101 Exhausts.

What was it built for mate?

Neil took his showroom Rangie to places that frightened the dealer as I recall?

Doe seem a little odd to me that here, on AFL, we are giving stick to somone who wants to use his LR as it was intended.

Personally, I won't take my P£8 laning, because I like it looking pretty, and its main raison d'etre is towing a 2 tonne dive boat, not mud plugging, but that is my choice, and I salute Andy, Neil et al who take far more exotic machines places I would fear to tread.

I would quite like to see a back to back Series 1, LR3 challenge (on similar tyres). Clarkson, Hammond, you listening?

David

Good luck to 'em, if I was going to spend that kind of loot on an off-roader, it'd be a proper off-roader, probably ex-military, lots of choice there, although getting someone to sell you one can be hard! If I'm going to spend lots of cash on something, I'll get a car that's good on the road, or one that's good off the road, not one that's no good at either..

Can't argue with that.

Martin

What's a D3 or new rangie intended for I wonder.

Ooops, I stand corrected, not worked on any right hand drive ones.

Martin

Can't argue with that either. But he's still got more money than sense.

Martin

my exhaust rotted away at the junction of the 2 smaller pipes. it sounded ace with it snapped off there!

i still have the old silencer box off mine and it is pretty much intact (minus the metre or so of straight pipe off the end which i stole to make a car exhaust) if you wanted to weld a bit back on you could fit my old box. it is stashed in the garden somewhere. I will be back very late thursday/early on friday, so if you want it give me a ring on friday morning and you can fit it quickly before leaving.!

"rads" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

LOL!!! perfect mistake for the P38!!!

On or around Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:23:42 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

One thing they should consider is quick-release trim and spoilers and so on around the bottom of the body - this has been a bugbear for a lot longer than the D3 - sometime part-way through the RR classic run they started fitting front spoilers, which people knocked off on the scenery off-road. If these panels were easy to remove (and any low side panels, too) then they could be taken off when you went off-roading and replaced afterwards. I'm sure it's not beyond the ability of the designers and manufacturers to make such things.

On or around Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:13:35 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

ah, but was that on a test-drive?

Has he bollocks, he's an enthusiast like all of us.

Nige

Pretty sure on my classic 86 RR the front spoiler was designed to come off easily, there is, ISTR, a bit in the owners handbook about how to remove it for off road use, four bolts from memory.

Of course, 20 years of road salt has made made it somewhat less easy now.

David

At the last off-road pay 'n' play I went to, a Disco series 2 had to give up due to having to drive round at a snail's pace with 2 spotters to stop the lower trim getting scuffed by the edge of the track, a big queue of disgruntled off-roaders quickly built up behind them.

Never mind what the vehicle's capable of, if the owner doesn't want to scratch it then that's a real limit on lots of tracks, and you don't always get the opportunity to stop and turn around if it gets too bad!

"rads" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

It took me two hours of swearing & chopping to get one of the 'easy' bolts off!!!!

I didn't mention anything about his endowment. And I've done lots of off roading and in places other people wouldn't go, but he's still got more money than sense I say. ;-)

Martin

If it was removable, I'll bet that it'd be damned hard to make it go back on once all the fastenings and mating surfaces had been dragged through the mud for a few hours. It can be hard enough getting the doors to close sometimes!