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Let's Just Drive up this Track for the Night
Well, you see, it had been raining all day and we didn't really want to go to a caravan park. We had driven along the Sturt Highway through heavy rain and lightning and turned into a track just before Hay that apparently led to a camping spot.
Immediately upon entering the track we realised that it was a bad move as the mud simply clung to the tyres (Pirelli AT+ on original 19" rims) but there was no turning back! Shifted to Low Range (DSC off). Saw a shed in the distance and thought there might be a way to turn around there. There sort of was, but the Tvan just jacknifed in the mud as I tried to back up, so I straightened up and took a walk in the dark to see if I could turn around off the track. I worked out where I could do it, but the wiser half suggested we just camp there on the spot.
This made sense as the rain had stopped and the wind would dry the surface a bit overnight.
Next morning, I scraped the mud off the tyres, dropped the pressures to 25/27psi and did a simple U-turn without issue.
The track was still astonishingly slippery on the way out. I tried a few different Traction Control settings as an exercise. I actually wanted to pre-load the centre diff which I think Rock Crawl did, but in the end I just settled for Low Range, Normal mode with DSC turned off and manually selecting gears.
Let's Just Drive up This Track
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DieselLSE
Well, you see, it had been raining all day and we didn't really want to go to a caravan park. We had driven along the Sturt Highway through heavy rain and lightning and turned into a track just before Hay that apparently led to a camping spot.
Immediately upon entering the track we realised that it was a bad move as the mud simply clung to the tyres (Pirelli AT+ on original 19" rims) but there was no turning back! Shifted to Low Range (DSC off). Saw a shed in the distance and thought there might be a way to turn around there. There sort of was, but the Tvan just jacknifed in the mud as I tried to back up, so I straightened up and took a walk in the dark to see if I could turn around off the track. I worked out where I could do it, but the wiser half suggested we just camp there on the spot.
This made sense as the rain had stopped and the wind would dry the surface a bit overnight.
Next morning, I scraped the mud off the tyres, dropped the pressures to 25/27psi and did a simple U-turn without issue.
The track was still astonishingly slippery on the way out. I tried a few different Traction Control settings as an exercise. I actually wanted to pre-load the centre diff which I think Rock Crawl did, but in the end I just settled for Low Range, Normal mode with DSC turned off and manually selecting gears.
Same as the end of June last year when we had planned to camp just off the Stuart Hwy at Newcastle Waters. Great plan, great spot -but just like you it had rained. The track was fine but when I walked off it to check the camping spot my thongs were exactly like your tyres! We continued on past Elliott (where it was still pouring) and managed to get some gravel space at Renner Springs where the wind blew the rain into the tent of the Kimberley through the zips! [bigsad].
Glad you managed to get out OK in the morning.
What happened to your D3/D4 today?
Two days in a row and have had the same engine system fault come up. The dreaded P132B-22 fault code - no doubt a sticky turbo actuator. The downside of not using the D3 enough.
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Thankfully plenty of good posts to be found here as to how to get access to try and free up.
