Thread: Driving on Sand - Smell and high revs

Originally Posted by peterjj

In normal sand driving do you put it in 'Sand' mode and manually turn off Stability Control? Keeping Stability Control on will add extra stress to the drive train and heat things up. Stability Control in sand only helpful on the faster\smoother sections of beach driving

You barely get far enough for anything to heat up with DSC on

Originally Posted by peterjj

In normal sand driving do you put it in 'Sand' mode and manually turn off Stability Control? Keeping Stability Control on will add extra stress to the drive train and heat things up. Stability Control in sand only helpful on the faster\smoother sections of beach driving

No I haven't been turning the DSC off. Ill try that next trip.

Originally Posted by Scott_Lee

No I haven't been turning the DSC off. I’ll try that next trip.

The car will be working a lot harder on sand with DSC on unless it’s a hard flat beach , soft sand dunes are undrivable with DCS on

As was told to me many years ago, the first three rules for sand driving in a D3 or D4 are;

Rule #1 - Turn off DSC
Rule #2 - Turn off DSC
Rule #3 - Turn off DSC

This is usually the biggest culprit for getting bogged in sand for these vehicles.