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And more fun this time on mountain Velebit

Donuts :)

Wino, probably yes. I just wake up and don't function at full speed yet :coffee:

More pressure in tyre = less heating during driving. However, when you inflating the tyre, the more you increase pressure, temperature will increase with it also. It comes from pressure law that states that pressure divided by temperature equals constant value. So, when you inflate tyre, it warms up. But, it will eventually cool down right to the environment temperature after you stop inflating it, as fast as in several hours, if vehicle is not moving and is in shade, you will not be able to detect any temperature difference from air within the tyre and outside of it, regardless of how much you inflated it. Now when vehicle starts to move, tyres are going to warm up because of different reasons. One of reason is friction between tyre surface and road that creates heat. That isn't dependent on tyre pressure much, if at all. But there is another factor that warms tyre up. It is tyre flexion that revs around tyre and creates friction forces within rubber itself. Now, the LESS pressure in tyre is, flexion will be bigger and friction forces between molecules of rubber will increase, so the heat produced will increase also. This means that less pressure in tyre leads to more heating during driving, especially on highway speeds. And vice versa. For example, this is the only reason why offroad drivers stop the vehicle and reinflate tyres after airing them down for offroad, after they come back to the road. If they are not able to reinflate tyres for some reason, they must drive very slowly on road in order to not overheat and damage the tyres.

In fact when I look closer to the issue, it seems to me that the mentioned piece of software could actually be inside file that flashing software would download. In that case diff tool will register change even if no fueling/map change is performed. If that is true then only detailed look into map itself could reveal if changes to mapping (and thus performance) is done. I believe somebody will do it eventually, but for now I can't find anything such on Internet.

Well, not in a map itself possibly. It is hard to know what they will do when they don't want to tell anything - don't understand that policy but... If they only delete that cheating piece of code then it should not require reuploading new map. It is different stuff. If map is changed then fueling is changed and performance must change somehow, regardless they say it doesn't.

Actually very easy if one wants to know only if there is a change, by just comparing two files together, by performing any diff tool on two files, for example: http://winmerge.org/?lang=en Of course if you want to know what is actually changed, then knowledge of remapping will be required: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpuH1y6t8Y6q9kP6ope8VA/playlists

Hi, VCDS won't be of much help to determine if remapping is done. You need flashing software to download original map, save it to your computer, then after "fix" repeat process and see if something is different in map file. If it is, you can reinstall your older saved map if you wish. Here you are quick example if you want to play with it:

Hello, Sure narrower tyres are better if you intend to sink down to the bottom of the snow and grip the road actually. It is just fine for small snow depth. But if snow depth is larger than your ground clearance then you basically can't reach the road with tyre and your front bumper start to plow the snow in front of the car which makes you stuck easy. Then it is better to not sink deep and stay as high as possible to avoid pushing too much snow with your bumper... In that case wider tyres are better choice.. I hope it makes sense See here how I actually "float" above snow even if it is much deeper than ground clearence here: Yes it was pretty hard packed so it wasn't too difficult to stay above it, but still, narrower tyres would sink much deeper and car would stuck with front bumper more easy.

I use same pressure as summer tyres. However, if I get into very deep snow, I like to lower pressure 30%, so that tyre gets little bit wider at the bottom, so it sinks into snow less deep.

Thank you much!

Hello, I crashed plastic transparent part of wing mirror (that little protruding element for turn signal). Rest of mirror is tottaly fine. Can that be replaced only or I will have to replace whole mirror if want to fix that? Thx

Playing again little bit

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Please note that prolonged and hard use of EDL "locking" can significantly overheat breaking discs and they can be damaged. When you activate OffRoad button and push vehicle hard into snow or similar slippy surface, EDL starts to break really hard to keep wheels rotating at same speed (you will clearly feel shaking - i will upload unstabilized part of that moment when I'm entering ~40cm deep snow from plowed road, you will see shaking on camera because breaks are pulsing the faster rotating wheels). Without OffRoad mode enabled, EDL is much less violent.