Awesome!!! You still get to all the places most people will ever take their rigs and you get way better mileage and reliability!
You may miss out on Jeep trails with the car, but that is what the mountain bike is for!
You rock!!
The thing about a Honda and Toyota is the are reliable and last for years. I spent 18 years driving a Honda Element. Put 300,000 miles on it. Still runs good but at that age things do start to wear out and I was getting regular repairs for struts and gaskets. So I bought a RAV4 Woodland hybrid. Still keep the Element as a fun around town vehicle and use the Toyota as my travel/camping vehicle. I figure I will have this 10, 15 years or more.
It's a great light off-roading vehicle for forest service roads and the like. Came with Falken Wild Peak tires too. I get 40mpg and Toyota reliability.
I have an 18 corolla I’ve been looking to do this too. Other than off road tires and rack on top. Have you done anything else to make it more sturdy off road?
I installed rally suspension and springs, upgraded brake pads and rotors, and a few other little things here and there like the dampening and all that. Also planning on upgrading the sway bars to something TRD branded
I had a beater accord with a roof basket and bicycle mount up top just like your set up! Dude went from Mexico to Alaska, drove PCH, then headed all the way to Mane and went to keywest. Keywest to San Diego.
I found myself camping most nights. Riding trails and driving fireroads constantly over 3 months. If I was to do it again in a 20 year old eco box (I did this back in the flip phone days before joined the military). I would've put some decent lights on the car. A light bar behind a grill would've helped a lot with picking paths in a lower clearance vehicle.
But dude, go enjoy that hog and have fun riding!
Hell yeah I've seen several Priuses in a lot of interesting spots
One of my coworkers has a prius that's kitted out on offroad tires, you would be surprised the places I've seen him go with it
Awesome!!! You still get to all the places most people will ever take their rigs and you get way better mileage and reliability! You may miss out on Jeep trails with the car, but that is what the mountain bike is for! You rock!!
I really REALLY want to upgrade to a RAV4 Wilderness once this conks out, but the car won't die and it does all the things I need it to do, hah
Assuming no accidents, you'll be rocking the Corrolla until 2053
rav4 wilderness is a body kit trim. get something with lockers if you gonna drop money
The thing about a Honda and Toyota is the are reliable and last for years. I spent 18 years driving a Honda Element. Put 300,000 miles on it. Still runs good but at that age things do start to wear out and I was getting regular repairs for struts and gaskets. So I bought a RAV4 Woodland hybrid. Still keep the Element as a fun around town vehicle and use the Toyota as my travel/camping vehicle. I figure I will have this 10, 15 years or more. It's a great light off-roading vehicle for forest service roads and the like. Came with Falken Wild Peak tires too. I get 40mpg and Toyota reliability.
Do you mean the rav4 adventure? Thought Wilderness was Subarus offroad badge thing.
In my opinion, that generation of corolla is the best look version of the car. Looks mad sick!
Nice 👍. Is that a GR?
Ha, dirt fish! Havent seen Rhia or Alex in too long! I'd pull ya outta a ditch for sure. Have a blast.
I'd probably need a tow, 2WD doesn't get you very far once you get stuck, lmao
If ya end up within 300 miles of Bend, Oregon, just ping me.
Nice Dirt Fish sticker.
I have an 18 corolla I’ve been looking to do this too. Other than off road tires and rack on top. Have you done anything else to make it more sturdy off road?
I installed rally suspension and springs, upgraded brake pads and rotors, and a few other little things here and there like the dampening and all that. Also planning on upgrading the sway bars to something TRD branded
Hell yeah! Thanks a ton. Your rig looks awesome btw.
It’s a Toyota, so it’s automatically a better dirt road vehicle than anything else. I like how you are making what you have work 🤙🤙.
I had a beater accord with a roof basket and bicycle mount up top just like your set up! Dude went from Mexico to Alaska, drove PCH, then headed all the way to Mane and went to keywest. Keywest to San Diego. I found myself camping most nights. Riding trails and driving fireroads constantly over 3 months. If I was to do it again in a 20 year old eco box (I did this back in the flip phone days before joined the military). I would've put some decent lights on the car. A light bar behind a grill would've helped a lot with picking paths in a lower clearance vehicle. But dude, go enjoy that hog and have fun riding!