Hi,
I have yet to drive the car on the slippery stuff but my reports from 'headquarters' are that the car seems happier on Hi-range, normal driving setting than the Low-range/snow+gravel that I recommended she use.
Apparently the car seemed to slide alot more on those modes.
I understand the smow setting allows more slip to get you going but does anyone have any more experience of these things.
The car is on Pirelli scorpions with 5/6mm on the front and a little more on the back.
All in all the car did as it was asked - it was the other villagers/tradesmen that blocked the lane and forced my wife to walk/slide the last 500m of the school run!
Kind regards,
Ed '96 Volkswagen Polo 1.4CL - SOLD
'00 Audi A3 1.8T - SOLD
'97 Lotus Esprit V8 - SOLD
'03 BMW M3 - SOLD
'93 Range Rover 3.9 Vogue SE - SOLD
'92 Peugeot 205 GRD - DIED
'99 BMW 540i Touring - SOLD
'94 Peugeot 405 GDRT - SOLD
'00 Peugeot 406 HDI estate - 63mpg! - SOLD
'08 Range Rover TDV8 Vogue SE - SOLD
'11 Skoda Fabia Greenline II - 94.2mpg!- SOLD
'07 E61 BMW 530d msport touring - SOLD
‘20 Tesla Model 3 SR+
‘20 Tesla Model 3 Performance

You should leave it in high range if you are doing normal driving in the snow - if you dont you will have too much torque going to the wheels and it will want to spin.

Can you select snow/gravel high-range? Or does it default to low range? 

GGS in high range should do for most driving

cheers guys, I did wonder.
I am pretty sure one can leave it in High-range with snow mode. Does this allow a bit of yaw/slide before interacting as my wife found it all a little disconcerting! '96 Volkswagen Polo 1.4CL - SOLD
'00 Audi A3 1.8T - SOLD
'97 Lotus Esprit V8 - SOLD
'03 BMW M3 - SOLD
'93 Range Rover 3.9 Vogue SE - SOLD
'92 Peugeot 205 GRD - DIED
'99 BMW 540i Touring - SOLD
'94 Peugeot 405 GDRT - SOLD
'00 Peugeot 406 HDI estate - 63mpg! - SOLD
'08 Range Rover TDV8 Vogue SE - SOLD
'11 Skoda Fabia Greenline II - 94.2mpg!- SOLD
'07 E61 BMW 530d msport touring - SOLD
‘20 Tesla Model 3 SR+
‘20 Tesla Model 3 Performance

You should be able to leave it in high or low range for any of the terrain response settings.
Selecting the gear ratio is a seperate control.
As said, high range for slippery conditions to minimise potential wheel spin at low speed.

Yes, you can select GGS mode and leave it in high range. Can also select this mode while on the move. With regard to the slip/slide, not sure about that, but main differences are the throttle response is reprogrammed and reduced to minimse the wheels spinning, also the car will start in 2nd gear for lower torque and thus again reduce chance of spinning wheels.

Remember, when slowing/stopping on slippery surfaces like snow/ice avoid the brakes and use the engine/gears instead by down shifting through to 1st and when nearly stopped only then apply brakes. This is often forgotten in automatic cars, as was the case with my wife yesterday morning in journey to work, I re-educated her and on way home she was positively happy.

All modes, except Rock Crawl, can be selected with high range but some suggested in low range, e.g. mud and ruts suggests low range.

The rock crawl mode will not engage until the car is in highest ride height and in low range. (Well that's the case on mine, earlier models may be different of course).

Hope this helps a little.

Was Terrain response only on 2007 and later ? I thought i was going mad

Avi wrote:

Was Terrain response only on 2007 and later ? I thought i was going mad