cayenne 958 TT is a beast off road.
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10-17-2013, 12:20 AM
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cayenne 958 TT is a beast off road.
For anyone not sure about off roading a Cayenne.
For general Desert, Beach & 4wd drive tracks it is really good. (stay away from rock crawling)
It will out climb any jeep & most trucks on sand hills. (My Ford Raptor will go a whisker further up a sand hill, maybe one metre on a tough climb, Off road modded Jeeps go about half as far)
The Cayenne has pulled the Raptor out of sand with ease, Raptor was dug in sand up to axles.
On steep mountain tracks it holds its own with jeeps, ford Raptor & dodge trucks.
There are two problems.
It self lowers at 25kph huge design flaw in desert, cost me a bent skid plate.
Transfer case over heats on TT, exhaust needs wrapping to divert heat from end of transfer case.
In about 500km of serious off road driving, the only damage I have done is bent the front skid plate when i launched off the top of a dune i never expected to make it up , and landed on a big tuft of tussock sand mound.
I'm just back from three days in the mountains in Oman and fully in love with my 958TT.
PS. ALWAYS TURN OFF TRACTION CONTROL, and get torque vectoring option for rear diff lock....i don't have this unfortunately.
PPS.. My Ford Raptor breaks something every time it goes to the desert, with the same style of driving, in the same places. I don't take it any easier in the Cayenne than the Raptor.
For general Desert, Beach & 4wd drive tracks it is really good. (stay away from rock crawling)
It will out climb any jeep & most trucks on sand hills. (My Ford Raptor will go a whisker further up a sand hill, maybe one metre on a tough climb, Off road modded Jeeps go about half as far)
The Cayenne has pulled the Raptor out of sand with ease, Raptor was dug in sand up to axles.
On steep mountain tracks it holds its own with jeeps, ford Raptor & dodge trucks.
There are two problems.
It self lowers at 25kph huge design flaw in desert, cost me a bent skid plate.
Transfer case over heats on TT, exhaust needs wrapping to divert heat from end of transfer case.
In about 500km of serious off road driving, the only damage I have done is bent the front skid plate when i launched off the top of a dune i never expected to make it up , and landed on a big tuft of tussock sand mound.
I'm just back from three days in the mountains in Oman and fully in love with my 958TT.
PS. ALWAYS TURN OFF TRACTION CONTROL, and get torque vectoring option for rear diff lock....i don't have this unfortunately.
PPS.. My Ford Raptor breaks something every time it goes to the desert, with the same style of driving, in the same places. I don't take it any easier in the Cayenne than the Raptor.
Last edited by sinktheboat; 10-17-2013 at 12:26 AM.
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10-20-2013, 08:51 PM
It's great off-road, except in sand. But i don't know of any unmodified vehicles that can handle loose sand very well.
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10-31-2013, 02:47 PM
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Awesome... thanks for sharing! It is always a pleasure for someone to recognize how capable the Cayenne is both on and OFF the pavement.
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11-03-2013, 12:16 AM
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Yes stock 275 x 20 not ideal but perfectly ok. Would get a set of 18's for off road but they don't fit, and you can't buy 19" off road tyres so its a rock and a hard place.
My next tyres will be the biggest 20'' off road tyres i can fit.
http://www.coopertires.com.au/index....yres&tyre_id=9
My next tyres will be the biggest 20'' off road tyres i can fit.
http://www.coopertires.com.au/index....yres&tyre_id=9
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11-03-2013, 03:08 AM
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https://www.dropbox.com/sc/1kuh3wgatlh36wn/1LOUeI_4lD
where we had come from, fossil rock the hill we are on and where we are going too...40km plus desert drive we do often.
where we had come from, fossil rock the hill we are on and where we are going too...40km plus desert drive we do often.
Last edited by sinktheboat; 11-03-2013 at 03:12 AM.
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