Forbidden Suspension Mods

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Originally Posted by rob4play

Having manually selected high suspension mode I turned off and pulled the 20A compressor fuse. Was forced to find this solution on a Birdsville trip. Stayed at high no matter what all programs could be selected and only got the warning alarms when crossing the speed threshholds etc - drove for Kms without problem and tuned the tones out after a while.
PS that was standard high mode not extended

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Again though would this not trigger error codes and flag warnings to the Dealer/servicer?:wasntme:

"My friend" bought a set of genuine front and rear links for about $120 I think they were, cut and shut them 10mm shorter and so far have done over 45,000kms on them including big corrugations for a couple of thousand kms straight and have never had a problem, and the tyres wore flat across the tread, "he" rotate's the tyres ( Mickey Thompson MTZ's but now 4 lug ATZ's). The dealers have not noticed. As the links connect to a Potentiometer there is no load on them. I, sorry, "he" also carries one spare set modified and the originals but they have not been required as yet touch wood.

Correction - thought I better test again getting to that point where the memory is not that good.
Suspension fault light comes on and no special programmes available which is how it was when at Big Red etc.
Big Red was no challange had set in high with the fuse out for the before mentioned reasons which meant I could run up at good speed so just stayed in hi ratio start in third and used command shift to drop down and keep the torque and revs up when steeper/softer. DSC off of course and never hinted at running out of traction or puff.
However I do also have the wider Cooper LTZs 285/60 fitted which when lowered to 22psi help a lot of course.

When I tested after the original faults etc had been fixed I had no fault lights etc come up only the usual alarms re lowering no suspension fault alarms etc. Put the fuse back in and all normal nothing residual and no questions from the dealer after recent service. Might just be that it generated the command to lower but does not check that it has but simply next time it crosses the speed threshold again automatically generated the command again hence the recurring lowering alarm.
Would be a good one to test thoroughly next time I am in the sand. My test once everyhting was fixed was just a 8km loop with tight corners very steep hillls and a very short section of dried ruts off road.
P.S.tempted to wire in a hidden toggle switch rather than have to pull the fuse.