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Re: Newbie saying Hi
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2013, 03:35:02 pm »
I was just saying.... lol. To be fair if its got an engine on it, it will at some point, break down lol
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« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2013, 03:47:23 pm »
it is a lot beter now than when you got it  :)
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« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2013, 08:15:08 am »
I feel I should make some additions to this landy bashing thread! I've owned a mixture of L200's and Defenders and I have to say the Defenders have generally been less troublesome (less comfortable too I should add) than the jap kit. In all the miles I've done in a Defender I've only broken down once and I use my vehicles pretty hard. I won't even take my current truck (Ranger) into half the places I'd take the landy.

Only 25% make it home... Wash your mouths out with soap the pair of you! :D
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« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2013, 08:23:42 am »
Might make it my forum signature  ;D

We have an l200 raging bull, we're very impressed with it, and merc actually own Mitsubishi so there are a lot of similarities with switches and interior stuff. the only thing we find is its soulless, completely bland, its the really fast one so you would expect it to be fun to drive, but ive been a passenger in it plenty of times when dads driving fast and its so boring  :-\ and theirs already that many gadgets, that you cant add to it, when i get a car i like to play around with things, like fitting sound systems and stuff, but its just not possible with that.

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« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2013, 08:37:50 am »
How about my old favourite, being a Land Cruiser fan "If you want to go to the Sahara take a Land Rover, if you want to come back take a Toyota.".  I guess if I buy a 404 I will have to change it to " . . . if you want to eventually get back take a 404."  :D
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« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2013, 08:41:50 am »
one my dad came up with years ago:

When it over, in your Rover. do the job, in a Unimog.
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« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2013, 11:21:05 am »
I don't think you can really compare a landy, or any other regular vehicle for that matter, to a Unimog. That's just not fair. You can buy four new Defenders/Land Cruisers for the price of a new Unimog!

I have to confess to not having any experience of Land Cruisers to base a sensible comment on. I always buy pickups and the Hilux is a lot of money. I've heard that the new ones aren't as good as their reputation. The old ones certainly take some beating I know.

At the end of the day though, landy's are better. ;)
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« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2013, 11:57:11 am »
can your standard landrover do the following?

these are based on different mogs, figures might be higher or lower depending on model

pull 2000 tons along railway tracks
pull 40 tonnes along the road
drive a 800mm wood chipper
drive a 10' flail
lift the front wheel more than 3 foot
fit a 55 ton meter crane on the back
be able to go slow enough that you cant see the wheels move.
have cross axle diff locks, portal axles, etc.

your landrover might be cheap, but mogs are expensive for a reason  ;)
please they dont loose money like no bodies business

i wouldnt compare landrovers to mogs, but if landrover owners werent so belligerent i wouldnt have to  :)
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« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2013, 01:35:11 pm »
I started off roading with a series 3 LR,  I then moved onto a couple of classic RR.  At the time I had the view of most LR owners, best 4x4xfar and all that stuff.  It slowly dawned on me that during most of the more extreme stuff I was doing the car that was rescuing me was a Land Cruiser, the car towing my broken LR home was a LC.  I asked the owner of the LC what maintenance he did between trips, pointed a jet wash at it was the reply.  The LC simply refused to break and with the triple diff locks, standard on UK spec 80 series, it got places my RR never could.

I was converted to LC ownership and now I'm the one towing my mates in their broken and stuck LRs.  I love the styling of most LR products but I really wish they would build them properly and use better quality components for the simple stuff like electrical connectors.

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« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2013, 06:34:09 pm »
dad was a landrover man originally, but he wasnt fixed on them, he had stuff like toyotas and nissans as well, but then he bought a mog, and eventually more. then a g wagon, then more g wagons  ;)
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« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2013, 08:17:02 pm »
I need a moment to think about this. I'm going to struggle to win this one I think... :D
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« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2013, 09:20:57 pm »
early landrovers could have pto's  ;)
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« Reply #27 on: April 15, 2013, 09:28:53 pm »
Of a light design yes. Apparently only for winches, pumps etc though. They couldn't run a chipper or anything large
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« Reply #28 on: April 15, 2013, 10:12:40 pm »
definitely, they wouldnt have the power for one thing  :)
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« Reply #29 on: April 16, 2013, 05:45:14 pm »
I think the series 2 2.25 engine produced around 70bhp? Not sure how much of that was available through the PTO mind? I think the main issue with big kit would be carrying it - it would be far too easy to over load an axle by mounting stuff on the front/back.

Have you ever tried to run a chipper with your 411 Brian?
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