Thread: Stuff like this is embarrassing

Of course,,, I'd never get stuck in sand on 20" rims

Here is mine at Stockton beach. I drove in the really soft stuff on one of the big dunes behind the Sigma. Wheels are 20" pressure is 18psi. It was easier to get a quick snatch from my mate in his Jackaroo than to get the Maxtrax down off the roof or drop pressures another 4psi.
I had no problems anywhere else.

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Funny, my old D2 with then 18s and no CDL has ever got bogged on Stockton , even though some D3-4s did on a Range Rover Club training day. Then there was the RRS which couldn't get going on a flat track until I told the driver to disable his stability control.

The Evoque went really well on flat sand but didn't like the made tracks.

Sometimes the new models are too smart for their own good.
Regards Philip A

If only another Land Rover was there to pull him out.
The worst part is not being prepared with recovery gear and then not taking advice from a bloke who seems to be there every day!

I'm not ashamed to admit I got bogged not long ago on our first beach trip in the D4. I had followed what I thought was the trip leaders tracks onto the beach (trip leader is a dickhead who can't quite grasp convoy procedures.....) and being new to 19" wheels and having been advised by a long time D3/4 owner not to go below 25psi. I soon got bogged.
After much to and froing from first to reverse etc. and letting the tyres down to about 16psi I eventually got out under my own steam and some maxtrax help.
Cook helpfully said "Wouldn't have happened in the Deafener......."
AlanH.

Yup I learnt on Stockton when I first bought a Disco 4.
- Tyre pressure around 12psi
- DSC turned off (it fights all momentum on sand and spends all its time braking wheels when it shouldn't.)
- Low range
- sand mode

Then you shouldn't have too many issues.

I think the D2 probably faired well because it doesn't weigh as much as a D3/D4.

Once the Disco 4 is in the right mode the motor and transmission in the D4 made getting up steep dunes easy.
Friends in manual hiluxes and pajeros struggled to get momentum and speed to get up them as easy.

Why on earth they put those 20' low profile wheels and tyres on the Disco's in the first place has me stumped.
It's hard for a great and highly capable truck to be able to perform with those ridicules wheels/tyres fitted to them.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Funny, my old D2 with then 18s and no CDL has ever got bogged on Stockton , even though some D3-4s did on a Range Rover Club training day. Then there was the RRS which couldn't get going on a flat track until I told the driver to disable his stability control.

The Evoque went really well on flat sand but didn't like the made tracks.

Sometimes the new models are too smart for their own good.
Regards Philip A

My tyre pressures could have been lower and I deliberately drove in some very soft sand up hill right out the back and I dug it in trying some different things to see if it would come out. On a previous LROCS trip in my D3 I went up dunes that defenders and D1s couldn't get up. I was pretty happy with how my D4 went on 20' rims after all the hype about how bad they are. Admittedly the 20's aren't the best and the D4 is heavy, it does have plenty of power though .