Thread: Lost my baby to the sea today

That makes me very, very sad

Sorry to hear that dude,,
I watched one disappear at Fraser some years ago,, although stupidity was involved in that one. The car was will there in the morning, but in several pieces.

That's a shocker. Terribly bad luck. Hopefully you'll get it out in one piece.

I've little experience driving on soft sand but the few that I have had mostly involved getting stuck. I've been guilty of not letting the tires down enough, going out with no recovery gear, lead foot breaking traction, over confidence followed by senseless panic.

What did you do wrong?

Now you know why I don't like beaches mate

Bad luck mate. Sorry to hear.

I had a Suzuki Sierra that was 4 months old and had only covered 3,000km drowned on Fraser many years ago. I enquired what the hire companies do with their vehicles and the answer was push it into a fresh water dam for 24 hours to neutralise the salt.

When I recovered mine as I did not have a dam I took it to a caravan park and completely stripped the inside and hosed and hosed and hosed for hours and hours and hours into every nook and cranny.

Two days later drove from Hervey Bay to Newcastle - drove it for another 3 years before selling it with 80,000km on it. No rust at all.

However it took 6 months for the seat foams to dry out and the seat frame did rust in one spot which was welded up. I did need a new fuel tank as the lining was eaten by the salt (replaced under warranty), the tacho stopped working, the clutch got noisy but was replaced under warranty - every piece of gold cad was eaten off so I painted where this happened to stop surface rusting.

So if you want to keep the vehicle there is a chance you can get it going again without rust BUT it will take work and the vehicle will never be the same again.

Garry

Sorry to hear about that. That would be awful. About twenty years ago I had a few very, very close calls with the Landie while north of Lancelin, (which is north of Perth), which I've never forgotten. Even now I won't go anywhere near a beach unless it's absolutely safe.

sounds like a location that should never be tackled alone
So so sorry, what a horrible thing, but glad you werent in there with her