ebaikie
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I've had my 2023 Lightning ER just over a month now and I love it, but I recently discovered that it can't do something that I do all of the time with no problems with my Silverado.
At my summer cabin I park the boat against the side of the cabin. The driveway is a steep gravel road and the parking spot for the boat is almost 90 degrees from the direction of the main driveway immediately at the bottom.
Every time I go there the first thing I do is hook up to the boat and pull it up the driveway, down a short road, then back it all the way down a long, steep, windy road to an informal boat launch.
At the end of the weekend I put it back against the side of the cabin. I tried with the lightning for the first time this weekend and it can't do any of that. In reverse on a gravel hill the front wheels lock up immediately when braking and I lose steering.
If I bring it all the way to a stop and try to ease off the brakes it will just skid the front wheels with no steering as soon as the rear wheels start to turn, and I have to almost completely release the brakes before the front wheels unlock, at which point I'm going way too fast and I've skidded down the hill too far in the wrong direction.
I tried it in normal mode 1-pedal, normal mode 2-pedal, and offroad mode many different ways and it was completely impossible to turn the trailer on the hill.
After over a half a dozen tries I had to give up and disconnect the Lightning from the boat and grab my dad's F150 diesel. It was easy to just back it down with the diesel truck and park the boat in it's spot, just like it is always easy with my Chevy.
Is there some way to adjust the braking on the Lightning so that the fronts don't come on so hard and lock up? Shouldn't it have something like ABS preventing the wheels from locking? I'm guessing the massive front brakes and the lack of a heavy engine over the front axle are what is causing this issue.
I really need to come up with a solution for this. One of the main decision points with getting this truck was to stop burning so much gas going back and forth to the cabin. I don't want to have to use my ICE truck just so I can use the boat.
At my summer cabin I park the boat against the side of the cabin. The driveway is a steep gravel road and the parking spot for the boat is almost 90 degrees from the direction of the main driveway immediately at the bottom.
Every time I go there the first thing I do is hook up to the boat and pull it up the driveway, down a short road, then back it all the way down a long, steep, windy road to an informal boat launch.
At the end of the weekend I put it back against the side of the cabin. I tried with the lightning for the first time this weekend and it can't do any of that. In reverse on a gravel hill the front wheels lock up immediately when braking and I lose steering.
If I bring it all the way to a stop and try to ease off the brakes it will just skid the front wheels with no steering as soon as the rear wheels start to turn, and I have to almost completely release the brakes before the front wheels unlock, at which point I'm going way too fast and I've skidded down the hill too far in the wrong direction.
I tried it in normal mode 1-pedal, normal mode 2-pedal, and offroad mode many different ways and it was completely impossible to turn the trailer on the hill.
After over a half a dozen tries I had to give up and disconnect the Lightning from the boat and grab my dad's F150 diesel. It was easy to just back it down with the diesel truck and park the boat in it's spot, just like it is always easy with my Chevy.
Is there some way to adjust the braking on the Lightning so that the fronts don't come on so hard and lock up? Shouldn't it have something like ABS preventing the wheels from locking? I'm guessing the massive front brakes and the lack of a heavy engine over the front axle are what is causing this issue.
I really need to come up with a solution for this. One of the main decision points with getting this truck was to stop burning so much gas going back and forth to the cabin. I don't want to have to use my ICE truck just so I can use the boat.
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