Frontera up Snowdon

[billzeebub]

I have just been reading this on a news site..hilarious, when all the Mountain Rescue guys say they wouldn't dream of taking a car up there. Probably doesn't look quite as amazing because there is a train in the shot..but that is a specially adapted mountain train isn't it..

bet the car is not registered to the fella that did the stunt!!..

would be funny if it remained forever a mystery and they left it there!!..could start a new sport when/if they decide to stick average speed cameras in the Hindhead tunnel..beat the Frontera Challenge up Snowdon..

[mr2mk1chick]

theironduke said:

Whats the mystery?

Its got a rear plate, why dont the fuzz run it, contact the owner and ask WTF their car is doing up Snowdon?

front plate is also in the windscreen. it will be fun to await the whole story.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=473403

owner/driver spent 9 hours in a police cell apparently. hope they do charge him for the recovery fees...

[ChiChoAndy]

9 hours in a police cell for driving a car up a hill. Seems extreme.

[0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

pablo said:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=473403

owner/driver spent 9 hours in a police cell apparently. hope they do charge him for the recovery fees...

Who cares, they should also charge all the idiot climbers who get stuck

[Shaw Tarse]

ChiChoAndy said:

Can't possibly be true. They are crap, don't ya know! Mime was great in the snow, (proper snow too)

[icepop]

It belongs to the path/railway maintenance crew, orange light is a big clue.....oh and the fact it's on Snowden!!!!!

[VeeFour]

icepop said:

I only read the first post before posting a pointless and inaccurate comment

Colour me not surprised!

[Beyond Rational]

icepop said:

It belongs to the path/railway maintenance crew, orange light is a big clue.....oh and the fact it's on Snowden!!!!!

Congratulations on being utterly stupid.

[vit4]

I don't understand the flak that Fronteras get. My mate had one, probably the most abused car I've known and it took it all. I think he had to replace the brakes but seeing as he treated it like a hot hatch and drove it 100% all the time I think that's pretty good going! And whilst no serious off-roading was done, it did a lot of towing and some stuff that would leave the soft-roaders stuck, and it never blinked.

[slipstream 1985]

what exactly is the problem. if it drove up it coud drive down

[davepoth]

slipstream 1985 said:

what exactly is the problem. if it drove up it could drive down

Mechanical failure or ran out of fuel I'd guess.

[anonymous-user]

0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa said:

pablo said:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=473403

owner/driver spent 9 hours in a police cell apparently. hope they do charge him for the recovery fees...

Who cares, they should also charge all the idiot climbers who get stuck

only the "idiot climbers" are not breaking the law, the morons who try to ascend mountains in flip flops and a cagoule deserve to be fined, someone dressed appropriately who falls and injures themselves really shouldnt be classed i nthe same bracket...

[Tinod]

pablo said:

0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa said:

pablo said:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=473403

owner/driver spent 9 hours in a police cell apparently. hope they do charge him for the recovery fees...

Who cares, they should also charge all the idiot climbers who get stuck

only the "idiot climbers" are not breaking the law, the morons who try to ascend mountains in flip flops and a cagoule deserve to be fined, someone dressed appropriately who falls and injures themselves really shouldnt be classed i nthe same bracket...

On that same note the car did also seem rather well equipped.

[HellDiver]

I wonder how many halfshafts, diff casing, steering rods and clutches a Defender would have gone through getting up there? Assuming the chassis didn't rust away half way up?

[RenesisEvo]

vit4 said:

I don't understand the flak that Fronteras get. My mate had one, probably the most abused car I've known and it took it all. I think he had to replace the brakes but seeing as he treated it like a hot hatch and drove it 100% all the time I think that's pretty good going! And whilst no serious off-roading was done, it did a lot of towing and some stuff that would leave the soft-roaders stuck, and it never blinked.

Some will have good things to say, some won't.

A friend of mine had one, 5 door with the smaller engine (I forget which). It had very rusty front bars, and was unbelievably slow - the speedo needle moved about the same rate that the second hand moves on my watch, even in third on its way to 40 mph. The electrics packed up - the indicators stopped working at one point en route, so I being the passenger assisted with hand signals. Also the dashboard is nasty and illogical, but that's just my opinion. I've never driven one, but that experience means I'm not desperate for a go.

[jmorgan]

Last thing it needs is people getting idea's to do this.

[skwdenyer]

jmorgan said:

Last thing it needs is people getting idea's to do this.

Plenty of people have had the idea to do this, myself included. I wouldn't want to do it in the dead of night, however, just because it would rather defeat the object of being able to see the view!

Out of interest, what would the offence be for the chap who did this?

[cptsideways]

It's not exactly a difficult track to drive up, you can cycle up it easily (or used to be able to) & you can cycle down it in 7 mins if your brave. I think you could get most cars up there of any sort without a lot of bother, its hardly challenging unless it was foggy.

[Caulkhead]

HellDiver said:

I wonder how many halfshafts, diff casing, steering rods and clutches a Defender would have gone through getting up there? Assuming the chassis didn't rust away half way up?

As you could drive an overloaded transit on bald tyres up the track without breaking a sweat I'm guessing none. . . . . . .

PS - my 90 V8 CSW owned from new in 1989 has off-roaded all over the place including just about every Welsh vehicular right of way, the Pyrenees, the Alps, Poland, North Africa, several camel trophy selection sites and dozens of quarries. It still has its' original halfshafts, diff casings, steering rods, clutch and entire chassis despite now having 84,000 hard miles under her belt and frequently pulling 3.5 tonnes.