When talking about Off road driving especially in Malaysia's rain forest, we won't escape to riding through a deep mud or sand.
Here are some tips that may useful for us:
- Before riding through deep mud or sand, deflate your tires slightly to increase the tire’s footprint and provide better traction. Deflated tires will decrease your ground clearance though. Remember to re-inflate your tires before going on-road again.
- Use a steady momentum to carry you through. Keep your speed up and use higher gears. Don't spin your tires, and don't stop till you're out of the deep mud or sand. If your wheels start to spin, ease off the throttle just a bit and allow the tires to slow down and regain traction.
- If you lose traction and the vehicle is barely moving, turn the steering wheel quickly from side to side in short strokes (only 1/8th turn) to allow the front tire walls to find extra grip.
- If muddy conditions force you to drive in the ruts, know where your front wheels are pointed at all times. Your vehicle will follow the ruts, even with the wheels turned to the right or left. If you encounter a dry spot with the wheels turned, then the front wheels can regain traction and suddenly throw the vehicle out of the ruts, resulting in a loss of control and possible damage.
Please remember,
Safety Come First.
When talking about Off road driving especially in Malaysia's rain forest, we won't escape to riding through a deep mud or sand.
Here are some tips that may useful for us:
4 comments:
In my opinion, we should maintain a constant slow speed when driving in difficult terrains. We should not keep spinning the tires once they stuck because it will just waste fuel and create more problems such as it may prevent tires from gaining friction. Using low gears we can drive through mud holes and sands. This strategy will save fuel and will help to remove vehicle from mud holes.
Thanks bro for the tips. It will depend on the condition of the road, but if you have winch, just use it..
What a great website and article and I recently experienced Off Road Driving in The Lake District which was fantastic fun, although reading your article I do not believe it would be any where near as good. I would love to come out off road driving with you guys and would think this would be just fantastic. I will have to get saving up for a trip sometime soon.
Thanks bro for the comment, I am also have the intention to visit your country someday. In our country it will become very tough job when driving off road during rainy season.
Post a Comment