Gibb River Road

Probably more to do with how people drive not what they drive ..
Thousands of travellers every year seem to manage ok on the GRR

What NickB said.

I was there last week.

My first impression at the Derby end was that it was better than six years ago but age dulls the pain maybe.

The worst bits seem to be either side of Ellenbrae when the road seemed salted with razor sharp stones (well that's what they looked like) ready to reduce tyres to ribbons. They didn't.

On this section one of those rocks thrown up up a ute towing a car trailer was going to hit me between the eyes before the windscreen intervened. No chip thankfully.

I sometimes used to think the the outback grader was a mythical creature often talked of but never seen but there were two (!) working on the run in to Home Valley so the road around there was fine.

Across the Pentecost there were major road roadworks before El Questro and I'd think the bitumen will reach the river soon.

My experience of a few years travelling is your friend may be right, after market accessories are the bits more likely to fall off on the roughest tracks.

I have loose and missing bolts on the undertray of the ARB bullbar, one driving light is at a crazy angle but I can't move it by hand and I lost a UHF aerial.

I have personal knowledge on this trip of broken welds on the passenger side step of a stretched 200 series and a few other minor breakages.

It's a rough dusty track. Any rougher than any other? Who knows?

Prepare as well as you can, keep weight down and lower the tyres pressures ... and maybe lower them some more.

Hope you can enjoy it. It's a great part of Australia.


Rocco

Did it last month in a 79 ( not towing ) and don’t see what the drama is all about, it is no better/ worse than many other outback roads
The road up to Mitchell Falls was heavily corrugated though but certainly doable

I see a lot of people driving in the corrugations not on them which makes it far worse

Agree with above, also tire pressures make a big differnce, usually drop mine about 10PSI on
gravel but on some sections into birsdville have dropped them 15PSI this trip to smooth the ride.