SJ
Member Since: 24 Mar 2009
Location: North Yorkshire
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When I first worked in the Middle East in 1980, most of the local Bedouin people all seemed to drive either old long wheel base Landrovers or the original Toyota Land Cruisers (they were about half the size of the modern ones, rather like the Daihatsu's that used to be very popular in the UK with farmers) and they all drove around on huge aircraft style tyres. That is they where ribbed, but had no cross slots or tread pattern whatsoever. I never saw any of these guys get stuck in the sand! That's not to say that they never did, just that I never saw tham even when the drove up and over some really big dunes, they just went steady away without any great speed or engine revs.
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DingMark
Member Since: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Perth Oz or Erbil, Iraq
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I've found that 18" AT tyres work better on dry dune sand, but on wet (and much softer) beach sand, 19" MTRs kep me moving better. On the softest sand I run MTRs at 16psi and the bigger sidewalled 18" tyres at 19psi. If there's any rock or coral about the low 16psi would make it easy to crack a wheel on the 19" MTRs (so far hasn't happened yet). Jim Dowell - D4 HSE TDi, 12,000 hydraulic winch & hidden winch mount, MTRs, TyreDog, Traxide 2 x aux battery system, fixed air compressor, Dolium roof rack, MitchHitch.
RIP 2005 D3 HSE V8 5 seater gold (stolen and torched)
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