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Um, OK. It could also be because when they constructed the dealership it was the part of the city that was zoned for car dealerships and with property available. Do you think Ford, Honda, Jeep, and Hyundai were being hopelessly optimistic? And for such a toney zip code, it would seem ironic...

It's located in Motor City, literally one block up from the Ford dealer, which is also within a one mile radius of Porsche, Volkswsgen, Hyundai, Chevy, Honda, Volvo, MB, Jeep, Acura, ...

Well, nobody told Land Rover - they have been wheeling in Moab for years on 20"-22" rims and 55 or 45 series street tires on full-fat Range Rovers, RRS's, LR4s and Discoverys. Poison Spider, Hell's Revenge, Fins n Things are all on their itinerary. You could drive slickrock on racing slicks...

Yeah, but how many dead sheep can it carry? Because that's apparently an important farm task. For really bad sheep farmers.

On OEM or like replacement parts? Or are you just talking about the frame and body?

I used to do the same thing in my bone stock 2005 Subaru Outback XT with a manual in the Nevada/Cali/Utah deserts and down in the San Juans. Got a lot of frantic waves and, "you won't make it in that..." comments. I'd just say, "cool, thanks, I'll look for a spot up here to turn around" and...

Somebody has part numbers out there...the Internet will tell us.

I noticed he aired down his 60-series BFG's quite a bit...33" tire in 275/60-20. Fantastic video.

? That sucks - I hope the dealership is going to give you a little break on that, or at least help you out on some accessories for that ******** up. When I ordered my D5 my sales rep (who's now the sales manager) told me their interface is completely different than what's on the website, and...

Awesome. I'll say that I believe the transmission is the same ZF 8HP transmission that's used on the D5, RRS, and FFRR. Don't know if there are different variants for the Defender as that's a big product line that's used on vehicles with over 600hp. And everything is computer controlled and...

What if they engineered the axles for the P400 and for production efficiency put them in the P300?

I'll buy the enthusiast bit...don't know the guy, don't spend a lot of time on YouTube influencers so I'll retract the 15 minutes comment. And yes, the problem likely came from the factory. What I'm saying is, it's not a product line problem until you start to see this on many vehicles. It's...

He is a sample size of one. Maybe Land Rover jumped on the issue because of his influence, but he is still one guy with one problem on one vehicle. Shall we survey all the people who have taken delivery of a new Defender and NOT had a problem? Not sure how we do that.

I don't think you can say that production/assembly caused the problem yet, because we don't know why the failure occurred. All we have is some guy on the internet b*tching about one vehicle that had what sounds like a melty part, which has attracted attention that resulted in his internet...

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Quality control is meant to catch one-off incidents of "production/assembly...configuration different than what was tested," which represent a defect escape rather than a problem with "production and assembly," which in industrial engineering usually refers to the wider process, not necessarily...

That's true if you add a 1.7" lift to the Element, and never drive the Defender in anything other than normal ride height.

This would only be true if many of them have this problem. If this one is the only one, or one of a statistical few, then it's a QA escape not a design issue. I suspect this will be the case. Rest assured LR is going over that car to see what happened.

I actually can't argue with that one. But the one thing I always said the Element lacked was off-road capability, and it would have been almost perfect. Now you can get an Element that will go everywhere a stock Rubicon can go! :sneaky:

One note about the Land Rover spec Goodyear All Terrain Adventure with Kevlar as an AT option - it's an XL load rated tire with an H speed rating (130mph) - and somehow it weighs less than 40 lbs, likely from the kevlar content. This is one tough tire. I've run them a lot from Four Corners...