Land Rovers Anonymous

That's not a Landrover

This is a Landrover :




I will admit it does smoke a bit now and then

Got a job at a land rover dealership when i was a mechanic. They were so bad that i quit being a mechanic for good.
Mostly worked on newish vehicles at the time (95 to 98 models). oil leaks, doors that didnt fit and had to be redrilled, mix of metric and imperial nuts and bolts on the same vehicles sometimes even on the same part, and that was new from the factory.
It only got worse when they got a few km on them (50000km) gearbox input shaft damage, broken timing belts on the diesels and even more oil leaks, would fix things under warranty when they were getting a service without telling the customer.
Was a few years ago so maybe they have improved.

Here's one for all you luddites:

www.manheim.com.au/ttpm/Item/ItemUnavailable?itemID=000000000003166137

Better hurry, tomorrow's the big day.

I learned to drive in a Landrover. After I left school I went to work for De Beers in the geology department and our company vehicles were series 3 Landrovers.

I figured out that if they gave us 4wds they did not intend us to walk. In the Kalahari the roads are all sand and everyone other than De Beers drives Ford 250's. Wider wheel base meant that in a landrover you had one wheel in the rut all the time. This not only farked the road up but caused them to overheat constantly as they shaved the grass seeds into the radiator. I used to drive up to the nearest reservoir and bucket water onto the engine to cool it.

In Namibia in the rainy season the roads would collect three foot deep pools of water 300 meters long. We would floor it (80ks) and hit the puddles full on much to the disgust of the laborers on the back.

I have had them virtually disappear down ant bear holes whilst spring hare hunting and taken them where vehicles have never been before in Zululand's valley of a thousand hills..

You could not kill them. We had to do all our own maintenance and the worst I ever had was a snapped suspension bolt. I reckon that if my life depended on it I would go for series three with a winch which we never had!

Sure they are slow but off road they were magnificent and would go where a landcruiser would not. It is imperative to watch grass build up above the exhaust though. A new bloke in Namibia, Vulcan, had his catch alight. He took some great photos. The whole body including the glass had completeley melted. Brand new it was too!

This one looks cool

www.drive.com.au/52474/land-rover-shows-second-defender-concept-at-frankfurt?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheMotorReport+%28The+Motor+Report%29