Turn Assist - Real World Applications

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Hey fellas, I've been tinkering with all the fun 4LO gadgetry that comes built into our incredible rigs. There's one capability that I'm intrigued with: Turn Assist (TA). What an amazing feature. Automatically locking the inside rear wheel on low-speed turns to dramatically decrease turning radius?? Freaking awesome. ASFIK, no other vehicle comes with this capability.

I've seen the youtube video that's out there demonstrating this function. I'll tell you this, that video does TA absolutely zero justice. On loose track, the 200 with TA engaged can practically turn a 180 on a *dime. It's nothing short of incredible.

So here's my gripe: the only way to engage is in Crawl Control (CC). What a bummer. Really. I love the feature, but I hate having to go through multiple steps (stopping, 4LO, CC, then TA) to engage it. I realize that the safety minded engineers at Mr. T probably did this to keep guys like me from power sliding through corners at high speed...but there's gotta be a way to make this incredible capability more usable. I can envision TA active in 4LO, open center diff, *without CC engaged at speeds under 5-10mph being ideal.

Has anyone "hacked" this feature to make it more usable? Anyone using this feature regularly out on the trail? Under what situations? Thanks guys
 
I think it's more of a party trick than anything, and that's the only way I've used it. I personally hate crawl control (for anything other than helping getting unstuck, which I have not had to use it for that purpose incidentally) and giving up manual control of the gas/brake pedal, so the fact CC has to be engaged for TA to work is a non starter for me. If TA could just be used in 4 low under say 3 mph, I'd definitely use it to make tight switchback turns.
 
mcgaskins said:
I think it's more of a party trick than anything, and that's the only way I've used it. I personally hate crawl control (for anything other than helping getting unstuck, which I have not had to use it for that purpose incidentally) and giving up manual control of the gas/brake pedal, so the fact CC has to be engaged for TA to work is a non starter for me. If TA could just be used in 4 low under say 3 mph, I'd definitely use it to make tight switchback turns.
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Couldn't agree more. Party trick and that's pretty much it. But if we could engage it *without CC... Well, that would be a big upgrade in vehicle capability. I wonder if someone with the right skill set would be willing to give it a shot.
 
TonyP said:
Turn assist works ok on tight switchbacks but it's not a miracle or anything. It probably takes more time to go through the activation process than it does to just throw it in reverse a couple feet and re-angle yourself.
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This is a big drawback.
 
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