T-Willy
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That's excellent. Thanks for sharing.
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That's excellent. Thanks for sharing.
No problem. IIRC they switched to battery power to conserve fuel through a real congested section of road.
ChasingOurTrunks
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Rather light on the Defender content, but there is some fun stuff, and I chuckled a few times at this video with John Mayer:
ChasingOurTrunks
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Very cool. The old Series rig looks like it’s got more character than a George R Martin novel. The new one has some cool limb risers and that doesn’t look like the JLR rack, but some different option. Both must be adapted/custom/DIY solutions, which is great to see. That Defender looks quite at home in that environment with that kit. I can’t wait to start seeing how they look with an ARB bar up front.
TexasTJ
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That’s Oxford. Tim Sleesor drove that truck from London to Singapore. And last year they drove it back from Singapore back to London.
DieselRanger
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Yeah, kinda makes me question the approach of the Denver dealer to setting the TC for more wheelspin. I suppose the theory is, if you have some sand over smooth hardpack/rock then the extra wheelspin will sweep the surface until the tires bite.
Wheelspin on dirt just degrades the trail and increases erosion.
Corgi_express
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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 obstacle, with some wheel spin, but it was always slow, and all the tires were spinning, as the car slid side to side looking for traction.
The wheels never spun fast like the car from the Denver dealer has done in videos. That further convinced me that they are in the wrong mode - possibly trying to over-compensate for the lack of a rear locker on their rig (something my rig has).
Bonus: after we climbed the obstacle with minimal fuss, a lifted Cherokee XJ with huge mud terrains tried to climb it, and his wheels were spinning all over the place. He could not climb the obstacle, even using tons of momentum. If we were Youtubers, I would have been tempted to post a video with a clickbait title about how Jeeps are crap off road and the Defender destroyed it ?
I wouldn't have actually done that, mind you, because I'm not a petty child... but I would have been tempted.
Edit for crybabies who lack basic reading comprehension skills: I am not ACTUALLY claiming that Jeeps are crap - that would be a stupid thing to do based on the fact that a single decades-old home built beater was bested on a single obstacle by my stock Defender. I am making fun of the biased BS comparisons that have been published.
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Oxford is a lovely thing.
Saw it at a landy show 3 years ago.
Rebuild and painted where it has to get work done.
The rest.... left as is. That patina has been in the making since 1955 so it would be rude to wipe it out.
cost me a dvd purchase to sit in it.
Amazing bit of history.
It’s owner has a new 110 as well.
soflorovers
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You should have done that...it would've saved us 200+ pages of "Rage/Hate"!
naks
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one of the local chaps did almost that - Two new Defenders having some fun offroad. Both with rear E-diff and advanced offroad package. White has 19 inch Goodyear Wrangler Adventurers A/Ts, while Brown has 22 inch.
His thoughts:
Corgi_express
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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 scroll through the modes is super laggy. I end up hitting the button and then choosing the mode on the touchscreen. I'd love it if this was more responsive.