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Edited to say 'PM Sent'

Ripley's website. Was on his profile..

Some more pictures available on the Horsham site courtesy of SimonR here.

Sometimes the name might give a clue. For example, The Lane from Hell is not wheel chair friendly....

Never heard him called that before... His name is Lee Longhurst. But as you say - he is the black bob driver at Slindon.

I doubt it. The two gentleman in the piccie are 'Diesel' Dave & Lee, neither of whom are forumeers.

Piccies posted on the Horsham 4x4 Gallery. 15 cars (11 Defenders, 1 Disco & 3 Jeeps) travelled over to France last weekend including myself and ChrisW. Fantastic camping weather and 10 hours driving through the sand sunes of Marcanterre Ornithological Park 50 miles north of Dieppe.

Welcome to the Forum, Sticky. If you want any specific piccies, just PM me, or contact Nige (HfH) for the DVD of the event.

I do fancy that James, but as I mentioned before, I'll be away elsewhere that weekend. I will be looking to sign up to do photos at more events in the future though. Thanks for the comments Si. Next purchase must be a 28-300 zoom lense, although it would be alot cheaper to buy a second camera and just keep wide angle and zoom lenses separate. Changing lenses in the wood is a b!tch! And yes - the fill in flash makes a vast difference, though it does white stuff out occasionally.

As weeks go, this one has been pretty carp. I won't bore you with the gory details, but the least of my problems has been the non-working FTP on the Horsham4x4 website (If anyone else is using Pipex/Webfusion, you may know what I'm talking about). Anyway - I've binned that host, and moved to FastHosts as SimonR suggested I should ages ago. So, the Horsham site is back, as is the gallery with the Mike Wolfe piccies. Plenty of forum members to be seen, and all of the piccies will be available, full size, on Nige's soon to be produced DVD. If anyone wants a picture and can't wait for Nige, then just PM me. //G

Interesting, Mr 300... Oh, Sorry,..Colin. When you find them so helpful that you do finally end up buying something, don't bother coming here with the post-sales horror story... We'll be busy eating HobNobs and Jaffa Cakes! //G

Interesting, 88. I didn't know that you could buy Wolves yet... I've asked what the 90 is going for. 11 years old, but barely run in.

Paid & PMd. Thx Jim.

Nice bow wave!

Now that someone has actually bothered to explain to me what this is actually about, I'll have a couple of XLs please! One of each design above if possible. Can't go around with just an old fashioned X-Eng shirt now can I Si?

What a load of macho bullsh*t! As Tim says - trailering a V8 is a perfectly reasonable excuse for trailering your vehicle about, as is not wearing out expensive tyres as per OF. If you really spend your time at comps bragging about how you drove there and how you'll quite happily one day try to drive back 250 miles with two knackered half shafts and a shattered CV, then bully for you. Personally, life's too short, and I'd rather get home to the warm bosum of my soon to be wife than drive offsite like a wounded hero, and skulk around on the main road waiting for the AA to maybe pick me up, if they feel like it and relay me home for six hours! Of course - maybe your car is in fact indescructable, and I am in fact a wuss!

FISH & CHIPS & Coke for two please! Sorry I missed this before.

I'll be up in Northhampton during the weekend of the 20th & 21st January. My brother wants to go 'offroading' for the first time. So as the subject says, any play days in the area that weekend?

Sorry Chris - but unless I'm being completely dozy, I can't see another tank in that piccie. I see a raised platform with stuff shoved underneath it..

That's why he once helped to rewire my car so I could jump start it through the cigar lighter before we noticed the gear selector was still in drive!

It's all so true! When you have friends who are so practical, it's hard not to feel very inadequate! But that's what friends are for! I could not have built my car on my own. Apart from my complete lack of confidence in my own abilities, there's the general level of experience that comes from people who have done it, and more importantly, not done it because things go wrong. I knew what I wanted, but didn't know how to get there. With the help of my friends, we've done what other people probably spend thousands doing.

Can't be a real D2 then! Whenever a warning light appears on my dash, it's accompanied by it's own special BONG BONG BONG noise. The last time this happened it was the centre dif warning light came on and the car went BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG... and so on... The thing is, I have a Disco II! It doesn't have a BONG BONG BONG centre diff!!! It has four wheel independant BONG BONG BONG suspension! BONG BONG BONG! Problem was - I was in Scotland, 400 odd miles from home, with another 130 to go before I reached my mother's place in Fife. BONG BONG BONG, BONG BONG BONG!!! We called out Land BONG BONG BONG Rover Assist and when he eventually arrived, minus his usual tools - "I'm on my way home for a two week BONG BONG BONG holiday, and I've left all the bits with my BONG BONG BONG colleague" - he concurred that the faulty piece of BONG BONG BONG equipment wasn't actually fitted to the car, so it couldn't be BONG BONG BONG broken. "It must be the BONG BONG BONG sensor". He tried to see if it could be BONG BONG BONG disabled, but alas no. We carried on our BONG BONG BONG journey and turned the radio up. bong bong bong. It helped a bit. bong bong bong... The following day I took the car to a local dealer in Cupar in Fife, just to ask if there was any way of disabling the bloody thing before we drove home the following day. There was nothing! No BONG BONG BONG!! It had fixed itself!! For about five BONG BONG BONG miles anyway..... bong bong bong, up went the radio volume. The Cupar Dealership were fantastic. He fiddled with the car for about an hour. No charge. Not fixed..... "Sorry Sir, the alarm it's the main alarm for the vehicle. It cannot be disabled without fixing the underlying problem. It must be the redundant centre diff sensor". "Oh!", I said. "I've got to drive this thing home for five hundred miles! Is there nothing you can do? I will pay!!" "Sorry, Sir" So believe BONG BONG BONG me, a few lights on the BONG BONG BONG dash is nothing! Try driving BONG BONG BONG home 530 miles with the BONG BONG BONG car complaining about a BONG BONG BONG problem it hasn't actually f**cking BONG BONG BONG got!!!!

Where did you but the batteries? MVF? Do they do online or telephone sales and ship them? I got my 120 A alternator off X-Eng.

It doesn't affect the ability to set the default browser. Firefox will still be just fine.

S'OK Les - I got some fresh Swarfega and some of Dawn French's knickers off eBay for you this year!