Friday, Nov 11, 2005 at 14:33
Again, going back some 25 years, a mate of
mine and his wife spent two weeks on Fraser Island driving a HT Holden ute. They had no real problems. He had standard road tyres on it running at lower pressure. Providing you drive on the harder packed sand on
the beach and you can get a serious run up the sand blows, it is quite possible to do much of it in a 2WD. I loaned him a small Tirfor, but he had no need to use it.
It is amazing what can be done in a 2WD with a good driver. In my last big trip around the northern end of Australia, the only road I travelled where I reckon a 2WD would definitely not have made it was the road into the Bungle Bungles. That had some serious bits that would have made it quite difficult. Apart from that, there were some corrugations that would have shaken most of the modern 2WD cars to pieces, but then the Prado didn't like them that much either. Naturally, if you were up there in the wet, it would be a different kettle of fish.
I have also done some bush driving into the great divinding range where the 4WDs in our group were in low range. A mate who was a useful sort of Rally driver brought his rally prepped Mitsubishi Colt along for the trip and made it all the way. He didn't require assistance and he didn't damage it.
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