Thread: 110 vs 130 Off road

The best thing I noticed when I got my 130 is with the longer wheel base, you can drive over the standard chew ruts that you find on up hill sections. Front wheels are through the holes as the rear wheels drop in. I have amazed myself & other how much further I could travel compared to a open diffs 4wd of standard length. If its hard core, well, I watch & have a beer, mine's a tourer.

Originally Posted by Ranga

Out of interest, got specs for both of these?

Turning circle 110 - vast.
Turning circle 130 - epic. Titanic. Brobdingnagian

Weight 110 - not too heavy
Weight 130 - slightly more but not by much.

Originally Posted by Ranga

Out of interest, got specs for both of these?

To add to Vlad's Jonathan Swift method of measurement.

Weight depends on the variant however from the LR site these are the specs for these variants:

Turning radius:
110 Wagon 6.4 m
130 Crew Cab HCPU 7.54m

Gross Vehicle Mass:
110 Wagon 3050kg
130 Crew Cab HCPU 3500kg

Unladen Mass:
110 Wagon 2024kg
130 Crew Cab HCPU 2050kg

You'll note that turning dimension for Defenders is measured as radius not diameter because they can only turn in arcs not circles.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Turning circle 110 - vast.
Turning circle 130 - epic. Titanic. Brobdingnagian

Weight 110 - not too heavy
Weight 130 - slightly more but not by much.

Unless you have a steel tray. HCPU weighs around 60Kg. My steel tray weighed something like 400Kg.

My mate has a puma 130 and I was very impressed in how it goes offroad. When compared to my 110 with the sals that drags on all the deep ruts he drove over heaps of stuff that I got stuck on it was very frustrating. But as mentioned the length is similar to a patrol and the 130 is higher, I actually would love a 130 myself

Depending on how you define offroad?

If you include fast dirt sections it is hard to beat a 130 over broken fast dirt terrain.
The long wheel base lets it lope along at speed, the long wheel base corners in a very controlled manner - no snappy oversteer if you go in too hot.

For cruising the dirt byways up this way I just love the ride of the 130 (especially when it has a few 44s and camping gear on board).

Steve

My county being 135 inch is great off road even with its saged stock springs i havent had any issues andnowive turned in my lock stops all the way running the neg 25 rims and the 285's the turning radius is much nicer and has made carparks more useable

Originally Posted by lokka

andnowive turned in my lock stops all the way running the neg 25 rims and the 285's the turning radius is much nicer and has made carparks more useable

Hmmm... wonder if it's any value doing similar for a 130?