hiluxman
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Love mine, have a hilux as back up.
hiluxman
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Lol. Yeah, it was one of those changes that no one ever noticed.
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Monkeybusiness
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Had a lift in a Musso today - it was nice tbh!
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Brendan
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Musso stands in a category of its own, one of the previous shapes was very ugly but unlike all the other pickups they are unibody and have the highest combined payload of all other standard pickups with just under 7t gtw from the factory
Lancs Lad
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Absolutely perfect truck on paper.
Fat lot of use in UK !
pettsy
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Brendan
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Probably has an eye watering price tag too. It's absolutely useless to people who could use it unless you have c1 and e, yard, operators license, tacho etc. even then there's probably better options about although it's kind of in its own category with the towing weight as even the iveco 4x4 can only tow 3.5t but would imagine 4.5t trailers being very expensive as cant run on overrun brakes so probably air or electronic, I know the 4.5t gooseneck ones are at least 22k for plant trailer
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Brendan
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Are you running a commercial or car? How do you find it for moving fuel about, what I like about the pickups is fuel is in the tub and separate from the cab areaLove my D4
JD450A
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Useless full stop....
4.5t towing is practically pointless.
and it's overweight to use as anything but a 4x4 lorry.... Perhaps the odd arb user?
4.5t towing is practically pointless.
and it's overweight to use as anything but a 4x4 lorry.... Perhaps the odd arb user?
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Brendan
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Anyone who needs that sort of vehicle would probably be using the iveco 4x4 or mog
hiluxman
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Mines a car version to avoid caz. Fuel...well the barrel is lobbed in the passenger footwell...that's regardless of if its the disco, the pickup or the truck.
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Smiffy
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That's always my thoughts when you see the arbtalk lot with jacked up pickups claiming they need it. A) there are vehicles designed properly to do the job
B) working on farms and for forestry companies I was taught if a standard pickup on a/t or m/t tyres won't go there then you shouldn't be going there especially on clients land.
pettsy
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Mine is car spec. Not really used for work purposes, just a bit of towing here and there when load is too heavy for van. It’s nice enough to use as a car, but doesn’t look out of place with a trailer behind it, and handles 3.5t well.
Lancs Lad
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In the UK with our pathetic regs...
In normal countries 4.5t is probably pretty sensible with the right trailer. Tow a 3t machine with grab/buckets etc and a sensible margin rather than running with a fag packet to spare.
JD450A
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Lancs Lad
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Alas indeed....
And yet fighting age males queuing up to paddle over in a dinghy...what we missing
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Smiffy
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But in reality if everyone could tow 4.5t, everyone would go out and by 3.5t machines and continue to run the gauntlet.
This would happen again if they raised it to 5t. Everyone would go and buy 4t machines.
Evidenced when Taekuchi tried to fix this with the 225 and it not really taking off. ( I know there are reasons around the machine itself that add to this as well) When if anyone cares about weights it would be the most popular machine on the market
hiluxman
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If you read into it further its got a 2ton payload and is into hgv classification so been able to tow 4.5t is irrelevant. As most who like that idea don't even have a c1 licence or even like the thought of an o licence and been legit.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
if only you could tow 4.5t on UK roads
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Stroppymonkey
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Presumably you would need c1+e ? So not even grandfather rights
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