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Hmmm what's the run out like as I can't see that being backed up!
Umm so what????
Haha ... Yeah actually I was surprised she stayed put with the handbrake
What did u get for the scrap?:D enough to cover your undies?
What did I scrap ? ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Also you've well and truely lost me on the undies reference
its probably broken down and being pushed over a bank.paint it green and leave it there.:thumbsup:
Man the drop-kicks on this forum...you wonder why people bother posting when dicks like these run them down.
I agree, that picture, just had to fix it.:thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by FRST
KH
All things aside the Rover will go anywhere.
Its easy to tow
its great in snow
It can take on a train
its great at the beach
alright for golf
Its easy to park and the queen has one.
That's just my view;)
KH
As a mechanic, I can appreciate, that the brakes must be in good condition, to hold on that slope, :thumbsup:
I have a love hate affair with land-rovers, pretty much every time, I have been in one, or used one, I have been on an adventure, just sometimes, its the getting there, that's the adventure with them, ;)
There really are some Landiephobics around.
I've owned four - SWB Series 3 all original, LWB Stage 1 V8, Series 1 Discovery V8, and a Range Rover Classic.
In all those vehicles, I only ever had an alternator fail in the Disco, and a diff fail in the RR (at 167,000 miles!)
My RR was my club 4x4. It was standard bar a 50mm lift and and ARB locker in the rear diff as a result of the diff failure above. That truck was a dream off road and I would have put it up against any all comer in standard trim with a locker.
When I decided to sell it, the young guy that bought it was getting shit from his Jeep driving mates when they came to have a look at it. The shit continued on the day he collected it. I took him aside and told him to keep his mouth shut and his powder dry, and that if he had the driving ability, the RR had capability to knock his mates into next week.
He rang me back a couple of weeks later after their first off-road adventure and was crowing about the fact that he took my advice. He took the shit from his mates, but one by one during the day he had to recover each and every one of them, and at the end of the day was the only one that didn't need recovering. As a respectful LR owner he took the moral high ground and didn't stoop to shit slinging, but his mates had become strangely mute.
That's because at some time we've all owned a Landy, it only take one to know , "never go there" I was a slow learner it took me two!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by FRST
I love my series 1 Disco.
Went from driving a Rav4 to the 300tdi Disco and it's better in every way. More comfortable, less road noise way more space and even uses less fuel.
By brother now owns the Rav4 and he has had more problems and had to spend more on it that my Landy dispite having done 50,000 less kms.
It's definitely not perfect, but the $2000 it cost me to buy and get back on the road was well worth it!
A Hilux surf would've cost me 4 times as much.
Haha ... they are actually very good off rd
I'd take any one of my series landrovers far more places than other standard trucks.
Iv also had far less problems than some of my hiluxes and landcruisers... Go figure...
It all seems to come down to lack of maintenance and abuse that determines parts failure.
The Discovery was a gamble but pretty rare in manual with the 300tdi - it also has really surprised me off rd.
Also at 6 foot 4 inches tall is one of the most comfortable trucks Iv been in ... I had to put the seat forward a bit...
Dunedin to Picton on Saturday in one stretch very impressive
The biggest headaches I've had with my Discovery was trying to fix other peoples "improvements", instead of buying a $10 part the previous owner decided to run his own wires here, there and everywhere, and he was certainly no autosparky!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Watson
Failing to fix mechanical, electrical and water tightness issues before the become headached is what seems to kill most vehicles.
Gearbox shit itself in my discovery and electrics in my wife's Freelander were dismal. Never ever again, but I put BMWs in the same never box, the ultimate driving machine? Yeah right!:omg:
The Freelander is actually not a landrover.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
It's a Honda CRV
Interesting the gear box and diffs have both let go in a number of my toyotas... However I don't think toyotas are crap in particular...
I think the bit I'm most surprised about with that photo, Doc, is that you got out and took a photo with it sitting there at that angle. Mind you I cannot see where it runs out to below. The seat would be well attached to my puckered cheeks.
My RRC is a lot more water tolerant now, just need to finish off the snorkelQuote:
Originally Posted by Beetroot
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Arsehole that little pod filter off of the rockercover and plumbback into the intake if you intend going deep enough to need a snorkle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilli_Dog
I know nout about Toyotas no intention of owning one, if the Freelander was a Honda I would have expected even more!7Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Watson
Yip It has gone since then, goes to the catch can on the water pump and back to the inlet, there is another (factory installed) one on the back of the other rocker cover that is now plumbed to the intake as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
I'd like to know how carefully the door was closed before the photo was taken.
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Originally Posted by gadgetman
Haha... It was sliding slowly the whole time
My dad owned a series 3 so I've learned never to own one, but I also know how damn capable they are.
Cripes, what the blazes is a rocker cover...:D
Borrowed a v8 manual disco while in WA once, lovely to drive. Dropped a slave cylinder about 800kms out of Norseman. There she sat for 3 weeks waiting for that one part. Got her home and then the clutch went :) being a range rover guy the owner blamed me for all its problems, told me that his truck knew I was a Japanese truck owner
My Suzuki can do that piece of piss
True, they can go a lot of places.Quote:
Originally Posted by northdude
But the Doc's 6'4" try staying in that all day, I suppose he could sit in the back seat:)
KH
Bit of kiwi injinuity would sort it I'm pretty tall and I dit in it OK
CRV, but with a disgusting Rover K-series engine. Yuk yuk yuk yuk more yukQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Watson
Disco 1 has a handbrake that locks the prop shaft not wheel brakes
I think this might be the photo????Quote:
Originally Posted by gadgetman
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...pssr7mfhqb.jpg
I think the photo has been cropped so you can't see the tow truck waiting at the front of it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by timattalon
Maybe.....I see the driver is already missing.....To clean for any 4wd places I know of..Quote:
Originally Posted by northdude
for a minute there i thought my computor was broken i was trying to move the pointer arrow thing and it wouldnt move but being an it genius i fixed it its actually part of the picture :thumbsup:
