Rangie recovered from the sea
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Couple of videos doing the rounds earlier on LR sites showing the lowloaders attempting to do something which can best be described as utter f
kwittery before the Police stopped them & let someone that knew what they were doing get on with it.
Suggestion that the RR had got stuck attempting to recover a jetski.
kwittery before the Police stopped them & let someone that knew what they were doing get on with it.Suggestion that the RR had got stuck attempting to recover a jetski.
So easily done when you get that close to the shoreline. If you don't have a lot of experience it's quite difficult to read the level of firmness of the sand and you can quickly get bogged down - especially on the standard road tyres fitted to this car.
I can only presume that no suitable help was available nearby to give a tow out of danger while recovery was still relatively easy and before the rising sea caught up with it. It seems that the car was swamped twice by two separate tides before the heavy duty recovery arrived.
Shame really, a waste of someone's P&J.
I can only presume that no suitable help was available nearby to give a tow out of danger while recovery was still relatively easy and before the rising sea caught up with it. It seems that the car was swamped twice by two separate tides before the heavy duty recovery arrived.
Shame really, a waste of someone's P&J.
Sand is one of those times when you'll really pay the price for having stupidly large wheels with low profile tyres and no amount of smart traction control programs will help. Normal 4x4 sized tyres can be aired down until they're almost breaking the bead and then slowly driven off. Fashion over function got expensive for this guy.
BugLebowski said:
Sand is one of those times when you'll really pay the price for having stupidly large wheels with low profile tyres and no amount of smart traction control programs will help. Normal 4x4 sized tyres can be aired down until they're almost breaking the bead and then slowly driven off. Fashion over function got expensive for this guy.
It seems to have been running standard size rims and tyres. 
Cold said:
BugLebowski said:
Sand is one of those times when you'll really pay the price for having stupidly large wheels with low profile tyres and no amount of smart traction control programs will help. Normal 4x4 sized tyres can be aired down until they're almost breaking the bead and then slowly driven off. Fashion over function got expensive for this guy.
It seems to have been running standard size rims and tyres. Perhaps if the onlookers pulled on a rope there wouldn't have been anything to look at.
V8RX7 said:
Which are stupidly large and have been demonstrated to be unsuitable off road.
Not really. There aren't many road tyres that will cope with the changeable conditions of the sandy/gravel mix of the shoreline, especially if the driver is inexperienced in such situations.You need something that will stay on the surface and not cut through to the loose shingle underneath so a wider tyre might actually have been more suitable here, whether that's achieved by lowering the pressures of the ones fitted or replacing them with something different before venturing onto the beach - which might not always be practical and would no doubt attract criticism from PHers who might think they're stupid tyres.
The standard size on a first gen RRS are a reasonable compromise given the car's size, weight and towing/luggage capacity, but there will always be limitations. They aren't in any way "stupidly large" or oversize.
You wouldn't expect a mud plugger to be happy at 100+mph for a couple of hours and neither would you expect a tyre designed for motorway comfort to be particularly good across a ploughed field.
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