Thread: Recovery gear was useless on my D3

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yeah... Lets run road pressures and **** the beach and tracks more than necessary...

Not impressed!

Agreed. Road pressure tyres are probably wrecking the cordage from Kingfisher.

Also, while I'm happy you are wrapped in your car's ability there will be times when it will be tested and the fact that you ran road pressure and found Fraser fine simply means the sand was harder than it can be. Try that at Indian when they haven't had rain for months but heaps of traffic and you will have a new familiarity with your long handled shovel and snatch strap. Good luck.

Cheers

Cheers Tombie,

I had the the DSC off and the tyres down to about 18 and 20. And then down to about 10 when trying to get out. Catch twenty two though! When I let the tyres down the bottom will bottom out more. I worked out that if I got out of the ruts the Disco would go over everything.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yeah... Lets run road pressures and **** the beach and tracks more than necessary...

Not impressed!

Well this was my first time off road, and was following advice from a tour guide who used to work on Fraser - he was the one who told us not to bother reducing the pressures until you felt you needed to.

There was a D3 coiler badly bogged at Ngalea(however it is spelt) rocks last week,maybe Bren?
Possibly did have to stop as another vehicle got bogged in front of it.Both took a while to move.

Ah,fun in the soft stuff

Originally Posted by Mattt

Well this was my first time off road, and was following advice from a tour guide who used to work on Fraser - he was the one who told us not to bother reducing the pressures until you felt you needed to.

You have certainly been given a bum steer from someone who should know better; a sad state of affairs on such a place as Frazer where there are people who need little excuse to ban 4wd on the island.
As a driver who has been big enough to admit your inexperience, now is the time to take a proper 4wd course. Even very experience drivers can learn something from a good instructor and have an enormous amount of fun in doing so.

Originally Posted by ~Rich~

Each their own!

Heh Rich,

Did not mean to offend mate. Was tongue in cheek.

I have given them a work out over the years, and find them more useful then the winch I had on my previous 4wd.....except the winch was handy to remove a bend out of the steering rod which the maxtrax can't do.

I don't always travel alone but have done on many occasions so find them just as important as my water. Before I had these I used to cut up branches once I had my tyres way down, and exhausted other options.

Brett....

My two cents if it's worth anything:

Road pressures ruin sand tracks, just like not engaging 4wd does. Some people just don't realise this so need to be educated not humiliated.

Maxtrax are great. Just another tool that's not applicable in every situation but useful in many and sometimes in conjuntion with other tools in your kit. I'd rather lend someone my maxtrax to self recover than set up a snatch strap if I can avoid it.

I'm going to put myself through a 4wd course soon as well. Hopefully when I upgrade to a D4. I'm no expert and I'm no novice, but look forward to learning plenty of stuff.

As I said, just my two cents worth and as it's been said plenty of times before; each to their own.

Originally Posted by Mattt

Just a quick complaint, for my NYE trip to Fraser Island, I purchased lots of recovery gear (Maxxtraxx, Compressor, Gauges, Snatch strap, Shackles, Shovel etc) and the car didn't get stuck once.

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Sounds like it was fun. And with recovery gear, as the advice and cliche goes, "Better to have it and not use it, than need it and not have it".

Some good advice on here, I am always learning new and old tricks/points too.