Got stuck!

[mirali]

A little shaken (but not stirred) about the invincibility of the mighty LC (2013). But in all honesty, if was my fault :whoops:

We were at the North end of South Padre Island. There are some nice dirt tracks there ranging from deep sand, shallow water and swamps.

We were moving along and it seemed that the track ended. I stopped the vehicle, thinking about turing back, realizing too late that I had put all 4 wheels in wet clay.

I changed to 4Lo, tried crawl control and Diff lock to no avail. We had left our showel on the beach. We tried to clear the mud, put some tree branches, tarps in front of the wheels after unloading the vehicle, with no success. Finally some of us walked back and had an off road F-150 snatch us out.

All passesngers unanimously thought that we had a wicked fun time Although my son is writing a letter of complaint to Toyota, LC is not supposed to get stuck anywhere!

Long live the Land cruiser...

PS: Some lesson learned

1. Look where you are going.
2. Keep traction in mind. Car cannot overcome physics
3. Keep the showel in the car.
4. Think about off road tires (unlikely as this is my wife's daily driver).
5. Think about that winch (would have needed an anchor point)

 

[occamsrazor]

I had similar with my 100-series (all stock). Made me realise that 4wd tech, LSDs, Diff-locks, etc is based on at least one wheel having traction. When all are spinning in mud with no traction on any wheel you're xxx. In my case the mud was almost up to the top of the rear wheel, spare wheel and exhaust were under the mud. So you've got a huge amount of drag cause by the rear diff trying to pull through.

 

[TroutRunner]

Even the biggest and baddest 4x4's get stuck. There's a reason the site is called IH8MUD!

Can't fault the vehicle for street tires, poor driving, and deep slick mud.

Recoveries are fun. Did one a few weeks back that included a rollover on one vehicle and both drivelines blown on another. All this on a 90 turn on a 50ft drop off a cliff, both broke at the same time. Took some effort, rollover finally drove out, broken Jeep used his full winchline of 100ft three times with me dragging him some of the way out some gnarly climbs.

 

[Surfy]

Also with mud tyres, ARB Difflocks and so on

With many mods you will do more and harder stuff - and you will get stuck.

You want also to test the snorkel, the winch, right

 

[TroutRunner]

Wow! Horrified by that swamping. Good work!

 

[mirali]

Indeed, seeing the water inside a 80k $ vehicle is painful. Talking about cleaning, how do you old hands recommend I clean inside the engine compartment. It seems to have a fair amount of sand and mud inside.

Thanks,

Mir

 

[Tapage]

 

[robustbambi]

Lol a white snorkel.

 

[TroutRunner]

Indeed, seeing the water inside a 80k $ vehicle is painful. Talking about cleaning, how do you old hands recommend I clean inside the engine compartment. It seems to have a fair amount of sand and mud inside.

Thanks,

Mir

Stick a sprinkler under it amd let it run, then hose it off. It's gonna take some serious time and quarters at the self car wash.

 

[Surfy]

@robustbambi: Yes - a white snorkel and a white Bullbar.

I live and work in a city - and drive the car each day. Here it is pretty uncommon - to drove such an equipped car

I try to get less attention with the white color, but dont know exactly if this plan works

Indeed, seeing the water inside a 80k $ vehicle is painful

Yes, the first time is really hard And we would be happy here, to see this car new for 80k $ (120k in switzerland) But it is also more lexus from the builtin stuff.

When i again see water inside - i will think about a bilgenpump ^^

 

[BigDouggieDoug]

Holy cow!!!

 

[kreiten]

Holy S***, my wife would proly kill me, but I give ya props on that, if your gonna get it stuck, do it right, and you definatley did

 

[kreiten]

^^^ this one...

Also with mud tyres, ARB Difflocks and so on






With many mods you will do more and harder stuff - and you will get stuck.

You want also to test the snorkel, the winch, right