Thread: 110 heavy duty ute - 4be or just a truck?

Originally Posted by Gq skyline

Thought I might get someone's attention! Tell me, does anyone know if a defender 110 with the heavy duty pack- you know,double coil springs and Michelin tubed tyres done the Simpson,robe or anywhere there is sand a plenty ?

mate are you fair dinkum!

Don't feed the Trolls lol
I wouldn't worry about the Simpson not much of a challenge have a look at some of Cols110 posts on this site.
His travels were an extreme example of sand travel.
Many Land Rovers over the last 40 years have been doing it daily not just as tourists once a year.

No- serious question! Just had to get someone's attention. Very specifically. Did these people run the factory standard tubed tyres ? I'm very interested to know.

Have a look at Len Beadell's books he surveyed most of the outback roads in Australia back in the 50s.
He predominantly used SWB Land Rovers with their original original tyres.
He faced more sand and bad conditions than anyone is likely to today.

Yer, Len did lots of roads and avoided sand dunes like the plague, his support vehicles were not made for sand! Now what about these new defenders with the tubed tyres, any thoughts or better still facts ? Can they do serious sand ?

I'm interested to know why you think they might not have run the factory standard tubed tyres ?

Originally Posted by Gq skyline

Yer, Len did lots of roads and avoided sand dunes like the plague, his support vehicles were not made for sand! Now what about these new defenders with the tubed tyres, any thoughts or better still facts ? Can they do serious sand ?

He created the roads. How on earth did he avoid the sand dunes?

Ok, I'll come clean. The landrover 110 HEAVYDUTYPACK official hand book as quoted to me by a very keen land rover owner, states pretty exciting tyre pressures 'for all loads' ,hence my keen interest for sand driving. Any experience of this out there?