Thread: The wait is over!

Originally Posted by gregc

............ you still can't hear the radio or your passenger's voice on the highway, especially if the road's wet (which it has been 99% of the time since I picked it up). I'm thinking of taking it back and asking for another layer. Or should I just suck it up?...............

Go for a drive it a Tdi or even a Td5, then you will realise the Puma is not so bad after all.

My 300Tdi is so loud I'm thinking of getting stickers made up - "Deafener 110".
Tdi = Terrible din inside

Nice one Greg, she's a fine looking Landy, I hope you have a long & happy relationship with her. My first Landy experience was a SIIA that was given to us as a work vehicle when my old man worked on lighthouses. I reckon I was about four or five years old. Loved em ever since. If she makes ya smile it can only be a good thing. Regards Chris,Lisa & Bess.

Greg,

they really do look gorgeous in silver.

Congrats!!!

Originally Posted by dawsey

great lookin defender.. I've had mine 2 months and Im still learning how to drive it the way it likes to be driven..my first land rover as well and I think its fantastic..taken it bush and in the sand its no suzuki sierra (thats what Ive driven for the last 20 years) but it comes close.lol...have fun with it..

Dawsey,

You'll definitely have to come out play with us at some stage... Definitely not a "buggy" like the Suzuki, but it's so much more!!!

Cheers,

Lou

So it's been a few days now and the more I drive it, the more I love it. I'm getting much more used to driving it now, getting used to the turning circle, etc. The smile on my face just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I've started making excuses to go out just so I can drive it .

Also I got my first Defender wave the other day

I've already left the lights on once haha but luckily I turned around to see if the indicator lights were flashing when I locked it and I noticed, so disaster averted. The interior light comes on when the door's open and I'm used to not having a door light on the dash, one of my old cars was the same. And I'm getting more used to the noise now too, and since the road's not so wet, it's fine now.

I grew up looking at photos of the overland trip my mum did in 1976 in a SIII from the UK across Europe, the Middle East, Nepal and India to Sri Lanka, so it was inevitable that I was going to be a Defender owner, and now I've got one, I couldn't be happier

Congratulations Greg,

I am very very very envious and hope you absolutely love your new bus

Cheers,
Nige

I went and found some tame offroad tracks the other day. I'm fairly new to 4wding but the car more than made up from my lack of skill

I had some corrugations on the way there, which were fine, but when I went to open the boot I found it full of metal shavings. Has anyone else experienced this?