Is it possible to in any way to modify, program the Haldex on T6 to switch on manually rather than rely on its purely slow automatic function?
I may have said over time that I live completely off road. Our post code has only one address, ours! No other property or buildings near by, remote in other words. In middle distance I can see a farm across the valley partially hidden by woodland. Other land owners and access users are farmers using tractors or other agricultural equipment or off road vehicles. I have two off-road access routes to my property with no public right of way of any sort across my land or near to my property. One access, below us, short of a mile, steep-ish, resembling a narrow old tree lined rocky welsh green lane. Often covered in wet slippery leaf mulch, has bits reinquiring some moderate axle twisting slippery stone or rocks abound the trackway. In other places it has stretches of tractor ruts, cow and sheep plop etc often muddy most of the year. The other route some of which is on my land, has only hard surface at its extreme ends is moderately steep in places but most literally crossing open fields with no trackway at all in the middle section and some. So just crossing open field's containing stock, cows or sheep, rarely. the odd horse.. I rarely see any one, only the odd fox, badger plenty of other wild life all sorts of predating birds and so on. The top access is not too bad in summer but very wet this time of year, autumn and very wet in the winter.
When taking the upper access in wetter months, I generally air down. From road pressures F35psi Rear 34psi to anything 20psi all round to 6psi all round to gain traction and prevent rutting on wet field always airing up to road pressures when on the tarmac. I have a 2019 T6 Caravelle 4Motion with rear Differential Lock! 255/55R16 BFG All Terrains and many years of off road experience. Driven Landrovers of various sorts including LR101FC, which is now retired resting or rotting away in some corner, High Cap long gone else where, Volvo TGB 6x6 resting in another corner somewhere. Have owned a Unimog, Toyota Landcruiser 80 series VX, Suzuki and plenty of other 4x4.
The T6 is OK, has good under axle clearance possibly better than 110 but the general under belly ground clearance only moderate, it definitely need a lift, not got stuck here yet but do use the rear lock frequently in wetter months. It is no portal axled of road champ like the UNIMOG or the 6x6 Volvo both having diff locks in all of their portals, very large tyres and so on and both ex military.
We recently acquired a 2023 Dacia Duster 4x4 for our daughter and this amaizingly competent as standard even with moderate standard tyres. For its type, that is a Car, it has excellent all round ground clearance. It has some sort of haldex type of gearbox which can be changed from " 2 wheel drive to Automatic 4 wheel drive and one can even lock the haldex, if that is what it is. When locked the Dacia is amazingly assured, so positive, no slippage, it just goes where it is pointed. Everything is so positive and immediate. When in normal 4x4 mode it operates more like the T6 with that front initial slippage followed by a delated push from the rear end. When driving up hill on wet grass or an old grassed up track way that initial slippage can be a big problem. The Dusters rear prop locked up to the gear box prevents the repeated slip marks. So say stopping at an up hill field boundary the T6 or any normal Haldex type scuffs up the grass at the front wheels making it far more slippery it delays is pull off or not! The Duster just drives on demand. It is less likely to get stuck.
So I ask the many undoubted technical experts on here, could the T6 have a switch that locked up the rear prop to the gear box just like a 4x4 Dacia Duster????
It would make a very significant improvement to its off road potential, especially for me!
I may have said over time that I live completely off road. Our post code has only one address, ours! No other property or buildings near by, remote in other words. In middle distance I can see a farm across the valley partially hidden by woodland. Other land owners and access users are farmers using tractors or other agricultural equipment or off road vehicles. I have two off-road access routes to my property with no public right of way of any sort across my land or near to my property. One access, below us, short of a mile, steep-ish, resembling a narrow old tree lined rocky welsh green lane. Often covered in wet slippery leaf mulch, has bits reinquiring some moderate axle twisting slippery stone or rocks abound the trackway. In other places it has stretches of tractor ruts, cow and sheep plop etc often muddy most of the year. The other route some of which is on my land, has only hard surface at its extreme ends is moderately steep in places but most literally crossing open fields with no trackway at all in the middle section and some. So just crossing open field's containing stock, cows or sheep, rarely. the odd horse.. I rarely see any one, only the odd fox, badger plenty of other wild life all sorts of predating birds and so on. The top access is not too bad in summer but very wet this time of year, autumn and very wet in the winter.
When taking the upper access in wetter months, I generally air down. From road pressures F35psi Rear 34psi to anything 20psi all round to 6psi all round to gain traction and prevent rutting on wet field always airing up to road pressures when on the tarmac. I have a 2019 T6 Caravelle 4Motion with rear Differential Lock! 255/55R16 BFG All Terrains and many years of off road experience. Driven Landrovers of various sorts including LR101FC, which is now retired resting or rotting away in some corner, High Cap long gone else where, Volvo TGB 6x6 resting in another corner somewhere. Have owned a Unimog, Toyota Landcruiser 80 series VX, Suzuki and plenty of other 4x4.
The T6 is OK, has good under axle clearance possibly better than 110 but the general under belly ground clearance only moderate, it definitely need a lift, not got stuck here yet but do use the rear lock frequently in wetter months. It is no portal axled of road champ like the UNIMOG or the 6x6 Volvo both having diff locks in all of their portals, very large tyres and so on and both ex military.
We recently acquired a 2023 Dacia Duster 4x4 for our daughter and this amaizingly competent as standard even with moderate standard tyres. For its type, that is a Car, it has excellent all round ground clearance. It has some sort of haldex type of gearbox which can be changed from " 2 wheel drive to Automatic 4 wheel drive and one can even lock the haldex, if that is what it is. When locked the Dacia is amazingly assured, so positive, no slippage, it just goes where it is pointed. Everything is so positive and immediate. When in normal 4x4 mode it operates more like the T6 with that front initial slippage followed by a delated push from the rear end. When driving up hill on wet grass or an old grassed up track way that initial slippage can be a big problem. The Dusters rear prop locked up to the gear box prevents the repeated slip marks. So say stopping at an up hill field boundary the T6 or any normal Haldex type scuffs up the grass at the front wheels making it far more slippery it delays is pull off or not! The Duster just drives on demand. It is less likely to get stuck.
So I ask the many undoubted technical experts on here, could the T6 have a switch that locked up the rear prop to the gear box just like a 4x4 Dacia Duster????
It would make a very significant improvement to its off road potential, especially for me!
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Well unfortunately I do not have one of those Communicators Jim, the Klingons wont let me have one because I am an complete cluts! Hit it with a hammer or turn it on and off again they say. I do look enviously at you guys all communicating with your steed in some uncomprehension-able language but back in the office star fleet wont buy into it.
