Had a play on a farm track today. nothing challenging but quite a lot of muddy puddles in the road I needed to avoid (The fl2 is for keeping clean ) . Initially I thought 1st gear was too high a ratio as keeping a constant slow speed was difficult, every bounce in the road moved my foot slightly and caused a surge or dip in my forward speed.
So I changed to mud/ruts and what a difference, speed control was much easier as the pedal is a lot less sensitive to movement. It just felt like I was in a much lower gear allowing me to concentrate on steering rather than fine tuning the speed. Does the mud/rut setting also alter the tickover speed and/or anti stall system?

I feel mud/ruts would be useful in difficult parking manoeuvres maybe on steep slopes. Or even for complicated trailer reversing tasks (yes for van reversing to if you must )

|So that was my first play with terrain response and I was impressed, maybe not so much of a gimmick as I thought .

I would have splatted through the mud but I've just spent a day power washing the concrete in front of my house and didn't want to park and wash a dirty car on my nice clean drive (does that pass as an excuse?) At work
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chicken george wrote:

Had a play on a farm track today......... Initially I thought 1st gear was too high a ratio as keeping a constant slow speed was difficult, every bounce in the road moved my foot slightly and caused a surge or dip in my forward speed.

avtur wrote:

chicken george wrote:

Had a play on a farm track today......... Initially I thought 1st gear was too high a ratio as keeping a constant slow speed was difficult, every bounce in the road moved my foot slightly and caused a surge or dip in my forward speed.

Yes, its great how mud and ruts reduces the sensitivity of the gas pedal. But would also point out the anti stall too, let the car go in first gear then take feet of everything it will make steady progress at about 3 mph up hill and down dale!

That's possibly why the screen said hill descent unavailable in mud ruts mode.
As soon as my car goes in to dealers and I get a courtesy car for a day I will learn a lot more about the fl2's mud-plugging etc abilities. Or maybe in mine when its a a bit older (and Mrs G isn't looking ) At work
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avtur wrote:

Yes, its great how mud and ruts reduces the sensitivity of the gas pedal. But would also point out the anti stall too, let the car go in first gear then take feet of everything it will make steady progress at about 3 mph up hill and down dale!

Dont use it while vaning! thats way too fast the van would implode At work
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chicken george wrote:

avtur wrote:

chicken george wrote:

Had a play on a farm track today......... Initially I thought 1st gear was too high a ratio as keeping a constant slow speed was difficult, every bounce in the road moved my foot slightly and caused a surge or dip in my forward speed.

Yes, its great how mud and ruts reduces the sensitivity of the gas pedal. But would also point out the anti stall too, let the car go in first gear then take feet of everything it will make steady progress at about 3 mph up hill and down dale!

That's possibly why the screen said hill descent unavailable in mud ruts mode.
As soon as my car goes in to dealers and I get a courtesy car for a day I will learn a lot more about the fl2's mud-plugging etc abilities. Or maybe in mine when its a a bit older (and Mrs G isn't looking )

I used HDC in mud and ruts yesterday coming down a hill

I will check but Im sure a warning came up on the dash! Maybe that was sand mode? It did seem strange that HDC wouldnt work with mud/ruts At work
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chicken george wrote:

I will check but Im sure a warning came up on the dash! Maybe that was sand mode? It did seem strange that HDC wouldnt work with mud/ruts

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maybe second gear then I did speed up as the track got smoother and cleaner. practice makes perfect! At work
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avtur wrote:

Yes, its great how mud and ruts reduces the sensitivity of the gas pedal. But would also point out the anti stall too, let the car go in first gear then take feet of everything it will make steady progress at about 3 mph up hill and down dale!

And if you have an automatic gearbox and you use mud and ruts you have to use the command shift gearbox mode.

Also if the TR programmes are the same as other modern Land Rovers then with the auto box it should pull away in 2nd not 1st. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

Also if the TR programmes are the same as other modern Land Rovers then with the auto box it should pull away in 2nd not 1st.