New Size✔ Higher Cost Performance✔ More Convenient to Carry✔
In order to give People more choices, we have launched a new size of Recovery Tracks. The load-bearing capacity is 10 Ton.
Same quality, lower price! Well worth it!
PS: This item can be Post to All of Australia FOR FREE.
Cheap enough but be mindful these are close to a foot shorter than Maxtrax and the likes…
These are 910mm
Others are 1190mm
Based on a negative feedback left on their eBay about their “gen 3.0 tracks”, I’ll pass.
“Absolute Chinese rubbish. Seller doesn’t listen to my concerns. Poor quality grade plastic, wouldn’t trust any other item from this seller, all junk.”
I have first hand experience and they serve the purpose at 1/3 of the cost of a Maxtrax.
1 negative feedback is hardly a sufficient sample size. Plus plenty of positive feedback from actual online reviews.
Jumping to the 'cheap Chinese rubbish' as a retort is rather pointless, particularly when taken into consideration that we always try pay the least amount possible and expect a premium product.
Another note: its a bit of a recovery kit. You're supposed to crawl out of a bog, not fang it. If you skid your tyres on them, Maxtrax would also wear down quickly. I'd hazard a guess and say this is user error.
Good review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkI2qPsa96I
I imagine it's much the same as anything, horses for courses… No doubt these cheapies would be fine for occasional and/or softcore use, but for anyone planning to head to hardcore and/or remote areas where they may need to rely on their recovery gear, paying the extra for good quality ones would pay off…
Edit: maybe they should air-drop some of these cheapies for these guys to test out, lol, that truck would be well under the 10T rating:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-14/parents-of-family-bog…
@trucking.oz on insta. They're not inexperienced outback travellers
I own both these and Maxtrax, there's nothing wrong with the X-Bull what so ever and in fact i kind of regret getting Maxtrax.
I don't regret getting my two pairs of maxtrax. Not at all.
I also have a pair of these XBull style ones. (Look very similar) Think I paid just a tad over $100 for them a fair while back. These are the ones I get out when I loan them to other people, when I know they're prob likely to be going to get trashed, when I come across someone without recovery gear, etc
My maxtrax are slimmer, and stack easier, and I know wine let me down when I need them, and having got them at around the $175 cost from previous deals on OzB, they're not that much more expensive than the eBay XBull (considering I paid over $100 pair)
At $62 pair delivered, everyone who even remotely goes offroad, should have a pair, or two of these in their kit.
(as well as deflator and compressor)
I got the x-bull for i think $68 and Maxtrax for about $200.
What i like about the Maxtrax is actually the Kaon.com.au stealth mounts that fold down flush with the roof rack. Makes it so simple to throw them on the roof, then remove them for low car parks. It just hurts more when you blow lugs off with a bit of accidental wheel spin. Maxtrax plastic feels softer and easier to shred, the X-Bulls plastic seems to cope better.
Today i spent 2 hours getting 200 meters on a severely rutted steep track, and only used the x-bulls.
They are just a bit of plastic you throw in the dirt at the end of the day, so really no need to spend the big bucks to hit the tracks.
@LowRange: Sounds like a great day!!!
I think the softer plastic is more so, I presume, they flex and bend a little, rather than break/snap when using them for a bridge or to get over a log or obstacles as such.
I've snapped the corners off my XBull, probably from being so brittle.
It's funny that even items such as these are gen1, 2, 3, etc. I mean with technology I understand, but this… This is just wasteful and hurtful to the environment.
Can you explain how "This is just wasteful and hurtful to the environment."? Not sure what you mean by that
I think what MrTee is trying to convey is that it seems strange to him that there would be multiple iterations released as "generations" of the product.
With technology he's used to it improving and a new version being released of the same device(like iPhones and Galaxy phones) but as this seems like a simple device he's upset that they're releasing it multiple times and marketing it as improved over the previous version.
Even though it may actually be better I think his cause of concern is that people owning the old version that works fine will see this one and it's minor improvements leading them to buy it. As they now have a better version, the old one becomes waste and ends up in landfill where it can hurt the environment.
Hope this helped xx
Thanks, and yes
Have had 2 pairs of these.
Pro's: Very inexpensive compared to competitors, don't look horrible, they definitely work (have used them to get out successfully twice, once in mud, once on loose rocks, both times worked no problems).
Con's: When stacked these sit quite a bit higher than Maxtrax. They also have large grooves on the underside, which fill with mud and become absurdly heavy. Even banging them on a tree won't dislogde the mud that gets trapped if it's thick. No fun (and even physically challenging) to lug these up/down a steep muddy hill when loaded with mud. Also after abusing one pair on the first use a number of the plastic lugs wore off (but from my understanding Maxtrax do the same anyway)
Spinning wheels on any recovery tracks will burn off the lugs.
I've had the same happen to my XBull ones from some over zealous drivers, they're not designed like that. If wheels start spinning, stop and readjust.
And yes, correct, you'd wear off the lugs on a set of Maxtrax if you abuse them and spin the wheels.
Cheers bought a set, only need a cheap set for casual off roading.
Same! Didnt think I'd bother but for this price why would you not have them on board!
Only black? I want orange……
@ OP. What does this mean? Higher Cost Performance?