What have you done to your car today?

Agreed about ABS switches. I just about wrote my foz and myself off coming back from the hunting trip, I was going down a steep corrugated gravel road and almost missed a sharp corner, with a couple hundred metres of steep hill to roll down....
 
havachat said:
Coming down the steep gravel incline into Woods Point the ABS kicked in and I nearly ran off the road !!
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zippo said:
ABS and gravel roads are a dangerous combination. Travelling with a mate in his Disco and we rounded a curve to find the road ahead was blocked. He hit the anchors but we just chugged ahead into a huge tree stump. No air-bag deployment thankfully. WIthout ABS that would have all been a non-event. There needs to be a dashboard control to disable it.
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kiwifoz said:
Agreed about ABS switches. I just about wrote my foz and myself off coming back from the hunting trip, I was going down a steep corrugated gravel road and almost missed a sharp corner, with a couple hundred metres of steep hill to roll down....
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I couldn't agree more about ABS.
Mine nearly caused the same sort of thing at Bunyip back in January 2012 ...
 
Hi Nachaluva,
I am pretty sure I read about your niece's mishap on the forum. The road from Matlock to Woods Point I am sure you would know. It is about 6 km of winding downhill. I was probably going a bit fast towards the bottom and not enough engine braking. I could feel the brake pulsing through the pedal and I was gathering speed and heading straight for the edge ! Momentarily scary !!
I will try and post a shot of the SG at the top of the climb out of Bonnie Doon with Eildon in the background.
 
^ Apparently, it lights the dash up like a three ring circus ...

IME, it's also all but impossible to remove!
 
Today eliminated most rattles from hatch, trim, steering wheel quick release. Tightened some bolts, and cleaned my windows inside. Happy.
 
Pulling the fuse does indeed disable ABS but illuminates a light on the dash. Can be worth doing just for offroading trips its not hard to pull and put back in after. There are times where it has been very dangerous on a few trips I've been on.
 
Picked up the wife's SH from the crash repair shop. As reported earlier I hit a kangaroo, actually no, the kangaroo hit me!!
New front guard and headlight and the car is looking almost new again!
 
You can pull fuse on ABS.
Crossing the Simpson, west to east, some years ago a 6 cylinder Outback had problems going up Big Red because of the ABS. Pulling the fuse allowed it to sail up easily.
Today swapped front tyres with the 2 spares to even out wear and started the monumental clean out. Something not done for at least 12 months I reckon.
Plenty more to do......
 
ateday said:
You can pull fuse on ABS.
Crossing the Simpson, west to east, some years ago a 6 cylinder Outback had problems going up Big Red because of the ABS. Pulling the fuse allowed it to sail up easily.
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Did it have VDC? You need to turn off the traction control to put the VDC into offroad mode.

Better than pulling the fuse is to put an illuminated dash mounted switch in line, so you can turn it off/on easily & the light reminds you its disabled

Today swapped front tyres with the 2 spares to even out wear and started the monumental clean out. Something not done for at least 12 months I reckon.
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Is yours manual or auto?

Havachat, great to hear your Foz is back :)
 
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Hi NL,
It is an MY03 manual.
I use 6 tyres so rotate them reasonably often, about every 5000 kms. Plenty of tyre changing practice........
Re ABS/VDC, no idea as it was in about 2004 and not my car. Just remember the driver pulled the ABS, well think it was ABS, fuse.
I know in my MY03 the ABS light came on when the bouncing started when climbing the dune via a very rutted track. Went off when we stopped on top for the obligatory photo.
 
Bought 4 new wheels for the Foz .. Same steelies as I had but not rusty like mine LOL .. Only $40 for all 4
 

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Love the look of those horns. Bet they put out some db too!
 
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