Kedah 4x4

Lengths of rubber mat normally used as industrial flooring are being sold as debogging aids with varous names. They are cheaper than metal, fairly effective in sand but utterly useless in mud. Rubber does not grip on rubber when wet.

PLASTIC CLIP-TOGETHER

Half-metre lengths of moulded plastic ladder clip together to make a traction aid as long as you like are a good idea and work fairly well. Grip in wet is okay but good in the dry. When it gets very muddy the plastic edges designed to grip the tyre are too small and quickly disappear under a coating of mud. At this stage tyres spin with little grip. They are also made too narrow. In wet conditions they must be anchored to be effective.

STEEL LADDERS