How to correctly prepare for SUV Offroad

Rule number 4: too wicked for asphalt rubber will not do! How to choose the size? It all depends on the car. Producers are not stupid, and each auto safety margin corresponds to the weight of the machine and the load on the transmission. Can be put on Suzuki Jimny 35 inch wheels and turn it into a swamp buggies, only half-tear he will be with enviable regularity that tourism is unacceptable. Therefore, all are looking for balance, as a rule, it is slightly lower than that actually there is a good cross. Smiley. For heavy vehicles such as TLC or patrol is 35 "for the lighter type of Toyota Hilux, Prado, Fortuner; MMC Pajero Sport is 33" for kids and Suzuki 31 "enough. It is clear that you can foolishly and MPH to break, but if the technique in order and the pilot is not an idiot, these dimensions can go and not feel any surprises!
Another important point of the wheel, which is called "not maysya foolishness!" Often people in spite of all the advice, buys first mudovuyu katabatic rubber in size, the machine starts to go, of course, better, but still not nearly as much as you want. Then buy bigger wheels, but not above the recommended size, the machine has been going quite well, but still, where all colleagues drove yourself, you RECOIL winch. Finally, you are ripe for the right wheels for your car and you rejoice life. And the sadness of the fact that he bought a year and a half, three sets of wheels, two of them are sold with a good discount, but still drives it, too, for each size of your tire needs, so that, having spent at least double the budget, came eventually to what you once said to smart people. For the budget will have to add more and different elevator, one of which is not needed on this later.

Rule number 5: Do not try to outsmart the laws of physics, to put right the optimal size of wheels! I will not write about specific brands of rubber, as is flooding worse choice of the SUV and the market situation changes, but the main thing from what should be a start, read reviews about tire wear, with the same type wheels to grind off some of the season, the other three, and the possibility of purchasing the same tires in the case of Non-Repair the damage. Excellent, but rare are the perfect wheel for as long as the do not have to buy one instead of spoiled. And yes! Not a redneck, buy once 5 wheels, no bald road wheels on the spare tire! Okay, I'll write about all of the same brand, if you do not know exactly what to buy, buy BFGoodrich, that MT, which AT, this rubber is a strong universal middling in all parameters (except the price), and popular enough to always find a replacement.

Suspension to such increased to roll the wheel, and they did not touch the body of the car, car suspension need to be redone. This is called Lift, and a derivative of the word in Russian: "liftanut." The first option, which is just an elevator and is not, to cut these very disturbing body parts, mostly arch. Advantages of this solution, and the position of the articulation of the suspension remains as built, the car is perfect in handling. Minus number one, the most obvious, to sell such a machine will be then, practically impossible, at least at a reasonable price. Minus the number two units and the body will rise higher, due to the big wheels, but will still be high enough, and although the gap measures the lowest point on the bridge, the surface - not always a straight track, and get some boulder on the fuel tank is not only unpleasant but also dangerous. The second option, bodylift, spacers to lift the body over the frame. Here I bring greetings to all those who have chosen the wrong car, a front torsion bars instead of springs, and basically weak articulation of the front suspension, and to which there bodilifta nothing else to do. Personally, I think this method is rather harmful, as there are extra degrees of freedom between the body and the frame, the body begins to twist, tear mounting points. Overall - BLZ, which stands for the rule number 6: bodilift - evil! By the way, the units here are too low, as attached to the frame, not the body.

Rule number 7: Tough Dog taxis! The third option, the most suitable, liftovka car using augmented and reinforced springs (or spring) as well as extended and reinforced shock absorbers. Again give my true opinion, which, as usual, horseradish challenged the company has production Tough Dog, there are all the others.Need a quality and reliable lift, buy it, just pick up the catalog and select a desired length, depending on the hardness of the proposed additional load (remember, right? Supply of food for a month, car parts on the floor?). When liftovanii pavement machine must not forget that the front axle takes the wrong position relative to the horizontal, losing Castor. Therefore it is necessary to return it with castor-kit (these are silent blocks off-center), or castor-Card (extra pieces of iron in the attachment of the bridge to the levers), or drop-boxes (extra pieces of iron in the attachment arm to the body). There is no consensus, I have now is castor kit, but he was close to death and I'm planning to put in place a drop-box. Also during the lift must not forget to lengthen the brake lines and digest or change in regulated traction Panara. When bodilifte is sometimes necessary to alter leverage handout and CAT extend various wiring, fuel filler, the evil it is evil!

Winch What stopped our fictional hero? Oh yeah, we're going to have liftovannom SUV, sitting high wheels Gudim loud, mud prem confident tenderly looking down on the sink jeeps. Take away from the village is over a hundred miles and then broads like driving or not, as the navigator explore not carried out, sooner or later will still fall down in a rut, the failures of gully, buckled bridge over a stream or something worse happens. And here you see that the tractor is not reached, and then have to dig a couple of days to get out.

Well, the story still have a fiction, because in one car, but without the winch, but for hundreds of kilometers from the nearest village on hard Ebony - well, only full go crazy, so this is only a little hyperbole, smoothly summing us to rule № 8: winch - a must! One may argue about it, but my opinion is one, there is no winch - rolling on the asphalt! If you go to the column where all Lebec, and you do not, then you will not give up, but the fun of the constant tyaganiya another car just people do not get it.
The next question is, what? There are Chinese, there firmovy China-Taiwan (twice the price), is branded crafts (back in a couple of times more expensive). China is very unpredictable, sometimes there are very good copies, sometimes with silumin gearboxes for single trips will not do! The firm's too expensive, so my choice is strong average performance, but specifically for Come Up. I've got is two, and the front and back, and here we have again a dilemma. One winch: lighter weight, lower cost, less problems with the installation (the back is usually put nontrivial). Two reels: higher reliability, died alone, a second work, two have died, one of the two assembled, the extra 30 meters cable, which is never enough, how many extensions do not take it, the ability to escape back, sometimes it's priceless! Was the case in our country, I snapped while crossing the river back rope winch (back of the car insured), I wanted to attach to the place, but somehow too lazy. And then a few miles across ryuhnulsya gauge, muzzle resting in a huge pine tree. You can only pull back. Would be back in service winch, the question for five minutes. And pulled out 3 hours, until the back of the car were able to put on the right path and through the block to pull mine. So if we go always in the company of and behind there is someone who will pull you with my winch, one missing. If you travel in one, extra rear winch is strongly recommended!

Kevlar or metal Rope winch can be metal, and can synthetically (Kevlar). There is some complex stories about the fact that in some cases the metal is better than Kevlar, because it supposedly does not get wet and then do not freeze at about freezing temperatures, when it is cold, the heat. I can only say that if you are going in this weather is going somewhere, well, maybe so, worth a thought. But in my experience, most metal cable break your winch, it was not just what you own Kevlar obledeneete so much that you can not use it. Metal: watch for winding, hard, difficult to handle, easy to hurt his hand, hard, in case of a Cuts hand or foot! Or at least cause serious injury. Therefore, rule number 9: no metal, only Kevlar!

Ropes, Shaklee, extension

These things cost write item number zero, because This is more important and wheels, and winches and all the rest, even if you ride a passenger car occasionally to the country, it is necessary to have in each car! First things first, the towing eyelets front and rear. By jeep on a pair on either side of the machine. It would seem obvious, but it was the case in our village, when suddenly in the middle of the route revealed that one of the cars in front, in principle nothing to attach a cable! Do not use eyebolts, as such, they are not intended to jerk loads such power.

Then normal rope! Not that the Chinese junk that is sold in our auto shops, and good dynamic rope with no hook on the end, bought from a retailer! Buy a cable according to the mass of a car, pulling a heavy three-ton SUV six-ton ​​rope is dangerous, and, conversely, for two cornfields, pull each other 18 tonniki such as the dynamics of the cable run will be almost no. With the right skills in the use of dynamic rope can be pulled twice as heavy car from a complete ass! Rule number 11: the right dynamic pull the cable out of the swamp and Munchausen!

clings to a rope uprights with Shaklee's strongly recommended omegoobraznye Shaklee, well, do not save in the little things, bought Shackle with nut, instead of carving on the Shackle, bring you many merry minutes when you're this nut drown in a pool. Once tightened Shackle, loosen the ground loop, or after you jerk his hands do not turn off.

Rule number 10: no strong towing points stay home! Extension cords are needed when you pull out a machine can not drive up to a distance of a breakthrough dynamic rope, well, or using it can also increase the winch cable to the nearest tree. Extension cords do the opposite, not dynamic, because stretching them to anything. Wealthy travelers can afford kevlar extension, the rest is made of conventional lines.

Snorkel, water preparation Times have we go to every wild places, where in addition the same patients, but hunters, few appear, expect that within each river to the bridge, however. On the contrary, to rely on the fact that the bridge would not be at all, and if I had come across and then a pleasant surprise. And then somehow have to go, so we go, as bequeathed to us by the great Greek, across the river! In hard rocky bottom and not too fast for a heavy SUV class TLC or patrol to pass through the ford to five feet at the peak. Even after our big lift is located at about 20 inches above the hood. Here again I convey greetings to those who chose the wrong car! Benzinka, diesel engine with electronic fuel injection, as well as various electronic control box, ignition, fuel pump and other necessary for the functioning of the car sites do not like to swim in the water! Do not like. Correct kondovy diesel can operate underwater feeling no discomfort! However, we are already at 20 inches below the water level at the top of the hood and on the water instead of air, is not able to work even KAMAZ engines, here we have the support of snorkel!

In fact it is a bent tube that through a hole in the wing comes in a jar of air filter, and then along the hood and front windshield and at the level of the roof ends. All that is sealed at the joints, and as a result, the engine takes air to work at the level of the car roof, and not at the level of the hood, which significantly reduces the risk of water hammer, almost to zero. It is also necessary to bring the level of the roof air vents bridges, boxes, handout, as otherwise the water ingestion does not kill them instantly, but then a long ride on a mixture of oil and water can not be. For proper diesel on it all, water preparation is complete. Benzinok still need to seal the ignition system, but for modern cars stuffed with electronics, also once sealed, move blocks in a dry, high place, in general, hemorrhoids in full. Rule number 12: not knowing the ford not poke your nose into the water!

Rule number 12: not knowing the ford not poke your nose into the water! The power kit
Delicate matter, for the reason that it is very much in the minds of all populate these advertising photography, where neither the jeep, the huge and the heavy ARB bumper kenguriny, a healthy and heavy with a couple of wickets under the spare tire and cans behind, and for the full set thresholds and protection of pipes for the front fenders. Under the action of this stereotype people often do start with bumpers, and only then think about the things that are really needed. That give these bumpers in practice: you can go through the small undergrowth at speed, you can rest against a tree in the parking lot or lebezhenii can hijack for a bumper lift a car out of a rut, not crack if the dips in the hole on most body. The other side: weight, weight, weight again. With a weight to fight constantly, sometimes enough to go to one person out of the car, so she got out of the ambush, and then voluntarily constantly pulling on themselves extra hundred at least pounds. So that's my opinion, power bumper in the garden! Leave only the power running boards that are a minimum weighting solve the problem once and haydzhechenya and amenities climbing into the car and on the roof rack, and protect the sills from damage. And that requires the regular bumper drive more carefully, because this is a plus! Well, a fact that of all the people I know who have had power body kits on cars when changing to a new car bumper power not put none! I myself have now bumper strength is, inherited and also from ignorance, but the next car will not be exact! Rule number 13: Power kit around - expensive show-off!

Hijack Once I started talking about the hijack, aka Hi-Jack, aka hello jack, then discuss it in more detail. In essence this is an ordinary jack. Okay, not quite normal, but when you're sitting in the mud up to their thresholds, and it is necessary to raise the machine, then the standard "bottle" You do not play spin the bottle, not to mention the fact that the car lift. To do this, here's what we need the power running boards, to pick up their beaks and raise hijack a machine as long as there is no opportunity to plant something under the wheels. Small cars such as fields or Suzuki you can do in this way get completely out of the rut, consistently picking up and dropping the car to the side. Heavy ekspeditsionnik, which, as we have seen, is the only racially correct, this way does not remove. But, one by one posting each wheel and enclosing something under it, life itself can be greatly facilitated.

Rule number 14: you can carry a couple of years Hi-Jack in idle, but then necessarily so zasyadesh that without it will get well very difficult!
For the convenience of lifting machine (and for machines without any body kit, even without thresholds, it is basically the only option) is Pribluda called lift-mate, which allows haydzhechit right behind the wheel, and will save you time and energy, as no need to choose the moves suspension before it begins immediately lift the wheels.

The radio
Even if you are traveling strictly one car, CB radio format will still be useful to you at the track, with the help of it you can always find a long-distance traffic information. If you are traveling in the company, portable radio needs! First, it's just nice when you can talk on the way to the other crews, and not go 10 hours in the car, isolated from the outside world, and secondly, and on the track and off-road on the radio you can always suggest to each other the way, what something dangerous, ask for help and coordinate the movement of the column, if it is large. Less common VHF radio format, it is more expensive, and it needs to receive permission. Some, of course, go without permission at your own risk, but the prospect of confiscation of equipment for 10 + kilorubley somehow do not ice. VHF on "hits" and the quality of the links above to order. In practice, the need to buy a radio that range, which drives the company to which you want to join. Therefore, in a good, you need to have both types of radios. Permanently fastened to the radio in the car with a direct connection to a power supply and a fixed antenna. No cigarette lighter, magnitok thrown between the seats or a torpedo radio should not be! Also useful two-way radios for communication navigator-pilot not to tear the throat when the navigator had gone 100 meters forward in the exploration, and the pilot does not know to go to the end, or not, and if you drive, how. Rule number 15: deaf among us is not the place!

Trunk Expedition Roof - a very valuable item, which has a number of undeniable advantages: it can put a lot of stuff, you can put on it that can not be put in a room, such as a bag of trash, soiled in diesel and petrol cans, things that are seldom needed and often even for the time of the expedition is not used even once, but never interfere in the passenger compartment it is convenient to fix a working light, shovel, hijack, sendtraki, and they will be easily accessible even if you're sitting on meter deep in the swamp, it You can store packed kit clean and dry clothing, which comes in handy when you drown in the river and the water only the trunk and left. However, he also has a significant drawback: it can put a lot of junk. What does it lead? And besides that we carry with them a lot of things in store, which under other circumstances, we would not have, and this pile is not enough that weighs 100,500 pounds, so also is the highest point of the car, which obviously does not add stability to sloping ground. So if there is a possibility raspihat all things in the cabin, and in part to give up, use it! In extreme cases, put Tulyu or small light bagazhnichek purely a garbage bag, a shovel and hijack. And you can even put up a tent on the roof, but about the beds we'll talk later. Rule number 16: Do not be Plushkin!

Work light, "chandelier" Standard headlights are configured to illuminate low and straight ahead to the far distance. If roads take you into the dark, it's no use of them will not only blind navigator. So you need what is called light. As a rule, the two light (or LED chandelier) that shine forward and down, so as not lighted hood, but to cover all around the car, two lights shining on the sides, and one or two lights shining back. Convenient if all the lights are included separately, at least in pairs. Generally speaking, I personally outspoken opponent of any movement in the dark, especially if it is off-road.Whatever good light, it is still in the dark, all distorted, if you rubites until dark, then you're already on my feet 15-16 hours clearly, if not more, attention blunted, accumulated fatigue, make bad decisions, broken appliances. It is better to go to bed and in the morning often find that you can drive there is not even sending the navigator for exploration. The camp is to have such a special meaning there is no light, so easy torch. So here dwell on the fact that if they have a trunk, and then we can put the light, it can not hurt, but not as a mandatory element! Enough to put a light on the bumper, it will cover 95% of the needs. Well, anyway - not rubites night! This is not true, of course, to the winter expedition, there are other rules and preparation of cars, and the strategies and tactics of the movement.

Sleeper Expedition, you can sleep in three main ways. In a typical tent every night with mats are installed after a hard day, in a tent on the roof, which is almost perfect, but is expensive and there is no stove, is not suitable for all seasons, and in the car.

In the machine to sleep, curled up on the misery, which the automaker has pleased you, and can be on a special sleeping bag, who is also the organizer of all the inexhaustible supply of food, spare parts, tools, clothes and everything else, and that you can always find time necessary thing in a matter of seconds without searching through the floor machine. Sleeping, usually consists of a stationary part, directly in the luggage compartment, which provides all sorts of niches, drawers, Nychko. And folding of the rear seats, which before it is necessary to combine. Better yet, if you are traveling alone, take them at all, because not only valuable fur, but minus ~ 35-40 pounds of weight, the ability to push back shmurdyak that you were going to throw in the trunk, and, most importantly, the ability to go directly to the decomposition and the laid a sleeping bag! Time campsite - 30 seconds skidyvanie shoes and climbing into a sleeping bag. It intersects with our recent item about night riding, rubishsya in the marsh, darkness fell, a lot of fuss, little traversed meters suggest going to bed and in the morning, rested and in normal lighting chopped on. Those who live in tents ground naturally send you to hell with such ideas. And all would be sleeping in the car or on the roof of the tent, to arrange an unscheduled overnight stay would be much easier. Rule number 17: suitable expedition vehicle is ready to provide the opportunity to comfortable sleep in any place and at any time on demand!

Cans or extra tank Standard fuel tank SUV, after we put him on a great big wheel, and even loaded the extra half ton pounds, the long haul will be missed, so the question arises, what to carry extra fuel. Option two, a certain number of cans or extra tank. Also have the option not to put extra tank, and replace the original in the more spacious. Some vehicles, such as TLC 78 or 80 in some equipment, Patrol Arab residence already have an extra tank.

Canisters are convenient because when empty, they weigh nothing, you can fill yourself, you can mate in the column. Bad because no matter how hard you try, will smell diesel fuel, a lot of trouble with them, every tuck, secure, and then take off, zaley the tank, across the border to smuggle often do not give more than one canister of fuel. Additional tank good facilities at the pump has filled one mouth, because the other, everything.Overweight is bad, that you're taking, even when the tank is empty, and breaking at the most inopportune time system for the circulation in the main tank or the fuel directly into the pump. We write the draw, there is still a factor again comes out, where and with whom you travel, if you have fuel in the car 250 liters of fuel (about as you can get with proper manufacturing ext. TLC tank 80), and a neighbor in a convoy of 120 liters of petrol, then all this stock you will carry no load, as still have the route chosen to fill were on the road. But ... There was a case in our village, in Tuva find diesel refueling was very, very difficult, and gasoline was full. So with minimal advantage on points we write great victory for additional tank! Rule number 18: bear fuel!
Small perks in the cabin Once solved the basic needs, you start to focus on the various little things, because machine becomes your home for a long time, and if the house is not comfortable, no driving pleasure even on the most interesting and beautiful places do not get. Here there is a coherent theory, everyone is doing something that is important to him. Will focus on the common things that are essential to almost everyone.Splitter cigarette lighter, and better fixed his wiring and fuses for 4 or more nests, because once navigator, two - mobile phones charger, three - radar, four - thermal mug. Oops, there is no room, and there is also a flashlight, game console his son, the second navigator, etc. The next element of the inverter at 220 volts. Camera, laptop, power tools, if any, call for 220 at the outlet. Take a margin of watts, test the load. If written in the inverter 1000 watts, and the electric drill 800, then you have a chance to find out that the starting current is slightly higher, but the real exhaust inverter slightly lower, you will know this, of course, just when the drill is quite simply edge as needed! So check in advance! Different organizers, pockets. All the necessary things to be on hand to quickly get, get out quickly, do not run on the machine and your head when the car rides over bumps. Snack and always at hand, the navigator is always ready to organize a slight movement of the hand to the pilot a sandwich and a cup of tea, well, or a beer, if civilization to far! With beer does not get carried away, one of the main causes of damage to the car bezdore - wrong calculation of their forces in the fight against alcohol! Rule number 19: create comfort!