only a few of the pics i took. Plenty mud, questionable points and fair amount of winching.
I drive a stock gen3 Jimny, you have no idea how tempting it was to at the end of the day take it for a round.

I really want a suburban or tahoe for an off-road family vehicle, but my husband wants an FJ80. We have 5 kids, so we need three rows.

I feel like the fj80 looks like there's less room inside, but convince me either way!

Great trail in George Washington National Forrest, VA.

The signs aren’t great though. Don’t follow the sign to the service road. The path is extremely narrow. Broke a mirror and scratched my Bronco all over.

The campsite is right off the road in rural Florida and the trail to the campsite was just a dirt path, not exactly off-roading with mud and water. My friends and I have been camping since Friday and just realized the water has been rising. It has not been raining but the campsite had water coming in, but it has been increasing. Now it is 6 AM and one of our two cars got stuck in deep mud and water levels are slowly increasing. The other car, a Jeep Wrangler Willy’s 2021 is still in the dry part of the campsite but we are not sure if we can get it out without getting it caught too.

We called local towing companies and 911 but they have all said they cannot get our cars out of the campground so we are stranded. I took my own car, the Jeep, and can’t lose it for obvious reasons. How can we get the Dodge Durango out of the mud and get the Jeep out?

My 2010 lifted accent on 195 65 r15

Looking for groups in Melbourne,Australia who go touring or off roading during the year...

Im a beginner when it comes to offroading however i have been several times and i enjoy it alot also enjoy touring as i dont mind driving either.

Hey there! I am currently in college studying mechanical engineering, and I would say I'm pretty passionate about my field. I am currently working with an FSAE team in college and in general I really like cars.

What I do not know much about are Shock Dynos. I know how the mechanism and everything works, but I also know that they cost a LOT. And I've decided to make it my business

So my question is, is a cheaper shock dyno and worse shock dyno? and a more expensive one, from a more well known company (Such as CTW or LABA7) better?

Is it even worth looking into shock dynos to produce them cheaper? I want to develop a shock dyno that people from off-road enthusiasts to small race car teams can use to pursue their hobbies. I GET IT that these hobbies in itself are pretty expensive in the first place, and an off-roader who has spent a lot on his car would not mind paying a bit more for this, but I feel like if I can find a way to significantly drive the price down, more enthusiasts would exist.

Anyone in the KY/TN area going to LBL Tomorrow Saturday Nov 14th?

With the sun setting so early these days, I took it upon myself to install some extra lighting to illuminate the trails. Here’s a short how-to installation video for anyone that’s curious about learning to install lights yourself. So far I’ve been very happy with these new falcon series lights, and I plan to get some shots of them at night in the near future!

Live feed from score international

A group will be meeting at the welcome center at 9 AM tomorrow for anyone interested in hitting the trails in Coal Township, PA. DM me so I can keep my eye out for you if you are planning to join.

Title pretty much says it. I have a badlands 1200 and the remote plug broke. So I figured I just get a wireless controller off Amazon and use that. However, now I just hear clicking from the relay box and not motion from the winch. I was thinking maybe the relay was bad, so I replaced it. The winch works, because I've bypassed the relay and directly jumped the motor. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just bad at wiring. The winch worked before I put the wireless controller in, so I tried a bunch of different combos and can't get the controller to do anything. So I'll leave the wiring diagram for how it's set up now, and the controller I used.

Diagram https://ibb.co/bjCfmFmr

Wireless remote https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0891R1XN1?ref_=icdp_ba_mweb_title_pd_bap_m_grid_rp_0_15_gf&clientRefMarker=pd_bap_m_grid_rp_0_15_gf&heartsTeamIdentifier=buyagain&psc=1&heartDisabled=false

What do you guys think of a Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with a V6 engine, manual transmission, and Double Cab for daily commuting and off-road use?

Mainly the manual part for when off-roading. Nothing crazy but moderate off-roading.

I drive mainly on South Shore Long Island, NY beaches (soft, fine sand).

When buying recovery boards, does length matter? Bigger, shorter… why?

Got stuck tonight. Kinda felt if I had a shorter board it could been better.

Thought I’d share some photos from Volkswagen’s 2008 Baja program, since a lot of people have never heard of it.

Back in 2005, VW was racing the Touareg at Dakar to push its clean diesel program (yeah, I know). Mark Miller was one of their drivers, and he and Ryan had just won back-to-back Baja 1000s. Mark wanted to bring VW to Baja. VW in Germany was all for it. VW USA wasn’t sold.

So in 2006 they pulled money from the PR budget, took three basically stock V10 TDI Touaregs, added roll cages, and sent them up Pikes Peak with Mark, Ryan, and Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan driving. They swept the podium. That got VW USA on board, the PR money turned into marketing money, and Red Bull came over from the Dakar side.

In 2007 they brought two Dakar Race Touaregs to the Baja 500, and Mark finished 11th overall without stopping for fuel once. After that, VW committed to a three-year trophy truck program. They were even planning to sponsor smaller VW-powered classes like 1600 and Class 11.

Mark and Ryan built the truck in about 13 months. For the engine, they leased the V12 TDI from Audi’s Le Mans-winning R10. It was mid-engine with an Xtrac gearbox, making 890 hp and 1,200 lb-ft with peak power at just 3,500 RPM. It snapped driveshafts and blew up third members, so they turned it down to 60% just to keep the driveline alive. You also weren’t allowed to start it without an engineer from Germany present, after a two-hour warm-up procedure.

It raced once, at the 2008 Baja 1000. The clutch acted up right off the start, and the gearbox let go on the La Rumorosa grade. They coasted down to the chase crew, swapped the box, and kept going. They finished 13th, the first diesel ever to finish in Trophy Truck. The chase fleet was a bunch of stockish Touaregs shipped over from the Dakar program.

The plan was to come back in 2009 and win. Instead, a new head of marketing at VW USA pulled the plug and moved the budget to American soccer. Meanwhile, the Race Touareg went on to win Dakar three years straight, from 2009 to 2011.

The truck didn’t end up in a museum. Ryan bought it for about the price of a used Jetta, and it’s still around today with an LS in it as his prerunner.

Hello ATVers,

We are a research team (completely unfamiliar with ATVs) trying to develop an off-road robot that can carry significant payload (100 kg or so) at high speed, so we were thinking of using a sports ATV like the Yamaha YFZ 450, remove the engine and everything else except the chassis, wheels suspension and steering shaft, and use an electric motor for propulsion and another one for steering. We would like to use something relatively light. I have a few questions:

1)what would be the approximate weight of a rolling chassis for a Yamaha YFZ 450 for instance, assuming that we just keep chassis wheel and steering shaft (no handlebar) and remove everything else ?

2)is there a better alternative (possibly among used/out of production models) that would have a lower weight but generally similar specs? We still want something that is stable and that can carry the payload, and not break despite possible jumps.

3) in terms of impact resistance, how high of a fall can these machines survive? I saw some extreme videos with high jumps, but because the landing area has a slope, it is not exactly like a free fall on a flat surface. Would you say that they could tolerate for example a 6ft fall and still survive, with the payload?

Anyone out there grooving tires for snow wheeling?