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There are automatic brake releases for hill starts aren’t there - but that’s only parking brakes. This chap has his foot on the brakes, with the lights on, and yet they are released ...?

Thanks - I’ll have a listen later 😊

I thought he describes it ok ? He says the revs suddenly died and it stopped moving forward - so he put the brakes on and was going to reverse down when the brakes were electronically suddenly disengaged and so he started to roll down - he stayed in as much control as he could steering it backwards until he was able to put it into a rut to stop it.

Clicked form this thread to the BBC and this popped up : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-53933096

I saw that - it is new and it’s good isn’t it 😊

Wow 😮 Terrifying Dare I say - would you trust it again ?

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I would think they will when they’ve one ready ? Hasn’t some of their earlier blurb shared the names and roles of people they have selected to have them ? I remember an estate worker in the Highlands and a few others.

One thing is for certain - the Tour de France is a platform that will give them massive attention - although I suppose if they’d sponsored a war that would have been more rugged and got more press coverage ? 😂

And this long one : (Which is mainly about cycling!)

Those pictures we saw of the vehicles, with the motorcycle filming unit, must have been filing this launch for the cycling team and the vehicle:

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Good answer 😊. Hope you love it 😍 👍🏻

I thought you’d said you wouldn’t get one because of the depreciation?

Plus I’d rather cut my todger off than support Gerry McGovern being any more smug. No one needs to feel more right, or be confirmed in their self absorption, than that man clearly already does.

For me the difference though is that the Defender is a car. I remember when Mercedes brought out the ML, in the late 90’s, a local farmer bought one to replace his Defender - the sheep he put in the back ate the trim and the leather off the seats - he wasn’t bothered about that - what did bother him was how rapidly it fell to bits and how expensive parts and service were. He also (At that time) couldn’t get decent tyres on it and got stuck a lot. I expect the new Defender wouldn’t get stuck much - though you’d still struggle to get decent tyres for it so they would have limits a hill farmer would find, but more likely I very much doubt it has much toughness about it ... ....I think Ineos are trying to build their vehicle to be have minimal electronics, be modifiable, and be tough. Where I’d have more confidence in the reliability of minimal electronics on a BMW engine - than a car full of Land Rover gadgets - and I could more easily and cheaply configure it to suit my particular set of needs. So - I think you could use an expensive car full of clever electronics as an off road utility vehicle - but it’s not ideal.

Wow - that was me 10 years ago 😊 I can’t remember what it was - perhaps T6? you can buy a cheap set of torx bits or screwdrivers though; and it will be in a standard size set.

I had some strange earth issues on my 99MY Td5 - where the earths showed continuity but broke down under load. That turned out to be a partially melted earth header in the dash ... picture below of one of the non earth headers that’s in the same place. May be worth checking ?

Great - thanks for sharing. if the rebound is low energy, and thinking of how controllable a jet wash stream is, would you be able to say do a rear crossmember and not rush if stripping back the panels above it ?

What would they be serious about though? Let’s say the engine and gearbox is reliable enough to be viable for use by farmers and land workers - the majority of which will operate within a reasonable distance of civilisation. So for those users there is likely no cost vs risk based rationale for not using a Commercial Off The Shelf engine package. Who else ? Say explorers .... I would imagine the majority of those would operate with enough backing to start with a new vehicle and back up to recover them if something goes wrong. Overlanders ? Well youtube is full of clueless people in very modern vehicles half way around the world - so I don’t know what that means for it? So where is repairability going to stretch that ? I would say single low resource journeys into very remote places ? The world has got smaller - and these lifestyle overlanders seem to prove that - but of course there are places where your life would depend on being able to drive out. There probably isn’t a ton of places like that though and there probably isn’t a ton of people who do it? The other place where repairability increases as a priority is long term ownership and second hand market. I doubt either of those factor too highly in any commercial mindset, but I wonder if electric makes a difference for that? If not electric - then the fact that the electronics on the Ineos are largely limited to the engine then it should be ripe for putting different engines in further down the line.

I’ve just come back to those to say thank you for sharing @lo-fi Fantastic channel - it’s like some sort of idyllic life! Lovely people, great pace of life, and fantastic projects. 😊

That looks really smart ? What paint did you use ?

I’ve saved a load of places into my google maps on preparation for me going the 80” I’ll try to work out how to share them with you ...

Love the logo !