Dirt King Aluminum Front Skid Plate - Testing Photos | 4th Gen Tacoma Forum

Streamfever · 2025-11-20T02:27:31+00:00

Did a road trip with some friends last week. It involved quite a bit of off-roading and camping. Total trip was about 1500 miles of interstate, state roads and OnX rated roads rated from 3 - 5. No rock crawling but a few places semi technical. Started in Albuquerque to southern Arizona to Organ Pipe NP then el Camino del Diablo, and several roads in the Kofa Wildlife Refuge. While off roading I spent about 50% of miles in 4H, 40% in 2H and 10% in 4 Lo. Had zero issues with overheating in 4H for several hours at a time. Total of about 400 off-road miles. Highway and off-roading time was split about evenly. Definitely prefer 4H for off-roading. Provided great traction and is geared right for less than 25 mph. For information I have a 2025 OR Premium non-hybrid. I did replaced the oem tires with stock size, 265/70/17s KO3s C load. Highly recommend KO3s and I picked stock size since I tow a travel trailer often. The Tacoma was solid. Zero complaints.

rustytaco

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Feb 19, 2025

Dirt King is working on a bunch of 4G products. This is one of them, their (I believe), aluminum connector skid plate. Replaces the dinky factory one. Looks super seamless and a simple install.

You can also see their performance lower control arm in the background.

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