Maxtrax Does it Again

Hi Rossco,
You must be doing something wrong, because they are designed to be used in any situation where your vehicle becomes bogged. To ruin 3 sets would surely ring alarm bells. Were you going slow the way they tell you on the instructional DVD? I would say that it comes down to driver error and then blaming the product. Any product that is used in one of the hardest vehicle rallies must be 100% reliable, and to see them used by more than one team would tell any viewer that they have been tried and tested.

I suggest that you contact Maxtax, as they would like to hear of you trouble to see if it is driver error and not knowing how to use them correctly? If you ruined 3 sets, you would have had an expensive repair bill, as if I lent mine to a friend and they ruined them, I would expect them returned in the condition that I lent them.

Cheers

Stephen

Anyone would think Stephen has shares in Maxtrax.

Did you ever consider the conditions and circumstances may have been such that it may have ACTUALLY caused product failure and not the user.

The mud may have been so soft that the weight of the vehicle was too much for the plastic trax without solid support like sand.

We're all sure they work great in sand.

Hi Wizard 1
Firstly I do not have any links with this great Australian Company, nor do I have any shares. Any product that is made by man can have defects and could possibly fail. I would find it very strange that 3 sets of Maxtrax were damaged if the instructions were followed correctly. I do not know where you get the idea of they only work in sand from!
When you purchase a set of these great Aussie invention, they give you a DVD that explains how to uses them correctly, and it clearly shows that they can be used in any situation where your vehicle becomes bogged, whether it be sand, mud,snow, hung up on rocks on a water crossing etc. Without knowing of the conditions that Rossco claims ruined 3 sets of Maxtrax, one would like to know just how bad it was.
If the mud was that soft his car could have been stuck hard and fast (not bagged) and even the best of winches would struggle in the right conditions. I have seen a vehicle stuck (not bogged, there is a very big difference) in almost quick sand conditions that required 3 vehicles with winches and many hard and dirty hours to extract. In this situation, it is fair to say that the Maxtrax would not have helped, as the vehicle was down in the mud to the floor pan, and that amount of suction on the vehicle would have been huge.

I stick by my worlds and credit where credit is due and they would not use them in the Dakar if they were not up the their expectations.

Cheers

Stephen

Lmao - it did sound like a salesman speech didn't it ? or is this 40 deg heat frying my brain ?

Boc