Shiv
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[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-Sx7e2dDs"]Driving on Stockton Beach - YouTube[/ame]
This Saturday I headed North to Stockton Beach for a day on the sand dunes and had an awesome time under clear skies. I ended up taking my folks with me as I've been meaning to take them up there for a while now. They absolutely loved it.
Most of the footage was captured using a GoPro HD Hero II mounted on the car using a suction cup mount. You can see it gets the colours really well.
As usual, I did need to pull over and let it cool down after about an hour of traveling with the direction of wind (so no air going in the front). So we sat back, grabbed lunch from the fridge and stretched our legs for a bit.
On the video you'll see me having two visibly pathetic attempts at getting up a mild sand dune and failing. It looks pathetic, but the cause for this was an aggressive approach angle that was required at the bottom of the dune. Now the Outback has a large front overhang (not blaming the car as it was never designed for this!) so as a result, I had to brake before the dune (the last thing you want to do!) because the car was bottoming out and hence I didn't have enough puff to get it to the top.
The impact (caught on camera) was not bad at all. I was surprised it cracked so easy but then I remember it was fractured from a previous incident which is why it let go so easily.
Apart from that, the Subie performed very well as always, putting the larger 4WD's to shame by carrying a load of people + luggage and traveling solo forging its own tracks in the sand. I saw many loaded up 4WD's struggling in the soft sand where the Outback was light on its feet (despite being heavier than I've ever had it before!) and making it look easier.
The money shot (my money going down the drain, haha..)
This Saturday I headed North to Stockton Beach for a day on the sand dunes and had an awesome time under clear skies. I ended up taking my folks with me as I've been meaning to take them up there for a while now. They absolutely loved it.
Most of the footage was captured using a GoPro HD Hero II mounted on the car using a suction cup mount. You can see it gets the colours really well.
As usual, I did need to pull over and let it cool down after about an hour of traveling with the direction of wind (so no air going in the front). So we sat back, grabbed lunch from the fridge and stretched our legs for a bit.
On the video you'll see me having two visibly pathetic attempts at getting up a mild sand dune and failing. It looks pathetic, but the cause for this was an aggressive approach angle that was required at the bottom of the dune. Now the Outback has a large front overhang (not blaming the car as it was never designed for this!) so as a result, I had to brake before the dune (the last thing you want to do!) because the car was bottoming out and hence I didn't have enough puff to get it to the top.
The impact (caught on camera) was not bad at all. I was surprised it cracked so easy but then I remember it was fractured from a previous incident which is why it let go so easily.
Apart from that, the Subie performed very well as always, putting the larger 4WD's to shame by carrying a load of people + luggage and traveling solo forging its own tracks in the sand. I saw many loaded up 4WD's struggling in the soft sand where the Outback was light on its feet (despite being heavier than I've ever had it before!) and making it look easier.
The money shot (my money going down the drain, haha..)
