Thread: towing camper trailer on sand

Thanks chris......

I reckon I will lower the tyre pressures when we leave on Saturday.

Well I got into our camping ok ish I guess......my first attempt going around a sand dune off camber resulted in me getting stuck although I could back out quite easily. I ended up coming in on the northern side but there was no way I could do a u-turn kept bogging down so we ended up man handling it a we wanted it spun around 180 degrees......

I don't know how some of the camper and caravan got into where they were set up.....I assume much lower tyre pressures.

Currently I have 18 in the front and 22 in the rear.......haven't got stuck anywhere yet, plenty other getting stuck

Originally Posted by Tombie

You could go lower with tyre pressures...

A good trick is to measure the footprint of the tyre and adjust to match the tow vehicle...

Vehicle at 18psi will be much different to trailer at 18psi in a lot of cases..

My camper trailer weighs much the same & I deflate the tyres to 10psi to match the footprint size of my D2 at 18psi.

I'd be letting the tires down more.
When we were at Fraser last year we were very heavy (even carried a spare diff as I was very suspect of the rear one), trailer weighed about 900kg. We went 16/18/9 - front/back/trailer. Got up and over one particularly hard exit that an empty Delica wasn't able to do; the climb out of Eurong was dead easy on those pressures.

Yes I'd be going lower.
Fraser last year we were very VERY heavy (even carried a spare diff as I was suspect of the rear one), the trailer was about 900kg

We were running 16/18/9psi - front/back/trailer. Driving off Eurong beach into the Rocks campsite we were able to do an exit that an empty Delica wasn't able to do.