Sand or Baja mode for Silver Lake?

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I know this has been asked a few times as far as what the differences are between Sand and Baja modes. Looking for anyone's experience at Silver Lake, it's all soft sand and last year I used Baja exclusively with all TC off. It was good, but didn't blow me away. Would sand be any better?
 

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Welcome to FRF. Please post pictures of said prius with Baja mode.

I would try all modes out next time you are there. See which hooks better for the terrain you are in. If it is truly a Raptor, it might be fine in normal mode. Because it's basically a trophy truck.
 
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LOL, this was last year, bone stock. Played around in sand/snow mode today and then just "normal" in 4h with all TC off. Think I like how normal behaves, switch to Baja at the drag area.
 

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Normal, sport and weather modes are all street oriented, full nannies, traction and stability control. M&S and Baja delay the intervention of nannies significantly. M&S has a higher shift point than sport mode, so gear holding is more aggressive, and more predictable off road. The last thing you want is Normal trying to stuff you into a higher gear than needed the instant you let off the throttle.

M&S is my go to off road, mainly because I don’t have a lot of high speed venues available to me, but Baja shift points are high, and if you are going for speed, baja is the choice, but for my money M&S is a great all around choice.
 

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I’ve found baja mode to have really high RPM’s and would rather just be in 4 wheel regular with traction control off. I haven’t got it in some really deep sand just yet but please let us know which mode you felt was best for deep sand. I do a lot of that driving coming up and I’ll play around with it also. I spend longer times off the grid so saving some gas by not constantly being at 2500rpms or more I bet can add up in gas savings. I do love Baja mode though.
 
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