Wednesday, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:12
I've gone close on the Bloomfield too. That was towing a campomatic coming around a corner to a descent and meeting a tour bus on a blind corner.
The main thing in mud (especially hard slippery stuff like the Bloomfield) is to keep all the wheels turning. One touch of the overrides could lock up the van and send you off the side. Your choice of tyres suddenly becomes extremely important and might make a big difference - not that I think putting mud tyres on trailers is especially smart, but on the tug in those conditions they can make all the difference.
Backing off the brake bias before you get into the trouble spots is the important bit - you want max trailer brakes without losing traction in mud, which isn't very much unfortunately, so that the towed wheels still turn and you are relying on the prado's electronics to do the best they can with what they have, which if it's the original grand
treks, is going to be a rapid descent. The rest is fairly subjective depending on each
hill, but for me a proper dodgy
hill descent Involved generally both feet on the brake pedal listening to the abs scream and steer for the ruts while my sphincter tries to suck the
seat off its mounts. The
hill descent control in my
ranger is top notch and it has proven time and again that it does a better job of keeping me straight than I do - I don't touch the brakes anymore.
I use gearing and engine braking regularly, but not in bad mud descents while towing - if a
well sorted (current - not woeful old 105 series) abs/descent control isn't going to pull you up, you weren't going to do it on compression anyway.
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