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I found a problem with the tdi offroad and what was much better with the v8 was the acceleration. By this I don't mean the 0-60 I mean you come to the bottom of a steep hill going over rough terrain at a walking pace and you want to get a bit of speed to the wheels to get up the hill. The v8, despite having poor bhp per cc and litre of fuel, gave you power across the whole rev range and you could get a bit of momentum quite quickly by being in a longish gear. The TDi had to be on the turbo to get that push and the available rev range between turbo coming in and running out of revs was quite narrow, you couldn't change gear on the hill and would often fail due to either lack of wheel speed due to too low gear or losing power due to revs dropping off the bottom of the turbo due to too high gear.
I find this is the same with modern downsized engines. The 2 litre may well have 200bhp on paper but the power band is so narrow it's lost its driveability. That's why they are going for the 10 gear quick shift automatics, to try to give it enough ratios to use the narrow power band when accelerating and keep the revs as low as possible for economy when driving.
Due to this I don't find you can take any notice of quoted max power in car adverts, you have to drive the thing to see how well it's setup.
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To be fair high lift Jack's rarely work here, you usually see people kicking the pins. You could put one inside the rear or passenger door, I think defender door gaps would allow a charging cable through.
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I think Doug is right. I still wouldn't be the first to buy one or spend that much though. Let someone else iron out the bugs.
I love how they call the regenerative braking a mild hybrid to try make it sound more pc.
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Do the brake lights stay on with the key out? Bit of a fudge but you could wedge the brake pedal down and plug the charger into the brake light connection. You'll lose a few amps of the chargers output to the bulbs though. Your brakes might start sticking too 😂
Personally I would just put one of the ctek sockets on the seat box or an Anderson connection so you can jump start too.
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Every hgv in the last probably 20 years has a trailer electrical brake connection for the abs system. The brakes are still air but the abs has to be working for the trailers annual mot and 6-12 weekly safety inspection. It's not impossible but it does take maintenance at least once a decade. I think a lot of the problems with uk trailers is that they have the cheapest, nastiest connections possible in the plugs and lamp holders. If they were wired to the same standard as a car they would be better. I think sealed led until are a big improvement on filament lamp holders and the 13pin plug is a big improvement on the 7.
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I think the jeep is affordable with a reasonable level of tech and it's still possible to replace bumpers, sills etc with more robust ones if required.
The g wagon might still have the original at heart but look at the product range, it's a 5 litre v8 with a gaudy body kit and low profile tyres then diff locks in all axles. You physically cant get it to a place where you need the difflock without ripping the trim off and ruining a carpet which is better suited to a tarts boudoir. It's become the ultimate Chelsea wives tractor.
People keep sayings it's not what farmers want as it's too high tech. Has anyone been in a modern tractor, they're a long way from straddling the gearbox and winding a handle behind you for the linkage. However the farmers seem to want a cheap vehicle for running around in, queue the range of pickups available, and a range rover type for when they go out on a shoot etc. I dont think this fits either of those roles.
I would drive the new defender due to the seat options and side opening rear door as much as anything. It's a more capable nissan xtrail, or a freelander 3 and as such it should be £35k - £50k. £90k is a joke. However for the price I would rather have a land cruiser. I hope it sells though as I want jlr to continue operating factories and design in the uk. They just need bear grills and one of the many famous Essex girls (you know the sort, the ones that are famous for the sake of being famous not for any actual axhievement) to endorse it and it will be away.
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OOO yellow bits
There is a lego version too, £160... so I can't afford that one either
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I looked at getting a transporter kombi but the cool tax was too much. Way over priced for what they are. Cars have jumped up in price but you can still get deals. Our citroen relay at work had a list price of £27,000+vat and we paid £14,000+vat brand new. OK its not a transporter but it's a works van.
The front wing reminds me of the little Jeep that fiat make. The back looks like a countryman.
I would have one, I like the lots of seat options, the air suspension and the wash down kit, the storage rails, cool box, remote warm up, built in towing eyes, rubber liners, winch option, roof box garage storage, , also like the petrol option. I'm put off by the auto only gearbox and Land Rovers reliability record when it comes to tech.
However the number 1 problem, the one I've just priced up online was £85,707. That is so far out of my league, i don't have that to spend on a car. Even as a company car it would cost me about £1,200 a month in BIK tax, I don't have that to spend on a car I'm never going to own either. It's also not far off a v8 G-class.
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You need to have the MOT / service history to hand to back up the mileage or people won't believe it. MOT is online if he hasn't kept the paperwork. It would sell for sure and get a higher price than a typical one but it's not got a huge following so I wouldn't expect a fortune. I'm of the opinion that a low mileage car has probably done a lot of short trips which isn't great for anything where oil needs to be pumped to and has stood a lot which doesn't seem to do a lot for rubber parts so I don't think it's always a better buy. Factor in a screen (insurance claim with excess to pay or second hand) and 4 tyres and the buyer probably looking at £400 bill straight away plus the risk of what else will it need for the MOT, as if all it needed was a screen and tyres I would wonder why the owner didn't just put them on for the MOT and keep it.
I would see what is offered with and without as PX (some makes are doing scrappage schemes at the moment I believe) and look at prices on ebay then work out what the best deal is for him in £££.
If he is buying new I would look on carwow, you say what you want and dealers make offers, you can get some good deals if you don't mind travelling to collect.
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Maybe that's an argument to support trailer MOTs rather than banning electric? There are some absolute heaps of junk around here. I saw one where the guy had put a coil spring in the middle of the axle, I guess to get it to carry more weight, the axle was like a banana.
Linked brakes are much better than over run.
You used to be able to tow more than 3.5 tonne with linked brakes, I'm sure you could order a defender with trailer air brakes and a 4.5 tonne towing limit from the factory.
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I don't mind it, it's not a "defender" but that name does help with the marketing. Maybe if everyone calls old defenders 90's and 110s then that keeps them with the series family and this with a new family
I would class it as an SUV that you can actually take off tarmac rather than one of the many that you can't.
Lets face it it was never going to be £20k, LR aren't interested in that market, but very few people actually buy new cars, most PCP or whatever, the monthly payment comes down to more than just the list price, it's to do with resale value, bulk discounts etc, and as most people PCP so that they can have a more expensive car than they can actually afford having a high ticket price but a lower PCP price actually attracts buyers who want others to look at them as if they're more important than they are. Or maybe I'm just cynical...
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I thought electric brakes weren't allowed in the uk? When I looked at getting a us import 5th wheel caravan I was told I had to have the brakes converted to air and a compressor fitted to the tow vehicle? The guy down the road from me has a Bowden cable attachment in the grill of his panda, I guess there are different ways of doing it.
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Most people seem to suggest trailer laws apply.
The axiom or whatever it's called is light enough without brakes. (Little French thing with a put put engine)
For recovery you can a frame to the nearest safe place.
The ones I've seen have over run brakes on all wheels (so generally cant use a handbrake) which have to meet a certain efficiency (no idea if you need the servo to meet it, guess that depends on the car) which seem to be added to a car with a cable connecting from a frame to the front grill. I assume you also have to keep the steering lock off, correct rear numberplate, connect lights (sometimes a light board, sometimes it's the cars actual lights) and have red triangular reflectors 🤷♂️
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I'm on holiday at the moment and one of the theme parks we've been too has 4 electric charging points which have been full every day. Some days there have been 2 cars sat waiting to use them. So they come out at closing time then you can put yours on charge and...
Guess you need a long cable so you can unplug them when they're finished charging and ... block them in.
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But then buys it and spends their life in a queue on the motorway, queue on a country road, queue in a city, queue in the carpark and gets into trouble for driving on the grass?
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30i hate toucshscreen too, ok for programming a satnav but shouldn't be allowed for anything needed when moving. In my old cars I could find the radio buttons by feel without looking, cant do that with a touch screen. Like the old phones with buttons, I could send a text without looking at the phone... it didn't always make sense but it sent
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Whatever your opinions of the vehicle, I think we'd all like to be the test drivers!
9 hours ago, BogMonster said:No chance pal!
In that case I suggest the moderators do a deal with the web host which allows lr4x4 to leave the host whilst still being hosted by the host. I would suggest the most appropriate deal would be one which neither the lr4x4 moderators or host moderators desire. If both sides object to the deal equally then logic states they will all agree to it as it's fair. If they don't just keep blindly putting the same deal forward for vote in the hope that people get bored of voting and give up whilst being completely oblivious to the fact that their time wasting is more crippling to the community than either being hosted or not hosted by the host.
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Only if the moderators are going to abide by the vote and not vote to overrule the vote because they know better than the voters despite not knowing better than the voters before the voters voted else they could've better guided the voters on how best to vote then the voters would've voted the way they were supposed to vote.
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I feel it's one of my special skills, however I think this is cause by the vast amount of waiting we are doing in anticipation of the new defender. It's like an automotive brexit
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3 hours ago, Snagger said:
The thing is, the UK makes a lot of the best kit - we make the best ships, best submarines, best tanks, and are the key ingredient in making some of the top aircraft (notice how similar Typhoon is to the early 80s BAe EAP, and remember how Saab and Lockheed had to bring BAe in to sort out the Grippen and the STOVL aspect of F35?). Sourcing at home is also the cheapest, though the ticket price may be higher, as the supplier will pay corporate taxes at home, their staff will pay income taxes and NIC here, and they will be paying VAT on their shopping and local government rates/taxes, so a lot of the spend comes back in tax revenue, while foreign kit sees the money go abroad and never return. It’s amazing how little politicians and the civil service understand about things like that...
I completely agree that if the government spend £1 supporting an industry they get £1.50 back in taxes and a £2.00 saving on unemployment related spending or whatever. It's the dilemma they're having at the steelworks at S****horpe at the moment. They claim it will put 20,000 people out of work. The steelworks wanted help to pay a £120 million EU fine for pollution as they've been frozen out of the EU carbon trading scheme due to brexit. The government claim they can't directly help due to EU rules. The business has been close to closure for decades, if the price of steel goes up they're ok, if it goes down they're losing money. As a business it is as inefficient as the NHS but it's hard to control something that big. However I think it would be worthwhile for the politicians trying to keeping it going rather than just trying to blame other departments.
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On 8/10/2019 at 12:16 PM, Snagger said:
I don’t know if it’s our politicians and civil servants being so incompetent or the EU having rules that are only enforced against the UK (as seen in so many different issues), but we seem to uniquely spend a lot of public money abroad for stuff we could easily employ people to produce domestically.
I work in manufacturing and am as dismayed by the offshoring that various politicians have enabled and encouraged, and I would agree that the UK MOD should by local rather than cheapest, however my only reservation would be if I'm sending a person to war I would want my priories to be 1) best equipment, 2) locally sourced 3) cheapest.
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Most tech colleges still do NVQs etc in welding although finding evening classes is becoming very difficult unless you want "how to use an ipad" or "introduction to English for none English speakers". Most only cater for 16+ full time or part time. I looked at doing a tig welding one but it was in two parts and they were £600 each so decided not to.
The other alternative is private training companies aimed at businesses which are a bit more flexible, sometimes it's a guy coming to you, but they can cost more.
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I guess the angle of rotation has to be right too?
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Can you measure the resistance of the pot and get a 50p stock one off the internet then make a mount for it?
Track/Plunge/Circular saw buying woes.
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A guy I knew was into making dolls houses, the posh ones. He made all his own tools which all fitted into a single car garage and all folded away so he could get his car in at night. It was pretty impressive to see to be honest. He used sliding door tracks for his circular saw, they had roller bearings inside so were very accurate and remained very straight and were long enough to cut through a full sheet of wood. It was mounted to a fold out contraption from the wall so he could just throw a sheet of wood on the move the saw side to side and forwards and backwards to make the cut he needed without having to mark things up and clamp things on the wood. Might be something in it.
Alternatively for my router I made a longer guide out of aluminium then got someone to tig it together for me.