Thread: D3/4 front and rear OEM centre recovery point rating?

Originally Posted by SBD4

I pulled a tree stump out with mine.

Hope you weren't using a snatch strap.

Originally Posted by BMKal

Hope you weren't using a snatch strap.

No Brian, it was a chain, 1st low nice and slow. The car thought it was bogged and went into super extended mode! It won in the end.

Drive it like you stole it !!!

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

This might give you an idea of the static load.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3LIWXCuUUc

Notice, by the chassis rails, not the recovery point!

The reason you are not getting a straight answer is because there is no rating for recovery points. Shackles etc can be tested and rated, but there is no standard for recovery points.

At our 4WD club a year or so ago we had an ARB presentation. One product discussed was the ARB recovery points that can be attached to a variety of 4WDs. The presenter was at pains to explain that the supplied equipment could be rated, but not its attachment to the vehicle. Since they have no control over the angles that the recovery point may be pulled they are not prepared to guarantee that the recovery point will achieve a specified load.

I think the best advice is to keep the forces as low as possible and as straight (in line with the vehicle) as possible. And keep everyone well back.

Originally Posted by Fred Nerk

The reason you are not getting a straight answer is because there is no rating for recovery points. Shackles etc can be tested and rated, but there is no standard for recovery points.

At our 4WD club a year or so ago we had an ARB presentation. One product discussed was the ARB recovery points that can be attached to a variety of 4WDs. The presenter was at pains to explain that the supplied equipment could be rated, but not its attachment to the vehicle. Since they have no control over the angles that the recovery point may be pulled they are not prepared to guarantee that the recovery point will achieve a specified load.

I think the best advice is to keep the forces as low as possible and as straight (in line with the vehicle) as possible. And keep everyone well back.

You may want to look at the above video, because at the 1.47min mark, it tells you the rating for a snatch recovery on the Discovery 3!!

This is from all the testing from the first video, which is just a small glimpse from a LR test facility.

Baz.

I have watched the video. The "rating" for snatched recovery load refers to the chassis/body frame . Not the recovery points. And as has been stated previously ,they do not use the recovery points in the video.

I stress again, there is no such thing as a rated recovery point.

Originally Posted by Fred Nerk

I have watched the video. The "rating" for snatched recovery load refers to the chassis/body frame . Not the recovery points. And as has been stated previously ,they do not use the recovery points in the video.

I stress again, there is no such thing as a rated recovery point.

True, this is not a recovery point test.