DiscoDunc
Joined: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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I'm with DSL. I think the TR button should be on the steering wheel, or within fingers reach. Sometimes you just dont want to take your hands off the wheel, then you have to take your eyes off the road to check whats happened...
Ideally i would like it linked to my brain like what fighter pilots have  Duncan
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simon
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
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Why have it on the wheel ? There are enough buttons there already. Pressing HDC by mistake (which will happen if its on the steering wheel) is not a good idea and will soon have you cursing it.
TBH if your travelling that fast you need to cling onto the wheel with both hands... you don't need TR, you need to slow down  
Also, you really should select the correct TR mode before you reach the situation, not mid way through it. Reading the road / terrain ahead is one hell of a great way to help you get through it.
There are plenty of lights for HDC and a nice big LCD showing you what TR mode your in too
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| Mon Feb 18 2008 7:29pm |
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DiscoDunc
Joined: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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Quote:TBH if your travelling that fast you need to cling onto the wheel with both hands... you don't need TR, you need to slow down
Youve obviously not done the Croisiere Blance  Duncan
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| Mon Feb 18 2008 7:36pm |
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simon
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Nope... but you should already have been in GGS with HDC on or off
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| Mon Feb 18 2008 7:38pm |
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DiscoDunc
Joined: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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Ahh, but thats where the problem lies. GGS was  , ended up switching between MAR and RC and SM, even got the bonger telling me to slow down or the suspension would lower  Duncan
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| Mon Feb 18 2008 7:42pm |
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AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Joined: 06 May 2005
Location: Earth
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Just thinking out loud again LR promote a very green approach to driving off road. They quote 'As slow as possible but as fast as necessary'. I presume that the settings are geared around this approach. If they were to alter the settings of the gizmo's so we could go Faster Deeper Harder. There could be a confliction of interests. For use of a 4x4 site and driver training pm me 
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| Wed Feb 20 2008 12:57am |
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DiscoDunc
Joined: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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Have we heard anything from ORC1 recently or has this excellent source of knowledge and customer relations passed LR by  Duncan
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| Fri Jun 27 2008 11:24am |
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TallPaul
Joined: 03 Jan 2008
Location: Reprogramming the W.O.P.A.
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DiscoDunc wrote:Have we heard anything from ORC1 recently or has this excellent source of knowledge and customer relations passed LR by
I think his train response is set to "NATO", he will watch the fight, but he does not want to get directly involved...
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| Fri Jun 27 2008 3:43pm |
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hernan1304
Joined: 28 Feb 2008
Location: Dubai
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Three things I really want:
1) Manually locking diffs
2) A split-screen mode for the sat nav that allows me to see the map on the left and the 4x4 info on the right
3) allowing a higher speed limit threshold for leaving the suspension on off-road height when in sand mode. It's annoying that the car lowers itself when I'm about to charge up a dune.
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| Sat Jun 28 2008 9:03am |
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dick dastardly
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: wot satnav says
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Having DSC come on automatically after having switched it off once but changed TR to RC caught me out on the lip of a very steep slope. Nasty experience. When switched off, DSC should stay off until back to normal mode (TR off).
Suspension should lower, become stiffer in normal mode over 100 kmh otherwise suspension is very wobbly in sudden manoeuvers required to avoid mistakes of others. Should also reduce uneven wear on outer edges of front tyres.
Make extended and super extended modes available manually by some special procedure, limited to 5kmh
Raise off road height speed limit to 80 kmh (manually configurable or special procedure)
Would a tyre changed mode be possible (one selectable wheel off the ground whilst in super extended mode), no need for air jack !
Other than that. Brilliant Red Indian wisdom: If you must jump canyon, dont do it in 2 steps.
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| Sat Jun 28 2008 10:35am |
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dick dastardly
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: wot satnav says
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 Red Indian wisdom: If you must jump canyon, dont do it in 2 steps.
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| Sat Jun 28 2008 10:48am |
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andih
Joined: 09 Jun 2008
Location: grantham lincs
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ahem i cant pass judgement. ive never used any of them. 
all my playing done in a RRC.
but if any body is in the grantham area im quite willing to modify the situation  ' ermy' 2007 D3 tdv6 xs java black.
formerly 'eeyore' 1992 D1 200tdi heavily mod
'cherry' 2000 D2 td5 slightly mod. my lil baby for 4 yrs
its nice to be important, but more important to be nice
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Squirrel
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Location: Abu Dhabi
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Major request here - when some of these suggestions are incorporated into a "New, improved!" version of this great vehicle, I suggest that an upgrade to the software of all the existing vehicles out there should be made available from dealers at a reasonable cost.
Same goes for the Satnav software - we are long overdue for an upgrade of the roadmaps here in the UAE!
Here's hoping...
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| Sun Jul 06 2008 9:13pm |
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simon
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
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Do you think he heard you ?
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| Sun Jul 06 2008 11:31pm |
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Desert Traveller
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: South East Queensland
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If LR complied with the requests the next D3-4 would be dyslexic. Some want the D3 to stay up at speed and others want it lowered. Some steering controls, other not.
All could be done by the stealers individually programming vehicle for the owner. Each vehicle then needs to be coded and have a master control (with PIN). LR could sell this as an option. 06 TDV6 SE with Extras
VW Eos TDI
Previously 01 TD5 and 94 TDI
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