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zocko · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 20:34 Post subject: hope or aim?

are you the kind of person who plods along slowly through the mud or do you point it in the general direction and stamp on the loud pedal?

anyone got any tips or hints for offroading?
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me and the wife · ******* Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 1013 Location: gosport

use less clutch, when going down hill dont touch the clutch just let it drive Very Happy

Retro · *** Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Posts: 154 Location: South Lakes

Don't stop or change up and down on fine shale like pebbles on the beach, just boot it a hope you don't bogg down. Confused

Oh and if following a defender pass it whilst laughing as I did the other day.
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Bam-zuki · *** Joined: 14 Jan 2010 Posts: 145 Location: West Midlands

No idea .........never done any offroading Embarassed

..........yet Very Happy

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Knight · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 16:48 Post subject:

Depends on what i'm driving and where i am, in the paj i was a bit cautious in the suzuki i point and go Very Happy

, i guess thats why people with suzuki's generally look like they have lost the plot Shocked

, also alot less to go wrong with a zuk not a lot there Laughing

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superzuk · * Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 28 Location: IPSWICH

in my off road disco (they have on road ones??) i plod everywhere, pulling out the suzukis

in the vitara i fly about skimming over everything laughing at mates in LRs Razz

sideways1 · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:13 Post subject: Off Road

[b] Ive got a suzuki LWB 1.9 dt and its point n go , no stopping it!!
" oh n never use the clutch when going through deep deep water"

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robertbaby · * Joined: 11 Aug 2010 Posts: 45 Location: manchester

randomfry · Newbie Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Posts: 4 Location: Chichester

Sorry to revive an old post but could someone tell me the reason behind not using your clutch in deep water?

DavidS · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 13:08 Post subject:

I went on an off road experience day 2 weeks ago ... and the advice when going through water was.....
keep pace with the bow wave ... if you drive faster it may flood into the engine bay, and if you drive slower / stop it may me sucked into the exhaust, so if you dip the clutch you will slow down.

It was great fun just trying to find time do do it all again in my own car.
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randomfry · Newbie Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Posts: 4 Location: Chichester

Ahh I see, I wasn't sure if it was damaging to the clutch or not.

Miketree · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 23:47 Post subject:

I don't understand why you would get water sucked in the exhaust.

I remember several times when the exhaust pipe has been underwater even on tickover without water being sucked in.

Just bubbling away nicely.

DavidS · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 17:23 Post subject:

that is what I was told .... maybe it's the 'back wash' that surges up the pipe
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