I bet they love when you valet it lol

 

Here is the Episode 2 of our Big Summer Adventure.

http://youtu.be/jMReYyPQpLE

 

That's probably one of the best looking rigs I've seen Have a link to a build thread?

 

I am not an expert

I found this on a another internet page regarding IPF H4 lights

"They're the unrated illegal IPF nightmare product.
The worst performing thing I've ever tested. So bogus that it has a fake certification marking on it to simulate ECE compliance"

"IPF doesn't stamp their lamps with a "DOT", an "SAE", or even any legit ECE markings. They put an "E" in a circle that fools some people into thinking they're ECE-compliant.
It's just a bad product "

Google the the thread "more evidence that the wrangler may be in for a change" by Hildweller that tests a lot of lights.

I thought the Maxtrax was to expensive so I bought the Smittybilt element ramps, never used mine yet and maybe not so good and sturdy as maxtrax.

Smittybilt does not look good here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5bMqsEBX4 If I had to buy again I would probably buy from TRED recovery PRODUCTS

 

TRED here TRED Total Recovery & Extraction Device

 

Got back yesterday after my 2 week trek through Alaska.

Seeing as my camera battery died, and I seemed to have misplaced the charger... this is all you get for now. The rest will either be when the new charger arrives, or I find the old one.

A couple shots taken at sunset in Anchorage AK last week. Sunset being 11pm local time. Which is impressive since it's late July. Took a ton of photo's... but I'll limit you to these. Being alone, had to stack a couple rocks to see how far backwards I could back up before getting into major trouble. Photo's taken over Potter's Marsh, on the highway to Seward, just outside of Anchorage.






On a side note, even with my frequent trips out to Gridwood (100km) and what I used around Anchorage, I'm surprised my KM total and Googles varies as much as it does. 5600 vs 4785 km. Oh well.



Tried to keep track of my spending. Broke it down into a few categories - Food, entertainment, gas, showers/laundry and shopping (which basically means anything I bought to take back). As I wasn't camping nearly as much as I'd hoped, my food cost was a lot higher than I had planned for. The flip side being that my accommodation costs were next to nothing. In fact I only "camped" for 3 nights. 7 nights was spent in the jeep (thank God for my cheapie bug screens - which worked great - too bad my drivers side rear window doesn't go down... yay warranty) and the other 7 in the trailer. Every night in the jeep was either spent in a rest area, Walmart or Freddy Meyers. I spent 3 nights camping in the trailer, with the rest in Walmart or a rest area. At first without the trailer it was such a pain in the *** to get out the camp stove and other cooking stuff (from how I had it all wedged in the jeep, so that I could sleep) that I didn't bother. Once I had the trailer, it was easier... but I still rarely cooked for myself. In fact I only cooked 5 meals the entire time. Which was kind of pathetic, however it's just the way it panned out.


Days: 15
Mileage: 5600 km
Food - ~550
Entertainment - ~400
Gas - ~750
Accommodations - 79
Showers/Laundry - 86
Shopping (clothes/booze/other) - ~500

 

Howdy

We have Maxtrax here in Sweden, its cost about 680 US dollars

I found a comparison between Maxtrax and TRED

Looks that the have the same problem that Smittybilt have with broken knobs.

"As both brands have issues with broken knobs MaxTrax has an advantage in that it can be turned upside down and work on both sided"

MAXTRAX vs TRED

 

I disagree most strongly with this wholesale bashing of a good product. I don't know about the legal certs, but these lights are a huge improvement over OEM. They are not over-the-top; I've never been flashed by oncoming traffic. While some may want to stay 100% legal--I don't believe any aftermarket lights allow that--the poster you quote as "worst thing ever" obviously has never tested the OEM headlights (nor a thousand other products out there that fail miserably at their purported use)!

 

Crazy that they are so expensive!!!!! I would much rather have a winch. I do have a set of Maxtrax I got from my brother-law. He got them free, cause they get free stuff like that a lot for racing in the desert, lucky guys.

They are great at getting people out of the sand, used mine 2 times so far. But I'm leaving them home next weekend when I go rock crawling at Rausch Creek.

 

They are expensive, just for big hunks of plastic. Regardless, either one could prove most useful, depending on the situation. As you suggest, in sand the Maxtrax are great. It takes a while to set up a safe winch pull, and it doesn't give you the momentum to keep going very far once unstuck. Maxtrax, however, once you get going you keep going until completely out of the soft part, then you can walk back to pick them up. A well-equipped expedition caravan will have both options at their disposal (to include at least four total Maxtrax).