Stuck in the sand
Just digging a wildlife pond, and couldn't resist a trip up the sand bank!!
So I have mud and snow slightly oversizes tyres, 4 wheel drive, rear axel difflock; what can possibly go wrong???
You push the "diff lock" button before attempting the soft sand; you lock the "dsg in 1st gear"; you cannot be bothered to reduce your tyre pressure from 42psi to 15psi as you should for soft sand;
but you forget to
push the "traction control off"button
You get to the tricky bit; you are pushing your luck regarding ground clearance; the wheels spin; the revs die; and the forward momentum you need to get over the pile of sand is lost in a second; you then spin your wheels and dig big holes in another second with the engine cutting its revs etc etc; the lower side of the van is feeling particularly dug in; game over.
At that point you pop along to brothers who has a Navara with big chunky rubber; and VB air on the rear axel; you are then pulled out; and then face the humiliation of the Navara showing off going across the sand in every possible way; and that it is about 76 times better off road the a T6 if you forget to push the correct buttons.
tried the same run again, after being recovered; with "traction control off", no problem at all. But certainly not a Navara, mmmm unless I get some air suspension, big tyres.........