05 How low should you go?
Speaking of beaches, lower tyre pressures work every time. The Adventure 4WD rule is to keep letting out air until the wheel spin stops. Start at your placarded road pressures and head down to around 20psi/135kPa as a starting point. Still struggling? Let more air out, perhaps to 18psi/125kPa, or 15psi/100kPa. There’s still more to go, but anything less than this should be regarded as emergency pressures, for at 15psi/100kPa that’s where the minimum guarantee of keeping a tyre on a rim (tubeless) finishes, so keep your steering efforts gentle along with braking and accelerating. A tyre that’s popped-off a rim introduces a whole new hurdle
05 How low should you go?
January 28, 2018 David Wilson