Thread: Traction control in Sand - Range Rover

Dissable yout TC o the sand as all it dose is slow you down my bro has a d2 and it hates TC on the sand try with CDL locked if it has a CDL and TC off and you will notice the difference

The burning you could smell is your breaks over heating as the TC is trying to stop the wheels from turning and this is what you dont want on the sand ..

Checked the owners manual, and can't find anything on how to disable Traction Control. DSC- yes, but not TC.

Is there some tricky way to disable it, or do people remove a fuse etc?

try "common threads"

"Electronic driver aids"


I'm not sure about an RR though---

Yeah - I've read a few of the DII threads about TC issues. Never heard of the power being cut though, so maybe this is a RR specific issue.

I think I read a thread here somewhere about a 'another brand 4wd' getting bogged often, as a result of traction control - couldn't be disabled and the damn thing (tc) was doing its best to stop the wheels from going round and round, which is its job - if this is for real it (as in what tc does) all sounds pretty bl00dy silly.

Being an electric thingy, it must be switchable, somehow.

GQ

No doubt this DSC is similar to the D3/RRS

If the only button to push is "DSC" then press it until the DSC is "disabled".

This will reduce DSC but not totally disengage it. In the D3 you must press DSC particularly when in sand. The Handbook states this for the D3.

Chris

Originally Posted by lokka

Dissable yout TC o the sand as all it dose is slow you down my bro has a d2 and it hates TC on the sand try with CDL locked if it has a CDL and TC off and you will notice the difference

The burning you could smell is your breaks over heating as the TC is trying to stop the wheels from turning and this is what you dont want on the sand ..

A spur of the moment thing we went to Stockton yesterday with friends for a beach run in my D2. Interestingly from Anna Bay down to the wreck had CDL on with no traction control. 20 psi as we got down near the wreck the sand was so soft had to drop to 16 psi. This worked well. On the way back up played around with TC back on and found with 16 psi TC only came on a few times and did not find it a problem as others here have said it is in sand. I am not experienced as some however maybe it was the right tyre pressure that did not cause me any trouble.

I have heard this before, and alot of the magazines have quoted the same thing. I think it was redback who told me the caught up with a RR in the simpson on their way back and it had rained heavily, they managed to get out just before the road was closed but it was red clay and very slippery, right foot was the only thing that could get you through, the RR couldnt get about 5km/h cause every time he gave it some juice the wheels spun and then the TC cut in and tried to stop all 4 wheels from spinning. Matt