whole time (or what they showed) this would give them more traction all the time not just after they got stuck and would lesson the strain on the week suspension by added cusioning

crusher96 · Post by **crusher96** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:11 pm

andy3542 wrote:watched it and was pretty cool. a few things though like spare parts you would've thought they'd have brought...

Wouldve liked to seen more of the build proces and design

the Australian 4X4 article has the build history

http://motoring.ninemsn.com.au/toolkit/ ... -polar-trv

CLUMZ1 · Post by **CLUMZ1** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:59 pm

Bet they wished they'd just built up a GQ

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