Originally Posted by BobD
Reply With Quote"...but many of those Toyo Fans keep telling me that air suspension will not able to handling the long corrugation."
The air suspension on the Discovery is brilliant and I would be pretty safe in saying that it has been tested quite extensively in all conditions including severe corrugations. That is why you don't hear of masses of Discovery owners complaining that they can only travel on bitumen and graded gravel roads!
My experience is short in time, but lengthy in kms having travelled 72,000 kms in the past 18 mnths over sometimes quite severe conditions mainly towing a 3 tonne van.
The most severe was crossing the Great Central Road from Laverton to Yulara - 1,200 kms of tough corrugated road and the last bit after Docker River extremely tough and corrugated. The Discovery did exceptionally well and just glided over the standard corrugations. As others have said though - it allowed me to go faster than I should have and consequently the van suffered and I ended up with a nasty blow out of a rear tyre on the Discovery. However the suspension is so good, that I only realised that I had a flat when I couldn't get any momentum in the soft sand.
. I then twigged to the real problem, got out and yes an almost flat tyre.. I had not noticed it while driving because of the good suspension. Change tyre and all good again. My fault, could not be bothered to lower tyre pressure for short streach of gravel road (60 ks) between the black top.
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