Thread: Mud Tyres on Soft (WA) Beach Sand

I don't know about the east. Our sand here on the south coast of WA is exceptionally fine. Sometimes it even squeaks when you walk on it.

It can get very very soft. There are parts of some of the beaches where, no matter what conditons have been (ie tides, rain etc), you don't stop or slow below certain speeds if you want to get through.

I'm with quiggers, skinnier tyres are better than fat ones. And like slunnie, I've found HT tyres the worst.

MT are the best, except (like someone said above) when you start to get bogged. If you try to power out they can have a tendency to dig in.

But for me it's STT's at no more than 16psi around here. And if it gets really soft, low range and drop them even further if necessary. I've been down to 10psi on occasion.

Sounds like theres plenty of different opinions on this subject and rightly so as sand can be so unpredictable ..

At the moment stockton is fairly dry and theres some places were the sand is that soft its hard to walk through and you need to be on tha ball otherwise is out with the shovel ..

I have an old set of BFG at's that are fairly bald and when down at 14/16 psi work great on the powder but perform verry well on the hard stuf to as for the muddies ive found with the big buckshots they have to be down to at least 10 or 8 psi to realy perform ..

On the newyears trip out tha beach we had a play with pauls ute with the maxis creepy crawlers and we ended up with them at 7psi and they were only just starting to belly out and they workd great tho the ute is a fairly lite truck and dosent belly tyers well ..

I think any tyer will do ok on the sand as long as its aired down properly to suit the conditions its a suck it n see sort of test take a compresser and have a play with tyer pressures start at 16 psi then see how far the tyer belleys and how it drives and if its having troubles go down sum more as it will all depend on the size of ya tyer ....

Cheers

Chris