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    Low suspension setting drivability.

    Hey everyone,

    I've been thinking about the height of the P38, and the low roof of some shopping center carparks.

    My P38 is still fitted with airbags, and drops in to loading mode nicely.

    My question is, once it's dropped in to loading mode, can it still be driven, and at what speed before it returns to standard height?

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    Mate

    Do you have an owners manual?

    You can lock it in highway height and I believe you can lock it in crawl mode as well but I can't remember how to do it off the top of my head

    Steve

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    I'm not sure if I have an owners manual, I guess I'll find out when I pick it up. Not too long now, it's nearly paid off.

    --Striker.

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    Well, a few years ago I drove over 500km (Coffs Harbour to Penrith) in one night on the bumpstops and, last Easter, over 150km on the bumpstops.

    On both occasions, I was often at 110km/h. The Message Centre was rather insistent that I reduce speed to 55km/h.

    Does that help?
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    You can lock it into highway mode by using the inhibit switch, the one on the right side of the 4 height switch.......I don't believe it will stay in the lowest load height.
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    Mate there is a crawl mode; I just can't remember which combination of button voodoo you need to use to invoke it

    Someone will know or I will look it up

    Steve

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    A little refresher on P38 button voodoo

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    Press the button to lower the car to access height, then press the inhibit switch. That's crawl mode. You're speed limited as shown in the extract. If you exceed the speed, the car will raise, so be careful if you're height limited.

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    So I guess access mode, then half open a door is safer then huh.

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    Every P38 owner should fit a manual switch to supply power to the EAS delay timer, once you have that you can make the suspension stay where you put it at any time.

    Otherwise, the only concern I would have in crawl mode at low speed would be tyres catching the body, that's probably because I have 265/75 R16 BFGs shoe horned in, on standard tyres it should be OK. Speed bumps may be unpleasant if you hit them hard enough to get to the bump stops though

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