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Mammasaid said:
Dafuq said:
Otherwise, it will probably still be going after the apocalypse.
It also has a sump guard, under body protection and a shoo roo, which is a sonic noise immitting box to supposedly clear my path.
Dafuq said:
Mammasaid said:
Dafuq said:
Otherwise, it will probably still be going after the apocalypse.
It also has a sump guard, under body protection and a shoo roo, which is a sonic noise immitting box to supposedly clear my path.
Also, those high pitch roo things, do they actually work at all?
Gingerbread Man said:
Dafuq said:
Mammasaid said:
Dafuq said:
Otherwise, it will probably still be going after the apocalypse.
It also has a sump guard, under body protection and a shoo roo, which is a sonic noise immitting box to supposedly clear my path.
Also, those high pitch roo things, do they actually work at all?
The Shoo Roo certainly gets their attention, not sure if it prevents them from doing daft sht though. They have a tendency to hop along the side of the car and then cut across in front of you for no reason. All I can say is that I haven't had an incident yet.
There is a school of thought over here that suggest one vehicle with a Shoo Roo on it can actually scare the animal into the path of other vehicles.
I rarely turn it in to be honest as I only go rural for about a week a month. Definitely doesn't work on pedestrians in Sydney, they are beyond help!
Edited by Dafuq on Monday 3rd July 08:08
Gingerbread Man said:
Ayahuasca said:
Dafuq said:
My wife has a similar Prado and it seems mostly plastic at the front.
Ebay impulse buy. 2.1k
What could go wrong . Everything seems to work, allegedly 87k miles.
Only issues I can find so far only one key. No jack and a bit of play in steering wheel but they all seem to have that both brake light bulbs blown. Even had four nearly new at tyres on air con nice and cold.
Seems to switch to 4 hi and low but no idea how to test it actually is other than I can hear a bit of a clunk when it does. No centre diff so 4x4 only only slippy,loose surfaces. Really don't like the Crome additions but other half says they are best bit ffs.
What could go wrong
. Everything seems to work, allegedly 87k miles. Only issues I can find so far only one key. No jack and a bit of play in steering wheel but they all seem to have that both brake light bulbs blown. Even had four nearly new at tyres on air con nice and cold.
Seems to switch to 4 hi and low but no idea how to test it actually is other than I can hear a bit of a clunk when it does. No centre diff so 4x4 only only slippy,loose surfaces. Really don't like the Crome additions but other half says they are best bit ffs.
Edited by Pesty on Saturday 26th August 15:54
Konan said:
Not my vehicle, but one from work.
Purchased to fulfil and odd role of something that could act as a bit of a van and also tow a mobile mast system across rough ground.
Took it to an off road course today (as you do) and, as much as I understand it shares it's layout with a Shogun, I figured the fact it's a 2 ton bus on road tyres would mean it was limited to all the 'easy' sections.
The thing is far more capable than I'd anticipated!
And we turned the seats around and sat down in it eating breakfast.
Had a drive of a 4x4 VW van, it was very good off road.Purchased to fulfil and odd role of something that could act as a bit of a van and also tow a mobile mast system across rough ground.
Took it to an off road course today (as you do) and, as much as I understand it shares it's layout with a Shogun, I figured the fact it's a 2 ton bus on road tyres would mean it was limited to all the 'easy' sections.
The thing is far more capable than I'd anticipated!
And we turned the seats around and sat down in it eating breakfast.
I used a Toyota Land Cruiser with a 6m mast on the back of it for doing CCTV surveys and surveillance, a lot of times I was on either unprepared sites or out in the hills somewhere.
Our other big truck, Stonefield P3000 6x4, is in the background here, it had 2 6m masts on it, actually they were 8m masts but they were locked off at 6m as that was the most common height for cameras.
The first one I was involved with, a Stonefield P3000 4x4 she was a fully autonomous in that she had a big battery pack and could supply 240V for about 4 hours without starting the engine or firing up the generator.
gazapc said:
I imagine one of the few 2wd in this thread...
VW Beetle baja conversion, 1.6, low range gearbox (about 10-15% lower than a standard beetle), raised front and rear using pretty much stock components, mud tyres etc...
Will go almost everywhere, turn up at p+play sites and people laugh at first, watch it go around and then say it must have 4 wheel drive.
The only thing it (and all others) struggles with is very deep water and long stretches of very slippy mud due to 1. quite low petrol engine and 2. lack of any limited slip/locking diff. There is a fairly active and growing uk club of them so something a bit different from the usual chrome and lowered classic VWs you see around.
That is actually amazing! I love it! VW Beetle baja conversion, 1.6, low range gearbox (about 10-15% lower than a standard beetle), raised front and rear using pretty much stock components, mud tyres etc...
Will go almost everywhere, turn up at p+play sites and people laugh at first, watch it go around and then say it must have 4 wheel drive.
The only thing it (and all others) struggles with is very deep water and long stretches of very slippy mud due to 1. quite low petrol engine and 2. lack of any limited slip/locking diff. There is a fairly active and growing uk club of them so something a bit different from the usual chrome and lowered classic VWs you see around.
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