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spending some time in Death Valley

They have been available for a while and are on their website for order.

This makes me really nervous about trusting the feedback here - the parking aids are only on when in comfort/eco modes. I have never heard a parking aid alert when in any of the off road modes. This is the only place I really have an issue with the Pivi Pro performance - using the wheel to...

We took our Defender to an OHV park here in CA over the weekend, and climbed a manufacturerd obstacle that was made up of concrete steps that were covered in fine, loose sand. We were in the mud/ruts program, which allows moderate wheel spin, and yet we slowly and deliberately crawled up the...

They can't keep the higher trim models, where they make more money, on the lots - why would they be bothering to order the low end trims? Maybe in a year or two when supply can meet demand they will diversify a bit. When i was shopping, I was mainly annoyed at how few had the rear locker - but...

The bolt-down points for the storage box are already there below the side trim, and I am just waiting for some third party to come out with a mounting bracket for rotopax that attaches in the same place.

Jeep did the same thing - the Compass and Renegade hybrids have been available in Europe for a while, but not in the US. I would speculate on the reasons but that would be veering into a big political can of worms.

The US press release at https://media.landrover.com/en-us/news/2020/09/introducing-2021-land-rover-defender does not mention the Plug-in Hybrid being available in the USA, so does that mean we might not get it on this side of the pond until after the 2021 model year? Then again, the P400e...

I've had mine on the trail a few times but don't have a Youtube channel. I was hoping to go some more (just got some Wrangler Duratracs fitted), but seeing as how the entire western half of the US is on fire, those plans are on hold for the time being. Oh wait... Never mind, then. :ROFLMAO:

I've been trying to collect different anecdotes about what people have tried, and what does and doesn't work, in a thread at landroverforums: https://landroverforums.com/forum/2020-defender-60/no-lift-tire-size-guide-work-progress-101530/ Without lift rods, even at 33 it varies a lot depending...

I got a SOTA update about a week ago, and after rebooting the Pivi Pro, a lot of stuff seems to be working much better - Spotify and the Weather app are back, it correctly recognizes that I am in the USA again, and the camera seems to come on more reliably. None of these were showstopper...

I might wait for the new ladder to be available in a month or so, and see if anyone else has released any sliders by then. The Lucky 8 option is definitely expensive, but they seem like they are built like a tank.

There is no mode called "off road mode" on the new Defender. There is rock crawl, mud/ruts, sand, and so on. In my experience in Rock Crawl with a wheel three feet in the air, there was minimal spin. Are you sure it wasn't in mud/ruts, which everyone says they prefer, but which allows a...

I want to add some rock rails to my new Defender, and it looks like Lucky 8's proud rhino sliders are going to first to market. They are also very expensive across their line compared to some other brands of rock rails, so I was hoping to see if any Land Rover owners had any positive or...

Can't wait for the aftermarket to really take off so these build threads have more unique vehicles. I am eying some Lucky 8 stuff because they seem to be sharing the most developed prototypes, but who knows what will be available in six months. Right now my biggest mod is installing the front...

It was a huge pain. I signed up for a topix account so I could look up VINs, and then manually entered every VIN within a hundred miles of my home. Basically none of the dealers advertise a detailed list of equipped features and options, so I made my own chart of what options were equipped on...

I canceled my order because I was so far in the build order they couldn't even tell me when I would get out of the holding pool... and then bought one off a different dealer's lot earlier than my local dealer would have even gotten around to placing the order. The stock was not great, and it...

In case you missed it, because it blends in so well - the 35s are old news, that image is showing off their new ladder!

There are definitely some bits of the body missing in Lucky 8's other Instagram posts - I am assuming some trimming would be necessary to fit those bits back on the car, or they will be selling some replacements. I have been thoroughly unimpressed with the lift rods in the Colorado videos, and...

I have been hammock camping for many years, and when there are not trees around, we have used other methods for suspending hammocks. The trick to building a light but strong hammock stand is to design it in such a way that the support members are under compression, rather than trying to flex...