Thread: Air suspension auto lower

As everything is back to normal now I will pull it and try today - other than leaving some fault codes etc in the system maybe, should not be a problem. Will let you know the result.

Okay so turned on, raised to off road height, turned off and pulled the 20A compresser fuse.
Turned on and as expected suspension fault light lit and no special programmes available as they do control suspension height as well. Obviously still a bit of a mystery as to just what is still working and at what sensitivity.
Drive off and get the chime as you exceed 30kmh then periodically telling you to slow down to 30Kmh which altogether not such a bad thing as it reminds you especially at higher speeds that you wil not have the usual good handling performance etc.
Drove around 5km up steep hills down, tight corners through mud in the back yard bush section and all great.
Just need to try somewhere where wheel slip is a real problem to see what happens. Obviously Big Red and sand driving is not an issue. However I would suggest that you would only use this in an emergency and as others have said for higher speed sand/dune driving. On all the other rough driving to Immaninka, Walkers Crossing etc normal drive height even fully loaded with heavy camper trailer in tow was fine.
So for me where I would see myself wanting to stay at that height above the Landrover designed and allowed speed this solution works and if it becomes a regular requirement might just fit a toggle switch in the line somewhere to make it more accessible, hardly difficult. Obviously though when you take it in for a service it will be registering the suspension faults. When used only for sand driving the wheel alignment difference is really not going to incur excessive tyre wear in my opinion. The speed set by Landrover I would think is purely a safety and compromise issue to ensure the DSC etc operates at its maximum effectiveness for high speed driving where it is most needed and where the majority of these vehicles sold operate. However lets not forget we all used to drive quite happily, though of course more uncomfortably and less safely before it became almost standard on all vehicles. Takes you back to more though, right ratio, right gear selection etc. using the command shift is awesome allowing you to run at the higher gear and speed then when running out of torque simply change, sometimes trying to do this in a manual especially deep sand uphill etc is extremely difficult to get just right so no loss of momentum is experianced. Over Big Red another non landrover vehicle but manual 4WD experienced just that and really relied on right gear to start with to maintain sufficient torque and speed to get over without excessive wheel spin resulting in bogging.
Go the D3 just keeps getting better for me and for those moving to the more powerful again D4 - wow

Thanks Rob.
I've certainly experienced the wrong gear scenario in my manual TD5 D2 on Hay River & Madigan trips.
I was getting a D3 but have since ordered a D4. I want to be able to continue to drive without being on the bump stops if a fault occurs, and I have a WIP for raised height at the flick of a switch that is waiting to be tested.

My old 03 Range Rover was set to warn to lower at 50 kph but it did not automatically lower if you drove faster.

On two occasions, both on the Lions Road, through the Border Range, I had been off road in a good train video location and had come back onto the black stuff and thumped the RR to get to the next location before the train did.

Twice I forgot to lower on the way out of the scrub and was at a pretty good speed when I got the warning bong just as I entered some tight turns.

The RR handles a lot safer than the D3 and it still scared the *****e out of me and I would NOT like to have tried the same thing with my D3.

For safety sake for those not so experienced, leave the settings as is.