Thread: Do not like! Side effects of owning Defender

I've still got an old 110 county , I've had it for years . At one time it was my pride and joy . It has a 4.4 with a Holley carbie , extractors Big exhaust , stage two cam , electronic ignition . R 380 box . It sounds like a Naz Car , and pulls like a steam train ! I was sitting at a Red light when a Ferrari sports car pulled up next to me . Due to my hight I couldn't see the driver . I gave it a little squirt , and it roars . Well he did the same , " took the bait " So another little rev . Well when the lights changed , off he went like a bat out of hell ! After all a Ferrari drive can't be seen to be upstaged by an old 110 . I watched him go and had to laugh out loud . I still think about that every time I see a Red Ferrari !!.. Jim

Thats funny. If I was in the Ferrari ( Like that's ever going to happen) I would dawdle away from the lights in contempt.

Originally Posted by hey_burgs

Side effects of owning a Defender?

Having to explain to people, as politely as possible, that it's not actually a Jeep...

I have a good junk of customers from the United Kingdom (yes thats all the little islands together) and it is a normal term for a 4wd "Jeep" .... its a bit like how they see all AU and NZ as the same, from their point of view its not an insult.

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by jimr1

I've still got an old 110 county , I've had it for years . At one time it was my pride and joy . It has a 4.4 with a Holley carbie , extractors Big exhaust , stage two cam , electronic ignition . R 380 box . It sounds like a Naz Car , and pulls like a steam train ! I was sitting at a Red light when a Ferrari sports car pulled up next to me . Due to my hight I couldn't see the driver . I gave it a little squirt , and it roars . Well he did the same , " took the bait " So another little rev . Well when the lights changed , off he went like a bat out of hell ! After all a Ferrari drive can't be seen to be upstaged by an old 110 . I watched him go and had to laugh out loud . I still think about that every time I see a Red Ferrari !!.. Jim

I once revved it up and took off from the lights and beat a Porsche to 60 km/h, which was amusing. After that I stopped trying. He was so shocked he floored it and rushed off past me, way over the speed limit. It was funny to watch.


I keep seeing trails of ants running across the white bonnet and guards when I come out in the morning. They stand out. Sprayed around the gaps, but haven't found their nest yet.

The other day I bought 3 bottles of the hottest chili sauce I could find, mixed them with a couple of litres of cooking oil, and spent a few hours making loosely closed glad wrap water bombs with the mixture and trying to lob them into next door's fig tree to drench the branches.

Mixed success - some went sailing right through the tree and onto the ground beyond. Some went into the tree but didn't open up, just falling to the ground. some flew open in mid-flight. But about a quarter hit and then released, dripping onto branches, leaves, fruit etc.

i couldn't reach the top or the far side of the tree, but there's been a definite reduction to almost 0% in the flying fox poo on the Defender.

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Before the glad wrap bombs I'd also tried buying some water bomb balloons, but they require pressure to expand and I had no way to pressure fill chili into them.

Also tried the Gerny water jet but it actually doesn't reach very far - much less than the hose.

They didn't like the hose, but it couldn't reach everywhere, and as soon as it stopped they came swooping back.

You could just eat the figs so the flying foxes have nothing to eat and go elsewhere. Or use car covers. Or tie a cat to the roof rack. Or spread sugar over the fig trees so the ants swarm and bite the flying foxes so they fly away to escape. Keep in mind that flying foxes are protected so don't injure them. Just saying.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

You could just eat the figs so the flying foxes have nothing to eat and go elsewhere. Or use car covers. Or tie a cat to the roof rack. Or spread sugar over the fig trees so the ants swarm and bite the flying foxes so they fly away to escape. Keep in mind that flying foxes are protected so don't injure them. Just saying.

Cheers for the tips.

Figs are way up high in a tree and all over the place - it's too tall to climb and too big to get at all the fruit everywhere.
(The fruit is also not ripe, but that doesn't stop the flying foxes)
(Also fruits all year long)

Have a car cover, but a car cover covered in poop is harder to clean than a vehicle, and becomes harder and more unpleasant to put away each time.

Cat...

Sugar - again I can barely reach the middle levels of the foliage with my hardest throw. Getting sugar up there would be problematic.

Yep - not injuring them - just trying to create an unpleasant chili-smelling and redolent environment they don't want to visit.

Side effects- Here I am laid up with broken leg and ankle in cast. Still for another 3 weeks. Couldn't handle it any more took the defender to the shops last night, piece of ****, leg got a good work out on the clutch pedal. Was harder pushing the shopping trolley around. What an addiction.