LR rally / event nr London soon?

How did you do that then, its not on 'til this weekend?

I'd head up to Peterborough again this year (you did mean LRO last year didn't you?).

Hey, great, seems that my wife is not the only woman with similar understanding of the perfect car :)

After years of staring at all the Defenders coming along the roads a few weeks ago her old, rusty Opel (Vauxhall) Kadett 1.6i broke down, with 377310 km on the engine, and now she owns a Defender 90, built

By the way, is there an owners manual available in .pdf for this Landy? We have all kinds of service manuals (showing every bolt of the engine, but no basics at all), but the user manual you get from the dealer when you buy a new car has gone :(

regards - Ralph

A rift in the time / space continuum maybe? ;-)

I think so . Big place, full of Landrovers and LR accessories? Watched some folk driving a Ranger Rover over logs with a flooded roofrack?

We left it a bit late to go round to the off road course .. (it was closed) ;-( Do you think there be any folk willing to take a couple of keen passengers round the cct (especially if one of them is wearing her Land Rover hat?).

We did pay to be driven (and a quick go) rounf the off road track at Red Lodge a few years ago (when went up there for her to run her TY80 trials bike (now for sale). We were in a "Four Track" (I won't mention the make on here ...) and I was very surprised what sort of muddy incline it would drive straight up?

My daughter was in the back and wasn't impressed when our 'driver' mentioned some bloke and got it a bit 'pear shaped' and stuck the thing on it's nose. He remembers the passenger going over his shoulder and onto the windscreen (no one was hurt re-telling this story) ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

And we couldn't argue with 'them' even if they were wrong eh! ;-)

Nice. Trying to get a feel for these beasts I think the 'ultimate' Landy (for an all round solution .. family car and some mild offroad fun) might be a 110, 2.5 Tdi? The 'important' points seem to be:

Coil springs (for comfort)

But I assume that all comes at a price?

I like the idea of plenty of parts / skills available and the fact that it seems to be sorta big 'kit' (bits unbolt from one model straight onto another etc). Why is it though the Landy only seems to get abroad if it's part of some British expedition? All the locals seem to be driving Land Cruisers (or hanging out the back of a Toyota pickup waving AK47's?)

Where does one get the .pdf format service manuals please Ralph .. can they be downloaded free from somewhere?

All the best to you and your Lady with yer new toy ..;-)

T i m

Land Rover Enthusiast magazine has a bookshop where you can get most of the owners' manuals etc. Not as cheap as .pdf, admittedly.

That sounds like the one.

I don't doubt that you could find someone to take you round, quite how you'd find them I don't know though. I'm not planning on driving the course otherwise I'd offer to take you round myself.

That is it :) Funny thing, driving through a "road under construction" with the allowed maximum of 30 km/h! With a normal car everything more than 15 could be a big, big problem for the car.

When using a p2p-software you can find it with the words defender werkstatthandbuch - many german stuff, but also english docoments. I do not want to put it onto my server, I have no clue if the contents are "public domain" :(

Thank you very much! For sure we will have fun with this great car!

regards - Ralph

Thanks for the thought Simon ;-) (sri, just got back to this group)

I have had a kind offer for a ride around the Abingdon show at the end of the month .. hope we can get there etc ..

Are there places that you could hire a Landy (just for on-road use even?). How would you get insurance etc ...

All the best ..

T i m

On the flip side driving at 100 kph on the flat is more tiring in most Landy's than a std road car? Our kit car (looks like a small Jeep) is a sort of a cheap compromise. It is basically a road car (so fairly comfortable / fast / economical ) with bigger (diameter) M&S tyres and lowish gearing for mild off road use. We have been up a mud track and past a Landy on it's side in the ditch .. ;-(

Fair enough Ralph.

My pleasure ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, T i m blithered:

Resting?

LOL!

It could have been?

I was told though the clutch had burnt out trying to get a trailer up the track?

It was quite cool to drive right up to the event leaving all the std 'cars' in the car park, including a good few 4X4's that didn't want to get their wheels muddy ;-)

I was out in the Rickman Ranger in the snow a few years ago and couldn't understand why all the other cars were going soooo slowly .. till I got in the Sierra that is! Woah, even trying to get away from the kerb was difficult. Only goes to show how much difference the right tyres (even Coleway M&S) make!

All the best ..

T i m

'Would be' Landy driver .. ;-)