Stephen Butler
Member
Well, on this last Sunday the wife and I went for a ride, and ended up on a path that led to the Rhode Island beach where it is legal to drive onto. Now I am currently riding on the Mastercraft Street tires that came with my Trac...so as I rode the packed sand down the path, I was doing fine in AWD, but as it opened up to the beach I hesitated... Curiosity won out, and I figured I would just go out, do a semicircle, and drive back. I was fine until the back part where I hit the soft sand and lost traction.... Tried 4wd both hi and low, front and back, just dug in till I was only inches from the running boards. Fortunately a couple was there on the beach, and they were experienced off readers... He suggested that I drop my tire pressure, and then we would push the truck back till I was on the harder packed sand, then follow some tracks to get back to the road. He and I deflated the tires, then pushed back while the wife reversed in 4 low. It moved back, I was able to get back in, put her in 4 HI and power back to the road. Lessons learned; 1) all terrian tires needed for sand. 2) I know to disengage traction control in snow, I forgot to do it in sand as well. So all in all, the truck did as well as can be expected with the wrong tire configuration for the surface. nline: