First Off Road Trip for Our Grande FWD

[PaulG]

Some rough roads handled with ease. Some dark skies. And home again. Now for the hose and bucket.

Edited June 9, 2008 by PaulG

[1rocky]

Looks a great trip Other pics How did you find the kluger with the cost of petrol now

Edited June 9, 2008 by 1rocky

[Blackkluger]

Was there any challenging parts where the FWD struggled? Did the traction control intervene much? or did you turn it off?

[PaulG]

Was there any challenging parts where the FWD struggled? Did the traction control intervene much? or did you turn it off?

I left the traction control on. There was only one time where I was approaching a rocky area and the wheels spun trying to mount a 100-150mm rock. I didn't have quite enough forward momentum for that one. Easily overcome that by backing up and approaching a little faster.

There were a few fairly step incline/declines over rocky and red soil terrain and some dry black soil. Some deep ruts. Only bottomed out on sump guard and towbar a couple of times in some particuarly deep ruts - and that was because I was trying to save the paint job from scratches from trees and not stradling the ruts! Overall handled with ease. The tracks were dry and no soft/deep sand. These tracks are impassable in the Wet to ANY vehicle and are usually under a couple of feet of water.

Fuel ecomony reading was around 13.5, but I didn't really take much notice.

The kids in the back watched dvds the whole time - and no problems at all with playing DVDs whilst bouncing around over corrugations.

[mrbishi]

Nice pics and nice telrad