~Rich~
18th August 2011, 06:48 AM
Hi Guys,
I've been away this week in Orange NSW, I decided to go for a drive up to Mt Canobalas which is no challenge. But on the way down I decided to give my GPS and OZ Topo V3 a test in the state forest (solo). Had some fun and the GPS had all of the tracks on it. Some short challenges but nothing to stop the D3.
Nearing the main road I decided to use another side track for a last bit of fun!
Hmmm maybe I shouldn't have!
I started going down the hill and saw a deep rut ahead, tried to drive around it but my drivers front slid in. I got out in figure out next steps through the passengers door and there was no way I was going to back out of it. I tried to drive forward out to no avail so I had to commit to the rut!
It got deeper with a high bank on the drivers side. I was in low range, off road height and + 50 LLAMS. I grounded a couple of times and went into super extended as well! I tried to drive out of the rut a couple of times on the way down to no avail. The drivers side hit the bank a couple of times, folding the mirror in, ripping off the rear mud flap and dislodging the rear flare. They where some cross up angles on the way down and the D3 drove through them no problem. I finally made the bottom and inspected the damage.
My drivers wheel was completely filled with thick red clay!
I mean right through the width of the wheel and the face was just all red clay. I did some digging to try to clear some of it.
I finally got to the main road and laid plenty of mud on the bitumen.
Of course I had a bad wheel balance with all the mud in that wheel.
I tried to clear it at a local dump station which helped to some extent, off now to find a car wash with a high pressure cleaner to clear the rest of it and clean the car up a bit.
Jeeze it had my heart rate up during that rut!
Oh well _h1_ happens.
Graeme I did not have any fault show up at all during the time on Super Extended. Great stuff I probably would not of got out without LLAMS. ;)
I've been away this week in Orange NSW, I decided to go for a drive up to Mt Canobalas which is no challenge. But on the way down I decided to give my GPS and OZ Topo V3 a test in the state forest (solo). Had some fun and the GPS had all of the tracks on it. Some short challenges but nothing to stop the D3.
Nearing the main road I decided to use another side track for a last bit of fun!
Hmmm maybe I shouldn't have!
I started going down the hill and saw a deep rut ahead, tried to drive around it but my drivers front slid in. I got out in figure out next steps through the passengers door and there was no way I was going to back out of it. I tried to drive forward out to no avail so I had to commit to the rut!
It got deeper with a high bank on the drivers side. I was in low range, off road height and + 50 LLAMS. I grounded a couple of times and went into super extended as well! I tried to drive out of the rut a couple of times on the way down to no avail. The drivers side hit the bank a couple of times, folding the mirror in, ripping off the rear mud flap and dislodging the rear flare. They where some cross up angles on the way down and the D3 drove through them no problem. I finally made the bottom and inspected the damage.
My drivers wheel was completely filled with thick red clay!
I mean right through the width of the wheel and the face was just all red clay. I did some digging to try to clear some of it.
I finally got to the main road and laid plenty of mud on the bitumen.
Of course I had a bad wheel balance with all the mud in that wheel.
I tried to clear it at a local dump station which helped to some extent, off now to find a car wash with a high pressure cleaner to clear the rest of it and clean the car up a bit.
Jeeze it had my heart rate up during that rut!
Oh well _h1_ happens.
Graeme I did not have any fault show up at all during the time on Super Extended. Great stuff I probably would not of got out without LLAMS. ;)