Unimog Club UK

hi steve, welcome to the club

if you are going to be travelling long distances with your wife, stay away from models like the u900, theyre noisy, and dont have the most spacious cab i personally would recommend a 1300L for you, a lot of them have just been released from army's all over the place, so there are plenty of them being broken for spares you could also then get one with high ratio axles ( a lot of the military 1300L's had high ratio's) theyll make you part with a bit more money, but theyre a luxury well worth having. the 1300L is comfortable, and quite, and many of them have ambulance bodies on the back, which are good for turning into campers. the only disadvantage to a 1300L is really the pay load. the military models also have spent most of their lives being serviced to death and doing very few miles they sometimes come with wading kits as well

any questions just ask

Brian

Thank you both for your very prompt replies, didn't expect that on a Saturday  😁

If serviced properly(and thats one thing I am good at) how reliable is an older unimog ?

On the front page of this web site, it looks like a short wheel base unimog with a habitable pod on the back, are the pods rare in the UK ?

Again many thanks guys for your help

Steve

Hello,
Thanks for all the replies.

I think I need to dig deeper on the reliability end of things, as speed and mpg to a certain degree don't matter to much to us. Has anyone got both a land rover and a unimog and can compare the two, re reliability. This is not meant to cause some sort of flame war thingie, just would like to hear reports from owners
I have a land rover, I know how in reliable they can be in the newer models. Mine is not to bad as there are no electronics on it at all(after 26 years its now got a GPS/HUD in the form of a nexus 7 and I could almost hear the ghosts of the past screaming "WTF IS THAT THING" LOL)

thanks again
Steve

as long as the mog is serviced at the correct intervals, they a very reliable, in my opinion more reliable than a landrover, think of a landrover, its a pressed axle, generally 10 splines?, straight half shafts. a unimog 1300l has a 3 piece axle, i believe around 20 splines off the top of my head, tapered half shafts, the unimog has to be strong in the axles especially, because it has difflocks, there's a reason land rover have never fitted difflocks as an option from the factory

when he was younger my dad was a complete land rover nutter, he was constantly fitting different engines in them, flipping the axles, and moddifying them, then he got a unimog... he now has 6 unimogs and no land rovers

people look at the unimog and get scared off, flexible chassis, portal axles, diff locks, torque tubes, their first impression is that it will be too complicated, but when you look at a mog in the flesh, the principal is in fact simple, and you also get a true representation of the build quality, for example the chassis on a mog is 9mm thick.

regarding the pod, its fitted to a u900 406, pods for a mog of this size are just rare in general, when we took it over to germany there were a lot of people interested in it cos its not often you see them fitted to this size chassis. its made using the rear body of a Hagland BV, we cut the bottom out completely and modified it to fit to the spider frame. the worst part of the conversion was making the cupboards, not a flat face on it! 

Michelin XZL

I will second the XZLs. I also like Continental MPTs, they are a good all round tyre with good road manners and wear well.

Yeah, what have you broken fella? I know about the pto shaft joints and the drop box, but those are both ag spec kit and won't be on an overland truck.