Hi Guys
I am very sorry if this has been asked before but could not find anything in my very quick search.
I took my 2013 V6 TDI Touareg without low range out for some dune driving this weekend. I saw this as an opportunity to get to know the vehicle and what buttons to press when.
Firstly I switched off the traction control (pushing the ESP button once) to allow the EDL to still work. Put in in Sport so that it will change back a gear quicker. This was a complete disaster. Could not get anywhere. Thinking it’s the ESP I switched that of as well. Still not very successful.
After a while I figured out that tip tronic is the way to go and did not have any issues further, BUT when the dune is very bumpy and the vehicle gets thrown from side to side, even with the ESP completely off(Pushing the ESP button for a few seconds) its cuts power to the engine. Probably thinking it might roll over or something. It was just strange that this still happened even with the ESP off.
I might need to order one with lowrange next time. Maybe it’s not an issue then.
By the way this only happened while I was still in auto, when I eventually switched to tip tronic we did not encounter such dunes that was so badly eroded..
I am very sorry if this has been asked before but could not find anything in my very quick search.
I took my 2013 V6 TDI Touareg without low range out for some dune driving this weekend. I saw this as an opportunity to get to know the vehicle and what buttons to press when.
Firstly I switched off the traction control (pushing the ESP button once) to allow the EDL to still work. Put in in Sport so that it will change back a gear quicker. This was a complete disaster. Could not get anywhere. Thinking it’s the ESP I switched that of as well. Still not very successful.
After a while I figured out that tip tronic is the way to go and did not have any issues further, BUT when the dune is very bumpy and the vehicle gets thrown from side to side, even with the ESP completely off(Pushing the ESP button for a few seconds) its cuts power to the engine. Probably thinking it might roll over or something. It was just strange that this still happened even with the ESP off.
I might need to order one with lowrange next time. Maybe it’s not an issue then.
By the way this only happened while I was still in auto, when I eventually switched to tip tronic we did not encounter such dunes that was so badly eroded..