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Another happy off-roadeoer here. The scenery was stunning and the guides were extremely knowledgeable and supremely patient. I've been to Moab a bunch of times for rock climbing and hiking, but this was my first time driving on terrain this challenging. The Broncos were definitely built for it!
Here are the basics. This may all seem obvious to some people but it was new to me. By the end of the day, it was all second nature though, so I could just drive around and have a great time without thinking too hard. Good times.
Lessons learned:
This was my first obstacle and the off-roadeo's first two-door, a Base trim with Sasquatch package in Velocity Blue. They had just gotten it in from Grand Junction the night prior, so this was its first off-roadeo too. The guides were trying to see whether the two-door could do some of the moves without locking the differentials, which the four-door Broncos had engaged in this section (front and rear, I believe). That's why I said, "I still have my lockers off." You can see it worked out just fine. [The videographer's finger got in the way for part of the video because he was walking uphill.)
Second obstacle. Going downhill was harder than going up but the guides were incredibly patient.
Turning the wheel the wrong way caused the Bronco to slip. Oops.
I finally got uphill figured out though.
Final downhill obstacle. The guide said "Absolutley not" because I asked him if I could just close my eyes and go down. Kidding, of course. Then he asked me to stop while he bounced the rear driver tire, which was off the ground, to see how stable the two-door was at this angle. This may look easy but there were some seriously deep divots swallowing up those 35s, as you can see by the wheels coming up off the ground.
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Here are the basics. This may all seem obvious to some people but it was new to me. By the end of the day, it was all second nature though, so I could just drive around and have a great time without thinking too hard. Good times.
Lessons learned:
- You have to have your foot on the brake to start it
- To put it in 4H (or 4L or 2H) you first have to stop and put it in neutral
- To mimic Baha mode, put in it 4H, then GOAT mode Sand, and turn off the rear locker
- Trail turn assist is cool but almost unnecessary with the 2-door, which can make super-tight turns without it
- Trail control is very useful going uphill, but keep in mind that if you hit the brake to slow it down, it readjusts to the slower speed
- Trail control is also useful going downhill but the minimum speed is 1 mph so if you have to go really slow, don't use it
- Front and rear lockers are useful going up super steep stuff, but as soon as they've done their job, release them
- The 2-door did stuff with no lockers that the guides had the 4-door drivers put their lockers on for. I think it's superior for that kind of stuff, but I've never driven a 4-door.
- The 2-door struggled only one time. My buddy was driving it up a very steep, ledgy section - I didn't measure, but would guess the highest one was maybe 18" - using trail control. The guides had him set it at the same speed as the 4-doors, 2 mph, then 2.5 mph. I think the problem was this (understand that I am not a physicist but this seems like common sense): Since you need a combination of momentum and traction to get uphill, and since the 2-door is lighter than the 4-door, there is less weight on the tires, so less compression, and less traction (less surface area contact between tire and rock). So he would need more momentum to make up for it. Bumping the trail control up to 5 mph probably would have done the trick, but this was the first time the guides had worked with the 2-door and they were still testing things. They told him to forget about the trail control and use the accelerator, and the 2-door crawled right up! He said he pushed it to 5 mph and kept it there, so if he had set the trail control to 5 mph it probably would have solved the problem.
- There were also slight differences in how you attack routes with the Sas vs non-Sas rigs. I noticed a non-Sas Badlands struggling on a downhill and hollered out, "He's on 33s, right?" and the guide immediately said, "Oh yeah, let's get you on a different line." Basically, they moved the driver over to a section where the ledge dropoff was slightly lower - makes sense, right?
This was my first obstacle and the off-roadeo's first two-door, a Base trim with Sasquatch package in Velocity Blue. They had just gotten it in from Grand Junction the night prior, so this was its first off-roadeo too. The guides were trying to see whether the two-door could do some of the moves without locking the differentials, which the four-door Broncos had engaged in this section (front and rear, I believe). That's why I said, "I still have my lockers off." You can see it worked out just fine. [The videographer's finger got in the way for part of the video because he was walking uphill.)
Second obstacle. Going downhill was harder than going up but the guides were incredibly patient.
Turning the wheel the wrong way caused the Bronco to slip. Oops.
I finally got uphill figured out though.
Final downhill obstacle. The guide said "Absolutley not" because I asked him if I could just close my eyes and go down. Kidding, of course. Then he asked me to stop while he bounced the rear driver tire, which was off the ground, to see how stable the two-door was at this angle. This may look easy but there were some seriously deep divots swallowing up those 35s, as you can see by the wheels coming up off the ground.
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