Well, we now have a bit more information now thanks to Donut Media, the aforementioned unnamed media outlet responsible for the vehicle’s failure. We’ll find out from the media outlet that took this thing off-road how a wheel bearing seizure factored into this whole thing, why they took the truck off-road in the first place with a bad wheel bearing, or if this was just a case of too much weight plus too much pedal equals too much torsional strain on a stock driveshaft. Or did the wheel bearing catastrophically fail off-road? That seems unlikely to me. First off, who off-roads a truck with a failed wheel bearing? Bosovik claims his team “hired one of the best drivers could find,” so that seems a bit odd. I’m a bit skeptical about this for a number of reasons. The problem appeared to be a driveshaft being overloaded by a heavy machine driving on a rather difficult off-road trail. It wasn’t really a big deal and not the main point of the story, but I was skeptical that a wheel bearing was relevant to this failure at all. Allen suggested that a bearing problem on a 2022 chassis - like the one that the Ascender is built on - could be due to an overloaded rear axle. For his part, when asked about bearing failures, EarthRoamer’s CEO Scot Allen told me that his company has had no issues with 2020 and newer F-550 bearings. In addition, Bosovik said that his team was transitioning from 2022 to newer Ford F-550 chassis, saying the newer models will no longer have these bearing issues. “It all came back to defective bearing and Ford’s been covering everything under warranty,” Bosovik told me over the phone.īosovik also told me that others in the off-road RV space - including EarthRoamer - have had similar bearing failures as well. Paul claims that a failed rear wheel bearing - a part that Ford has allegedly recalled ( I haven’t been able to find the recall notice) - caused additional strain on the drivetrain, leading to the factory driveshaft twisting up like a pretzel. Now Ford is getting it towed back… to their facilities to rebuild the rear axle.” That pressure damaged the driveshaft and twisted it. Here’s a quote from my previous article:Īs for what happened, Paul told me this: “Bearing seized up. Its CEO, Pavel “Paul” Bosovik, told me that a significant cause of the vehicle’s failure was defective wheel bearings from Ford. To learn a bit more about the vehicle and what happened, I reached out the 27North. I wrote a simple blog about what I saw, including this driveshaft failure that appeared to be the main cause of the vehicle’s lack of mobility: Now we have videos from YouTube channels Donut Media and Matt’s Off-Road Recovery showing what happened to the over-eight-ton, seven-figure off-road RV. I was skeptical of the claim, and the article resulted in a bit of drama, with the CEO becoming a bit upset with our publication. It seemed to me that the primary problem had to do with too much skinny pedal, too much weight, and too steep of a grade, though the company’s CEO claimed a significant cause of the failure was a defective wheel bearing from Ford. The driveshaft was twisted up like a Twizzler, the winch line was wrapped around the driver’s side mirror, and the camper unit was leaning hard to one side. AWC is not a substitute for safe and careful driving.Early this month, while off-roading my 1991 Jeep Wrangler YJ at Rowher Flats off-road course just north of Los Angeles, I stumbled upon a $1 Million RV called the 27North Ascender. All-Wheel Control (AWC) is an Integrated Vehicle Dynamics Control System that manages the driving forces and braking forces of the four wheels to help realize vehicle behavior that is faithful to the operation by the driver under a variety of driving conditions. Exercise caution so your full attention is given to vehicle operation in all road conditions. S-AWC cannot prevent collisions or loss of traction in all conditions. While this Integrated Vehicle Dynamics Control System manages the driving forces and braking forces of the four wheels to help realize vehicle behavior that is faithful to the operation by the driver under a variety of driving conditions, it is not a substitute for careful driving. Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC) adds Active Yaw Control (AYC) to realize the AWC concept at a very high level. See your Mitsubishi retailer for details. Retailer price, terms and vehicle availability may vary. Excludes destination/handling, tax, title, license etc. See your local Mitsubishi retailer for details. Limited availability at participating dealers may require placing an order and could cause a delay in delivery.
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