Advice re road from Yunta to Arkaroola

Just realised that he is not listed as Swampy LOL

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Cheers Kev

I bet ya wished ya still had that Torana tucked away in a shed now Doug :-)

I spent a few weeks up that way in May, I had two punctures resulting in one new tyre being was torn open. This was a new Cooper tyre with deep tread. I suspect but cannot be sure, that a piece of shale wedged between the treads and slowly cut it's way in tyre.

The road looks deceptively good and you can travel on it reasonably fast, however it is used daily by a lot of heavy transports. The result bring that the that lighter graded material on the road is lifted and blown off, leaving in places, a sharp shale/flint type of stone that comes to the surface and does the damage to tyres.

The station I was staying at mainly used Terra Trak tyres with the extra ply to help cope with the damage from the shale.

If you aren't using heavy duty tyres, I suggest as per previous comments, dropping you tyre pressure a bit and keeping your speeds down. A second spare tyre may also be good insurance.