For anyone on the fence on a Discovery Sport, and looking take it off for light offroading... the car can totally do it. Very impressive.
Yea, I forget to turn off traction control, too. One would think it might get turned off automatically if one picks a mud/snow mode for four-wheel drive. Luckily, I'm not in this situation too often, but winter will be back before we know it (but not too bad in NC).Spent this weekend in the Sierras. In this video it looks easy how the car handles in snow, but i actually had to do several tries and needed a good bit of momentum.
https://youtu.be/LOYi0v-tfc4
Also had to turn off the traction control to prevent the car from getting stuck in the mud+ snow. That was not intuitive.
Yup! Turn off that stability/traction control in severe situations....unless your driving at a pretty brisk pace, it works against you.Spent this weekend in the Sierras. In this video it looks easy how the car handles in snow, but i actually had to do several tries and needed a good bit of momentum.
https://youtu.be/LOYi0v-tfc4
Also had to turn off the traction control to prevent the car from getting stuck in the mud+ snow. That was not intuitive.
Yeah, you'd think it would make sense to have traction/stability control turned off automatically when you select a special program. BUT, I'm sure the safety staff (aka: their lawyers) advised them against it. I'd think to avoid liability, It's better to put that on the drivers responsibility. Here's why. In severely compromised traction situations it usually requires slow speeds. Select a special program, turn off the traction control and let the special program do its thing.Yea, I forget to turn off traction control, too. One would think it might get turned off automatically if one picks a mud/snow mode for four-wheel drive. Luckily, I'm not in this situation too often, but winter will be back before we know it (but not too bad in NC).
Took the Disco Sport off road two weekends ago at Frank Raines here in Cali.
This truck is definitely very capable for the class it is in. I was able to keep up with the LR3s, but couldn't go play around like they did, but still had a ton of fun.
Love this truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zHhtlHr6fo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJKSuC9KJNg
Warning: It was quite some work to get all that mud out though!
Yeah, you'd think it would make sense to have traction/stability control turned off automatically when you select a special program. BUT, I'm sure the safety staff (aka: their lawyers) advised them against it. I'd think to avoid liability, It's better to put that on the drivers responsibility. Here's why. In severely compromised traction situations it usually requires slow speeds. Select a special program, turn off the traction control and let the special program do its thing.
The traction control works against you in those types of situations. Sure, the nannies will get tricked into cutting power and whatnot and you might get stuck but you're not likely to lose control and enter into a death spiral. However, if you switch to mud/snow and you start getting into higher speeds, even with that special program selected, the traction control cold save your bacon if you start to lose control, much more so than the operation of the special program. It would actually be better to leave it in general in those higher speed situations but you know people will select the mud/snow special program because they think they have to or should and if traction control was auto disabled then you're asking for the possibility for trouble.
So LR are erring on the side of caution.
I agree with it, leave it up to the driver to turn it off. People need to get to know their vehicle and know what they are doing with it to get what they need out of it. If they don't or won't get to know what they are doing, then at least leave some fail safes in place. Computers can't do everything for us...but that's for another thread. >![]()