You need a jack.Ī lot of people go mad for the Hi-Lift jack. Further, if you've got a hole in the sidewall of your tire, you're going to have to change it. You need to get your rig up in the air so you can move that obstacle. If you've high-centered on a rock, forget it. If you find yourself high-centered on some soft sand during your off roading adventure, it's gonna take an awful lot of digging to get you out. There's still one of my Maxtrax buried in the dunes of Glamis somewhere. I also recommend a tether of sorts to easily find and pull your Maxtrax out of the sand when you're recovered. Yes, they're more expensive, but your boards will last longer.
If you don't trust yourself to be easy on the throttle in recovery, I recommend the heavy-duty Maxtrax Xtreme with the replaceable aluminum teeth. One quick spin of the tire and those little guys are melted right down. The problem with Maxtrax is that it's pretty easy to wear down the hard plastic teeth that do the gripping. Slowly roll on to the throttle and your rig will pop up out of the mess you've gotten yourself into. Just dig out under the tires as much as possible and shove the Maxtrax as far under the tire as you can. I've used these nylon recovery boards to get a Defender unstuck from Moroccan sand dunes, for vehicle recovery of a stock bug out of silt in Baja, Mexico, and to build little bridges across gullies that otherwise would have damaged my front end in Johnson Valley, California. There are plenty of recovery boards you can buy, but I like to go with the original Maxtrax.
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