Recent content by AntonLargiader

Maybe the 957 limits you more than the 955 does, but I don't understand going from 21" just down to 20". We had 18" (limited by the front brakes) and would have gone smaller if possible. For the driving we were doing, we could have downsized the calipers and gone to 17". Larger rims limit your...

Did you learn anything about this? The tracks I created don't seem to have any dots in them. Can you share a screenshot that shows them?

Mounted forward like that pretty much kills the sunroof, though, right? Our rack went the full length so we couldn't avoid it, but I'm a sunroof guy and would have at least liked the light sometimes. Farther back, it seems, would also reduce the wind noise.

I've driven manual transmissions my whole life and after 3500+ miles in the Cayenne in two weeks I would not have wanted a manual. The Tiptronic is just so good. Kickdowns are awesome, no clutch slipping when crawling over obstacles, and you can select a specific gear when you want. Dunno about...

That's a real shame. I saw your posts looking for a co-driver last summer, but I didn't know that issue had resurfaced. Sounds like you are already on track for your next adventure. Man, you go through some stuff! Sell the rack to get the wedge, sell the wedge to get something else. Onward! :)

It really wasn't bad on the Mini. Zoom in, start the track, and everywhere you long-pressed became another vertex. On straight sections you can go a ways between vertices, but on twisty sections you have to make a lot of them. It's a bit tedious for longer tracks, but not difficult at all. Sure...

A few friends and I just completed the Baja XL and we used Gaia 1.7.1 on an iPad Mini for 95% of the nav. We also had a Garmin Zumo running the Deluxe mapset, and a laptop/tablet running a different set of satellite maps. Sat imagery really rules the day for this kind of nav, especially for a...

MuleShoer, did you make it to the event? I see Monark Racing in the standings but I assume you were Brute Force in the team listing, and there's no number or results for that team.

As far as I can tell, all devices will sync the same information unless you tell them not to. I downloaded many, many gigabytes of maps to an iPad mini and the next time I connected with a different device the same maps tried to download. It seems that the overall account "gets" everything you...

Well, we're back and it was a great time. Describing it will take a long time, which I don't have right now, but there were all kinds of crazy teams entered from the Vesparados to the Crown Vic guys. Modified vehicles seemed to have a harder time than stock ones. There were never enough hours in...

Back from Baja. The satellite imagery combined with the Gaia/tablet interface was BY FAR the most useful thing we had available. Most of the tracks we were on could only be evaluated by that imagery. ESRI seemed to be several years old, though. With the amount of erosion and so forth down there...

We’re posting trip details elsewhere but for those curious about the Cayenne mechanicals, we are super happy with its performance in the BajaXL. Keep in mind that my comments pertain to running at adventure rally pace, not overlanding pace. The only real modifications were bigger tires (with...

Yes, that was a lot of the inspiration for us. The special offroad package is very rare in the used market; I don’t know if you could retrofit the disengageable sway bar, for example. FWIW the Transiberia cars were 957s; I think a few privateers entered 955s in 2006 or so and they were the...

I don't know the revision history of the app but I don't think it's an Android/IOS thing. Different map sources have different single-download limits and I think I read about that on the Gaia website.

I found that Google Maps has some road detail that the others don't in Baja, so I imported that at Z=17 into Gaia (it was only 800MB) following the custom map import instructions I found here. Downloading it to the iPad was pretty easy because the tile limit was 100,000 tiles per download...