Ever discovered something new and pleasing about your car ?
18 months ago we made the minimum compromise descision like most
and brought a new 4800 petrol Patrol which has never proved
to be quite as good as our other 4800 Patrol - partly because
the new car only came in an auto.
The old manual is now being wrecked with parts going off to help
build a 750hp 1700 nm fire breathing monster and so the new car
is finally going out into the real bush more often.
But the new cars fly by wire throttle means its been to jerky up the really bad
rock strewn hills and this leads to wheelspin and cut tyres.
Even the installation of reduction gearing didn't help enough.
In trying to solve this problem I began to experiment with the cars never used snow mode switch. This switch instantly remaps the throttle response into being completely dead.
Sort of feels like the car is running on 2 cylinders.
Last weekend we did several runs up/down some good rocky tracks in the (Vic) Mt Terrible area using a 4.2TD manual 80 series cruiser as a reference.
Suffice to say that significantly less wheelspin was noted and much better placement and control of the vehicle occurred.
The final endorsement came when our manual cruiser friend said simply " With the snow mode switch the petrol Patrol simply did the climbing better" .