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    From sticks@wolverine01@charter.net to rec.outdoors.rv-travel on Tue Oct 28 10:09:51 2025
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    Well I did at least find out something interesting on the problem
    driving the View in strong winds. I know I have mentioned before the
    issue where getting just the right blast of wind really seems to throw
    off the RV. At first I thought it was the overhang or something mounted
    on the roof causing the issue. On the way down, I was pretty convinced
    it had something to do with the transmission and it struggling to
    attempt being in the right gear when the wind would hit the coach. It's
    hard to explain, but it felt like it was coming from the rear wheels,
    and you could feel it in your hands and feet. On the way back it was
    worse with this happening about 15 times. Even slowing down it still happened.

    A couple times it threw the RV out of cruise control and almost seemed
    to veer it to the left. Very disturbing feeling. On one especially bad instance, I just happened to look down at the dash and there was a red
    warning saying "Crosswind Assistance" that flashed up for a brief time.
    It was an aha moment. Getting home I researched it and I'll be damned Mercedes has this "feature" where when over 40 mph winds happen (that's
    all the time when driving) it kicks in and if it feels bad
    irregularities, by braking it attempts to "assist" the driver getting
    thru it. Horrible, horrible idea IMO and I didn't see one review of
    people who liked it. Everyone also hated it and thought it was dangerous.

    It doesn't appear Mercedes will turn this off for you, though I did see
    this in one page: "The Cross Wind Assist can be deactivated from the
    variant coding of the ESP control module with DTS Monaco software on
    NCV3 and VS30."

    But for $200 you can buy a little gizmo that plugs into the OBD2 port
    and will disable it. Pretty sure I will be getting this if after I talk
    to Mercedes about it and they won't do it.
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  • From sticks@wolverine01@charter.net to rec.outdoors.rv-travel on Tue Oct 28 10:12:46 2025
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    On 10/28/2025 10:09 AM, sticks wrote:

    But for $200 you can buy a little gizmo that plugs into the OBD2 port
    and will disable it.-a Pretty sure I will be getting this if after I talk
    to Mercedes about it and they won't do it.

    <https://www.midcityengineering.com/product/crosswind-assist-delete-programmer-for-2019-2024-sprinter/>
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