Got here by googling Wrynose (going into Hardknott) and phev after experiencing that pass today and discovered fear beyond fear
Carried on unassumingly via Google maps (word of warning.... Don't trust sat nav especially in the lakes!), assuming 4x4 phev should be fine.
Already had used up electric reserve on smaller climbs etc and chuffed with how well car had been handling especially in wet/flooded conditions, so confidence growing.
So everything fine in petrol only mode, yeah a few heavy revs needed going uphill especially on the turns, but overall seemed to be handling ok....ish.
Some steepish uphills so also put into 4x4 mode.
Kept in B5 for regeneration all the way downhill (never had to flip the paddles so much!), and journey overall fun for me, the passenger, the 2 kids and an asleep dog.
Then the weather turned and going downhill this machine can be a beast to handle, hail had made the road slippery and the narrow steep roads hellish even driving slowly, carefully.
Never struggled so much trying to control a 2 tonner in light snowy/hail conditions going downhill, otherwise handled superb on hairpins up and down in dry and wet.
However after today would be quite happy not to return in the phev and those conditions and wonder how a LR would handle it better. Also lack of charging points in the lakes is a massive disappointment, especially for a national park.
Otherwise usually would drive alternating between save and normal to achieve 50 mpg ( left in normal discovered only get about 36 mpg) and when in hilly areas on save only to use battery uphill- yet to try the charge mode and not sure if this would benefit?