Maxtrax Happy Customer

Totally agree, slow and steady with any of the recovery boards is the go. My TREDS are 4 yrs old and pulled me out of the proverbial many times and are still good.

Len

You can buy replacement nodules for max trax, they screw in where the old one has gone missing. Look on Ebay.

Cheers

I'd check under your truck for sand rash ;) looks like you might have been dragging the tail a bit.

Hi Candace

That looks like an interesting sandy track. If you do not mind, can you let us know where it was?


Cheers


Stephen

What sort of tyre pressure were you running in sand ? Dry sand is always a good test of your vehicles limits the type of tyres you run and pressures their set at but looking at the 1st pic you didn't get far before it bogged down and dragged the rear diff..

This was a spur off the Lake Side Track (I think that was the name) at Coongie Lakes National Park. In particular, the first spur you come to as you drive that road. I drove out there mid-day, so all this sand action happened on a north-facing slope in the mid-afternoon.

Indeed, I did have the vehicle basically "high-centered" at one point. So LOTS of digging that time. Not only in front of the wheels but also to clear the sand from the rear diff and that end of the drive shaft. Thank goodness I also had a full-sized spade to do all this!

I did drop the tyre pressure quite a bit while taking a few runs at this. Since they were warmed up by this time of the day, it was a bit of a guessing game what to drop them to. When I checked them the following morning (after a night in the camping area at the main road's end), they were down around 20 psi IIRC.

While shoveling all this sand, I had an epiphany regarding my interest in doing the Simpson Desert, LOL...

Might I suggest a long handled shovel for the next trip. :)
Dave.

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Candace,

I have crossed the Simpson a number of times in a heavily loaded Troopy without needing the shovel. I always drop to 18psi all round at the start and only once, at the end of a hot day, did I need to go lower to 15psi.

The Ranger at Dalhousie Springs told me that he runs at 15psi all the time, but he is not loaded.

If faced with unknown soft sand conditions I figure that it is best to start low rather than discover the true condition by becoming bogged then having to extract oneself.

If you burnt the lugs off, you aren't using them correctly.
Spin the wheels and you''ll melt the lugs on any trax.

They even mold in a warning on the surface about this.

Yup i know all i am saying is that the new tred ligs are harder to melt :)

Cheers jed

Spam? Thats a big call

Maybe but I think not Bonz. It's also possible that his mate knows how to use his Maxtrax while DMAX001 struggles but I think the whole thing is a concocted marketing exercise. New poster, the language, the lack of detail of his supposed experience with Treds is a dead giveaway. "Experimenting", lol. Classic clickbait.

Lol .... to each their own Bazooka. Any discussion about pro's and cons of a product could be deemed the same mate .......

Disagree Bonz, most aren't marketing bs.

I thought it was a marketing exercise as soon as I read it.

I did too, but obviously the Moderators didn’t!

I also thought of a marketing ploy when I read it.
It seems that something like this post pops up every so often that causes you to pause for a moment or so.
Or am I getting cynical in my old age ?
William

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We all get cynical with age Will.
It comes with the experiences. lol

Hi Allan,
You are right of course.
I also find the older I get the more fine tuned my B.S. meter becomes. Lol
William