d-9
Member Since: 10 Jan 2017
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 316
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RRSTDV8 wrote:HDC then.
I usually turn off HDC when on reasonably level ground. I find it more annoying than useful in such situations - as you appear to have found. It's excellent on steep, long descents or in icy conditions where it slows you nicely without any skidding. In more "normal" off road situations, I find low range, first gear is usually all that's required to hold the speed down on a descent. A short, steep, descent on a slippery surface - wet mud over firm ground, for example - is also a good place to have it switched on.
The thing with HDC is to set it up to your desired speed whilst on the level. Then when you go over the brow in to the descent, the vehicle doesn't "run away" until it hits the default HDC threshold. Madly pressing the cruise buttons to reduce the HDC threshold speed midway down a slope is, erm, attention grabbing! As said, low range first gear often keeps one going slowly enough that HDC doesn't need to kick in.
That's useful advice, I span my sport down a steep slippy bank when trying to throttle down the HDC speed, it locked the two passenger wheels and then we went into a slowmo spin.
Useful info on dsc, thanks. I assumed that had nothing to do with traction control because you can powerslide it with dsc turned on.
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