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From another thread on the "active brake limited slip" :

I didn't buy it because it uses the brakes and you can't turn it off.... just try to climb something steep with the brakes on or go through mud where you need wheelspin to get through.... Toyota Sequoya has the same feature and it sucked in climbing tests.... Really poor way to control traction... efficient traction control uses the engine like a corvette and ALL Audis and you can turn it off...

When Four Wheeler tested the Titan against the F-150 and Tundra, they called them all "fairly evenly ranked" in offroad performance.
Has anyone taken the Titan 4WD (with ABLS) offroad yet?
How did it do in the mud?
In the sand?
Going up slippery hills?
Coming down slippery hills?

If, as some have suggested, power is reduced when wheel spinning is detected, how do you get out of a mud hole if you don't have the locking rear differential?

 

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it's my first full size 4wd truck (been off roading a wranger for 8 years)....the rancho shocks were really bouncy bouncy.

A set of adjustable Rancho shocks may solve the bouncy bouncy problem. I have used them on an older Toyota 4WD truck, and they make quite a difference.
As for getting stuck in the snow, it sounds like the snow was up to the axles, essentially lifting the truck up and reducing traction. Not sure if even a locker could have helped you there.

 

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Pluckyew, put your rifle on a rack in the rear window. That should go over big in Berkeley, LOL!

Has anyone seen a online test report on the offroad performance of the Titan, that really put it through the paces? In the few reports I have seen, I don't think they did anything tougher than driving on a dirt road.

 

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I thought that with a 4-wheel drive transfer case the front and rear differentials locked when in 4-Lo (making the wheels turn at the same rate) and in 4-Hi they were free to transfer power to the wheels that needed traction.

Can somebody clarify this for me.

thanx

With the Titan in 4WD, the front and rear driveshafts are locked together. The wheels are not locked together unless you have a locking differential. With the optional e-locker in the 4WD Titan you effectively have, at best, 3WD under adverse traction conditions. If you want true 4WD, even under the worst of conditions, you will need a locking differential front and rear.

 

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It just seemed unusual that someone got a Titan stuck in only a foot of snow.

Snow tires, a locking differential, and 400 lbs of sand bags in the bed, over the rear axle, should be a big help.

 

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the nissan website shows limited slip as an option for the titan in the camparison section of the website, but is not offered in the build a nissan section?? is that simply a mistake or can you get a straight up limited slip rear on the titan?

You need to order the offroad package with 2WD to get the ABLS, and it is standard on the 4WD models, I believe.

 

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This is the way I read the Nissan chart: ABLS is standard on all three 4WD models, and is available on the 2WD SE if you order the offroad package. The locking diff will require the offroad package in either 4WD or 2WD.