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Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:36 am
by phraza
Anyone watch this on Sky Discovery the other night?
http://www.skytv.co.nz/Default.aspx?tab ... t_id=39596Was 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.
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:17 am
by CLUMZ1
looked good, got it recorded on mysky, need to go back and watch it
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:45 am
by tuk
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....
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:50 am
by phraza
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!
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:30 pm
by andy3542
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
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:10 am
by KZN185
wouldnt be good tv if they brought spare parts with them now would it....
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:29 am
by phraza
This is true... tonights episode should be interesting
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:20 pm
by DDAN
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
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:45 pm
by MK1TNA
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
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:11 pm
by crusher96
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
Re: Discovery Ch: World's Toughest Drive
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:59 pm
by CLUMZ1
Bet they wished they'd just built up a GQ