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You have to keep pressing the “traction control” button for a few seconds - it will then completely disable all.
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Thanks for organising this centenary drive @Ale Vallecchi, and invite us along! Everybody has their favourite type of drive, and this one had all the ingredients for me. The first half was pure exploration, but at a very good pace, in an area with very deep and soft sand, with multiple treacherous pockets. This was an ideal intermediary learning area and highlighted the capabilities of car and driver required for this level. The second part was pure fun, with small to medium long-ish dunes, great sideys from left to right while zig-zagging dune straights one after the other. The minimum refusals confirmed the skills of the convoy and it was great to join you in this celebratory drive. Maybe @Ale Vallecchi can take us all the way to KSA for his 200th?
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Happy Birthday Alessandro Vallecchi
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
Congrats @Ale Vallecchi- hope you have a blessed new year and enjoy the break! -
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Kalahari posted a gallery image in Intermediate - Lisaili - Dubai - 09 Jul 2021
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Kalahari posted a gallery image in Intermediate - Lisaili - Dubai - 09 Jul 2021
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Luc Khaldoun has been promoted to Fewbie level
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
Well done @Luc Khaldoun! Enjoy the new level and keep on growing in this sport. -
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Kalahari posted a gallery image in Newbie - Khatim - Abu Dhabi - 25 Jun 2021
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Shaaz Sha has been promoted to Advisor level
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
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M.Seidam has been promoted to Advisor level
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
Well done @M.Seidam - well-deserved. -
Angela (Foxtrot Oscar) has been promoted to Marshal level
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
Congratulations @Foxtrot Oscar! Well-deserved promotion - enjoy the new responsibilities! -
Thomas Varghese has been promoted to Intermediate level
Kalahari replied to Gaurav's topic in Off-Road Club's Announcements
Well done @Thomas Varghese - you always value something more if you have to wait a bit. Enjoy the new rank.- 39 replies
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Pajero - Getting Unstuck with Traction Control
Kalahari replied to Frederic's topic in Mitsubishi Pajero Forum in UAE
@Thomas Varghese the first indication was steering wheel controls for radio stopped working, then the horn. I tried replacing with used one, but it was not 100% same spec (so ABS kicked in every time I made a turn :-)). So put old one back and ordered new part from Nissan. Need to replace new one now. TC (traction control) is issue related to kill switch only. Worked 100% (with far more manual power when tackling steep dunes), but suddenly stopped working recently (despite kill switch seemingly doing its job). -
Pajero - Getting Unstuck with Traction Control
Kalahari replied to Frederic's topic in Mitsubishi Pajero Forum in UAE
I have a connected (but slightly different!) issue with my X. The kill switch worked like a charm, but over the last 2 or 3 drives, while the lights are on to say ABS and traction control has been disabled, it is clear that both are still very active - and resulted in my having zero power / no down-gearing in tricky situations (on an extreme drive!!). Does anybody have any clue what can be wrong? I need to replace my clock spring as well - and was wondering whether this is confusing the TC? @Emmanuel @Foxtrot Oscar @Chaitanya D @Mohamed Seidam @Frederic -
Hi @N@ved, no, it was not you that threw things away. I could not find too much fault with the back-end of the convoy that I could observe. Some initial mistakes where drivers did not keep sufficient space in technical areas (and then knock-on impact from a stuck), but those were quickly rectified as you would expect from a F+ group. Also some stucks / refusals where drivers tried to steer too sharply in soft sand or reversed into pockets without assessing the risk. Don't feel too done-in from a crest or 2 - that is part of this sport, especially when you suddenly see the convoy looping back when you are about to cross. The biggest risk was from the long side-slopes, where in the end the ridge was to be crossed: The reality is that for a long side-slope, cars at the back of a convoy will be met with lots of churned-up sand and sliding down with gravity. The temptation is always to give more gas and try and steer higher, while the tail is dragging down. The risk is exacerbated when you then try and cross the ridge - something that I will never forget once @Srikumar "scolded" me way back when I was trying that stupid trick It is unbelievable how vulnerable the physics are to create a flip of a car - at F+ drivers should have the confidence to go down, do a loop and generate momentum again to go up the ridge to cross - in a nice and controlled manner. The key is to use every second in the sand as a learning experience - even doing recoveries (e.g. what would I have done differently to not get stuck; or what do I think is the best way to do that recovery). Fewbie is about 50/50 between enjoyment and learning in my view.
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Thanks for the drive @Wrangeld - you promised lots of ridge-riding and criss-crossing - and you delivered! We had a few early stucks and many refusals, and we had to do a LOT of digging! But this is all part of the fun, as long as the F+ members use the opportunity to learn and enhance their driving skills. Once the convoy got their groove, it was really nice to cross this part of the desert. I did see a LOT of "fighting gravity", which the drivers should try and eliminate - rather steer down and try again. Thanks to @Jeandre Bezuidenhout for attending to the 2 pop-outs, as well as recovering of drivers not following the tracks - and especially for picking up the garbage that a fellow convoy member just discarded in the desert