There is nothing to "debate". We know very little about the situation. They never show any more than that and never show the machine again in the video. Did it break? Does the machine have a lot of miles and the brake pads are gone? Does he have one foot on the gas and the other on the brake? Did he blow the i4WD fuse? Were there any warning lights on? Is the Talon just that shutty in the mud?
So far, mine works flawless and I have never had anything like that happen to me but I try to avoid mud. However, there are rumors that sand "confuses" the system and that is pure BS. I have 2000 miles on mine and 1500 in sand and my i4WD has never been "confused". Rock crawling is also no problem for my Talon. It just works!
If mine ever does anything like in that video, I will surely document it and find out why.
The Talon race team runs the factory i4WD and brake system. When I asked, Jeff Proctor said they are not having any issues with it and gave me a couple of hints to make i4Wd work its best...
- Avoid pressing the brakes and the gas at the same time. Your foot on the brake pedal will fight with the actuator motor and it will not work correctly.
- Make sure your brake pads are still good, apparently mud is real hard on the Talon pads but dirt and sand are not. There may be some brass pads available for those that only mud (you are not supposed to use brass in anything other than mud for some reason).
- Try bleeding your brakes! Although the pedal felt good and solid, they discovered that the brakes needed bleeding and found even the slightest amount of air in the system will cause the i4WD to not work its best. Jeff said after bleeding the brakes on the race Talons, the i4WD reacted much faster and transferred more power to the traction tire. Any air in the system will take the actuator motor more time to compress and have less pressure causing the non-traction to spin more than it should.
