Evening team, dumb question. But what are you gaining by buying an SR5 over the standard hilux. Both 4wd, auto, double cab, well side. 2010-2014 models?
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Evening team, dumb question. But what are you gaining by buying an SR5 over the standard hilux. Both 4wd, auto, double cab, well side. 2010-2014 models?
different deck, chrome, interior, and heater control panel,flares. Same engine, drive line
Resale.
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So not really any “practical” differences? Just a blinged up model with a nicer interior?
Pretty much mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckerbox
I have a 2014 and still think it is pretty plain. Nice truck. But nothing like the new model interior wise.
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Except if it’s a fire breathing 4 litre petrol tlimited edition that climbs like a Thar smokes the tires when the other stinky diesels wanna go crosses rivers like they are puddles and passes every thing EXCEPT the gas station where we stop often lol 😂. Still highest kw in the wanky let’s build the highest kw race too
Torque about torque who cares. Talk about fun when you leave the v8 ford for dead. Even better when it’s an Amarok
But each to their own
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy
There are two things I don't like about my 2015 4L V6:
1. Due to the stupid rules about traction and stability control, they took the limited slip diff out of this model. If you switch the stupid traction control off when off roading, you have an open diff and lots of wheel spin. It needs a ARB locker.
2. It doesn't have the Aust made Raptor super charger fitted (yet)
2005-2010 1 difference was that there was no disconnect in the front diff and as such the diff was always spinning ie more wear. Also now you can wire this up to a switch the gain the ability to get 2wd low box (useful for reversing up hills to save clutch as well backing trailers on concrete where low box 4wd binds the drive terrain). You gain clean sides on your wellside. and as sais resale value.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbear
But only if the river is actually only a puddle... I have seen the result of fancy new petrol engined trucks attempting river crossings and no snorkel was going to help there...Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy
just a wank features thing , save the cash and buy the standard and add little bits on that you want i.e monsoons etc.
i like the fact with the standard model they dont have carpet in them , much easier to clean mud etc out of them
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Originally Posted by hotbarrels
Mine came with diff lock and all that stuff.
Limited Edition maybe thats why ??
Descent control in mud on a grade 5 is above awesome.
On wet grass it thinks it on the highway
I just want to find a clever Kiwi to build me a Cat back exhaust system
Mine isn't an SR5 and it has carpet... my sister has an sr5 and differences I can see is hers has an all black interior, digital climate control (mine still has air con etc but manual) flares from factory, monsoons from factory, factory tinted glass, mine has a J Deck (with hooks) hers has an A deck (no hooks) keyless entry, all little details like that. They are essentially the same truck though and perform exactly the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by madmaori
sr5 has a reverse camera which are bloody handy
Only from 2014 model on?Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbear
I only use it for hooking on the boat and the odd time I have to parallel park.
Mine takes a fair while to come up once you start the truck.
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I had a 89 sr5 back in the late 90s it had carpet,elec mirrors,air con,cloth seats over the base model...also had flares and monsoons but I think they were aftermarket. The carpet and cloth seats I would rather have not had.
Probably not particularly relevant to what you are looking at but some info all the same
Depends if you're going to use it as a daily or want it as a farm truck or hunting wagon.
Farm truck or hunting wagon get a non SR5 and add wheel arch flares. Much better without carpet for that.
SR5 are all bling to be honest. Lots more chrome and flash crap you will wreck if taking offroad.
They are a bloody nuisance when trying to back a trailer, can't get my head round which way to turn the wheel. Doesn't help when you can't see the trailer out the rear view mirror and only out the sides when it's turned to farQuote:
Originally Posted by bigbear
Get a bigger trailer and turn the camera off/Use your mirrors.Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
I never use anything but the side mirrors to back a trailer.Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
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But a bigger trailer wouldn't fit down the gap between the woodshed and the house, I'd have to carry my firewood another 5m... Lol and a little single is nice and easy to move by hand if ya have toQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Dont buy a boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
1st world problem rite there ladsQuote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
The earlier trucks with the camera mounted by the rego plate lights is a PITFA!!!
The camera picks up the rego lights (when the lights are on) and you can't see shit. To reverse at night you have to turn off the lights to see anything.
The newer models have the camera halfway up the tailgate where they look fecking stupid but they work haha
Also it’s about the last thing to worry about with one, it’s about the only thing I have yet to fix on one
SR5 premium buys you only bling and tat and adds 2 tenths of bugger all to what a Hilux is really all about.
I bought a 2014 MY12 SR spec Hilux on a run out deal for $34k in Perth. Bloody good buy.
Then I spent $25k turning it into the truck I’ve always wanted! There’s no getting around the fact they aren’t gonna go where a Land Rover will go in standard trim. So now is has diff locks front and rear, GVM suspension upgrade & 2.5” lift, bash plates, snorkel, custom tray and canopy, 4 AGM batteries, 2 fridge freezers, big ass compressor, bull bar, 11000lb winch, 50l water bladder, Coopers, etc etc etc. And I can sleep in it. And it will go where the Land Rover will go, almost.
Not a hint of bling though. Just hard case ruggedness. 67000km of Outback and 35000km of NZ, its earned its stripes alright. None of that will help with a decision about the SR5 though, sorry, just an ecuse to share my unnatural love of Hiluxes.
Here’s my African Hilux, lived in (on) this for 3 years.
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And the current one...
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Thats a pretty cool set up truck but I have to ask how the fuck you get into that tent sober let alone after a few celebratorys !Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
Ah yes, we were young and agile, in those days... what a little love nest that tent was, we’d head up the ladder on the front, tucked in behind the bull bar you can’t see it in the photo. Never once fell out, no matter how banjaxxed, and on several occasions pretty much jumped all the way in without touching sides, with a cape buffalo or hippo on our tail. Still got that roof tent, its sitting in the shed taking up space... selling that truck was a very sad day, it carried on for years in East Africa until it was sold again. Probably still going. 1993 Hilux Raider, SA made, 4Y 2.2 petrol engine, factory diff lock. Cape to the Sahara and back again and everywhere in between. Good times.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Typical Tanzanian road in the Selous area.... 4 days to do 380km. Take yer time!
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