Tim in Scotland wrote:

Same happened in Mud and Ruts but I wasn’t stopped long enough on the rock crawl to find out and today the desert was flooded so no need for Sand Mode and the water splash wasn’t long enough or deep enough to even try the Wade mode.

Might have been a very wet and soggy day but 4 New Defenders, 4 old Defenders, 1 D4 and 4 Discovery Sports had a great Adventure Trek day at the Dunkeld LRE. The morning was spent on their half day course training area which was fun in the weather and the afternoon we went Adventuring on the Atholl Estates land. Very very boggy in places, nobody got stuck although the D4 did struggle on one particularly difficult bit, probably because he was the rail end car but I was 2nd last and on the Duratracs and in Manual Low 4th breezed up the muddy slope and round a very tight bend.
Some interesting things learned about the car too - Hill hold/ Gradient release operate differently depending on whether you are in low or high range - in low range it won’t engage on the flat like it does in high when you are traffic lights but in low range it will hill hold and gradient release on slopes, even quite small ones.
Found that the gear box is smart enough to know that you might want to pull away in 3rd so it will let you but if you select low4th or above it will select it but as soon as you start moving off it drops you automatically into 3rd, also if you are driving along in 4th or above and slow down at all you get an automatic down shift of 1 gear but stay slow it will also drop down to 3rd or 2nd and if you stop for more than a couple of minutes it drops into 1st but from there you can manually select 2nd or 3rd. In deeper mud the car was happy to trickle along at 4-5mph in 3rd without forcing any down shift too.
The D200 and my car were the only 2 of the New Defenders on All Terrains, the LRE car and the other D240 Furst Edition were on All Seasons and had no problems - the other 1st Ed was actually doing a demo to a customer and belonged to Pentland Perth.
Mud flaps, Silver car had none and got a lot of dirt up the rear bumper, Black D200 had the smaller flaps and no mud up the back, same for me on the big Classic mud flaps.
Other things - Suspension goes rock hard, rides like an old Defender on long rippled/rough surfaces, not unpleasant but definitely the 2nd chamber in the doughnuts was pumped up.
Mine and the LRE’s car both went into “optimised” height at one stage but could tell if it was super-extended or the “oh super extended height ain’t enough” height, I just got a message on the dash saying “optimising ride height” or something similar.
I know LRE’s aren’t supposed to be that challenging but in today’s weather and with the ground conditions it was “Technical” in a couple of places, great fun and a grand day out. I have some photos but the weather was so wet and were were in low cloud at one stage that I don’t have many, will post them shortly

Tim in Scotland wrote:

Other things - Suspension goes rock hard, rides like an old Defender on long rippled/rough surfaces, not unpleasant but definitely the 2nd chamber in the doughnuts was pumped up