How many times can you go into off road mode from standard
Once
3%
3%
[1]
Twice
44%
44%
[12]
Three Times
18%
18%
[5]
Four Times
7%
7%
[2]
Five Times
25%
25%
[7]
Total Votes: 27
heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
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How many times can you go into off road mode
I've just had a new compressor fitted and I can only do it twice before I get the "Suspension raising slowly message "
I'm sure I could do at least 4 times on the old one . Is there maybe an option to set the compressor cut off pressure with the test book ?
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19th Jul 2009 5:26 pm
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Was going to try ot but then thought I'd better not as I might break something!!!
19th Jul 2009 7:20 pm
buellbeast
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Twice at normal speed, after this the speed it raises at reduces, but no message shown.
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19th Jul 2009 7:54 pm
Stu
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What do you mean by off road mode? The terrain response system will raise the suspension for you but only in certain programmes, so depending on the programme you select depends on the suspension. Although \i get the impression you mean something else?D3 HSE MY05 Auto
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19th Jul 2009 9:04 pm
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Heine is asking how many times you can consequctively raise and lower the suspension via the lever before the evil message appears 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
19th Jul 2009 9:16 pm
DiscoDunc
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Heine,
do you mean from access to offroad mode or from normal to offroad mode.
when I first got my D3 i did a lane in wales where we had to keep stopping to open and close gates. I went from offroad to access (so mrsdiscodunc could get in and out easily) then back to offroad. If i did this a couple of times I would get the message that said compressor was too hot and had to wait for it to cool down.Duncan
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Twice - as in from access height - off road height - back to access - back to off road - back to access. Then it rises slowly with the accompanying message.The next American ex-pat that calls it a "truck" is going to find out what 2.7 tons feels like on their foot...
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19th Jul 2009 9:31 pm
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Two full cycles on mine too.
19th Jul 2009 10:41 pm
heine
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DiscoDunc wrote:
Heine,
do you mean from access to offroad mode or from normal to offroad mode.
From normal to off road mode . I used to be able to do 3 full cycles i.e. from access to off road - now it battles to do one. But I was more concerned with normal (std) mode to off road , as this is something that happens quite a lot while overlanding
20th Jul 2009 10:20 am
dubai
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Just tried it on my V8 petrol, I did it 4 times with no problems or any error messages.
Ambient temp 40C.
I would have tried for more but like DSL, don't want to push my luck and break something.
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20th Jul 2009 5:52 pm
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5 lifts from normal to offroad height, got msg on 6th attempt, however the front was rising very slowly from the 3rd lift........My next post will read something like this......'just driven D3 to stealers with suspension on bump stops'....
21st Jul 2009 3:40 pm
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It could be temperature related, as in the ambient / starting temperature. If it starts lower, the compressor will work for longer giving more re charges, In addition if the starting pressure in the tank happes to be higher when the test is started it will also improve the number of cycles.
Just my two bobs worth.
21st Jul 2009 6:02 pm
Steve H
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After the second attempt to raise the suspension raises progressively more slowly. After the 3rd the waring message appears. This is on a 58 plate HSE, I don't reacll the same thing with an earlier model but that may just be because I never checked.D4 SDV6 XS Orkney Grey
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