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Well i decided to go out with the Hawkes Bay 4x4 club on a shiney run in Parongahau, the day started really well, great bunch of people.
mostly whales with mud tyres and a few crusiers, drizling all day after a bit of fun we get to the top of a steep greasy grass hill and there is a drop off on the right hand side and we should drive around to the left, as i go off the top in my 1999 Nissan terrano with my best mate and her two girls and my son, with all terrain tyres on in 4 low 1st gear she loses traction almost imediatly sliding for the drop off at it's highest point about 5 meter drop , i put my foot on the gas and steered away from the drop, putting my whale into a spin then sliding backwards and sideways off the drop at a slightly lower point, about 2meters the truck rolled onto it's side and hung on a tree, once all the wee kids were out i got back in and got dragged back up and over and onto the flat. i rolled the left rear tyre off the rim, crushe two doors the pillar and cil, but no one was seriously hurt, moral of the story, buy a swb with mud tyres and a rock crawler dif i'll be practicing decents once i've got mud tyres on the great white whale ( wish me luck ) with no kids this time

glad no great harm done to any one - chock it up to experience!

yea, i need to get back out there and get it right this time, practise practise we are out at terawhiti next weekend and it's clay so i'll get a chance

I don't mind mud in a hole or loose ground or shingle or water but I'm shy of steep slopes esp wet ones.

I guess thats the one we are least familiar with here in Canty

Where are the pics???

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

Matt.

had a few of those thankfuly never hit anything not good for your heart rate

Great no one hurt ,
had my terrano on quite a tilt at weekend too ( thru Napoleans) and gave those (in truck ) behind some accelerated heartbeats ,

i'll post some pic's this avo

I had a similar (sort of) rollover a year ago on a failed hill-climb. The damage to the truck isn't the worst thing - it's the damage to the confidence of the passengers! If you want them in the truck again - you have to convince them you've "fixed" the problem. A good chance to get the wife to agree on the need for a set of good Mud tyres... It worked for me!

well my best mate nicky is a die hard fan so she's coming to terawhiti, my two year old told me he wasn't scared but i'll only take him out in the dry from now on, but the 6 and 9 year old girls took a bit of convincing and i don't think they will come out again, but my confidence is reliant on a new set of aggresive muddies and no hubby to tell me otherwise

Oops - me and my stereotypes. It's MUCH easier when you only have to justify it to yourself! Time for a locker, roll-cage, & a set of chains as well...

i wish ah, i think i'll retire her after terawhiti and look at a comp truck

You were out with a 4WD club and they let you get into that situation????

Am I the only one worried about that?

Steve

I'm a cofident driver and i should have known better. the club did their best to advise on all stages of the trip, i should have had mud tyres on, they did a wonderfull job of recovery and i thank them for their on going support

Thats cool... just the way I read it seemed like they should have had a closer grip on things but if you're shouldering the responsibility then its all good

(I've had my own hairy descents in the past so I know what its like )

Steve

SupraLux wrote:
(I've had my own hairy descents in the past so I know what its like )

Steve

cough http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... moment.mpg cough

I need to get that permanently deleted... I fear I shall never live it down...

Thanks Rex...

SupraLux wrote::roll:

I need to get that permanently deleted... I fear I shall never live it down...

Thanks Rex...

Its alright Steve, we've all been there................ Just not silly enough to get it caught on camera

you want to see pic's check out the album shell's great white whale i've just put them on so i hope they are there

shell wrote:you want to see pic's check out the album shell's great white whale i've just put them on so i hope they are there

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doddzee wrote:

shell wrote:you want to see pic's check out the album shell's great white whale i've just put them on so i hope they are there

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ouch Ah well out with the angle grinder

ouch..

so 'moby dick' just got harpooned by a tree aye? gutted, looked quite tidy too..

ouch !

should have aimed at goin off the bank forwards with heaps of gas on least then you would have frontal damage and could use the exuse to get front bars and winch etc

but seriously.....

sometimes Shell it doesnt pay to follow where everyone else has gone, you would have more traction putting your wheels on fresh grass where no one had been, like where that shrub is half way down the hill, run right over it (looks like you dodged it by the tracks)and hug the other one near the bottom, more traction there where the grass hasnt been flattened and crushed/made more slippery by previous trucks.

try looking for alternative paths next time and try things(carefully of course...),dont just be a sheep and follow everyone else.not trying to tell you how to do things but just making sugestions that you might be able to try next time you find yourself in a similar situation

mine started off nice and tidy like yours... you should see it now!!!

dents make you look hard core!!!!

Bugger.......

Ah well, time for a new set of tyres then, some 36" superswampers should see you right. After all, you've made some clearance for them under the sill.....

Love the pink tools in the pic in your album, I just might get some

Ab Fab darling, ab fab!!!!!

Goose wrote:Love the pink tools in the pic in your album, I just might get some

Ab Fab darling, ab fab!!!!!

bwahaha, just seen that. Would go well with Nibbys new truck

pink tools !! love it might get some for the missile

hey no one told me Shell was a hottie ! and a 4x4ér RAD !


the repair rates for you would be cheap as at your local garage if you wear tight jeans

i know i used to give friendly nice lookin ladys better prices on their repairs

lilpigzuk wrote:

Goose wrote:Love the pink tools in the pic in your album, I just might get some

Ab Fab darling, ab fab!!!!!

bwahaha, just seen that. Would go well with Nibbys new truck

on who's truck lilpinkzuk?

wopass wrote:pink tools !! love it might get some for the missile

hey no one told me Shell was a hottie ! and a 4x4ér RAD !


the repair rates for you would be cheap as at your local garage if you wear tight jeans

i know i used to give friendly nice lookin ladys better prices on their repairs

always the smooth bastard Wopass.. Perhaps its matching her under garments, or is she wearing a pink belt