Are they as good as they say?

Scott Brady

Founder
There was nothing wrong with those G-Wagens, Mercedes just picked the wrong team to drive them and likely had too abbreviated of a transit schedule. Shock failures like that are due to abuse and overloading, both indicators of inexperienced personel.
 

Desert Dan

Explorer
Maybe they should have been running lower air pressure in the tyres?

Let the tyres do some of the work of the suspension and that would save some wear and tear.
 

DUTCH

Curmudgeon
Maybe they should have been running lower air pressure in the tyres?

Let the tyres do some of the work of the suspension and that would save some wear and tear.

And do it on 16" wheels with more rubber than the 18's they did use.
 

zimm

Expedition Leader
they ran it as a production truck. that was their point. that it could handle it as a production truck. it didnt. they chose to sell g's like this for on road performance. they proved that the G in its production form is a compromise in the dirt too.

a rubicon in production form wouldnt have had this failure because it has sidewalls from the factory. the body may have fallen off, but thats a different story, sort of.

the point being, todays G must be altered from the factory to make this run, and that wasnt what they wanted to prove. if youre swapping parts, youre swapping parts, be it wheels and tires, or springs and shocks, or airboxes for turbos.
 

4Rescue

Expedition Leader
Mercedes needs to offer something comparable to the benchmark 70-series (in terms of off-road capability and endurance) if they're gonna capture the hearts of Australia... The 70 is the G's Egual in nearly every respect besides interior appointment and it's the worlds most proven platform. If the G were equiped for competetion with THAT platform (read: bigger tires/smaller rims, a utilitarian interior) it would do just fine. Seriously the Canning in an 18" wheeled road queen??? What were they thinking??? I've been on that track in an HJ75 Ute and it was rough with big off-road tires, I can't imagine what it'd be like on street tires.

Cheers

Dave
 

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