4wd Embarrassing Moments For Beginners

Reading numerous Exploroz Threads on different Equipment, Camping Aids, How To, Where To, ect ect ect, It got me to thinking re how did a lot of us Old Farts get on before the Internet come along, it was more a Trial and Error and hopefully Commonsense, and also gaining experience from watching others come to grief, there was little or zero After Market 4wd Accessories, I was introduced to Beach Driving the Hard Way, my Embarrassing Moment was when we were heading over to Moreton Island on the old vehicle barge, when we were getting close to the Beach, most of the other 4by drivers were letting Air out of their tyres, all you could hear was this Hissing Noise, my Cook said to me, what are they doing and should we be doing that also, nah I said we will be ok, I didn't buy these Wide Tyres for nothing, the truck will just float over that Soft Sand, WRONG, our little Short Wheel Based Toyota, loaded to the limit with 2 kids and the Cook and myself just got of the Barge Ramp and was Bogged to the Diffs on the beach, luckily we had friends waiting for us near the Barge Landing area, one of my mates was a ex Army Driving Instructor of re: Vietnam Era, he quickly showed me what to do and what gear to drive in, after we let the tyres down to 12 psi, over the next few days I learnt just about every thing I needed to know about 4wheel driving on sand ect, and besides that a few valuable camping ideas, so who else had a First Embarrassing 4wd moment.

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