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carracarra13:
well folks Im expecting some very good but hopefully polight good and bads on this Im just intersted in truckes we have owned and used and what we thought of them , now rules no slagging off trucks just your personal experiences with them only Ill start
1st 4x was a suzuki vitara lwb 16 valve very impressive all we did is put all terains on and it went just about any where the weight (or lack of) was its biggest helper ive gone places with this little truck you wouldnt believe deep sticky clay to sand (drifts well lol) water fording all sorts with very little trouble (just wd40 thats it) would have another if it wernt fo bigger family.
 The next on was a Vaxhall frountera um Ill not comment as it would be too abusive, Ill just say the very short time we had it it spent more time being fixed than using it when it was working of road briliant even with scoprion road tyres on.
The next was a shogan 2.5 tdi glsx stunning looking truck not rot unusural for shogan Ive been told (not padjero theses being imprts dont tend to rot as much) off road great fun water no problem and as for the brown stuff well just unstopable and again on maxis ht tyers 100% road (though did get it stuck once had to be winched out (lack of ground clearence) loved it but engine gave up at 1600000 was too exspensive to
put right and the 2.5, then a space with out trucks (dipression set in lol) so found a rrc v8 3.9 vouge lpg converted well bloddy un stopable (unless you hit water then you needed shairs in wd40 lovly old girl comfortable  luxuerious warm but electical pain again it had hancook all terain tyers on and as long as you kept away from water it coped with mud like ate it for breakfastand spat it out on the rod well rocket on wheels :lol: :lol: :lol: never relised how powerful these old girls were had to buy a road angle (keep licence longer).
Now the truck we have the landrover Discovery I wish id never listned to a m8 of ours with his padjero I would of been better off excpt for the rot why do landrover make such a good old work horse then not bother to rust proof it , it has and is handling everything we throw at it so far not breakages (sh shouldt of let her hear that she might sulk now lol) got colway mudterains on noisy but very good had to use low gear a week ago to pull a damsel out who had got stuck (inxperience she had just bought her first 4x4 and a very odd choice but wise tata pickup truck and very impressive truck too and very cheep engine though is a pergio tdi) spent the rest of they day playing with her (in her truck and she was grining like a chesher cat she said when she had finished playing What coulor is my truck lol well sorry for diversing but this is it

william127:
ive only ever had 4x4s, got my first when i was 16, they were, in order:
a 2.25 petrol 110, great engine, thirstier than a 3.9 v8, rotten chassis, did about 1000 miles and sold it on
a mk3 hilux single cab,2.4 diesel, did 40000 in under 3 years, ifor top, great on the road, topped out at 105mph downhill, very comfortable cab,good heater, sold to a breaker after head went
suzuki sj410, brought as project with no mot for £240, got one for £100 (new exhaust), did 1500 miles in 6 weeks before engine blew, great fun, very practical as it was a van with roof rack, good off road, not so good in fords where you needed more power, even in low 1st, scrapped
defender127 200 tdi, my favorite, it still runs after driving through water 4 foot 8 deep, altough it now needs a rebuilt, loads of room in the tipper body, can carry 2 ton(offroad only), top speed a respectable(given sie and age) 85, once did 29.9mpg, off road its unstopable, unless its tight, big winch, not so good in car parks, used it to drive to scotland with a load on, the cab is a lot closer to a series 1 than a new defender though, it avaraged a 1000miles a month in th year iv had it, its getting the rebuilt for a very simple reason- its earnt it!
rrc with 2.8 izuzu td, vouge se, im saying nothing on it until iv used it more!

ive done the majority of my driving in the hilux, but i wouldnt go back unless  it  was practically free as the parts were so dam expensive, if the parts and offroad gear were landy priced id definatley get another one

thermidorthelobster:
My 101 would go anywhere, but at 8mpg you could virtually take a helicopter instead.  I followed some tricked-up Rangies and 90s up Stannage Edge;  when we got to the rocky bits they were hopping around all over the place.  There was no chance of driving round any of it so I just dropped into 6wd and went straight over the top without batting an eyelid.

The driving position however was miserable.  On-road my P38 was the nicest 4wd I've had but I'm happy with the TD5 Discovery for a good compromise.

Range Rover Blues:
I noticed you mentioned Funtera, well I always thought of them as a bit, how can I be polite :-k well they used a lot of cavalier parts didn't they :-.

Anyhoo, I still remmber Barry Scott at Whaddon trying to kill his an failing dismally, quite impressive little truck it just needed some man-sized recovery eyes :lol:

I'm often quite impressed by Shoguns too and of course the suzukis, I find it doesn't pay to be rude about other people's truck as we all get stuck once in a while.  Much as I love my RRC it's at outside with 3 wheels because I've bust it, I wouldn't mind but I don't know how :-.

Disco Matt:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 22, 2009, 22:35:30 --- I find it doesn't pay to be rude about other people's truck as we all get stuck once in a while. 

--- End quote ---

Exactly. I've been towed out by a Delica on a couple of occasions (not ashamed, he runs bigger tyres than mine so I will naturally run out of ground clearance first!). Likewise I've seen very tricked-up Discos get damaged by a tiny miscalculation in route - 6in off course produced one bent exhaust when he came back down.

Anyone can buy all the gear and end up with a vehicle that will go anywhere. What takes skill is doing the same routes in a standard Disco.

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