Just wondering if anyone has encountered a similar problem to what i have had today.
Took my Pajero onto the sand and took on some decent sized sand dunes, it performed fantastic and I managed not to get it bogged at any stage, seems to be the trick to drive it in manual mode and keep revs around 3.5-4k as it is there it seems to develop all the power (V6)
However on return it appears that at some stage I bottomed out on the rear end and the bumper bar scooped up a whole heap of sand and it was bent out of shape and stopped the rear door from opening. After removing the bar and a bit of bracket bending etc the bar is now close to as good as new but it has me wondering how to go about stopping this in the future.
My car is booked in to get a towbar fitted and a small (50mm) raise in the near future and I am hoping this will go someway to stopping it happening again. Anyone experienced this before??
I am totally impressed by it's abilities in the sand though, you can count one 1 hand the number of times I have driven a 4x4 off road and it made things very easy, it seems happy to drive on the beach all day in 4HLc in auto and once dropped into manual mode and revs kept around the 3.5-4k mark it handled all dunes that stopped a few other cars on the day.
Thanks
Jason.
Took my Pajero onto the sand and took on some decent sized sand dunes, it performed fantastic and I managed not to get it bogged at any stage, seems to be the trick to drive it in manual mode and keep revs around 3.5-4k as it is there it seems to develop all the power (V6)
However on return it appears that at some stage I bottomed out on the rear end and the bumper bar scooped up a whole heap of sand and it was bent out of shape and stopped the rear door from opening. After removing the bar and a bit of bracket bending etc the bar is now close to as good as new but it has me wondering how to go about stopping this in the future.
My car is booked in to get a towbar fitted and a small (50mm) raise in the near future and I am hoping this will go someway to stopping it happening again. Anyone experienced this before??
I am totally impressed by it's abilities in the sand though, you can count one 1 hand the number of times I have driven a 4x4 off road and it made things very easy, it seems happy to drive on the beach all day in 4HLc in auto and once dropped into manual mode and revs kept around the 3.5-4k mark it handled all dunes that stopped a few other cars on the day.
Thanks
Jason.
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