We got STUCK IN SAND when OFFROAD in PORTUGAL (and FAILED using the MAXTRAX)
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- We got stuck in sande when off-road in Portugal with our Land Rover Defender 110and failed when using for the first time in sand our Maxtrax boards. A fun family time off-roading and overlanding Portugal and Spain during summer time. We have a modified Land Rover Defender with powerful mods and converted in a 4x4 camper. This allows us to explore, go offgrid, and have fun anywhere we go even when it's heavily loaded for longer overlanding trips like this one. Enjoy the video, like, share, and comment below :)
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We got STUCK IN SAND when OFFROAD in PORTUGAL (and FAILED using the MAXTRAX)
Me encanta este video.😍😍😍
Acabo de hacer esa ruta y es el primer coche que veo rayarse con los arbustos, que son muchos.
Un saludo desde León ( España).
❤️😘😘
Snow chairs and a Danforth paddle anchor, essentials when challenged with sandy terrain.
thanks for sharing
Over here in australia we let our tyres right down to 12psi and that can get us mostly anywhere we want. Really entertaining to watch you guys have a really good laugh the whole time. Great attitude guys!
Thanks for sharing this! We had a great time all the way ;)
Looks amazing! What a great thing to do with your family. You will remember it forever!
Sure we will ;)
Hope the kiddos look back in years to come, and appreciate the adventures you made for them!
Well done 👍. Fun trip!
Thanks and we hope too they ll have great memories
Brilliant as ever, thanks for taking the time to post 👍
Thanks for your message!
I came across your channel whilst on night shift (I work for the UK Coastguard!) and have just finished watching your videos from your trip to Spain and Portugal. Thanks for sharing your family trip and giving us an incite into your overlanding trip! What a wonderful time you all had and it is great to see your children enjoying an experience so few children will have. To engage them in nature as you do and not take them to an overcrowded hotel or campsite is a great way to bring them up. They appear to get on so well and help out willingly (I hope!) with setting up your camps and are learning some great life skills and will create memories that will last a life-time. My holidays are spent cycling and walking in the French Alps or in North Wales where I live. and your enthusiasm to show the highs and lows (breakdowns, getting lost, cost!) for overlanding and getting into nature has sparked something in me to engage in when I retire and eventually move to the French Alps. Keep the videos coming as they are a great source of information, imagination from a family who chose to do things differently!!! Thank you 😃
Thank you so much for this kind message. We all enjoy a lot this time spent outdoors as a family. Yes they help a lot and do so since their very young age, so it's kind of a routine for all of us ;) I can only recommend to spend more time outdoors doing something you like, just like you are already doing, it's way much easier than anyone can think.
One of the easiest ways to get a wheel out of deep soft sand is to use a wheel adaptor (hook) on a hi-lift jack. Place the jack on a plate to stop it sinking, attach the hooked adaptor to the jack and hook it onto the wheel and lift the wheel straight out of the sand hole. This is a lot safer than trying to jack the car, as on a Defender, by the time the suspension extends enough to lift a wheel, you're already precariously high. Once the wheel is out, backfill the hole and you can place your MaxTrax under the wheel for added traction in taking off.
Thanks for the tip!
Also you can take a dumpy bag, fill it with sand and use it to winch off.
What an excellent video series, well filmed, well produced and a great reflection of a wonderful family trip. Thank you :0)
Thanks!
You have such a beautiful family, bless you all!
Thanks!
What an amazing trip, thanks for sharing
Thanks for the comment!
super vidéo ! ça me donne l'envie de visiter le Portugal avec my Jimny 4x4 dans le future ! merci la famille :)
Merci! Tres beau pays a visiter en 4x4
Lower your tyre pressures and then momentum. When you get stuck dont keep spinning wheels. Stop dig out, use max trax. If not effective drop tyre pressure further and try again. Tyre pressure is everything, you will be amazed how easy it is with far lower tyre pressures. We would start at 18 PSI and work our way down to 10 PSI if we had to.
Thanks for sharing this!
Kids like to play in the sand, so no problem....... gladly you came out of the soft sand!! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱❤️🇨🇭👍👌💪
Thanks! It was fun ;)
Love the surf / spaghetti western guitar music!👍
;)
Super roadtrip ! :-)
Merci :)
"Matt's off road recovery " is a great fun YT channel with lots of extractions from sand where there is no traction at all.
Thanks! Will check it put :)
Sympathique votre vidéo !
Merci :)
Very cool adventure! A trick to get up a hill or out of sand is to bury your spare tire (or ground anchor / Deadman) then connect it to your winch. Then just winch your self forward.
Thanks for the tip!
Keep up with the great content, its is all a learning experience, the first run could have dug out the front of all the wheels first. Good effort all round
Thanks!
warts and all. Great stuff.
There are quite a few details that must be addressed..
1st, is the 'footprint' of your tyres. Pick a pressure and lower the tyres beneath what you believe to be the heaviest part of your vehicle... front or rear.
Then, as the tyre is at rest, measure the points of contact between where the front of the tyre and the rear of the tyre come of off the ground.
Use this dimention to deflate the other two tyres. Makes an amazing difference. So correct pressures.
2nd, when attempting to un bog yourself, choose the path of least resistance... in your instance, you should have gone backwards. It lifts you out of the holes and because you have allready carved a track, is usually easier.
3rd, try not to spin your wheels on the Max Traxx... spinning wheels equals zero traction.
Finally, dont leave it so long to stop. If you are spinning your wheels and digging down, incorrect tyre pressures.... and we are only discussing your current situation.
Remember 'As slow as possible, as fast as necessary'.
Ps: Great video! Beautiful countryside!
Cheers for sharing.
Thanks for sharing all this!
nous avons fait presque 700 km avec 0.6 bar de pression a travers le désert du Namib avec 08 bar ça ne passait avec 0.6 c’était tip top
C est bon a savoir. Vous avez quels pneus?
@@offtrackfamily c'était des cooper sst pro, ils étaient mort à la fin du du voyage, mais jamais déjanté ni crevé pour nous, plusieurs crevaisons et plusieurs flancs décollé sur certaines autres voitures
Bush pinstiping! 😄
100% 😆
Those coastlines look identical to the ones here in Marin County, California where I live!
🙂
Looks like you had a wonderful road trip. Cheers 🍺 & 🍷
PS. My Defender is on the road again.
Congrats for your Defender! And thanks for the message :)
@@offtrackfamily Thanks did try to make movie but lost all the videos. Shit hapens. Enjoy and cheers 🍷
Great video
Thanks
Another good tip is to have a piece of rope tied through your max tracks as it helps when retrieving them once they have been buried by driving over them.
Thanks! Yes this tip was already shared on Instagram 👍
OTF. Good learning experience madam ! The best Land Rover aftermarket tyres are Dick Cepek from a good old US of A. They make all the unusual sizes such as 255/85R16 "Fun Country" all-terrain for your Defender 110 to drive in sand dear. A dual ply sidewall helps to float over the softness and use the rim size diameter as a starting point to lower pressures like 'GrizzlynBear' here Downunder ? V.
Will check them out, thanks :)
Amazing
Thanks
La próxima vez que vengáis a España, si pasáis por Barcelina decírmelo que estaré encantado de enseñaros un poco la ciudad y mi defender
Thanks!
live , learn & experience .. all i can suggest is get another pair of maxtrax , the theory is you use them as ramps to pop the vehicle back onto the surface of the sand
thanks for the message!
Couple of suggestions: reduce pressure even further (to 7-8 psi), if you have use 4 maxtrax, if not use the 2 for the rear wheels. You might also want to check whether the suspension (in the rear) is adequate for the total weight of your car.
Suggestions are always welcome!
Hello
Looks like they were using a lot of pressure on the tires. happy travels
Thanks for the comment
Great video again, thanks for sharing it. Our project is going to be fully resprayed and we are in such a dilemma as we never bothered about scratches before, thats overlanding right....but its going to be so shiny! By the way, you said you were heading back home to Spain, do you live there now? What region?
Haha that's a dilemma 😅 with a nice & shiny new paint. We were heading back home via Spain, we live in Switzerland
really you could do 5 psi. if your tires bead goes off you can use brake cleaner or starter fluid to burst the tire back on
I have had cheap pressure tyre readers and there can be 5 psi difference between tyre deflator and service centre tyre guage
That's a huge difference! Since we have the arb one we are quite confident it works properly
Wow, you had lucky not getting caught on the sand trail by the Police, you did not read the signs, it is forbiden to drive on those places from costa Vicentina to preserve the nature. Anyway, nice video.
The trail was shared by a local :)
How heavy is the defender at this configuration?
Love your videos by the way…
and love love your defender.
Thanks! It weighs a little less than 3t
Pour retirer le sable nous avons fabriqué un rateau en inox avec un manches réglable .c'est très efficace.
Surement tres pratique!
Well done.
I've noticed on the previous video that you have a dual band antenna on the front of the Defender. By any chance are you also on ham radio, and if so what is your callsign?
Keep up, drive safely and enjoy.
73 de CT2IRJ
Thanks for the message! Yes my husband is a ham radio 👍
You have a road map of this travel to Portugal? I think you just need to lower the tyre pressure a bit more and you would be fine. Have a nice trip!
we don't record any road maps :)
It wasn't clear to me in the video but was the fuel tank dragging in the sand?
If so, next time use the maxtraxx on the rear tyres to get it up and clear of the sand.
And... when bogged, you can always help by pushing. Sometimes that bit of extra human push-power is all that's needed to get going again.
But otherwise for soft deep sand its all about going as fast as you can and use momentum to carry you through.
Thanks for the message. Yes the fuel tank started to drag in the sand. It s what we thought afterwards about putting the maxtrax under rear tires.
Maybe lower tyrevpressures 10-6 psi to get out would work.
I think the sand looks very powderery too making it hard but 10 psi should work well
It went okay in the end :)
Thanks for sharing, it was a good trip! Have you the wikiloc link or any information on the sand tracks in this video ? Planning on travelling there next spring. Thanks 😊
Thanks for the message. We don't keep any tracks but this one went from about Comporta (South lisboa) all the way down to about vila do bispo. Sure you can find some good similar tracks 👍
@@offtrackfamily thank you for the reply. What do you use for maps? Google maps on your phone? Road books?
Did you only have two Boars ?! It is necessary to dig in front of all the 4 wheels and under the belly of the Defender, creating rails where you can exit otherwise with the movement of the wheels the boards move, especially on the outside as it happened to you...
Thanks! Yes two boards 👌
Hi there. Nice movie, where is it exactly in portugal?
Thanks! Somewhere between comporta and aljezur
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Tyre pressure at 1 psi and you would have just drove ahead like normal terrain.
Ive had tyres at 6 psi and never have come off too even with hard turning
What tires do you have on?
@@offtrackfamily bf goodridge mud terrain
Where in Portugal was this?
South from Lisboa and a the way down to algarve
Im afraid sand has more to do with tyre pressure . never spin your wheels on a maxtrax , it will ground down the studs. try 0.6 (depending on weight) you will be amazed
:)
It's right for the wheels spin on maxtrax! But now we know why :-) About 0.6 we didn't want to risk it because of the weight of the vehicle.
I got stock in mud while recovering another vehicle! These times are the most fun!!!
Haha great memories are done offroad!
Where were you at the end of the video
Séville Spain
What's the place at the end? looks great
It's in spain, sevilla
@@offtrackfamily thank you!!! Your Portugal off road videos are crazy good! You really are living the best life! You passed just a few meters from my home LOL, near the beehives
Location at Pt. is Algarva shores??
Yes
Alentejo and Algarve coast, we call the SW of Portugal
8 psi
Vous devriez en faire 2 vidéo a la fois 1 en anglais et 1 en français ca serai mieux non ?
Depend du point de vue ;)
Your tyres are far to hard.
Don't agree about that