Quote Originally Posted by Hodge View Post
No wonder people get in trouble with a mindset like that lol .
First time I ever took my patrol (3L) off-road to mount dissa, we came across a hung up outlander. Hung up in rut by it's front and rear bumper. Going nowhere. Yes, it was an AWD.
Foreign people, spoke very little English, and as far as I understood them, they wanted to go see Black Saturday damage ...
We had no clue how to help them out, due to the position of the car, whichever way we pull it, there was big under-carriage damage possible.
So every time I tried to explain what could happen, they just smiled and nodded. Anyway with a winch and some maxtrax we got it out for them no dramas, although I'll be honest I was shitting my self, really didn't want to damage this car in the process of "helping" them.

So then the next hurdle was trying to explain to them this was no place for this type of vehicle. Once again they smiled and nodded, completely clueless with what I was saying. They turned around and followed us out to a main track, and then wandered off again.
Thats when you have to explain to them that damage may occur if they want you to help and you the recoverer are NOT responsible.

On that same weekend I saw the Audi I took the family to Craigs hut. I think it was Monument Track we were decending. The track covered in rocks, we came across a couple in a RAV4 going down ever so slowly, their car was so low it was creating a bow wave of rocks in front of them. Lol. Atleast the rocks were helping them slow down.