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Originally posted by spookysco@Dec 24 2006, 05:39 PM
Finally got out, had to be pulled out though!!! I put materials under the tires for traction, stepped on the gas, nothing. No noise, no spinning, nothing... The vehicle was obviously on, this is a problem.
I can see a problem in the mountains if you go off a paved road to a dirt road which climbs up the side of the mountain and there is spinning of the tires due to loose dirt, mud etc. This would prove to be dangerous since the ICE would not run, the electric motors (as already demonstrated) will not run and the vehicle would come to a stop. And, to top things off, you're on an incline.
There SHOULD be a way to disable this and run without the "benefits" of VDIM, as there are in other vehicles which have similar systems as VDIM.
I'm afraid this is not something I did not plan for nor did I expect. Might list my HyHi for sale after the holidays.
Totally unacceptable.
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Just so I'm clear....
1)You got yourself stuck in the snow.
2)You're pissed b/c you couldn't get out of the snow.
3)You're pissed b/c Toyota didn't allow you a mechanism by which you could completely destroy your car...or at least do many thousands of dollars of non-warranty damage to it.
4)Would you be just as pissed if you had a different SUV that did allow you to spin the
tires and you still couldn't get out...would that be unacceptible and cause you to sell that vehicle too?
My advice....1)Get chains if you tend to drive in the snow a lot. 2)Don't get stuck in the snow--it's pretty easy...we just had a serious snow and ICE storm a couple weeks ago. I drove our HiHy through snow 8"+ deep on top of ice. I had no issues at all with traction, didn't get stuck...and if I had I wouldn't blame Toyota for it. I've been stuck in plenty of cars that didn't have Traction control...I never blamed the car manufacturer then and I won't blame them now in a vehicle that does have traction control.