jbaiv1999
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I took my 2024 Tacoma Trd off-road premium to do some off-roading in Oklahoma this past weekend. We First did Rattlesnake Bluff near Brokenbow then we went north and camped that night near the beginning of K-trail. My friend took his 80 series Land Cruiser as well.
The goal wasn’t to try anything too technical. Rattlesnake bluff is only a 3/10 on On X and I would an agree with that rating. There was a decent little ledge to get up and I scraped my tailpipe and dented the top of it on the bottom of my arb tow hook but that was expected. The truck did pretty good on that trial and I got to try out low range.
Next was K-trail which is pretty popular in Oklahoma. It is rated as a 2/10 on On X so I assumed it should’ve been pretty easy but I should have looked at the trail reports because it was a bit more difficult than expected. I think whoever originally rated it a 2/10 only did a small portion of it. I’d say entering from the west like we did the trial is more like a 4/10 and if you entered from the east it could easily be a 5/10 on a wet day because you would be going uphill on the larger obstacles. The portion of K-trail that is legal for you to do is 32 miles long and is quite tight and I definitely got some decent scratches in my fender flares from branches. We tried cutting them at first but we quickly realized we would end up spending 2 full days on the trail if we wanted to cut all the branches that could scratch the paint or plastic fenders. I definitely wouldn’t recommend taking a black truck or the new trd pro with those wide gloss black fender flares on this trail if you care about scratches.
The truck itself did pretty good. It is all stock aside from the icon top reinforcement plate. I was in 4wd high about 50% of the time 4wd low 30% of the time and 2wd 20% of the time. There were a lot of long and rocky climbs that caused the transmission to start warming up a little bit in 4wd high but once I put it in low range the transmission would cool back down to where it should be. The transmission gauge probably never passed 65% of the way along the gauge when it was getting warm.
What really stuck out on the new Tacoma was the front seat bar disconnect. I had to wait a while to get ahold of a trd off-road with one but it was well worth the wait. The extra suspension flex is nice but the best part of the sway bare disconnect is just how much it smooths out the terrain while slowly going over rocks. You aren’t tossed around in the truck any where near as much as you would be without the sway bar still connected.
If I was to do the K-trail again I would recommend better skid plates since the factory ones are pretty terrible and I ended up tapping them a few times on this trail. I would also recommend some tires with a stronger sidewall. I have the stock bfg trail terrains and the traction was actually fine for this trail since it had not rained in at least a week but with how tall and sharp some of the rocks were I was definitely a little concerned about punctures but luckily we made it through without any. You don’t really need a tire size larger than stock for this trail though, especially if you get better skid plates. Overall I’m pretty happy with how the truck did. I would highly recommend going out and using it stock before making modifications to see what you really need. The only real complaints are not having a matching spare tire and I feel like these plastic fender flares scratch very easily. I had a 2015 jeep wrangler and those plastic fender flares could take much more of a beating before showing scratches.
I have attached some pics of the trip below. None of the obstacles were that crazy but the camera definitely never shows exactly how tough they are. I definitely had to carefully chose my lines in a stock Tacoma.
The goal wasn’t to try anything too technical. Rattlesnake bluff is only a 3/10 on On X and I would an agree with that rating. There was a decent little ledge to get up and I scraped my tailpipe and dented the top of it on the bottom of my arb tow hook but that was expected. The truck did pretty good on that trial and I got to try out low range.
Next was K-trail which is pretty popular in Oklahoma. It is rated as a 2/10 on On X so I assumed it should’ve been pretty easy but I should have looked at the trail reports because it was a bit more difficult than expected. I think whoever originally rated it a 2/10 only did a small portion of it. I’d say entering from the west like we did the trial is more like a 4/10 and if you entered from the east it could easily be a 5/10 on a wet day because you would be going uphill on the larger obstacles. The portion of K-trail that is legal for you to do is 32 miles long and is quite tight and I definitely got some decent scratches in my fender flares from branches. We tried cutting them at first but we quickly realized we would end up spending 2 full days on the trail if we wanted to cut all the branches that could scratch the paint or plastic fenders. I definitely wouldn’t recommend taking a black truck or the new trd pro with those wide gloss black fender flares on this trail if you care about scratches.
The truck itself did pretty good. It is all stock aside from the icon top reinforcement plate. I was in 4wd high about 50% of the time 4wd low 30% of the time and 2wd 20% of the time. There were a lot of long and rocky climbs that caused the transmission to start warming up a little bit in 4wd high but once I put it in low range the transmission would cool back down to where it should be. The transmission gauge probably never passed 65% of the way along the gauge when it was getting warm.
What really stuck out on the new Tacoma was the front seat bar disconnect. I had to wait a while to get ahold of a trd off-road with one but it was well worth the wait. The extra suspension flex is nice but the best part of the sway bare disconnect is just how much it smooths out the terrain while slowly going over rocks. You aren’t tossed around in the truck any where near as much as you would be without the sway bar still connected.
If I was to do the K-trail again I would recommend better skid plates since the factory ones are pretty terrible and I ended up tapping them a few times on this trail. I would also recommend some tires with a stronger sidewall. I have the stock bfg trail terrains and the traction was actually fine for this trail since it had not rained in at least a week but with how tall and sharp some of the rocks were I was definitely a little concerned about punctures but luckily we made it through without any. You don’t really need a tire size larger than stock for this trail though, especially if you get better skid plates. Overall I’m pretty happy with how the truck did. I would highly recommend going out and using it stock before making modifications to see what you really need. The only real complaints are not having a matching spare tire and I feel like these plastic fender flares scratch very easily. I had a 2015 jeep wrangler and those plastic fender flares could take much more of a beating before showing scratches.
I have attached some pics of the trip below. None of the obstacles were that crazy but the camera definitely never shows exactly how tough they are. I definitely had to carefully chose my lines in a stock Tacoma.
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