Well, thanks to some great advice here I bought my AWB compressor c/w gauge and AWB deflator.
Fantastic! So I hit the beach for some beach fishing, travelling through some extremely soft, dry and boggy sand on the narrow entry road. No problemo for the Prado on 15psi. But yesterday I came across a stranded party on the narrow road in a shiny black Quatro kind of suburban thingo (sorry didn't get the name/model). She was bogged to the doors -- and I guess the chassis (if it had one). And they're trying to let the tyres down with a stick. So I gets out with my new AWB deflator and immediately lowered my voice to an authorative, all-knowing tone, and took on rescue operations. "We'll just lower the tyres, dig out the back wheels and you'll have to reverse out of there (downhill)," says I.
But when the driver tried to drive out only the front wheels would turn. I says, "Isn't this a 4WD?" and he says, "Yes." So I says, "How come only the front wheels are turning?" And he says, "It's computerised!"
My wife was still giggling way into the night when I told her that the computer decided not to cooperate with the rescue.
So my first question is, would this have been a real 4WD or one of those AWD thingos? And my second question is, because the vehicle was too low to the ground, do you virtually have to dig the thing out with a shovel?
No one had a tow rope so I couldn't assist there. So after about 30 minutes I had to give them the number of the local servo that tows out beach-bogged vehicles. I felt very helpless.
So what are some of the tricks in getting something like this out of a sand bog -- and are there similar sand bogs that even the high body 4WDs can't get out of?
