What do you take off road?

What do you take off road?

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signia

Original Poster:

479 posts

225 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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What 4x4s do people have then?
What modifications?
What do you like doing in them? Greenlaning, play days? Or do you drive them for work?

Introduce your P&Js here!

I've got a '96 Discovery V8. With a few mods. Pics up in a bit....

edited for photos--->





Mainly used for green laning so far, although March beckons with a P&P day with some of you guys!


Edited by signia on Tuesday 29th January 16:06

t0ny99

1,238 posts

242 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Mine, currently sulking...

Stock, except removal of excess shiny bits and addition of new rims and A/Ts


Morningside

24,110 posts

230 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Signia where did you get your wheel cover from? Or is it a plain wheelcover with a vinyl logo?

signia

Original Poster:

479 posts

225 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Morningside said:
Signia where did you get your wheel cover from? Or is it a plain wheelcover with a vinyl logo?
Yep, that's all it is. PH don't do wheel covers in the PH Shop unfortunately! Just got the biggest size they did and a cheap glossy black wheel cover.

There are a few Pistonheads.com and Speed Matters logos on the side too which you can't quite see from those pics.


Kermit power

28,673 posts

214 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Mine is an S reg 3.0 V6 LWB Shogun.

Currently completely standard other than BFG A/Ts. I am just looking into what might be sensible in terms of mods, bearing in mind it is also the main family transport now that we have a 3rd sprog due in a couple of weeks, so I'm setting about saving up the thousands needed to supercharge Kermit! biggrin

paradigm shift

71 posts

199 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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1988 LR 110 with a 200tdi conversion. Fairly battered and usually muddy biggrin

itsallyellow

3,663 posts

221 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Hi,

Spent the whole of my youth offroading. Still have a 90, a couple of old range rovers, a p38a and a disco.

Some pics


















Mike

normalbloke

7,461 posts

220 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Unimog ( in profile )

1979 CJ7 (AMC360 V8 inj,winches,35's,lockers,etc etc etc etc .......and for sale shortly)

bmwdrivernigel

8,596 posts

225 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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That is mental biggrin


signia

Original Poster:

479 posts

225 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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bmwdrivernigel said:
That is mental biggrin
absolutely biggrin

Yellow - just curious as I'm thinking of lift / wheel size increase myself when cash flow allows. What do you have on there? Looks lifted and obviously bigger wheels. Saw you cut the rear fender, but did you make any mods at the front end or the sills to get the wheels to fit?

Also - what did you do about the overread on the speedo as a result?

100SRV

2,135 posts

243 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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What 4x4s do people have then?
A 100" Bowler, I built it in 1998. Unusual because it is a 100" wheelbase with doors and full canvas.

What modifications?
Powertrain is 10" further back than stock Range Rover position, the engine is a 3.9 v8 on SU carburetters. Suspension has Fox 12" dampers but is otherwise stock linkage (lower rate coils though). Other than that it's pretty standard Bowler spec.

What do you like doing in them? Greenlaning, play days? Or do you drive them for work?
I use it for green laning and occasionally commute in it.


MaximumJed

745 posts

233 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Currently got this little Vitara:





Not really got many pictures of it, but it's done everything we've asked of it so far.

Mods:
Bits4Vits suspension lift
Rock Sliders
31" tyres
Diff Guard
Grand Vitara Front Diff

Usually go to Pay and Play days, but did quite a bit of greenlaning last summer and if I ever get round to getting the front diff seals changed (anyone got any suggestions?) we'll be back at Woodlands and Bures embarassing the bigger machinery smile

Psimpson7

1,071 posts

242 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Here's my 2001 td5 90.
Full cage
Front and rear lockers
Front and rear winches
OME Ltr's
etc etc

Pic taken in Queensland.



Edited by Psimpson7 on Tuesday 29th January 22:53

Ballistic Banana

14,698 posts

268 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Most Days

Unimog 1250l
Unimog Landstar
Land Rover Defender

JCB and Quad Honda Big Red

Isnt much insentive to move into the office hehe

BB

laser_jock99

371 posts

227 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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I've only got one vehicle - it has to get me 25 miles to work and back, reliably, every day (including the offroad sections!). Cart the family round in comfort at weekends, tow the boat, shift logs etc. etc. My (slighly modified) car is therefore a Toyota Hilux. Mods so far- 2" suspension lift, 2" body lift, 33" tyres, 2" rear coil spring spacers, custom stainless offroading exhaust.






Edited by laser_jock99 on Tuesday 29th January 23:49

normalbloke

7,461 posts

220 months

Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Isn't that a surf?

Landy Andy

1,120 posts

211 months

Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Standard 1998 Freelander Xedi- surprisingly good in the rough stuff (you need to see it to believe it)



Standard 2002 Discovery Adventurer LE, picking it up on Sunday. Think it's going to be too shiny to take off road yet.



Looking forward to being laughed at wink

Kermit power

28,673 posts

214 months

Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Landy Andy said:
Standard 2002 Discovery Adventurer LE, picking it up on Sunday. Think it's going to be too shiny to take off road yet.

Looking forward to being laughed at wink
laugh When I picked up the Shogun, the guy was really apologetic about the fact that he'd not had time to get it cleaned since it came back from having the cam belt changed. This despite the fact that the thing was absolutely spotless!

All the mud and the branch scratches are purely my own work of the last 10 days. I very much doubt it had ever been off road in the 9 years and 144,000 miles it had existed before I got it! laugh

By the way, there is no such thing as "too shiny". wink

Morningside

24,110 posts

230 months

Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Kermit power said:
.....I very much doubt it had ever been off road in the 9 years and 144,000 miles it had existed before I got it! laugh........
I presume yours being a Shogun (ie TRUE UK model) that it is in miles and NOT kilometers? Mine has had the speedo dial converted to mph but the odometer still reads kilometers and therefor the car has only covered 80,000.

john_r

8,353 posts

272 months

Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Disco II Mk3 TD5 7-Seat

Spends most of it's life green laning in Wales, lugging crap around and crossing flooded fields!

A picture of it just after being cleaned - which is a rare sight as it's normally an off brown colour... biggrin