your missing the point of my question, all this b*****ks about if you know what your doing and "means business" ****.

My question is: if I have 4wd auto that comes in and out when needed, ie, if traction is lost then gained, and then with traction gained, 4wd drops out back to rear wheel drive again then the likelyhood of any wind up when cornering would be far less likely...would it not?

If you can't answer the question, don't respond...simple!!

@diydave, Chill a little. I was commenting on the thread not your question. Sorry if that was confussing for you!

Darrel

Or perhaps we should have posted, if you can't be polite don't post on the forum.

No need for people to post like that on a public forum.

If he wants answers to do with his exact question then he needs to go pay for a mechanic to answer his question and pay for it.

Threads on Internet forums are always full of little extra bits of info and they sometimes get a life of their own and head off at a tangent.

That is part of the fun.

Beligerance just ruins the thread and the forum.

And starting a thread doesn't infer ownership of that thread.

 

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point taken, perhaps I was a tad hungry and should've eaten before I spouted off as much, sorry all, no offence meant.

Unless your the self appointed forum police and abuser of the royal "we" Mr Bigjl
You see, now look what you've gone and make me do. :lol:

 

Sorry if the wording was a little confusing, what i am saying is at times due to the mechanical shifting there can be abit of a lag between the motor getting the signal to disengage 4x4 and the actual motor disengaging, take for example you are driving through a wet field using 4x4 you get to a gravely road or a tarmac road with plenty of grip you shift to 2wd sometimes the system will not disengage the front wheels straight away as there is pressure on the gears caused by slight wind up, you sometimes have to snake a little etc to get it to drop back into 4x4, if you carry on regardless the chances are the system gets more and more wound up and won't drop out, not saying this is the case every time but it does happen.
Now if you are in auto you are completely unaware of when the system is in 2wd or 4wd, not sure if the dash flashes up to tell you what's going on but your unlikely to notice it, so if the system tries to disengage but the mechanical gears don't you could be driving on tarmac with the system still in 4x4 due to the wind up locking the gears together, sort of like trying to pull the truck out of gear under load if you judge it right you can change gear without using the clutch if you don't you probably won't be able to get the box out of gear due to the pressure on the dogs

Brilliant post Alex, (even the last bit pressure on the Dogs), bit
TBH I've not seen the 4x4 LCD transfer box fill in when in Auto, I assume the Navara has the same LCD display, rear wheels lcd filled in on 2wd, all four wheels lcd and transfer box filled in when in 4wd hi/lo. In 4wd auto all four wheels filled in and transfer box left out.