My 2004 disco 2 goes through snow like a snowplough. You have to drive them right for the conditions. Low range 2nd gear great for snow. Low revs and careful.
It does piss me off when people get all goey thinking they have the 'best 4x4xfar'. Bullshit. The vehicle was assisting. The tiny amount of relieve it gave the artic just happened to be enough and could easily have been too little had the weather been worse or a fraction steeper gradient. My jeep would have done it just as well as my bobtail disco. Fuck it my wife's s60 with winter tires probably could have done it. Grow up
The lift axle would have been up from the start of his journey because the load is not heavy. if it was a heavy load the axle would drop and even if you wanted to lift it for more traction as you say it would not let you.
Its amazing how capable these vehicle are, we had a severe snow storm over just a couple of hours here in Merseyside a few days ago, about 8 inches of snow was dropped and it was the first time I have driven the Discovery in truly testing conditions. It was incredible...I had to get everyone home from my sister's party that night aswell as rescue a BMW, towing it up a snowy muddy bank whilst its rear axle was locked due to a side on crash all done with ease in a standard Disco 300Tdi, amazing.
This truck would have a axle locking diff lock and the driver has loaded his trailer the correct way. Its looks like a light load anyway as his lift axle is up. Your country is covered in snow for long parts of the year but here in the uk we only get it once in a blue moon so we dont need to run trucks with 2 drive axles for normal road haulage because 99% of the time we dont need them.
For the countless noobs watching this, the last 3-4 seconds explains every thing. First, the truck is a piece of Euro crap with out duel drive axles. Hence, no diff lock capability. Second, In spite of the trailer being loaded, the load extends so far back, it over hangs the trailer. This takes the weight off the drive axle
@Moosemuir ??? When it snows they are the only cars out and about. So on that score they are 100% reliable. Landrovers are working vehicles, on a daily basis they put up with more abuse than anything you can mention. I don’t see many other near 20 year old cars pulling that lorry in the dry let alone in the snow. Think on old chum.
@RudeMcNasty the more weight over the trailer axles is most likely to keep within the axle weight limits we have in the UK but if you can tell each axle weight from the clip your good
@MStanleyRoss another reason to pull up the 3rd axle is even if you are near the top end of your max weight, you would still pull her up in these conditions. It is not a driven axle so all it does is take weight (and traction) off the rear axle :)
A couple things I noticed, the tractor-trailer driver did not put on chains, the load is improperly loaded on the truck there is extra material at the far end of the flatbed this would make the back heavier making it difficult for the drive wheels to achieve traction.
I agree, I've done loads of towing out with my disco 300tdi last two winters. But before we all get too carried away, this artic has the lazy axle up in the air, so it's not fully laden by any measure. Best car I've ever owned though by a mile.
@deliow The reason they didnt lower the other axle was because lowering it only spreads the weight and weight = grip the more weight on one set the more grip sharing weight only makes it lighter on the axle therefore losing traction
I've just come back from working in Poland, in November most people change from their summer tyres to winter tyres, so when it snows, they just drive a little slower, but trucks don't change their tyres, so when there is a slight incline, the truck gets stuck, and the cars get stuck behind them, a no win situation.
Never seen this happen to an American truck.... Maybe if he put his second set of axles down and was using chains, which is a requirement for trucks here in the winter with steep grades, then he would never have got stuck. Especially with that little bit of snow, ice under it or not. I live where we can get over a foot of snow overnight and still can drive around. I would also love to see that little land rover pull that fully loaded truck without the driver spinning his wheels in the truck too.
Recaluk82 What is that all about? Where did I put my strap for towing, this in the vid is not me. someone elses credit not mine. Oh and don't get offended about the four track thing, I didn't even slate the vehicle. Just some folk get a little jelouse that's all I was stating. This discovery has done really really well. I was merly explaining a fact, that land rover are the best 4x4 by far. You only have to look this info up on the net it's all there.
thats why i will only have landrovers got a disco1 and a td5 just putting a 300tdi into my 90 and they all do anything asked of them good job with the vid mate next time i see an artic struggling mite even give it ago myself ha ha ha
@recallUK82 disco has a tow limit of 3.5 tonne?...guess you never saw the press release for the discovery in 1989 then..they pulled a combined 157 tonnes of train from a siding to the platform, the only conversion was a set of track follower wheels. i have used my disco(1989 200tdi) to pull artics, cars, vans even other non landy type four wheel drives and never once as it failed to do the job required ;) tow strap will be on the tow bar or towing eyes on the chassie.
