Ok, so I had a couple of hours spare this afternoon in this beautiful barmy Melbourne weather, so I got the keys off Mrs Pace and took Expanda for a tow(no I couldn't wait
@17triton to get more kilometres on it), initially I said I was only going to take it round the suburbs to dial in the towpro. Easy as, text book stuff.
As the eldest bloke got on board too, we hit the highway, though to get there we took all the local hick ups to see the towing proese C7 could do.
Around all the local streets, stop starting no probs power straight off the tip of the accelerator pedal, even the braking was smooth too. Highly recommend Redarc towpro. Once in 80 zone, the auto held the gears well then I went to manual select and it was another beast unleashed. Hercules performed great, most impressed.
Into the 100 zone and the constant torque delivery from the driveline wasn’t anything I have experienced since towing with the Statesman V8 auto. The road stability was fantastic and then once I found the roughness in the road was glad to feel the response in the suspension. Yes, all is stiff still being new and waiting to see things settle in, though time will tell.
Inertia braking on the highway from the Redarc was smooth and was as if the van wasn’t there. I played with the dial more and tried it again, felt the van bite, then towpro just took over and slowed things down without all that jarring affect I get in the Pathy (tekonsha conrtoller).
So, yes I guess you can say that of course this post is and was all ways going to be this good though having a new toy in Hercules, even Jnr Pace said wow dad feel the power and smoothness as the car takes off. Happy we are.
Cheers Pace.
... Very nice looking rig. I think it has a decent towing capacity too (3000KG). Towing your panda would a breeze.
with Hercules trying to get the MyLink movie function to work (too bad the kids are asleep, they would probably do it in second).
