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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by luckydt
it will help, but if they are the factory wranglers bring yourself a tow rope just in case. I speak from experience. You can see my big beast in my signature about a month and a half ago i got stuck on the beach and no one could get it out before the tide came in. My tires are 12.5" wide and all that did for me is dig a about a 13" wide whole for each tire. The guys that were on the beach with winches were charging $250 to pull me out i told them i didn't care how much it costed just get me out before the tide came we didnt make it. I had a toyota with a winch that was chained to a 2500 HD diesel GMC and i was pulling them into me, my truck didn't want to budge. It was sucked in so bad i had to call a special wrecker company with a truck that had a 455 in it with 44 super swampers on it. I lifted his front end 3ft in the air trying to get me out. After letting his truck sit doing a wheelie with his front end off the ground for 10 minutes gravity finally broke the suction and he was able to get me out. I have had to deal with the insurance company totalling it out and me buying it back and i have $3,500 into fixing it and i finally have my truck back. Be careful on the beach and come prepared with a min of a tow rope, shovel, a shackle hitch.
True story. I was there. On another note, if your truck is 2WD don't even bother. Take it from someone who lives on the beach with a 2WD truck. Granted I have highway tires but still, the back end of these trucks likes to sink quick.
 
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