i forgot how i did it, i will check tomo, but it really does help a lot! its really cool especially when your driving fast around blind curvs, cause you know wat to expect up ahead!

 

Yeah I agree, I will never take my outi into really deep mud or plain old "off roading". My experience is simply with slippery surface and its likelly to be all I do with it. I never said go off roading, but when it comes todealling with loose surface's this AWD system, combined with the skid controlis just amazing, did not think SUV's could haveralli like performance like this.

 

come on you got to take your outies for adventure.....i just love to see what its capable of....

 

May be in a few years when its fully payed off, I will push its limits, for now graval is all I can throw at it just to be safe. Who knows may be some other day after having a bad day I'll take off for a bit of a stress reliever in the mud, but as long as my head is sane, there is no way..lol.

 

You inspired me to try a little more bushwacking yesterday. I live in VT, where every 1 in 5 cars is a Subaru, and every 1 in 5 roads is dirt. (I've only seen 1 other Outie, BTW).

I was really pleased with it overall. I like it better with ASC off and in manual shift mode It has plenty of torque and is smooth going up tight steep switchbacks, etc. Stable at speed over fairly bumpy terrain.

The only complaint I have is that it (maybe just the XLS with 18" wheels) doesn't deal well with real heavy washboard. On the worst of it, if I didn't slow to a crawl, it sounded like the car was going to shake to peices. I think this is the tradeoff with the excellent on-road performance, and again - maybe the 18" wheels.

My mudflaps should be here early next week too!

 

Must be the tires, I was impressed with the washborad ride on the LS.

 

Agree, I have the LS and I did feel some vibration, but then again I was going on graval at 45+ mph. It was a lot less than I wasexpecting, me being used to the Lancer Ra wich has them "low profiles" this thing seemed like it was riding on air.