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Looking closer at the vid appears the suspension is rising and falling or maybe its sitting on its belly?
It does not appear to be on the bump stops to me ?
The comments say the suspension lowered due to height sensor failure so if one fails the LR design strategy is to lower to the bump stops?
Planning a drive along stockton beach with D4 factory 20inch wheels wish me luck!!
If suspension fails like above will my new gaptool save the day?
regards
Often it just goes back to Onroad Height and gives a fault indication that Onroad Height Only is available - seems that is the case in that vid.
Here is another from Inskip Point - taken from the 4x4 Earth Forum. I am not a Facebook Member and can watch it so you should be able too. When it asks you to login or join just hit the Not Now option.
Always use rated recovery points - I got bogged at Inskip Point
He claims it was on bump stops in my post.. but it looks at least to be at standard height.
He’s getting defensive when I commented the driving lacked a little.
I watched a few minuets and couldn't bring myself to watch any more it was far too painful to watch.
Old mate in the tricked up D3 appears to be "Clueless" from what I could see he wasn't applying any drive to he wheels until he was nearly stationary after the snatch.
Tyre pressures were probably too high and it looks like he hasn't put the truck in extended mode either which is most likely why he got into strife in the first place.
The D2 did a great job But the driver should have told the person he was trying to snatch to lower his tyre pressures and use extended mode.
He/she should also have had a word about the D3 drivers technique when being snatched as well and it would have been a simple recovery instead of what occurred.
Just another perfect example of someone with a 4WD that hasn't any idea how to drive one correctly[bigwhistle]
Here I was thinking that this was concrete proof that D2s are much better in sand than D more than 2s.[bigsmile1]
I have NO experience driving D3's or D4's But my D2a just LOVES "frolicking" about in sand [bigrolf][thumbsupbig]Quote:
Originally Posted by Milton477
When being snatched he didn't accelerate until he had stopped - why? Even if a sensor had failed and the D3 had dropped, it didn't appear to be dragging its bum in the sand either. Was the D3 at normal on-road height?
The D2 didn't seem to be having any problems in the same sand. If anything, the D2 was flattening the tracks for the D3.
I have previously only had to snatch or be snatched in mud and not sand, so this is a genuine question.
The run up and speed of the snatch looked quite aggressive to me. Do those who know about these things have any comments?
D2 driver going too fast , clueless d4 driver should have been around 1/3 constant throttle as the slack was taken up , the strap had lost all its stored energy by the time d4 had applied throttle , people will argue this but d2 has a natural weight and tyre profile advantage over d3/4 on sand , saying that , correct tyre pressure and a clued driver will have no issues, in a previous life I drove / owned a Mercedes 911 4wd bus through sand dunes , along beaches etc , was just under 14 tonnes loaded , no problem thankfully, now I just drive the local volunteer fire truck [bigsad]
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Originally Posted by iannicki
Looks correct to me, but you can only do it the once . twice at most, after that the strap needs half an hour to contract back into its relaxed length. Which is why the third and fourth 'snatch' have no stretch ..... just bang .