LET'S OFF-ROAD! - FJ Cruiser, Sequoia, and Hummer H3 Off-Road on Rattlesnake Trail
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Hey guys! Welcome to another episode of Let's Off-Road! In this one I drive in my FJ Cruiser along with a classmate in his Hummer H3 and my uncle in his Sequoia on Rattlesnake Trail in Northern Utah.
This video was filmed after school had finished for the 2012-1013 school year and on my second to last day in Utah before moving back to Colorado that year.
I decided to go hit up Rattlesnake Canyon/Rattlesnake Trail at 5 Mile Pass one last time and I was able to get the new president of the UVU Off-Road Adventure Club to come (Spencer in his Hummer H3) as well as my uncle (Adam in the Sequoia).
We had a pretty good time but it became obvious that having a diff locker makes life a ton easier. We thought the Sequoia had one but we realized after already being on the trail that this was not the case, so in a lot of situations, as you'll see, he had to bump it or just gun it. And I think for the Sequoia, having that V8 was what got it through without the use of straps. What a brave soul Adam was! Sorry about the bent rear lower link though!
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Surprised by the work the h3 did... handled almost better than the FJ! It hurt to watch the sequoia... but from the comments it was properly driven. Glad these guys were having fun, hard to justify being an amateur with such expensive vehicles lol...
We did all have fun and that's what matters! I think how the vehicles handle ultimately comes down to whose driving. If we put swapped the H3 and FJ drivers for example then I think people's observations would have been reversed, because both are capable rigs and handled everything with ease, it all just came down to how much brake or gas the respective drivers were giving on the different spots shown in the video.
sequoia driver jus didn't kno his potential yet guys... I have an 07 sequoia... 4lo in low gear with center diff on... atrac would kick in if he kept his tires spinning at about 1500-2500 rpm... my atrac gets me everywhere my uncle's rear e-locker Tacoma goes
Yeah the A-Trac sure is an awesome system
The Hummer is a beast!!!
It definitely got the job done that day!
The hummer h3's flying through everything
Yep he did great! And it was his first time offroading with it too!
He's got beginners luck lol
It's all about having a good time.
So true! As long as you have fun, stay safe, and enjoy what you're driving, who cares right?
Sequoia with city tires!!!!let's put some official off road tires and it will be a different story.
ALLAN Gradiz same with the hummer. It had shit tires on it and had zero issues.
The hummer and the sequoia need the tires on the fj and then the story would be way different. The sequoia also needs to be lifted a little bit to
The Sequoia's issue is having no lockers
no music! this is perfect, people ruin videos with music. and good on that sequoia. not every wants to wheel the same shit.
Well u got jeeps on every street
One of these brings the game
One of these brings the clearance
and one of these has cup holders for lattes
you pick.
FJ driver was the friendliest. He also did everything himself unlike the others. Especially Sequoia guy.
H3 like a BOSS
Sequoia big guys need love too
Nice FJ
H3 made everything look so easy
He definitely did well with keeping a nice smooth acceleration through obstacles, pretty good for a first time off-roader! My driving was a little more stop and go, but we all made it through and had fun doing it!
Put the seq. into 4wd low and shift the transmission down to low or 1st gear. That activates the ATRAC system (similar to porche or range rover as is senses slip and applies brakes to the tires that are slipping) then stand back and be surprised how well the tree actually wheels.
Youre welcome.
Charles Gray the H3 has that 24/7.
Yep! Even my wife knows that
I don’t think that version has ATrac like the landcruiser
@@matty_o atrac is a Toyota thing.
Not all eight tracks are equal different years have different capability. Some years have very simple attracted barely works but it works very slowly. Other years a track is amazing
FJ one of the best off road ever
H3 made it look easy
I'm from Iraq and adore these cars
That is one badass fj
Wow I can't believe (yes I can) that Im the first person to say that the Sequoia does have a diff lock (center diff lock), since they are full time 4wd and need a center diff. I ran into this a lot when I was looking for my cruiser I would ask "does it have the diff lockers" (front and rear lockers were optional) and half the people would say "yes it does" to which I would follow up with "is it a button or a dial, oh a button? thanks bye." since the button locks the center diff manually and the dial selects the front or rear lockers. Given the mission of the Sequoia and the trail you tried, im impressed it made it at all. Sorry for being late to the party. I can't wait to run this trail soon.
To me, the Hummer H3 was DOMINANT. DESTROYED THE COMPETITION
why all the hate?
just go out with your 4x4, get dirty, and have some fun. thats all that matters!
everyone has a different setup, truck, and style/skill of driving. itll never be fair to compare one truck vs. the other
i think the best off roader stock is wrangler rubicon followed by h3 and fj,but still my favorite is the hummer h3
Hummer H3 is best of these 3 for me,except Range Rover Sport he is luxury car but Off-Road too......For Hummer you need cistern to drive him..........
trotanium13 the H3 is way more cabable than a stock Jeep, even with some mods many JK can't match them. Same with FJs, they are great
Adam, I think you need to consider another 3" of lift, but I as a Sequoia owner, I am proud of your rig.
Hummer wn! Yeeaah!!
in your dreams dear ... FJ is Legend :)
The hummer made the fj look pitiful. Need to watch it again?
Some good driving. Gota love the black land cruiser.
I dig 1st gen Sequoia, abut they aren't are made for this kinda stuff. I was impressed. Good job fellas.
It looks like he did not lock the center differential on the Sequoia. If you lock the center diff and put it in 4 low, the a-trac will stop the spinning wheels and transfer power to the ones with the most grip. I have seen other sequoias go through and over much worse terrain.
I really enjoyed this video one of the better offroad videos I seen here lately
seems to me the hummer won the day on this one.
I'm not a Hummer fan but I don't think I've seen one do better and without great tires either!
Great videos, Hayden
I officially want an fj now
Alpha h3 for me
WHY ISNT THE SEQ LOCEKD???
Right? It would have made a huge difference! There was a "locker" button but all it did was lock it at the transfer case so power to the front and rear axle was constantly equal versus all if it only going to the front or rear. I was confused thinking the locker meant a normal diff locker but that wasn't the case haha
H3 did awesome. Not even a sweat. True to the name. I've owned a number of Jeeps and now an H3. Both capable, but not even the new Jeeps have the refinement of the Hummers. FJ pretty good as well. Sequoias do horrible off road. Seen that first hand.
problem with the hummer is you better not venture off to far from a gas station
guy proulx The h3, fj, and sequoia all get around the same 14-17 city and 18-20 highway
Great vid, thanks for sharing. I just bought a Sequoia as an all purpose vehicle and I was impressed that it did that well. I haven't done any offroading since the late 90s (other than driving a pickup from location to location in the oilfield) and its neat to see how well some of the modern vehicles do. Great vid!
That Sequoia drove me crazy to watch!
The FJ for me as well. A capable vehicle, incapable driver.
H3 waling like BOSS
Fj is the best
I've never cared for the hummers but that H3 seemed to have no problem getting though anything.
+mbsnyderc its because he didnt go through anything...
+flybyav8tor lol
FJ did too, and I agree with what has been said about the Sequoia not being the best offroad vehicle, but if it had a rear locker instead of a transfer case locker it would be golden.
Hummer and fj evenly matched
I have a h3 as well with 35s, I've gone to some pretty serious spots, even though it does have a small inline 5 the 4x4 low with lockers is amazing you don't have to smash on the gas at all to get up tall obsacles
Yeah modern vehicles have more than enough power to get though pretty much anything from my experience, vs the early Toyota trucks and Jeeps that have smaller 4 cylinder engines and were strained for power at times.
Thanks for the upload, looks like you guys had a great trip.
Excellent
Nice!
That FJ is just a monster.
I was suprisingly impressed with the H3.
The grocery getting Sequoia shouldn't really be out there. It's out of its element.
Thanks! I definitely love the FJ (obviously) but the H3 did just as good on this trail and the Sequoia managed to make it through to all of our surprise!
FJ Legend.. specialist for this situation
H3 It's really good but wear out quickly, unfortunately,
Sequoia It's a comfortable car for family .. wasn't made for extreme off-road ..
need lockers & suitable tires it will be great :)
lol right at the beginning when he's like "hey"
Actually I say cake haha
Sequoia for comic relief. Great vid
I love the H3
It is a solid ride!
Humer h3 beats the other suvs over the rocks
What's up with all the negative talk about the Sequoia, saying it doesn't belong here? With maybe 4 sections as exceptions, the rest of it wasn't even worthy of being considered an off-road trail; more like unpaved roads. It's just amazing what passes for "serious stuff" these days. No mud, everything is dry, the path is laid out. What else was there to do except that at a few spots some geometry was required (and in some places they could've just bypassed them). Sure, the Sequoia doesn't have the "credentials" of the other two, but for the sole fact of it being considered an SUV it needed to prove at least something here. And it sure did that respectfully. So, as far as I'm concerned, the Sequoia looked ok in this environment even if the other 2 could potentially do more.
with an experienced off road driver the sequoia can do better than a hummer
sequoia here isn't prepared well, it seems to be on the play field with office shoes
Fj is a dream car of mine
I'm laughing at the sequoia
+P Lane why they did a pretty good job with their vehicle that isnt really an true offraod truck
see its all season city tire, it is not even for sequoia.
Thank you guys for this video
first off, i hate fj's but damn this one is bad ass! and that hummer h3, wow, really impressed. the suspension travel is impressive.
The only difference between the FJ and the Hummer in this video is how they were driven. I always go slow and I'm cautious on the pedal of the FJ while the person in the Hummer just liked to keep a steady pedal through stuff. Plus it was his first time off-road, and yes he made it through just perfectly and made it look like cake! Good for him! But that doesn't determine that one vehicle is better than the other.
awesome the fj didnt even feel it
FJ Cruiser
The guy in the mall crawler was wearing gloves...
Gotta look the part right? 😂
Fj is fantastic!
That's what the "F" in FJ stands for, Fantastic! Thanks!
Painful watching the soccer mom sequoia, thumbs up for the H3
fj all day maybe hummer
I grew up loving the Hummer but when it came time for me to get a car, the FJ won me over with it's less boxy appearance, dependability, and rich Land Cruiser history/roots.
Toyota Sequoia doesn't have lockers people. You'd think they would know that going into this trail run....geeez. I couldn't stop laughing when the spotters were like "dude is your locker on?" Haha
He had explained that the sequoia had a locker botton, but it wasn’t a differential locker like he thought, it was a transfer case locker 😂 we all learned something that day
@@FJX2000_Productions
It's all good. I had to educate a dealer yesterday on a H3 I wanted to buy. He was trying to convince me that the Hummer H3 I was looking at has the adventure package....ya, not so much. The lock on the 4WD is the center diff, there is also 4WD lock on 4 hi as well... He just couldn't get his head around that idea for some reason. The rear diff lock shows a rear differential icon with a tiny lock in it, on the right side of the center diff lock button. I showed him pictures from GMC and he still thinks I'm wrong and he has a Hummer Adventure version of the H3. Oh well.
For being the biggest truck having the baldest tires and weakest driver the sequoia held its own I'm also betting he didn't have the diff lock on good video
Sequoia has the same 4wd system as LC, with center differential locker. You can see the tire is sliping, it got enough power to move the tire, but due to the city tire, the cannot hold the rock. Another important issue is the sequoia's huge and heavy body.
CZ N dont some sequoias have electric pushbutton 4x4 as opposed to the LC that has a lever action 4x4
I love the 4Runner but since a bought the FJ Cruiser...
Sequoia was impressive for how it's set up. Your uncle might have done better toggling the A-TRAC on and off as needed.
I have a 2002 Sequoia there is no center lock button on mine. The 8-track and center lock just apparently are supposed to work it goes out of center lock once out of first gear.
@@adventuretrails1ato I believe the 2005-07 are different from prior models, more options to toggle things like the center diff and the traction control. Not sure that 2002 has A-Trac, or even a center diff. Maybe it does, but I just recall steering away from those earlier model years when I bought my 06 about a decade ago because I needed to be able to toggle the center diff to get my boat up my driveway in 4WD low on concrete without all the herky jerky driving 4x4 on pavement.
@@thetube4p the 2002 has a track and a center lock. I'm a veteran off-roader for the last 15 years. Anyways a track has gotten better through The years so 2005 and I'll probably has a better a track than 2002. To be clear. Am I impressed with the 2002 center lock no! But I come from Jeep world. Before this I owned a Nissan Xterra with rear lockers bone stock up on two to three wheels many times! But I plan to put on rear lockers on the Sequoia to bring it up to par!
Awesome video.
Nice vid looks like a great place to wheel
hummer the best jippppp
Great video
love your vids man keep it up!
A lot of capability between these vehicles comes down to tires, lockers, and lift. Those 3 things can completely change a vehicles off-road capability
Thanks, and very true! Another large factory is who is behind the wheel! A good driver or bad driver can really make the difference. An amazing driver with a factory vehicle can do more in some situations than an amateur with $30K in mods.
I really like the look of the FJ, but I don't care for that little second door. Great vid though, good quality.
Nice fj
sequoia here isn't prepared well even the driver looks rusty....fj cruiser is just the right size for off roading
Hummer did everything no problem
I am a member on the fjc forums dot com too, but the MAIN forum for FJ Cruiser owners is the fj cruiser forums dot com, the forum you joined is mainly for southern California specifically, and there is only about 4,200 members on that one while on the fj cruiser forums, there are 68,000 members.
So really I wouldn't even bother with the fjc forums and just use the fj cruiser forums.
nice FJ
H3 Best!
it's definately the best at guzzling gas that's for sure lol
+guy proulx +guy proulx uhh no not at all unless your thinkin h2 or h1 but the h3 is most definitely not a gas guzzler
@@chrisellis432 it's a guzzler. I daily one and it's a thirsty pig
Dat FJ dudeeee
Exactly. H3s were tested in Moab and places like it during the design of it
FJ driver, as a newbie, leave all the features enabled like A trac ext until everything is smooth and then start trial and error.
In both of my FJs, I typically will leave it in 2HI until I get to the loose surfaced roads, then I switch into 4HI. Then if the trail gets more technical or requires slower driving and control, especially if it is an uphill or downhill section, then I switch into 4LO. My personal preference is only to use A-Trac and rear diff lock when I know I will need it or discover I need it. Some folks just keep A-Trac on the whole time, which is fine, but I usually don't engage the traction aids until I know I will need them, like for a specific obstacle.
It was a fun day for sure! And the Hummer did do really well, and that was his first time off-road too! But on the FJ I have a 3" ReadyLIFT spacer lift kit with Light Racing UCAs and the tires are 305/70R16s on the 16x7.5" TRD wheels. And then I also have 1.25" Spidertrax wheel spacers on there and a body mount chop.
The H3 seemed to have the better low range option and the front locker, so it was no wonder that it just walked through those sections. The FJ seems to be about as good off road, but with the 4 L V6 it has worse mileage than the H3, at least according to real life tests.
The Sequoia is not for real off road use without real lockers. Systems that use vehicle brakes are for softroaders, as they overheat and wear out brakes if used too much. Some systems try to avoid that by disabling the system when used too long continuously.
As everything looks easier on a video, the trail was just right for stock trucks. No ordinary Seq owner would try it fearing damage.
the sequoia had passenger/car tires LOL
good video
would love to know how the FJ driver got the 3rd brake light to flash when braking
its just how led's show up on camera
thats just the camera doing that since the third brake light has leds.
He has it wired with a resistor to make it do that. I was his room mate, and filmed this. I would know. :)
Airbus speaks the truth, you can buy resistors so that the lights flash so people behind you are more aware of you stopping.
These trails look like our dirt roads where I live.
And where is it you're from? Australia? ;)
North georgia mountains
a seqoui seriously hummer is life
Sequoia looks like its just needs some good tires.
Some better tires and a little bit of lift would surely have helped, but having an actual locking or limited slip diff would also have done wonders.
Sequoia? Where are the kids getting dropped off around there? Very clean FJ
Does the Sequoia have real lockers or just center lock??
Хорошее видео, FJ вне конкуренции(у меня синий)))
Hummer rocks!
Looked like a fun day out there! The hummer impressed me. Love the fj tho. What setup is the fj running? Thanks for sharing....
Lockers are great however the main problem with that Sequoia is the damn tires. Like playing football in penny loafers. My 80 series Land Cruiser with f/r lockers on still got stuck in the mud due to the All Terrain tires. Now look at my 88 Cherokee 4x4. No lockers..simple 4x4 with Mickey Thompson Baja Claws...took awhile..but got out. ua-cam.com/video/SyyOzhwmKX4/v-deo.html
Why so much hate between toyota owners and jeep owners and hummer owners, Nissan is where it's at ya noobs!
I'm kidding!! But really people, there is no need to say this one is better than that one or this is more reliabile than the other, If you are responsible off-road enthusiasts you will hook your recovery line to any make or model to help a fellow enthusiast out of whatever they got stuck in =) Each person out there on a trail has a reason why they bought that specific car, Maybe the signifigant other or the kid thought it was cool and they make the best out of it, or maybe they thought it had a better body than ____. There is no need to call eachother retarded or start internet fights or attempt to justify your reasoning on why your choice is the best choice, instead, put your pencils and tablets and keyboards away and just go enjoy the outdoors, and to hell with makes or models or what have you and enjoy the trail with your fellow enthusiast, even if they drive a different model than you. Personally, I loveeee the look of a hummer! The front end of a fj cruiser is awesome and I love the top down ability of jeeps. But that is my, opinion. And remember everyone has a different opinion and you have to respect that. (sometimes even if it is wrong.)
And as a small side note, I do believe the americans sold the blueprints of the Jeeps to the Japanese to help them make a off road vehicle because it was cheaper to have them made there (as it was closer to the battlefields in that era, Vietnam? I'm not sure of the theatre) and it wasn't as they expected, so they continued with the jeeps and kept importing them. I think.
Remember, leave the arguments behind and go find a trail!
Sequoia is just to big and heavy and the limited slip kills it. What size tires are on the fj?
hummer is a best
Hayden, I just uploaded this video to a website I manage jaxfjcruiserclub. Click on the "info" tab! Enjoy!
p.s. we're on Facebook too @ Jax FJ Cruiser Club
We all know the sequoia doesn't belong out there but man, i am surprised it made it as far as it did. im looking to getting an FJ or a Wrangler, cant wait to do this my self. Great Video Guy.
What's peoples recommendations between the 305/70/16 and 295/75/16 for 4x4?