Show me pictures of your Maxtrax!

[beach_creature]

Looking to see what people have done for mounting and using their Maxtrax. Yes, you can post other recovery pads too!
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84 Westy
1.9TD AAZ
5spd manual with Locking Peloquin TBD

[blackglasspirate]

I've got mine (knockoffs) mounted on my spare tire carrier. Despite getting into a lot of sticky situations I never actually had to use them, they were just there for a last resort.

This photo kind of shows the mounting. Unfortunately I don't have any pics on my phone and am not near the van at the moment so this is the best pic I've got!

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'87 Vanagon GL Westfalia
IG: @holidayatsee
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[bsrad]

Strapped to the top cross bars. Felt like they're less likely to end up in thieve’ing hands.

They work.

I apologize to this farmer for my bad discussions.
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Bill

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1987 Syncro Westy
1967 OG Single Cab
1976 FJ40

[mikemtnbike]

It's probably not the best idea, but I've used my Lynx levelers, stacked overlapping, as a recovery track. Worked when I needed it to.
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1991 Vanagon GL 2.1 AT Westfauxlia. "Frankie" Totaled https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=764510&highlight=carnage
1995 Eurovan Camper "Marzivan"
2020 GTI SE manual

[Love My Westy]

[BCgee]

Knock-off MaxxTrax set worked great in testing during our first snowstorm this year. Quick n dirty mount on the spare tire with TitanStraps.

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1987 SVX Syncro Hightop

[joetiger]

I bought the Treds, half the price of Max Trax and comparable reviews.

Due to the panicked intensity of the moment, this is the loan photo from a sandy afternoon in Baja. It does a very poor job of showing the amount of stuckness that my beloved Tatanka was in, but after much digging, sweating, and assistance, the Treds were instrumental in getting me out.

I kept them in my Rocket box on the roof or underneath the bag in the luggage rack. I still haven't figured out an appropriate place to carry them on my Syncro.

ETA: While the sage green color of these Treds is easy on the eyes, there's a reason that most people have brightly-colored ones. I spent a half hour digging in the sand trying to find one that was buried and camouflaged...
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Joe T.

'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32

"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron

"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond

Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present

www.josephtrussell.com

[E1]

Sorry for no pic, we carry ours in the luggage rack because nobody knows they're there.

Invaluable gear. We've used them maybe five times over six years, and never would have gotten out any of those times without them. A few of those times were fifty miles from Nowhere.

This last time was in deep clay, they weighed a good hundred pounds each once covered in the goo. Invaluable, must carry two to go three feet at a time and flip-flop the next one in.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[vanagonjr]

[newerwesty1987]

The Chinese knock-offs are not worth it, not to mention you are further funding China for the future war with us!

In the serious off-road world, everyone knows Maxtrax or Tred's are the only practical options out there and won't suddenly crack down the middle or stay permanently warped when bent too far. I prefer the Tred Pro version myself.

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[joetiger]

[SCM]

[candyman]

I keep mine in the luggage rack. They are the chinese knock offs and have been used several times with no noticeable damage to them. Even if they do break, i can buy them four mores times for under the price of maxx traxx.

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[?Waldo?]

[Merian]

I would avoid the knock offs of the max trax that have 5G listening devices embedded in them



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[E1]

I don't fear a war, but money is power and we should allocate thoughtfully.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[Love My Westy]

I've never been so stuck in sand that lowering the air pressure didn't get me out. I do have a set of sand ladders that I used one time when we had to get a 2wd Ford Transit out of the sand down in Baja. His MaxTracs didn't do the job for him.

[Vanlife Geek]

I have mine mounted on the outside of my roof rack. I used to have them laying flat, strapped inside the rack, but needed the space and didn't want to stack a bunch of stuff on top of them in case I needed them. Mine are actually Tred 1100's, which I noticed Tred is now an ARB product. I have one Tred mount which has a padlock and just strapped the other end. To be honest, in the 3 or 4 years I've had them, I haven't had the need to use them yet, but like knowing I have them just in case.

Note the old blue bus in the background. I was at this guys farm and he about 9 of them laying around in several locations, including an old Westy.

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Vanlife Geek
Current:
1986 Syncro Westy
Previous:
1983 Westy
1981 Westy
1972 Bug (Last year you could buy a new one for under $2,000)
1965/66 Bug (2 bugs from a junk yard combined to make 1 functional bug)
1959 Bug (Pre Gas Gauge Era)