With soft sand you need to reduce pressure waaay down and scrubbed off tyres
with almost no tread left are best. You don't want to dig.
Your sand has a surface?
Worst surface here is a very fine black soil found in parts of Queensland that
turns to glue in 'The Wet'. It can fill up the mudguards and the weight pulls
the vehicle down into it.
Andrew Fildes
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On 10/07/2013, at 2:16 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> It's not uncommon for 2wd to outperform 4wd in sand. For one thing,
> you generally only have two wheels burying themselves, not four. The
> fronts get to float over the sand more. Personally, I prefer 4wd in
> the sand, but that's because I try to keep the wheels from throwing
> sand anyway.
>
> There's also the aspect that with 2WD, you can run the air pressure
> lower on the fronts to help them float even more. Another trick that
> you sometimes see is the front tires have no tread. Treads break the
> surface of the sand.
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