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'on-road' driving tips for 4x4

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:34:52 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote (in article ):

I think you're all being a little bit presumptive on the cornering thing. Yes, it will go round corners like it's on rails, _on the right tyres_ but the range of tyres available for this vehicle is huge and I'd encourage the OP to get to take cornering reasonably gently until they are confident in the ability of the tyres, both in the dry and the wet (which may be radically different).

If you've got some nice wide road rubber or AT's all will be well. If it's got some sexy looking knobbly things on it, corners on tarmac may be fairly optional.

Been there, done that, and I'm sure others here have as well!

If it's anything like my 90 (which admittedly is older than the OP's) the relationship between the location of the steering wheel and the direction of travel at any given moment is not entirely straightforward either!

Either way, once you get used to it, you'll never go back.

Nick.

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Nick Williams
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When I first got the truck I collected the exit barrier from work when leaving, it landed neatly on my roof rack!

I've also been to a hotel near Euston station in London IIRC that had a car park with a 5'3" headroom limit... I wouldn't even go in there in the Audi given that I'd whack my head when getting out.

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Ian Rawlings

On or around Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:51:51 +0000, Nick Williams enlightened us thusly:

that's why I said "given suitable tyres".

mind, the series III is on avon rangemasters and that corners well too.

the 110 during my ownership had colway remoulds, pirelli scorp ATs and nankang wild conks, all of which gave plenty of wet or dry grip.

My disco had pirelli scorp STs and avon ranger ATs, ditto. I did find the BFG ATs a touch slippy in the wet.

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Austin Shackles

That's got to be the understatement of the year. IME BFGs in the wet are a bit like driving on ice. I'll never buy another set because of that.

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EMB

On or around Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:08:32 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

these weren't that bad. and they do last for ages, but personally, I'd rather buy cheaper, softer compound that grip better :-)

There's another aspect - if you do any serious off-roading you run the risk of terminal damage to a sidewall and in that event I'd be extremely pissed off if that happened on a near-new hundred-quid-plus tyre.

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Austin Shackles

That's why mud-pattern remoulds are my favourite. I had BFG TrakEdges early on when the truck arrived, after just two off-road excursions they were cut up on the sidewalls, and one blew out while I was driving. Expensive tyres are fine if you want to look hunky but won't off-road it, or you have deep pockets.

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Ian Rawlings

Take heed of the advice about "the little stick". It controls the low/high ratio but more importantly controls the 4 wheel drive select (difflock) on many models, not sure about the Defender, if I'm wrong someone will quickly put me right.

If you drive it for long on road with 4wd selected ( little stick to the left position ) it'll fairly quickly lunch your tyres and/or gearbox. In fact, despite living in Norfolk and doing a bit of snow/sand/mud driving, I've rearely had to use the difflock.

TonyB

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TonyB

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