Works great!
By Clint on 09/25/2020
Spot sprayed in my front yard where crab grass came up beside my sod, killed it all within a few days. Blanket sprayed in my back yard that I haven't renovated yet. The backyard mixture had 2-4D mixed in too. Pretty much everything died except my grass and some random goose grass. Excellent product that will stay in my yard maintenance arsenal.....highly recommend if you have crabgrass.
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Poor results
By Woody on 07/08/2022
Very slow to kill crab grass if it worked at all. Only some of the spot treaded crabs died after 3 weeks. What it did do was severely burned my hybrid 419 Bermuda grass. That is still recovering. Mixed exactly as directed and used the recommended surfactant. Expensive mistake on my part. Wished I could get my money back!
Expert response:
We are sorry to hear that the product did not work as expected and are happy to troubleshoot any issues.
Drive is a very slow kill on crabgrass depending on the tiller stage of the crabgrass. It may take up to six weeks to completely control crabgrass and may require a repeat treatment. For consistent results, make Drive XLR8 application to newly germinated, to 1-tiller crabgrass, and when crabgrass has matured to 5 tillers or greater. When treating between the 2-4 tiller stage, repeat application may be required. If you treated during this time this would be where you see very slow results.
To explain tiller stages we have a video here to review
https://www.domyown.com/do-my-own-lawn-care-talking-tiller-stages-v-319.html
Do you know what stage the crabgrass you treated on was?
Was the bermuda just recently seeded or sodded?
What are you seeing now and have you applied a repeat application?
We appreciate your working with us to come to resolution and look forward to hearing from you!
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Killed Surrounding Bermuda grass
By Tal on 07/27/2023
Crabgrass killer
By A on 09/03/2012
Verified Purchase
DRIVE HERBICDE WORKS
By Larry on 07/28/2014
Recently used drive on my lawn, I had some new seeding that I did not use a premerge herbicide. Really nailed the crabgrass, also good activity on the broadleafs. Used crop oil as labeled and watered a few days later. We have been having good rains prior to application.
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drive XLR*
By Mack on 07/28/2014
Verified Purchase
Worked great on my crabgrass. The crabgrass showed signs of dying in three days. I did not get good coverage of the yard when I applied the XLR8 so I needed to re apply it. I think it's great for crabgrass. Did not damage the lawn.
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Killed Clovers
By Chuck on 07/08/2015
I had a lot of clovers coming up and taking over the grass. Doesn't kill the things sprouting from acorns but those aren't as much of a pain to pull. A week later they were back, but it is easier to spot spray or pull some small ones than it is to pull 50 sq feet of clovers. I am in Maryland, used 4 oz per gallon in a backpack sprayer with 1oz per gallon of MSO added. I applied once and then 20 days later. For the second half of the yard I applied once then 18 days later. Grass only browned around where clovers were. A week after the first application there was some browning. A week after the second, clovers were gone.
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Drive XLR8 Crabgrass Killer
By Gerald on 08/13/2015
It works!
By Mike on 08/15/2015
Crabgrass was choking out my newly seeded yard. I mixed a half gallon of Drive xlr8 with 20 gallons of water and a pint of seed oil surfactant per acre and 3 days later the crabgrass started turning yellow. By the tenth day 90% of it was dead or dying. 3 weeks later some of the crabgrass is trying to rally but I'm sure a second application would cure that. And the rye, bluegrass and fescue was virtually unharmed and is now the dominant growth in the yard.
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Drive Kills Crabgrass RIGHT NOW!
By Bernie on 08/16/2015
This is, without any doubt, the best post-emergent crabgrass control I've ever used in my half-century-plus of lawn care. Sprayed from a trailer tank sprayer on my 1 acre lawn, and the extensive crabgrass was completely brown after 48 hours, and after one week, only a sporadic few plants remain. Combined with an early spring pre-emergent, I'm confident my crabgrass problems are over. I initially balked at the price (especially when combined with a surfectant), but the results were well worth the investment. Good product!
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Effective but spotty
By Johnson on 08/19/2015
Recently used Drive xlr8 with dyneamic surfactant on later stage crabgrass 5-6+ tillers. with a hand sprayer at the recommended rate of 1 1/2 oz per gallon. Tried to be sure product was well mixed and applied evenly but found very erractic results. Some plants taken out completely others unphased by the product.Have used the granular drive in the past with good consistent results.
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Crabgrass control
By Kevin on 08/24/2015
This is the second year in a row I've used Drive xlr8. I use a pull behind sprayer, electric pump tsc 40 gallon. 60 0z of xlr8, pint of southern surfactant and it kills crabgrass. I have sandy soil and was infested. Next year I should be down to a pump sprayer.
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This is my second bottle and it is awesome!!!
By John on 08/26/2015
I followed the direction exactly. I even measure in 10' increment and used pesticide flags, electrical flag and gas flags to create 10' lanes in my yard so I would not get overspray on 1 acre of land . After about 3 days it started looking brown...I had lots of crabgrass that I thought was just natural lime color grass. The first round of attack I killed at least 85% but I could see 15 % trying to come back where maybe not enough spray hit it so I just did my second spraying (14 days later) and hopefully will be at a 100% kill rate this time. Will use this again...and I already see in the last few days old grass coming back.
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Really Good Stuff
By Tim on 08/29/2015
Not impressed so far
By Jason on 08/30/2015
I sprayed drive xlr8 over my lawn a few weeks ago per the mixing instructions and haven't noticed good results. The front lawn I even went over twice during the same application. I've only noticed about 10% of the crab grass turn brown. I plan to re-apply since I have an abundance of this stuff. Poor results may be because the crabgrass is so mature (it was applied in August). I had anticipated better results after reading the reviews.
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This kills crabgrass! Period!
By Kellen on 08/31/2015
This stuff is unbelievable. I moved to a home with a terrible yard. Within a few days of spraying (using only a tiny amount of poison), every crabgrass plant in my yard was dead. I did use a professional surfactant, so I can't testify to results without it. I measured the amount of water it took me to spray 1,000 sq ft, and I ended up using about 1oz per gallon, which may have been slightly too much, but no damage was done to my lawn.
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Drive herbicide
By Daryl on 09/01/2015
It knocked out my crabgrass. Turned yellow in 2 days and brown in a week. My only complaint being it did not touch my clover but on my next spraying I just added a cheap broadleaf herbicide with the DRIVE. I recommend this product and will be buying more next season.
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Kills the Crabgrass Un-harms the Good Grass
By Mike on 09/05/2015
Not Bad
By John on 09/06/2015
Verified Purchase
My fine fescue lawn was completely infested with crabgrass and chickweed. I wanted something that would knockout the crabgrass and weeds in one application. Based on other's reviews, I purchased (2) two 1/2 gallon containers of Drive XLR8 and sprayed my lawn using a 15 gallon tow behind sprayer. The chickweed was and crabgrass was completely dead within 2 weeks. However, I still have an infestation of smooth leaf crabgrass that the Drive XLR8 did not had no effect on. Also, the crabgrass that had previously died came started to come back to life within a month after spraying. I ended up purchasing a few quarts of Bayer Weed Killer with Crabgrass control to spray the smooth leaf crabgrass. That took care of the smooth leaf crabgrass as well as the crabgrass that had began to show life once again. Though the Drive XLR8 works well, (with the exception of not killing the smooth leaf crabgrass) it is quite expensive compared to Ortho, Bayer or Spectracide. Next time I'll just go with the cheaper stuff that seemed to do the same job.
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Works great
By Jamie on 09/16/2016
My yard was being taken over by crabgrass and i seemed to be waisting my money on the normal over the counter chemicals. My initial impression was that the price was high... however I soon realized this is highly concentrated and the cost per acre ended up being the same. I was pleasantly surprised with the results as my crabgrass problem has turned into a brown spot problem (dead crabgrass). Follow the instructions and your good to go.
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Drive XLR8
By Arlie on 05/30/2017
Has yet to work for me. I had a BAD crabgrass outbreak.
By Stanley on 07/13/2017
In a matter of a week my entire back yard was taken over. I ordered XLR8 thinking it would cure my problem. I only have a gallon sprayer but that just happen to be about the amount I spray while walking 1000 square feet (or so I thought). I mixed the 1.45 ounces as directed with the seed oil and walked my yard spraying 6 days ago. The crabgrass has tuned a ever so slight yellow, but is still mostly green. I used an areal sf calculator app to break down my lawn into 1000 foot section rectangles and it turns out I needed to mix my gallon tank at least 6 times. I only mixed it 3 times originally. So tomorrow I will give it another try and amend my rating.
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Very effective, but not 100%
By Jim on 09/22/2017
not sure
By Robert on 07/20/2018
Temp fix
By Rome on 08/24/2018
Drive XLR8
By Paul on 03/15/2019
Drive XLR8
By Kirk on 08/02/2019
I used the entire container in 30 gallons of water with the correct amount of surfacant and I only got marginal results. Probably 50% kill rate Disappointing t say the least ,now what's left is going to seed so I guess I will try something different next year.
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Doesn't work well for all weeds listed
By Scott on 04/03/2020
30 years experience with bermuda grass and successful and health lawns. Bought it to control clover that 24d based product would control. The application rate listed didn't do anything to the clover. Upped the rate and it provided marginal control but also turned the bermuda yellow for a period of time and the clover eventually came back. This has ZERO effect on dollarweed. If you have dollar weed and crabgrass would recommend MSMA. Will bite the bullet and buy some more MSMA. Works better on a number of grassy weeds too.
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Drive xlr8
By Michael on 05/17/2020
Not impressed
By Brad on 07/24/2020
