[logiclee]

Haldex is fully automatic and gives upto 50% torque to the rear axle within 1/8th of a revolution of lost traction on the front axles or in certain other situations where the Haldex thinks there maybe slip.

Off Road Button. (Best explained in the manual but)

Softens the throttle responce
Allows a little more wheelspin before power is reduced by the traction control
The braking of a spinnning wheel is more aggressive
Enables hill descent control
Allows ABS to partially lock to build up a wedge infront of the wheel.

Use off road button on loose surface or snow. It won't do any harm and you still have full haldex functionality without it being pressed.

The other button with squiggly lines and OFF is to turn the TC off. You can use this to allow more wheel spin if required on very loose surfaces or snow. You can uses it with or without the off road button being pressed.

 

[logiclee]

. Makes me wonder whether 4 winter tyres for the Yeti for the period November to March and then swapped to ordinary tyres for the rest of the year, might be as effective as the Haldex system?

It actually went better than my current 4x4 Yeti on Cross climate tyres, which are good, don't get me wrong, but not as good as high end winter tyres, the difference being stopping.

I swapped Summer Winters for 15 winters on most of our fleet of four vehicles. I have Cross Climates on our Octavia and they are great but I found snow performance and specifically Ice performance lacking. I've tried Good Vectors Gen 2 and they were better in snow but not as good as a full winter.

I got into a message discussion with the guy from Tyre Reviews earlier this year and he convinced me to try Cross Climate 2's saying they were a big improvement on the originals and even beat the Goodyear UltraGrip reference winter for snow traction on his all season test. (Video is out now.)

All I need now is some snow to try.

 

[logiclee]

It's all about trade off and balance though.

Wet and dry grip, different temperatures, location and types of road.

Tyre Review guy's opinion is Premium Summer for Summer and Premium All Season for Winter is the optimum combination for 95% of the UK and the combination he runs himself on his vehicles.

If think that's probably true.

But I do a mixture on our four vehicles, the Yeti stays on All Seasons all year as they are better on poor surfaces and wet grass than premium summers.

 

[logiclee]

Next time you are up there try coming down in neutral with the ORB in use.

Yes I agree

Totally against everything I've been trained and learned in LR's professionally over the years but hill descent control works best in Neutral in the Yeti.