#Brand new chevrolet 1500 stuck in quicksand how to#
#Brand new chevrolet 1500 stuck in quicksand plus#

I guess all I needed was that little bump to get going and then I was good. I had to get a another truck to pull the truck and trailer out of the sand (the other truck was a Toyota Tundra Pre-runner with Toyo tires aired down to 10psi). Now, I stared to go forward again and this time I couldn't go anywhere, I was stuck! I placed 2X4's and other wood under my tires and I aired down the rear tires.

I backed the truck and trailer up and got out of my tracks. I ended up only going about 20 feet until I got stuck and was spinning all 4 tires. I placed the truck in 4 Hi and started to head out. I had the wife and my son ride them out to the hard pack. When we where ready to leave, I loaded up everything except 2 of the quads. I was able to get to the camp and swing around wide and park in the circle with them. The motor homes had no problem going through the soft sand. I was able to get myself and the trailer out of the soft sand and back onto the hard pack. I was following our friends (I was in 4 low) who have class C motor homes and they tow a trailer with their toys in it, 2 wheel drives only with RDW. As we went into the dunes I almost got stuck twice in the soft sand. We got to the dunes late on Friday night, midnight.

#Brand new chevrolet 1500 stuck in quicksand plus#

I had my 3 quads loaded, 150 gallons of fresh water and 25 gallons of gas in the trailer plus all the food and gear for the weekend. Over the past weekend my family and some friends went to Dumont Dunes here in SoCal (1st time at Dumont/sand). If you're just using stock tires on hills covered with snow and ice then any problems you have are squarely on your own shoulders.Okay, I'm not sure where to place this question. I have Michelin X-Ice XI3 tires on my front wheels and I've been quite happy with their performance, but even with them I sometimes have to use the technique I described above. The correct way to deal with is to use snow tires designed for it - they have a softer rubber compound that's able to get a grip on it. The lighter you are, the easier it is to extract yourself. If you step into quicksand and are wearing a backpack, take it off quickly and toss it onto firm ground. Of course if you've got ice underneath the snow this makes things a lot more marginal. If you’re not sure, check the ground in front of you with your walking pole before taking the next step. It can be very difficult to do this from a standstill, so the way to deal with it is to back up a few feet so that you can take a 'run' at it by applying j-u-s-t enough throttle to get maximum acceleration without wheel slippage so that the car's momentum will carry it over/through the compressed snow. When you're in deep snow what happens is that as the car moves forward it compresses snow in front of the tires which creates a little 'hill' of snow you have to overcome. So as you depress the pedal note how far down it is when the tires start to spin and the next time depress it just a bit less than that. What you need to do is to apply an amount of throttle that is just shy of tire spin. So disabling the traction control system really isn't going to help. A spinning tire has no traction and won't pull the car anywhere. Spinning the tires is not productive, either. This experience was not pleasant and I would like to find a mode when the Bolt would spin the tires rather than simply giving up.Ĭlick to expand.

So is there anyway to lock the tires/electric drive to spin the tires? I am persistent so after about 20 minutes we got to a flat/downhill spot and the car decided it could go downhill in the snow OK. With a friend or I pushing, we were able to get the car to move maybe 3 feet per try. In that brief interval, the car 'forgot' the tires were slipping and would try again. How I got out was by empirically finding that the car would make the tires go briefly if you released the accelerator and then stepped on it again. When I was stuck you could step on the accelerator and the tire(s) would spin for an instant, then the slippery conditions indicator on the dash would light AND THE CAR WOULD STOP TRYING.

#Brand new chevrolet 1500 stuck in quicksand how to#

I managed to get out with the help of pushing from a friend and me pushing while the friend drove but my question is how to 'rock' a Bolt. I should have NOT driven in when it took me 4 tries to get up a slight hill.įinally I got in, managed to park and then tried to get back home. Plus we had an ice event before the snow so there is ice under the snow. The 2017 Bolt has been pretty good in the snow though tonight I made the mistake of driving into a parking lot with enough snow that the bottom of the car was leaving a trail and there was a slight downhill slope (uphill trying to get out).