fraser island vehicle choice advice

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Originally Posted by The ho har's

The boarded track up out of Kingfisher Bay will be a challenge:o when last there it was very washed out....the defender handled it well though


Mrs ho har:angel:

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I was there on Saturday, and the track was annoyingly bumpy but I can't see how anyone could get stuck.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

12 months ago the 4wd hire place on the island used to rent auto defenders and, er, other makes.

BEWARE the Island buses!!:eek:

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is that the company that had the soft top 130? if so they flogged the lot .....just don't know what quality is lol

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Originally Posted by lardy

is that the company that had the soft top 130? if so they flogged the lot .....just don't know what quality is lol

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Aussie Trax are still renting deefers.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Aussie Trax are still renting deefers.

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that they are!!!..... quite often got them for sale out the front ..well every now and then ......every time i see one l get all worked up.....:D


cheers

Thanks.

Based on all of that i think I will recommend the defender:p

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Originally Posted by cucinadio

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mate we were there in sept and the bus thing is the goods...my mate was in front of us traveling along nicely in some pretty soft stuff as you can see in front of him was a bloody bus we were going through a tight little Vally as you can see and the bus decided to stop and look at something :twisted: my mate in his little KIA (didn't have a prob all day apart from this BTW) and he just sank to the bottom :twisted: after some digging around the diffs and some help from the good old "Hubbatrax" we got him out but also if you look in the rear of the pic there is a little jimmy that had muddies on it from Aussie trax 4wd hire ....there were actually two of them following us all day (must have decided that we new where we were going ) with out a prob in the world we were there all day across the island up to Eli creek and back......

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Thats why i hate the bloody buses too. They just stop in the most annoying places, and if you meet them in the opposite direction they just stop there an wait for you to work out where to go, even if it is easier for them to back up just a little to make room.:mad: If you can't find a Deefer to hire i would go the zuki, they a great little sand 4x4s

I have hired a Rav 4 to take on the beach before and it was a fun machine to drive. I even got the opportunity (as embarrasing as it was) to drive around a stuck range rover traversing into increasingly boggy sand and then back to hard stuff in the process. the best part about that was seeing the blokes wife sitting on the carpet mat while he attempted to dig the thing out with a shovel that was about 12 inches long. As soon as he got moving after we dug him out with our real shovels he hi tailed it out of there. Oh yeah his misses was left sitting on the carpet next to the hole he created. :Rolling::eek:

It probably wont matter too much what vehicle they have. the most improtant thing will be tyre pressure. Reduce pressures to around 15 - 20 psi (depending on vehicle & tyre size) and your friends will get where they want to

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Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I was there on Saturday, and the track was annoyingly bumpy but I can't see how anyone could get stuck.

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been a while since we were there probably fixed now.... there was a 2ft drop off one of the boards and some vehicles had trouble climbing it:)


Mrs ho har:angel:

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Originally Posted by The ho har's

been a while since we were there probably fixed now.... there was a 2ft drop off one of the boards and some vehicles had trouble climbing it:)


Mrs ho har:angel:

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if its the same one just before you hit eu-wrong resort (recrap we call it) it hasn't got any better and it did prove a bit of a prob with my mates KIA but he got up it ok ...down was a hell of a crack ;)

cheers

Thought i would throw this in,vehicle of choice,i recon around 1970:p

This is an old family photo i found ,down on the south end of the island,in one of those soft areas left by the sand miners.

Not much help around,lucky to see one tourist a week:):)

No boarded tracks either,just a shovel,a winch,& lots of elbow grease:angel:

In fact ,as long as the tide was going out,you just went for a fish,and came back in an hour or two and just drove out:o


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