Bazross wrote:

The Mrs however panics and doesn't trust it the horse issue is a very dangerous situation .
To down play it is a nonsense cant be many things as dangerous as a mental horse kicking its way into the fast lane of the m62 because a brake light bulb has popped thats the point I was making.
Thanks for the help guys

Hi, observation if I may... but first, can I just say I've experienced my D3 dropping to the bump stops on the motorway and I agree it isn't fun. Just getting over to the hard shoulder once you've dropped below the speed of the lorries is an experience! Thing is, given what you said above, in this situation can you see your wife doing any sort of "mechanical" thing to sort the car out?

For example, I'm fitting a basic emergency air suspension inflation system to mine shortly. To use it I'll need to fish my big tyre inflator out the boot, clip it to the battery, pull the fuse on the air suspension computer, then carefully inflate each corner to the right height so that it's sitting level. I know for sure my wife wouldn't even be able to that... and she wouldn't be trying to keep nervous horses calm at the same time. Just saying this sort of "get-you-home" might not be the right choice given your situation. I think the same may apply for anything you try to fit to the car which needs "intervention".

Can I just check... did you say your car goes into "limp-home" mode or just drops to the bump stops? I know on mine it was a suspension compressor issue not ABS so apart from being "on its knees" and a message on the dash telling me not to go over 30mph everything else was working normally. It isn't comfortable driving on the bump stops, but it can get you to the next motorway junction at least.

In fact, if you're a little more intrepid you might be tempted to drive it on the bump stops at more than 30mph. If you were, which of course I wouldn't for safety reasons, you might find there isn't actually any programmed limit to how fast you can go. You might also find it really quite bouncy but not undrivable, and that you could comfortably match the 56mph of the surrounding lorries. You would probably have to avoid potholes like the plague I guess, and sitting on a cushion might be a good idea depending on how far you have to go. In fact I'd say the latter was a must if you still had a 200miles motorway journey ahead of you. Just saying

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Can I just check... did you say your car goes into "limp-home" mode or just drops to the bump stops? I know on mine it was a suspension compressor issue not ABS so apart from being "on its knees" and a message on the dash telling me not to go over 30mph everything else was working normally. It isn't comfortable driving on the bump stops, but it can get you to the next motorway junction at least.

In fact, if you're a little more intrepid you might be tempted to drive it on the bump stops at more than 30mph