It took what seemed quite a few minutes on my short test on gravel of the centre diff and rear diff. In fact it took long enough for me to doubt that the locks had been released albeit from a driving perspective they seemed to be. I say this because I initially tried pressing the rear lock diff and it was not obvious that anything had changed (the light just kept flashing) so I then pushed the hi/lo lever from lo locked to hi unlocked. The lock light still flashed and I think I am right in recalling although the centre diff lock warning light went out the rear diff warning light (on the small panel ahead of the steering panel) stayed on. I then tried turning the vehicle off and then on and this made no difference so I drove and after c50m the rear diff lock lights etc went out. Ps don’t take this as gospel as to what happened re lights etc because my main concern was listening out for “complaining” mechanical sounds (there weren’t any thankfully) and whether I should be calling the dealer!
Had very similar experience today whilst practicing the procedure in a field. On top of your experience, my front diff lock would not engage but showed red on the status screen. Again, driving forwards, backwards, turning engine on and off, made no difference. I suspect that now the vehicle has been sat for an hour in my garage, it will have reset.
Yes, that's how it was for me too. I posted this somewhere in my experiences weeks ago.
If you are riding around, and then get stuck, you should get out of the vehicle and hand the keys to someone else.
If someone who needs a cheat sheet is driving anywhere they need diffs to be locked, I would strongly encourage that they stop, and sleep or walk to help. Ideally you dont even get to being i the situation. That type of driving, in a heavy offroad car is not about turning on trick tech, it requires a lot of physics and mechanical/vehicle knowledge. Anyone ca learn it, but trying to ’turn on’ tricks would likely make a bad situation dangerously worse.Man plans, God laughs.
The dang thing comes with a winch as an option- and it isn't always to help the other guy
I am far from an off road expert, and I was thinking as much for snow/ice and the other drivers in my household that might end up driving it. I just wanted to know the envelope that they systems will work in. Is it even worth making a cheat sheet for them if the window of applicability is pretty small and the potential for jacking it up is high.
Not sure I 100% agree with you here. Definitely agree you need to know your limits and either go with experienced people who can help you or or stop if it looks like it’s going to challenge your capabilities. But even experienced people can sometimes make errors or situations turn out to be unexpectedly tricky. If you are used to vehicles that have detroit or air lockers these Eaton lockers are a bit different and a bit tricky and the way that INEOS has implemented them also complicates things a little. A cheat sheet to keep in the glovebox isn’t a terrible idea. Even just as a refresher before you enter the track, or tonise while you practice somewhere safe.
I wish I could always be as perfect as that.
Basically, you can activate them in a standing position. However, it is not certain whether they will really engage. Therefore, help by driving very slowly forwards and backwards.
Is it that the lockers are not engaging or rather they are engaged but the sensors & software are not confirming the engagement? At this stage I would have more faith in the Eton lockers actually working when requested than the Ineos buggy software recognising they have started or stopped working.
I agree but maybe once or twice in 5 years.
The vehicle has to move forward or backward for them to engage.
