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@@sand_shifter You don't know for sure if it was acted out. But as I said, I personally don't care either way. As a newbie to beach recovery, I got plenty out of it.
Any other vehicle but the toyota which are famous around the world for offroading.. come on! Toyota are looking at this video and laughing hard. 😂 better example would be as others mentioned, stage it and say as an example...
“You might be wondering why we’re not rushing around a bit more to get the Prado out?” Nah, not really. Because it’s not bogged and it’s staged and cringy as.
The production quality is really stella. Congratulations to you and the whole team because it really is great quality filming and story telling. It showcases the places you visit so well.
Came for the how-to’s stayed for videos like this. Awesome to see your progress brother. I’ve learned a lot from you. Most recently; your tool kit and spares advice.
Nice video Ronny. One of my favourite places. Try and get there when the bar is open. All that water around your campsite is crystal blue. Absolute paradise.
A mate and I had a similar experience in that exact same spot. The sand closer to the water on that beach is deceptively soft. An easy winch recovery got my mate's car out. I've since invested in a couple of soft shackles!
Are we hanging out for more of this sort of content? OH YEAH! While we have never been bogged in the 90 (90s are of course the best Prado off road LOL) we carry an air jack. While it is bulky, they are perfect for that sort of situation where you want to get the vehucle up in a hurry and get something under the wheels. We don't have a winch so for us the air jack is our fail safe for driving on sand. Loved this episode, I know this sort of content takes a lot more effort to produce but the end result sure is worth it.
Good video mate, but the bogging was an obvious setup with some ordinary acting! At least you were able to make a few points about safe recovery without using metal parts when winching. I'm a fan, but this video was too scripted and also the tide was out when the Prado was recovered. A complete set-up job, Ronny as you would know...
Thanks for the awesome info, unfortunately no video evidence of my bogging in the mudflats in the Pilbara with a rising tide. Once in a HJ45 shorty stuck traversing across a track n caught in the wheel rutts, walked to the main road n flagged a passing 4wd for a tow recovery. The second time @ Pardoo station, the ladies wanted to head for the water n said go left. I was not with the station briefing that said stay on the tracks, used boogey boards as Max tracks. Keep up the awesome work
Sensational spot been down there and driven some of those tracks. If you ever get a chance guys go and drive down there. There’s a wonderful spot called Karri touches the sands. Huge karri trees have grown up in between these humungous monster sandunes and their top limbs go out and rest on the top of the dunes. Absolutely amazing. You can crawl out onto the limb and look down 150 feet to the ground and only be a metre from the top of the dune. Just stunning. Has anybody else been there?
@@ChristosIsHe There are never good excuses to leave a burning campfire. It would take you less than 15 seconds to throw enough sand on the fire to kill it. Stupid attitudes like yours, are reasons for the majority of wildfires.
Nice scenery. Almost NZ style. 2:30pm! WAT? How come it took all morning to rip the Prado out? Obviously the tide didn't coming any further or the car would have been toast.....for breakie! 😅 I watched another video recently (shot a few wks ago) where the guy thought his car was so good he didn't have to let his tyres down from their 50psi while trying to drive around a tight corner in very soft dry sand. He was towing a 14ft van with a 200 landcruiser I think it was. So of course he went straight down to the gunwales but did he let the tyres down? Nooooo, not until 4hrs later, way after dark! He said it was because he would have to drive with reduced tyre pressure in the morning to somewhere to pump up again. I felt like he should have been left there! But some Sth Africans came along and dug him out after 2hrs hard work. I guess they had a tyre pump as well cos he didn't have to backtrack the next morning. But has he learned his lesson? I don't think so because he still wanted to blame the sand and goodness knows what else rather than his lack of driving skills and lack of carrying a little tyre pump. Even if he had to pump up one at a time across 3 hrs. And we don't know if he even cleaned up the bogging site so others didn't bog there as well. You can go down to 8psi if you have to just to get out. Packing up to make the sand hard under the tyres at that low pressure is important before attempting to drive and having 4 max trax is a lot better than 2. All good hey? 😂
hahah funny stuff Mr Dahl...good whqt to do vid no doubt. your camera crew prado..has anyone thought of the elocker / atrac mod? its very simple...when low range and elocker engaged the front is open diffs...with the above mentioned mod..it sends a 12v signal to atrac to work only on front end..resulting in an absolute beast of a prado in most conditions...add a MM smart auto locker for the torque converter...you now have a 3.5 locked prado like the yanks do to the fj cruiser.. 1. rear lock 2. centre lock 3. torque converter smart lock 4. front atrac with 12psi in the shoes the current late model prado will climb its way through almost anything with the right driver well done on good what if moments in your videos...sorry to make you suck eggs if these mods you already know about ... warm regards mate
Ron, a couple of things. First, you made a mistake when you pulled up after turning around to winch... you hit the brakes in sand instead of rolling to a stop so it doesn't form a sand ridge in front of the tyres. Secondly you obviously need to do a 1HD-FTE swap in your Troopy if you feel it's not powerful enough. Everything else was great though, good instructions. :)
Tyre pressure is the solution. $400 tyre vs $80K vehicle. I'll go single digit pressures if I have to and I'll never give a rip about whether or not I might damage a tyre. Haven't yet, but 6-7psi has gotten me out of situations like this many times. Heck, you can even crack the valves and just let tyres go completely flat if that's what is needed to get to the dry sand. And that's why a compressor needs to be essential recovery equipment. If you can pump 'em back up, there's no issues lettin' them down to really low pressures.
@@rexxx777 Yes mate I have. Myself and a group of friends went down there about a year ago. Single digit tyre pressures for most of us from what I recall. Good fun getting off this beach!
Hey Ronny, I bet there was plenty of Nitrogen in the soil just outside the door of a hut with no toilet, were you found the POTATOES (What a shame you burnt them ) 🤣😂👍😵💫 Cheers from the Northern Rivers NSW
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen The recovery was probably real, but they made it look more urgent than it actually was. They wouldn't stop to film a piece if the car was actually at risk.
On sand, I would turn the stability control off but keep the brake traction control - at least on Prado 150, the computer acts very fast and doesn’t cut engine power so it will not hinder progress like stability control of road based traction control does - however it’s probably not going to help in this situation as it’s already on the axle … should stop straight away the moment you can see you lost progress. And yes 4 maxtrax comes in handy and that’s what I carry and so is a shovel and lots elbow grease…. 18psi is for “high way “ sand travel - 15psi or less is the starting point when low range is engaged and 10psi is what I would use to self recover
If you know anything about 150 Prado’s you most certainly turn off traction control on sand, it hinders your wheel spin and therefore forward momentum very badly in sand.
@@PP-bm7zp spinning wheels = NO forward progress = bigger hole to sap your forward momentum when doing a reverse and "try again" = or dig yourself deeper. if you can go through with wheels spinning, you can go through without wheels spinning Toyota ATRACs (toyota speak for brake TC, not ESP/stability control-that should be off) does not retard engine power and does not over-intervene - gives a try next time with less engine rev so you maintain a constant speed and not spinning the sh!t out- work for me at the soft sand of Nagala rock unlike most of the tuned up 79s ripping the tracks out. You will be surprised ! Prado 150 and 120 grande have a very good TC
@@aron2199 thanks for explaining something I have been using on my Prado for 10 years, my point, which you’ve obviously missed is that in order to prevent yourself from getting bogged, keep TC turned off in sand, always. This will allow you to have more much needed momentum in sand. TC will hinder momentum by applying the brakes if it senses traction has been lost. Therefore it will slow you down in sand.
@@PP-bm7zp the Brake TC only applies brake to the wheel which is spinning and therefore no longer giving you forward drive on that spinning wheel - By doing so the Brake TC transfer the drive to the wheel which still has still have some traction left, a GREATER amount of drive than it otherwise has, propelling forward for longer. You decide the amount of drive you want with your right feet and the computer decide which wheel to send the drive to - almost like a LSD. at least on the prado 150, the system is not over enthusiastic on its intervention and in my opinion, work well in the sand.
@@aron2199 you are missing the point, it’s not opinion based it is understanding how the TC works and that due to it braking individual wheels that are slipping and therefore hinders your forward momentum against the sand and eventually can get you stuck. Trust me, I have held 4wd training for my members over the last 10 years of owning the vehicle and many times around australia and this is the golden rule with the 150 prados for sand driving. Slow, rock crawling scenarios, the 150s TC in phenomenal, sand driving, always hold the TC button for 5 seconds to completely disengage.
front rear lockers better idea.. big wheels.. 10 psi.. you can also use a dingy anchor, or any flat object, even a blanket. if,,you want to dig 5 ft of sand.. theres vids on the recovery blanket.. quetzalcoatl,,was enki..an alien.. he saved man, not noah.. also known as other names world wide, inc. thoth..egypt.iether him, or one of his companions that stayed on earth, 13k ago.. if you buy a real 4x4, with 2 diffs, old school.. you wont get boged, as easy.. 35,s are minimum tyre.. 4.2tdi..nothing else.. i drive yank 4x4rs,,built proper..not jeep..!..
I would have been on 12 psi to start with, remember prevention is a lot easier Spinning wheels and bellying out is one of the do not golden rules Where was the shovel, the most basic recovery tool Showcasing soft shackles, equalisation straps and winch recovery makes for better filmography
Still astonishing for seemingly experienced people, that tyre pressures are still not fully utilised on the beach during a recovery! Also, that guy who ate that burnt food - don't. Burnt food is seriously carcinogenic.
Bogged and still at 18 PSI?? Straight down to 10 PSI and try again. Then 8 PSI, then 6 PSI if you have to. There will be a *big* difference between 18 PSI and 10 PSI.
Also, in a Prado, you have turn off the traction control by holding down the traction control button for 6 seconds. If you just push it briefly, it only disables the stability control (which it does anyway, if you shift to low range).
I have a TRD off-road 4runner, 2022 year model and want to lift it cause I only have 8 inches from the ground to my skid plates. This is not enough, all though I have gone to some very rough places. Medical bills have taken over my life, the lift is getting harder to afford. what is the cheapest lift option for a 5th generation TRD off-road 4runner, or just stay stock height with good skids (RCI steel) underneath and just go with it?? Running Cooper ST MAXX tires.. I bump my skids a lot..
Apparently chlorophyll in potatoes can have deadly neurological effects when taken in adequate amounts. So if your potato has some green in it avoid it
Useful I guess as a demonstration recovery but I have to agree with others that it appeared staged. The camera car drove off before breakfast leaving some of the camera crew to film Ronnie on the radio to the "camera crew" that for some reason, they thought they would take their Prado down by the waves. Also, Ronnie specifically pointed out the "no fires" sign before later lighting a fire... Sorry Ronnie but like the song by Regurgitator: "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff"
