Terrain response settings for launching a boat

What do you think are the best settings to launch a boat out of the water?

I would say "mud" is the best terrain response setting, but i´m not sure.

Would be happy to get same technical information about the terrain response system regarding that topic (torque at lower rev, response off throttle, ....)

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....the launch ramps are mostly very wet and steep.

May be LRE's should add a new test to their routes, slime covered slipways!
I think you should try each setting and see which works best for you. You won't do any damage to the system by using the incorrect one, it will just be easier in one than it is in the other modes.

Thx for your advice

Is there any technical background information about the terrain response system? I only know the marketing text but that dosn´t help so much

Reto. pages 93,94 and 95 give details of the system settings and which should be used when, the suggestion is that Grass, Gravel and Snow might be the setting to use. There is next to no technical info about TR but if you look at the you tube videos there are some there that show what the various functions change, mostly it is a case of remapping the engine, deciding if HDC is needed or if DSC should be disabled

If you go to LRE the instructor should be able to tell you exactly what each TR setting does to the car. LRE have produced a document the explains the various TR response settings in some detail but it is only available to LRE instructors.

Mud & Ruts is often referred to as the 'general offroad program' and would be my first option. If that didn't help then I'd look at Grass Gravel Snow. If I was still having problems I'd probably then look at turning off DSC and repeating Mud & Ruts and then Grass Gravel Snow.

Thx for your great advices!

Would be great to get this secret document

Reto, did you try any of these. I have launched the boat heaps of time and never used anything but the standard setting. I find the Auto box and traction is fine at low tide, even though I slid past the car and into the water last time.

By the way the weight of my boat is 925 kg without fuel and gear and trailer is 370 kgs.

(21-05-2012 11:58am)Barneyridge Wrote:  Reto, did you try any of these. I have launched the boat heaps of time and never used anything but the standard setting. I find the Auto box and traction is fine at low tide, even though I slid past the car and into the water last time.

By the way the weight of my boat is 925 kg without fuel and gear and trailer is 370 kgs.

Today i launched a boat with 2.100 kg (incl trailer). I used the "sand" setting wich seemed to be the best.

BTW I have a Aragon towbar with d-value of 10,49 - i´m allowed to tow 2.150 kg with my evoque in germany

Nice set up. Very similar to my boat, well colour scheme anyway

As you have a tow bar already could I make a suggestion that I find very useful for me not helping people who get stuck on the local slipway....................... take a look in Google for Nylon Strops and buy yourself a very long one with a test certificate and a sewn in, padded eye on each end. Then if you loose traction trying to pull you boat up a slippery slipway you can move the car up the slipway to an area without slime and then put the strop between the trailer and the car to pull the boat from an area of better traction. On my local beach on a fresh water loch this saves me taking my Defender with a winch and 30m of winch rope onto the beach to recover the odd stuck Audi Quattro with wildly spinning front wheels - they look oddly at me in a disbelieving way, take the strop and try it and it works! I now see several people who I have previously recovered this way on the beach who have purchased their own recovery strop offering the same advice to other boaters with heavy boats being towed by powerful FWD cars