why cant there be lsd to both front and rear

lacroupade · 13-11-2009, 09:48

SIMON - not yet, been pi55ing the last few days

Sorry to hear of your troubles mate, hope you get sorted - been there, ummmm, twice actually!

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ZIPPY - peeps are right, whats required for your lady wife is really something with permanent 4WD (bit of a misnomer because most of them work on the principle of sending drive just to either front or rear wheels normally, but splitting it, say, 50/50 or 60/40 if it detects any wheel slippage. That happens pretty much instantaneously and needs no input from the driver.

Other vehicles I'd add to the list would be things like the Subaru or the Honda HRV. We have one of the latter and having driven it a lot I can tell you it works brilliantly. I have got to say that, in 2WD alone, I don't find the T2 that encouraging on wet roads at any rate of knots. Its a heavy old beast and if it comes unstuck it comes unstuck.....in very wet conditions you can run it safely in 4WD (I've had T2s/Mavs for 12 years and done so loads of times without problem), but she'd have to be reversing to get it back into 2WD when she wants to manouevre and so on, all very inconvenient.

I have never, ever managed to get the Honda unstuck. It has a VTEC engine so will go like stink when you want it to (at least for a 4WD) but even on the wettest, bendiest, leaf-strewn roads West Wales can offer, it sticks like glue. And being a Honda its bomb-proof - 70,000 miles on this one and NOTHING gone wrong.

So you might have to think about a second car mate! LOL

13-11-2009, 09:48	#13
lacroupade Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: All hail to the Glove of Love... Posts: 9,212	SIMON - not yet, been pi55ing the last few days Sorry to hear of your troubles mate, hope you get sorted - been there, ummmm, twice actually! ). ZIPPY - peeps are right, whats required for your lady wife is really something with permanent 4WD (bit of a misnomer because most of them work on the principle of sending drive just to either front or rear wheels normally, but splitting it, say, 50/50 or 60/40 if it detects any wheel slippage. That happens pretty much instantaneously and needs no input from the driver. Other vehicles I'd add to the list would be things like the Subaru or the Honda HRV. We have one of the latter and having driven it a lot I can tell you it works brilliantly. I have got to say that, in 2WD alone, I don't find the T2 that encouraging on wet roads at any rate of knots. Its a heavy old beast and if it comes unstuck it comes unstuck.....in very wet conditions you can run it safely in 4WD (I've had T2s/Mavs for 12 years and done so loads of times without problem), but she'd have to be reversing to get it back into 2WD when she wants to manouevre and so on, all very inconvenient. I have never, ever managed to get the Honda unstuck. It has a VTEC engine so will go like stink when you want it to (at least for a 4WD) but even on the wettest, bendiest, leaf-strewn roads West Wales can offer, it sticks like glue. And being a Honda its bomb-proof - 70,000 miles on this one and NOTHING gone wrong. So you might have to think about a second car mate! LOL