Thread: tyre pressures beach

Originally Posted by Mungus

I understand the lower the better and this all comes down to experimenting and getting to know what works for you and your vehicle in a particular scenario, but if there was a constant mix of beach sand and rock/gravel, would 20-22 or even higher to 22-24 if you were nicking in and out of beach coves with more rock/gravel between; would this be close to as good, giving more protection for rocks and less hassle not inflating/deflating?

Well yes, there are lots of other scenarios, but the OP was talking about soft beach sand.

Cheers,

Gordon

I have 18s so you probably need to go lower for 19s, but I have a set of easy downs set at 25 and that's my beach standard and I have never been bogged in my D3 in sand.

The comment about running on sand and the rocky tracks is interesting. We do that all the time including tracks where we can hit 40kph at time down at Beachport. We have never changed tyre pressure from 16 over all that as it is not about the pressure in this situation it is all about the speed you drive at with tyres this low as that is what builds up the temperature

We do this all the way across the Simpson Desert as well and have done for at least the last 20 crossings

Rob