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LoL that sounds like a terrible design then!

Beadlocks are heavy and difficult to work with if need to do in the field re-beading. The two alternatives I've found are the method beadgrip, and the icon innerlock. Both of these are lightweight and can have tyres installed without needing to be torqured precisely and needing retightening every X KMs. Icon features locking pins that are installed radially into the wheel stopping any sideways motion of the tyres, whereas the bread grip utilises ridges on the inner bead groove to help stop the bead slipping. Looks like the innerlock tech might do a better job at holding your tyre impact from the pressure testing performed by both companies. (See images below) Here is link to both manufacturers info: Method beadgrip: https://www.methodracewheels.com/pages/bead-grip?_pos=1&_sid=847b565ed&_ss=r ICON vehicle dynamics: https://www.iconvehicledynamics.com/rebound-pro Anecdotally, I found the beadgrips to be excellent when I was running them on pajero. Never had a pop out whilst using them compared to 3or4 on my stock rims. (Could also be sure to driving style changes...) Do you know of any other simulated beadlocking tech that's available out there. And any real world experience (good or bad) using these over standard rims or real beadlocks?

No long til the weekend 😁🙏 see you all Sunday..

last faqa drive i dont think you were getting most of our messages from the back either.. no replies. maybe too much squelch applied filtering out 'staticky broadcasts'

you're a machine @Looper 💪💪 💪💪 💪💪

Hi @Lea Degner, looks like you have cancelled you attendance correctly no longer in the guest list. cheers!

That's my drifting style on the 1m tall ridge I got stuck on on Saturday 😎🤣 Thanks for all the examples and info@Zed 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks @Zed. Indeed I have checked that sand mode (4H) does engage rear difflock right away. Can turn it off and keep it off. 4L does not automatically switch it on.. 4L becomes manual on and off. Given your descriptions above.. think maybe the 'sand mode' ( 4H + diff lock ) is aimed at american baja type flat sand desert driving rather than up and over of dunes.... ie lots of drifting on fairly level ground. yeah the cresting whilst turning over it @Julien Recan left me thinking about this all weekend.

@Julien Recanand I had a brief chat about using rear diff lock engaged in the sand full time. I've been using this recently and have seen some notes that Jeep sand runner has the same functionality when in desert offroad mode (up to 100kph) What's the pros and cons of this? I note that this mode (on my vehicle at least) requires center diff engaged as well for 4WD (or just 2H), which is the default in sand mode. I did half my drive on Saturday in 4H + rear and centre locked, then half in 4A (unlocked centre and rear diff). Could not perceive any difference to my driving experience in the large dunes in nahel. Added page from manual from reference for locks and modes etc. @ZedI'm sure you have some opinions on it?

Bro nooooo... Jeep didn't make it?? Can hit me up on instagram to get my phone number if U wanna ask any specific questions etc. Def go take it for a test drive and see what you think. It's certainly much longer than the Jeep so the feel might not be what you're after. It's a boat.... But it's a jet-boat 😎 Best luck with the car hunt 🙏

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yoPwGEYVgBNZwNt66 Whole crew doing some more sidies with a lot of sand splash at the end

Thanks everyone for a excellent drive. @JeromeFJgreat leading taking us into some exciting and new (for me) terrain. Really spectacular scenery. The FB+ debutantes @Aserand @Shaun J drove supremely well, and were very handy with the shovels digging my car or from the full body cresting on the ridge! I claimed first stuck of the drive 😎 Both myself and @Robk got to enjoy the full pleasure of long wheel base vehicles in technical dunes with some shovels and ropes. The big bowls were great fun, as were the back and forth crossing of ridges towards the end of the drive. Was great to see big combo of FJs, jeeps, the big patrol, and the retro livery LC71 dominating everything that Jerome put in our parh Here's a couple of captures videos of the convoy... I'll get some more of my camera tonight I hope. Cheers and see you all in the sand again soon. https://photos.app.goo.gl/gTS4rsRDK2pW3i1h7 Side sloping https://photos.app.goo.gl/nRtnjCE9gZAvxry5A Briefing sky time-lapse https://photos.app.goo.gl/6VsNe46o3uZczysdA Team loops https://photos.app.goo.gl/kJqXDdDDf7BrjSQAA Ridge crossing with refusal

See you all tomorrow bright and early

Enjoy 100 mate

Nice helper feature @Gaurav., but nothing beats just practising doing it manually 😅👍 Some offroad modes don't lock the rear diff in 4H. Sand mode does. But then rear diff can be configured 3 ways in offroad mode in 4H, Locked at all speeds. Locked at < 40, then automatically unlock above 40kph, relock when speed drops. Unlocked at all speeds. And then save that as the new default for your custom off road mode.

Ha! Was only 3 when I typed the above .. gotta be quick on the reservations around here mate 😜

@Zed come do drive 100 out here with us this weekend mate 😎

its one of those great mysteries that could be easily solved by a extra page in the user guide