I would be surprised if the driveway is more severe than the Hardknott pass, 1 in 3 is bloody steep!!!!!!
Technical Wont get up my driveway!!
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How about some kind of winch.
I remember going across Dartmoor in my old A35 van. Couldn't get up a really steep hill in second gear. Handbrake wouldn't hold the car. No syncro from second to first. So I had to ram it into first, give it full revs and slip the clutch like mad. Car filled with burning clutch smoke, but I got it going, only for the brakes to fade completely on the way down. It's all so easy now.
I remember going across Dartmoor in my old A35 van. Couldn't get up a really steep hill in second gear. Handbrake wouldn't hold the car. No syncro from second to first. So I had to ram it into first, give it full revs and slip the clutch like mad. Car filled with burning clutch smoke, but I got it going, only for the brakes to fade completely on the way down. It's all so easy now.
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but 45' = 50% = 1 in 2..
I too would be surprised if there isn't a "technical issue" holding things back here,
or possibly "babying" the brand-new engine..
Charlie
the lower reverse was a thing of OLD vehicles,
reverse is now geared relatively high,
and certainly impractical for tricky manouvreing
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A lot of driveways in the Perth hills are 1:2. Some of them would challenge my Wrangler.
Even if the 500 does make it up eventually, you have to wonder if the clutch will take that kind of punishment daily.
The winch idea isn't a bad one. Concreted to the ground at the top
could just make a parking space at the bottom and walk up :idea:
That drive doesn't look terribly steep actually.
Is that mark on the drive from the wheels spinning on the way up or from skidding under braking on the way down?
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A lot of driveways in the Perth hills are 1:2. Some of them would challenge my Wrangler.
Even if the 500 does make it up eventually, you have to wonder if the clutch will take that kind of punishment daily.
The winch idea isn't a bad one. Concreted to the ground at the top
A little bit of 'good old momentum' should do the trick there. One thing though, if it is raining or snowing you would be in a mess. But unlike UK I guess it doesn't rain or snow so much in Aussieland!
Driving up a hill is no problem for me in the 1.4 but reversing up a steep hill does give the clutch a workout. Once the dualogic was giving me a message saying clutch overheated needs to cool down!!
OP GET YOURSELF A WRANGLER.
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I know some bungalows with steeper, and longer, drives than that near here. We always wonder if they have heated drives when it gets cold.
And in Italy my stepmother has a steeper road up to her village. No problems.
Surely that isn't the drive in question, because if it is then the car is faulty.
And in Italy my stepmother has a steeper road up to her village. No problems.
Surely that isn't the drive in question, because if it is then the car is faulty.
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Hi, I don't know where you're based but if you're in Sydney or surrounds the weather has been beyond awful. I have to wonder if it's a combination of slippery drive (possibly wet debris/leaves) and the ESC. I had a similar issue with losing traction after going across a cow grid onto a steep drive in the wet while overseas in a manual 500. The car just kind of decided that wasn't going to happen without being a pain. We did make it up though.
Hope you can figure it out.
Hope you can figure it out.
The pic was not posted by the OP! So possibly just a representation of a steep drive, in case anyone was not sure what one might look like.
Something that steep is known as a cliff.
Why are these drives so steep? Has the ground been built up to place the houses on, or dug out for the road below? Is this flood prevention, or to discourage visitors?
It seems unreasonable to expect any car to climb that.
Why are these drives so steep? Has the ground been built up to place the houses on, or dug out for the road below? Is this flood prevention, or to discourage visitors?
It seems unreasonable to expect any car to climb that.
turn the garages into rooms, cut drive out and drive car straight into the basement
Those garages look like they are just going to be used to keep the barbie in to me....
Probably with a hat like that
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It's a rite of initiation, if you can't get up my driveway, you can't knock on my door
