Silver lake sand dunes

[Snox801]

So went a few weeks back and went better than I expected. But I went back today and realized some issues. First even with all the Nannie’s turned off my stability control kills it. I can be moving right up a very steep hill which our driveline is shockingly good at. Then you hear the brakes being applied and flashing dash stability lights. Truck will slow to a crawl then take off again. Most times leaving you stuck.
So after getting a bit frustrated and deciding to just throttle on. The truck finally turned off the awd. Now when that happened the truck just took off back up the hills spinning only the fronts. So clearly my stability control is over sensitive and using my brakes constantly. This is an xl so no sand mode.

I think I need forscan and just disable stability. When the advanced track disabled once while side hilling no modes were available but the truck just went everywhere with zero troubles.
Now keep in mind this is kinda rough treatment and I know. I was treating it as a toy and I know I was abusing it. I’m ok with that.

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[Tom 71 Maverick 24]

So you can't fully disable the nanny traction/stability control feature? The car does NOT always know best. I agree, sand mode would be a plus. Hopefully, someone can chime in as to its effectiveness. I haven't encountered sand yet with mine.

 

[Snox801]

So you can't fully disable the nanny traction/stability control feature? The car does NOT always know best. I agree, sand mode would be a plus. Hopefully, someone can chime in as to its effectiveness. I haven't encountered sand yet with mine.

Yes it definitely gets better turning the traction control off but you hav enough way of turning stability control off like other fords. And apparently it activates with a certain amount of wheel spin regardless of the traction control button being used

 

[Tom 71 Maverick 24]

Yes it definitely gets better turning the traction control off but you hav enough way of turning stability control off like other fords. And apparently it activates with a certain amount of wheel spin regardless of the traction control button being used

I think that in my 2017 F-150, you could hold the traction control button down for a few seconds and it would turn off the traction and stability control. Or so they said. I know that I did it when I was doing acceleration tests.

 

[Snox801]

I think that in my 2017 F-150, you could hold the traction control button down for a few seconds and it would turn off the traction and stability control. Or so they said. I know that I did it when I was doing acceleration tests.

It does work for the 150’s but not this. I do that in my 150 so I never thought it wouldn’t be the same for this. But even the 150 doesn’t turn it all off. Such a dumb deal. If you have to hold it for 15 seconds you know what you are about son.

 

[Baloo]

Forscan add the other drive modes, sand ect...

 

[Snox801]

Forscan add the other drive modes, sand ect...

That’s step one but I’m not sure that’s actually gonna turn it off enough. I’m hoping so.

 

[Snox801]

Alright guys so I got the new drive modes loaded.
it’s go time

 

[Snox801]

So have not made it to the dunes yet to see if it curse my issues maybe next week.
it’s about an hour drive.
But just the little testing I’ve done I noticed something. It sure seems to push power to the back much sooner.
in my previous post about off roading in Texas I noticed that the front tires would start to spin that is very weird for a 4wd guy. Then you feel the rear kick in and it goes. With sand mode same spot of gravel in my driveway while turning I could repeatedly get the front tires to spin a split second. Sand mode it doesn’t spin at all.
Looking forward to testing more

 

[Snox801]

Made it to the dunes this weekend. Has not rained in about 3 weeks with temps in the upper 80’s low 90’s
Sand was dry and powdery.
the sand made made a significant difference. I’m able to cruise all all at a slow pace and when I need more I can get a bit of wheel spin to get things moving. Was able to climb much more than in the past trips with ease instead of struggling a bit. The longer big hills the trans tuning was definitely better. Held the gears much better and longer than sport mode.

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