Four-wheel drivers must be the most infallible group of people I’ve ever met. You see, when they can’t make it over an obstacle, or through a mud hole, it clearly must be their vehicle’s fault. This mentality often leads to huge amounts of money being spent on unnecessary vehicle modifications.
A four-wheel drive can be like an expensive camera in the hands of someone that really doesn’t know what they’re doing. Perhaps if they take enough pictures, or throw enough skinny pedal at it, they’ll get by just fine — but does that mean they know what they’re doing? Absolutely not.
Everyone wants to look like a legend when they’re on the tracks tackling an intense obstacle, and there are quite a few vehicles running around that have most-certainly attained legend-status, but the drivers? Not so much. Rather than learning how to drive, whether through four-wheel drive training books, courses, or just learning from those with a little bit more skill, they decided it was easier to fit a six-inch lift and 35-inch tyres. Meanwhile, those that can drive are getting through the same obstacles effortlessly with half the vehicle.
Society would like us to think that there’s a correlation between how built your four-wheel drive is, and how good of a driver you actually are. To be honest, after spending a fair bit of time on the tracks with a wide range of people, I’d say the opposite is true. A more modestly built four-wheel drive requires you to put thought into into the lines you take, it requires you to get out and walk the crossing, simply put, it requires you to learn.
I’m not saying six-inch lifts and 35-inch tyres are stupid — they’re not. I’m saying the combination of those things with someone that doesn’t know how to use them is stupid. But then again, I’m sure everyone that’s reading this is a legend driver, right?
