Car recovery team called to rescue Chevy stuck in Utah’s Meadow Hot Springs mud, realize it’s going to take an extreme recovery effort

A Chevy that got stuck in the mud in a Utah hot spring needed an incredible recovery effort to get out.

Even the most reliable of pickups can’t always handle the weather.

This beast of a Chevy would usually put other cars to shame on the road, but out in the open springs of Utah it met a fatal foe.

Having been found completely stuck in the mud, the recovery team had to put in quite the shift to get it rolling again.

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Chevy defeated by Utah Hot Springs

In an installment of the Matt’s Off Road Recovery series on YouTube, a Chevy Silverado got itself knee-deep in mud after trying to escort friends through a less treacherous path than they originally set course towards.

But after getting their front tires firmly lodged in pounds of thick brown goop, the Silverado was stuckerado, where it stayed overnight.

The recovery team arrived in their own Chevy, just three times the size.

Their yellow Corvair comes with all of the winching gear and tractor wheels to put the 5.8-liter engine to good use, and immediately, they dwarfed the Silverado by breezing through the track it planned to avoid.

However, its recovery wasn’t as straightforward as planned.

The good old rope and tow technique wasn’t sufficient as the mud was too wet for the pickup to get traction, leaving the Chevy unmoved.

With a dead pull ruled out, the team winched the car free.

The recovery proved to be much more successful than any attempts to free the Rivian R1T, which took months to move from its abandoned state in Arizona.

Stuck Chevrolet Silverado freed, but recovery wasn’t the big issue

With the recovery proving successful and the Silverado back on firmer ground, the team then found that the nearly-dead battery was not playing ball and refused to start again.

After multiple efforts at a jump start, the car was dead.

There, the team had to tow the car for three miles back to the rollback vehicle where they then dropped the car back off at its home before enjoying a donut on the road home.

For the Chevy, it looks like a heavy powerwash was needed afterward and a deep clean of the mud away from the engine before a new battery could be placed in.

If only they could get the Utah team over to Japan where a crashed Toyota has been left un-recoverable for 30 years.