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Your 2016 Land Rover Year in Review


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For me I have to say the trip I made through Northern Sweden, Finland and Norway up to Nordkapp. Nearly 7200 km and the landy never missed a beat, I'd do it again tomorrow! You can read the blog that I used during the trip here: tukojack.blogspot.se

Looking forward to the offroading season and more long adventures with the landy in 2017....... DSC_0462_2.jpg

Todd.

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That's a great trip, Tuko.  We did almost the same, but extended to take in Prague and Vienna as well, in 2009.  Nearly 18,000km for us, and we got married on the way!

This year our highlight has been a six week camping trip to Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Haida Gwai, Prince Rupert and Kitemat, all on or just off the west coast of Canada.  That was a 5,000km trip and included a failed starter motor, fixed by a bit of bush engineering.  On that trip two particular highlights were firstly in Bella Bella where we were sitting on the beach by our Landy, drinking wine and watching seals and otters feeding on salmon that were trying to migrate up the local creek, and a few days later at Kitemat watching a pod of orcas just offshore, again probably feeding as they seemed to stay in the same area for about an hour, blowing every couple of minutes.  Unfortunately, these activities are not really photographable unless you have specialist equipment. The photo below was at one of our campsites.  The big blue section at the top is the underside of our Landy mounted canopy.

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Next year will be something different since I've started a complete tear down and rebuild from chassis up, so unless I break all world records for this project there'll be no Landy trip.

Mike

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Little trip to croatia was the main highlight this year. I doubt 2017 is going to include much of this, as I am still patching up the resulting problems; car problems, money, browny points, motivation etc. Still, I am glad it's crossed off the list!

 

Happy 2017, Daan

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9000 miles of mainly-fast-Motorway-and-open-road driving in my 90TD5. A bit of towing the big Bateson flatbed.

Still cruises happily at 90MPH and frightens the odd BMW.

Have discovered rot in the rear crossmember outriggers - will need work for the next MoT. Probably needs new discs/pads all round too (this is a standard every-two-years thing here; I'm hard on brakes!).

Precautionarily replaced the under-camshaft-cover injector wiring harness for the second time (last done in 2007) as there were signs of oil in the plug/socket again.

Only significant vehicle-off-road issue was leaking injector O-rings again (to me this is an every-70,000-miles service-item). I decided to replace them as soon as the "gurgling fuel-system and need to do purge-cycles" issue was first noticeable, because a set of copper washers is much cheaper than a new in-tank fuel pump.

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Not done a lot of off roading myself, bit of green laning here and there but almost all of the 34,000 miles done in 2016 were on the road.

MOT saw a bit of welding required - this year will be the same I think.

Meanwhile the 110 project moves forward at a snails pace, but limited progress is still progress.

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Tuko,

It seems that we move in the same circles.  My step son and his family live just outside Salmon Arm, and we're there every couple of months.  In Canadian terms it's almost next door, being only a 5hr drive from us.  My wife is Swedish and we try to visit her family in Sweden every year, mainly near Jonkoping.

Mike

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5 hours ago, miketomcat said:

Moved house, ended up with a single garage instead of a double, my ibex is in storage still and I only managed one days work on it and I've barely had time to keep up with maintenance on 45 and the 110. Here's to an interesting new year.

Mike

Hows work? Daan

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When I read " bit of welding require" that is the main reason why I sold the Disco in November. Call it lazy or getting old but repairing rust is not high on my list of favorite things to do anymore. With what is avail in the LR stable today and the bonker prices they are demanding it was not replaced with what's on offer, I hope that I'm not stoned for saying it, I bought a Dacia Duster. [Land Rover Content] I'm spoiled with my hybrid as nearly everything is galvanized so it will not be considered for sale in my lifetime.[/Land Rover Content]  

Jönköping is 2½ hours up the road from us. 

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Well on the downside I didn't sort everything on the 109 that I needed to.

On the upside, we did the Mk2 camper conversion on the ambulance which worked out really nicely...

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And took it to LeMans which was awesome...

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And then took it to Norway - 4750 miles in 2 weeks:

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Getting through another year of trundling around, towing boat, towing big Ifor Williams tipper and a bit of off road use here and there with no breakdowns, no oil leaking out, no water leaking in, and a general lack of all the things that people bang/witter on about in Defenders. Ten years old this year, just getting to 30k miles, so should be a couple of years left in it yet.

Currently taking in some pleasant and remote scenery to start 2017:

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David - glad it's not retiring permanently!

I almost forgot another one:

After 265,000 miles I retired the Freelander. Bought a "sensible" commuter car and passed the FL on to a club member who may well run it as a off-roader (so it's not dead yet!).

It did amazingly well.

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3,500 mile trip around Europe was probably the highlight this year, we covered France, Belguim, Switzerland and Italy in 2 and a bit weeks. The 110 performed faultlessly which is more than can be said for the 90 which is still languishing in a shipping container with a broken CV, seized starter motor and a minor clutch issue.

Stelvio Pass at 2,575m

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Gorge du Verdon was rather pretty also.

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Bought an Mpi for a laugh and very little money; fell in love with it. Did some welding. Did some servicing Half heartedly tried to sell it

Sold the D2 - it went to the Falklands. Almost bankrupted me, but what fun

Lots of preventative works to the Di 200Tdi - including a replacement rear axle, rear springs, shocks, clutch, UJ's and some other stuff. Great old bus, does what it says on the tin.

Bought a BMW 330 Touring - sold it; with three points on my licence. Sold my last bike

Had the first Davefest

 

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2016 Started with selling my VW T4 converted camper, in a bid to help fund my wedding. 

 

Then finished my V8 Series rebuild, well I had it road worthy and MOT'ed 2 weeks before it was due to be the wedding car. It has been apart for 5 years before this. Now have a few bits still left to sort, such as tuning, getting hot, and getting 4wd working as front diff is blown.

2016 also saw me buy a Td5 discovery with remaining cash after the wedding, to use as a more useable toy for off road and now pulling the horse box around. 

Plans for 2017

Finish bits on the series and decided what to do with it now. Keep it? Sell it? Change anything on it?

Lots of Off roading and Laning as I haven't had a working land rover for 6years

Maintain the Td5 already has a long list of maintenance jobs to do, front brakes and some annoying niggles, decide if chassis will last a year or whether it is best to break it come MOT time.

Use these vehicles to go to some amazing places! 

Jon 

 

 

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On ‎04‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 3:54 PM, FridgeFreezer said:

David - glad it's not retiring permanently!

I almost forgot another one:

After 265,000 miles I retired the Freelander. Bought a "sensible" commuter car and passed the FL on to a club member who may well run it as a off-roader (so it's not dead yet!).

It did amazingly well.

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They had one at KORC for a while which did amazingly well! The only thing that let it down was a lack of power from the V6 or lack of low box to get it up long long steep climbs.

 

Facbook video here, a stock defender / discovery 1 couldn't do what it does in this video and it didn't trash the sills etc!

 

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