Has this been posted before

good God.  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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This looks like the course that they used to set up for the Land Rover stand at the Canary Wharf Car show - I went over/round it in a RR about 5 years ago with one of their drivers.

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A nice demonstration of why locking diffs are better than electronics at this sort of stuff. All that wheelspin and stopping and starting!

Which mode do they use for that in the demo? 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

pab wrote:

A nice demonstration of why locking diffs are better than electronics at this sort of stuff. All that wheelspin and stopping and starting!

Nothing wrong with electronic traction control if people have been shown how to get the best out of it especially as, unlike looking diffs, it doesn’t have any adverse affect on the steering


PS: I Like Chips, if you haven’t been on a LRE day, book yourself on a 1/2 day course and try it for real, preferably in lots of mud as well you’re none to far from their great site near Ledbury

Agree with Tigger, Peckforton Castle a cracking experience too and what a place to stay if you fancy taking in a overnight stay as well.

We had a DS doing the two wheel thing over a ditch full of muddy water !! the missus wasn't impressed  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Tigger wrote:

Nothing wrong with electronic traction control

Can one argue that almost all "proper 4x4" offroad vehicles today do have ABS and therefor also ABS sensor wires in their wheel-arches? Traction control is not that much (if at all) more complex than an ABS system. Mostly the same sensors, braking components, ABS pump and a control module.
So no real reliability compromise or complexity matter here. Small differences but not enough to call it complex and unreliable I would say.  2013 SD4 SE (hers)
2013 SD4 HSE (mine)
Ex: 2008 D3 V8 HSE
EX: 2000 D2 TD5

The difference is that if one has ABS with 'proper' diffs then a broken ABS wire will affect only the ABS function. On the FL2 a broken ABS wire can result in the complete loss of 4WD!

Exactly this happened to mikehzz: http://www.freel2.com/forum/post192530.html "I like going remote alone but I reckon the FL2 is actually a bit fragile to handle it now. At least my Jeep has a honking big lever that mechanically drops it into low range and locks the centre diff."

I can't work out why the driver didn't drive round the obsticles, would have been easier.

 FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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