DROP THE PRESSURE AND STOP CHEWING UP OUR TRACKS!

RON MOON

IT’S ANOTHER touring season and, up north, from Fraser Island in the east to North West Cape and Steep Point in the west, people will be out flogging their four-wheel drives along sandy tracks – and, in the process, they’ll stuff up the tracks because they haven’t let their tyre pressures down. It’s enough to drive anyone who does the right thing, or any of our land managers, bloody crazy! Out on our desert tracks, whether it is across the Simpson Desert, the Canning Stock Route or along the Anne Beadell Highway, half the reason the tracks are so corrugated and have whoopty doos on every sand dune is because people don’t let their tyres down. With the power and torque from modern engines, many people just plant their foot, spin the…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2017

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