WH Grand owners post your pic's.

[briteway]

WG stock flexing compared to WH stock.




Cooloola Beach

[Blind_Freddie]

Thought that I was going to cause an accident a few times. There were a number of look and seers, who were paying more attention to my vehicle than where they were going. There were a reasonable proportion of Wranglers, both short and long wandering about on the island on sunday, which was good to see.

[Gojeep]

Originally Posted by briteway

Cooloola Beach

Looks alot lower than mine did stock but you say it is still stock in this shot too? Just wondering what your centre of wheel to under side of wheel arch is please to give me an idea of how low I can go.

[CRDSTU]

Originally Posted by Blind_Freddie

It had gone past 1000km - time to start testing out it's capabilities. I did something that I vowed never to do - take a vehicle on the beach. The beach was Bribie island at High tide. The surface was loose and lumpy. We were not able to go very fast because of bumps, and I had not driven on loose sand before. The car easily made up for my inabilities. Auto and suspension on second highest setting worked well, and away we went. We came back on a very loose and badly rutted track, and LOTH's main comment was that we were very comfortable. Son in law was impressed with the rooster tails being thrown out on tight corners. I was impressed with the way it soaked up the bumps. We did not need to take the front skirt off, and still had plenty of clearance. Down sides - only minor - I felt that the rear wheels were driving in a straight line a little too much, making it a little more difficult to turn to follow the beach ruts - that was easy to get used to , and we managed to shake loose the forward sensing device down low at the front. We will be off to see Jared to get that fixed tomorrow. All in all a very good all round car.

Looks like that's an Overland too, nice one! Interesting to see the 20" wheels / tyres went so well off road. Did you air down at all?

[SeaComms]

Whats it like on Bribie and where is the beach access? Never been down there but would love to visit and explore.

[Blind_Freddie]

Access is from the southern end of the Island. A permit is needed, $37.50 for a week. Week being the minimum. the beach was not easy to drive on as the tides were reasonably high, and the sand was not very flat. There are a couple of nice lagoons on the beach, which is a nice place for kids to play.

The back tracks on the island were badly cut up. They are still suffering from post flood damage. There was a nice camp ground on the back beach at the top of the island, which is national park. Nice place to go canoeing/kyacking/fishing, and safe for kids.

There are plenty of shops etc for essentials at the bottom of the island. The bottom of the island is suburbia, and the majority of the rest covered in plantation pine, which is dissappointing. Mind you there are a number of excellent examples of Bribie Island pines around the place. We also saw a Bimminay kite, who was paying a keen interest in our hot dogs on the barbie. there were also a number of other sea birds around the place.

Bribie was not particularly busy on that sunday, but if the fish are biting, or it's a warm sunny day, I would expect that it would be a lot busier.

Tyres were not deflated for that trip, and left the 4wd thing on auto. the car was very good at making up it's mind where to put the power, and did it quicker thah I could. Given that the tyres are low profiel, I am yet to investigate the relative merits of deflating

[briteway]

Originally Posted by Gojeep

Looks alot lower than mine did stock but you say it is still stock in this shot too? Just wondering what your centre of wheel to under side of wheel arch is please to give me an idea of how low I can go.

Hi GoJeep, I've measured them but seems like the surface wasn't as flat as it looks, I'll have to take it out on the street and measure again. So far I've measured and have the following figures (centre of wheel to bottom of wheel arch):

- Front right 480
- Front left 460
- Rear left 460
- Rear right 470