Discovery Towing Upgrades?

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There's also an issue with the speed that when on the motorway if you're crusing at

Yep, stiffer springs are on my list of things to get, the trailer doesn't have much nose weight, the generator is very very well balanced on the trailer, with it's weight spread evenly between the axles.

Ah a valid point. At just over 60 I find that I'm going about 5mph faster than the heavies, presumably they are limited to 56mph. Not being able to keep up with the heavies is not good for the reason you state and because they are limited they will get miffed off about having to stay behind you or if they try and over take do so at

so Dave Liquorice was, like...

Are they really? (I know they're supposed to be.) On the way to/from the LRO show I was cruising with caravan (M4/M5) at 60 and I got overtaken by as many lorries as I overtook.

For turbulence, I find that WVM in a Sprinter doing 90 causes a lot more wobble than a massive juggernaut doing 60.

Maybe I ought to say that by "heavy" I mean an arctic rather than 7.5 tonne rigid. The latter can bat along quite quick but one assumes they aren't on a tacho for some reason, tractor units can shift as well...

Probably shouldn't, but on the motorway I often slipstream in Marge - makes an _enormous_ difference to the fuel consumption.

If I can catch an express coach, I get there faster too - but they often speed and are hard to keep up with safely.

Regards,

Simonm.

THe limiters they use vary from about 53mph (flatbed 18tonners iirc) all the way upto 60ish on most artics. However 7.5tonne trucks aren't limited, nor are coaches :) I tend to try and slipstream behind an big truck normally, but if you can't keep up it's pointless!

"Heavies" too. Maybe as Alex says the limiters operate at varying speeds - although I *thought* that all artics were limited to 56 by European law.

Yeah, i think the limiter depends on the class of vehicle.

In message , Alex Threlfall writes

Too little can be as big a problem as too much. Might be worth checking it.

On or around Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:39:39 +0100, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

after a certain date, in theory, they're limited to 90 kph. However... vehicles used solely for domestic haulage can be limited to 60 mph, and I'm not sure all the foreign ones are limited either - in theory, it's all the EU countries...

... and that's without the people who know which fuse has to fail to stop the limiter working...

On or around Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:40:29 GMT, Alex Threlfall enlightened us thusly:

only goods vehicles between 3.5 and 7.5 T gross are unlimited, and they're not allowed to go over 70 any more than you are in your car.

On or around Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:54:20 GMT, Alex Threlfall enlightened us thusly:

Paddock will sell you SS pistons, as well. But probably not the vented disc kit.

Vented discs only useful if you've had problems with brake fade, which TBH I've not had on any of my discos, nor on the 110 with it's disc/drum setup.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Austin Shackles blithered:

NOR 60 on a single carriageway road!!

Did it on the Disco - got the spacers from Zeus and the disks, kevlar pads and stainless hoses from David (aka Llama 4x4). The brakes were transformed. For motorway driving the vented discs are of doubtful value - you shouldn't be braking hard repeatedly which is where fade comes in. If you drive through Milton Keynes a lot it's a different matter (once missed the roundabout stop line by a full 5 metres there once, on about the 8th 60mph to nil roundabout stop in 5 minutes). That was in a Ford Mondeo BTW with vented disks!

By the time you've added it up, you may not be far off the cost of buying 6-pot calipers from the front of a 110, which would probably be better again, assuming they'd fit.

Back to the OP, my hit list would be suspension first (good dampers, new springs), bushes (rubber ones) followed by a brake upgrade.

Had the brakes fade on my Mondeo but that was almost at the bottom of Hartside, bit alarming approaching a sharp bend with drystone walls on the outside and finding the brakes don't work particulary well and get worse the more you apply them... At least I could use the hand brake! After that I started to use the gears rather more when when going down Hartside...

For those that don't know Hartside it is the section of the A686 between Melmerby and Hartside Cafe on the North Pennines. It's a rather nice driving road that drops the best part of 1500' in about 4 miles, lots of bends but several sections were you can see well ahead and safely use all the road (scares the tourists...) B-)

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:31:01 +0100, Austin Shackles scribbled the following nonsense:

And is easy to spot on the tacho disc as the speed line becomes a flat line instead of a spikey line when traveling at the limiter speed because if you just pull the fuse, the tacho will record your exact speed. Because tacho discs are inspected by employers to verify drivers hours are being adhered to, and plod can demand your tacho disc on the side of the road if they pull you or have a smash, neither option is a good idea!

On or around Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:52:07 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:

don't stop people doing it though. I knew one driver who carried a pre-blown fuse with him to swap in...