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It's funny how these trucks look ridiculously large on a shopping trip to Tesco - but put them in the environment for which they were designed and they look just right
Here is mine:
I purchased this off the forum, spent some money on it, got it through the MOT, stripped the back out, installed a tow bar and wiring loom. Lastly I fitted some LED work lights which seem brighter than the sun but allows for extended periods of working in the winter, loggings, gralloching, etc.
Seems to go anywhere with the low range diff locks. It also has a CD player and is pretty decent on the road!
I purchased this off the forum, spent some money on it, got it through the MOT, stripped the back out, installed a tow bar and wiring loom. Lastly I fitted some LED work lights which seem brighter than the sun but allows for extended periods of working in the winter, loggings, gralloching, etc.
Seems to go anywhere with the low range diff locks. It also has a CD player and is pretty decent on the road!
John Gryphon
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Hoy Dave I really would have thought that you would have had far more aggressive MT`s on her cob being in the land of rain and hills.
I run two sets of tyres on the Hilux, depending on application. If I'm heading up high in the snow season, I need the narrowest tyre with least aggressive AT profile, as you know aggressive knobbly MT tyres are a disaster in the snow, you'll just dig big holes and go nowhere.
The tyres in the first photo above are also the best for the long bitumen highway drive all the way down to southern Otago - that's about a 1400km drive one way. A complete pain in the arse with MT tyres. When I get to the hills, I lower the tyre pressure and put the chains on well before I get to the snowline, and with the diff locks I just sail up through the mud.
I run a set of Cooper Discoverer STT Pro muddies for normal day-to-day muddy track driving. These ones which are on the vehicle now:
I lower the pressure to 20psi on the farm and just cruise on through. If conditions are a total disaster, I get the snow chains out.
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badbob
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Biathlon Jimmy said "I purchased this off the forum, spent some money on it, got it through the MOT, stripped the back out, installed a tow bar and wiring loom. Lastly I fitted some LED work lights which seem brighter than the sun but allows for extended periods of working in the winter, loggings, gralloching, etc.
Seems to go anywhere with the low range diff locks. It also has a CD player and is pretty decent on the road!"
pleased to see the old girl went to a good home, very good the Suzuki Grand Vitara.( up to 2005)
Seems to go anywhere with the low range diff locks. It also has a CD player and is pretty decent on the road!"
pleased to see the old girl went to a good home, very good the Suzuki Grand Vitara.( up to 2005)
John Gryphon
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Two sets Dave is of course the true way to go for sure. I`m another,shiit I reckon I have a dozen wheels fitted with tyres for the old lux.
I would love single spin knock on hubs like the race cars to swap in minutes.I use an air brace but there are still lots of fkn nuts to do.
I would love single spin knock on hubs like the race cars to swap in minutes.I use an air brace but there are still lots of fkn nuts to do.
When will you colonials learn that you can't beat a Land RoverBloody Japanese tat you all drive, you can't fool us that they last longer, break down less often or are more capable. Just have a bit of respect for the mother land and remember who your Queen is.
Jeremy Clarkson did more for the reputation of "Japanese tat" than anything I can say here! Remember this?
In Africa and the Middle East I've seen a great many Hiluxes that look just like Top Gear's end result, trundling along quite happily, some with anti-aircraft guns on the back...
Oh well Nigel, the stats don't lie. I shan't humiliate the Land Rover / Range Rover community any more by publishing the reliability stats from around the world... but it must be hard to even see the top of the list from where you guys sit, way down in the bottom quartile. I'll bet you've all got stiff necks by now. It is a bit windy up here, at the very top, and sometimes sharp objects fly by at an alarming rate of knots, but its a bloody great view!
John Gryphon
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True blue on the left has see some ultra hard yards, the unscratched on right is yet to do so.
Dave you might have pangs for the old pig in the background lol!
Dave you might have pangs for the old pig in the background lol!
A "pig" if I remember correctly is an old FJ55 wagon, but you've got a single cab something there. Looks like an old FJ45 to me, that little window that comes round to the back of the B pillar... You mustn't show Land Rover owners a photo with its bonnet up though, they'll get ideas.
mchughcb
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When will you colonials learn that you can't beat a Land Rover
I used to drive them for a living and side by side against the Toyota. And I can tell you the Defenders versus the Landcruiser was not a pretty sight on the monthly mine maintenance bill. Apart from that they were downright uncomfortable and the back up in remote area was nowhere near as good as Toyota landcruiser.
Ooohhh that’s gonna hurt...
I will back you up mchughcb not just on what you said there but also on those little Suzukis. Anyone who hasn’t been in one up some god awful impossible track with brown trouser gradients would not believe what they are capable off. I scoffed at one, once, and then ate my hat. Remarkable vehicles and the gold standard for small towable off-roaders when travelling in a motorhome.
Edit: I should point out the SX4 I went in was pretty seriously modifed, lifted, underbody armour, bigger ATs is all I can remember but there would have been more.
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John Gryphon
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Hey dodge as a side step/interest I trapped two of the mutts from last year `tween the two utes in that open paddock.
I have three traps out atm about 1.5 k`s from the utes, out towards the back end.
I have three traps out atm about 1.5 k`s from the utes, out towards the back end.
mchughcb
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Mine has a 2 inch lift kit and armour. I took plates off on the end as they just werent needed. Everything is a compromise but withthe 2 litre motor and 6 year warranty it has been outstanding. Next car will probably be a Forrester as they have standard ground clearsnce of 220mm and excellent economy.
Unfortunately the S Crossis now only 2wd and 170mm clearance.
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