If you are towing a trailer in sand TC off,especially if its track is diferent than your D2.Air all tyres down,keep your groundspeed as high/safe as possible.Keep the revs up if its a TD5,they dont like low revs under stress!!!
Andrew
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If you are towing a trailer in sand TC off,especially if its track is diferent than your D2.Air all tyres down,keep your groundspeed as high/safe as possible.Keep the revs up if its a TD5,they dont like low revs under stress!!!
Andrew
You will struggle if you tow on the sand and you don't have the CDL, i tested this when i did the Simpson, the TC was working overtime and it was struggling alot up the dunes and at the time the sand wasn't soft, it was pretty firm as it had been raining when we went.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psynergi
I'd look into getting the CDL if you plan on towing your camper on the beach.
Baz.
[QUOTE=Redback;699567]You will struggle if you tow on the sand and you don't have the CDL, i tested this when i did the Simpson, the TC was working overtime and it was struggling alot up the dunes and at the time the sand wasn't soft, it was pretty firm as it had been raining when we went.
I'd look into getting the CDL if you plan on towing your camper on the beach.
Baz.[/QUOTE
I thank you for that. I'll consider it a future mod if I ever buy a camper. For now, it does what I ask of it so I'll leave it the way it is. I've got the finances put aside but that'll just have to earn some more intrest 'til the time comes.
Cheers
Andrew
[quote=Psynergi;700772]All good then, just a bit more info for you, that may help, there are lots of people that say air down the trailer and lots who say don't, i aired down both, my camper has the same track as my Disco, which does help, especially as my camper is around 1.3 ton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redback
I did find that because of the low speeds going across the Simpson and the campers weight (we averaged 17kph for the 350k 3 day crossing:o) and mud clinging to the underneath of the car, we had the transmissiom temp light come on several times (mines a manual) usually it came on late in the day, this was a good excuse to camp for the night:Dso if your going to do any towing and you have an auto get an extra transmission cooler fitted as well as the CDL or you could cook you transmission alot quicker.
Baz.
I have towed a 1.5 tonn trailer many times in soft sand with just the traction control - I dont have the internals for the CDL with my manual V8. The only time its a problem is starting off in very deep soft sand (although I have not tried it with my new 31 inch tyres!!!!!! - and suspect that it will be a whole different ball game next time around), even with tyres aired down. And they dont track as well as a locked vehicle in very soft deep sand at say 50-60kph - but its no big deal, just wanders a bit. Overall they still perform very well with ETC only in sand.
Cheers