It's Gallway Green. I've had it for three years now and don't think I'll get sick of it soon..Quote:
Originally Posted by tact
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It's Gallway Green. I've had it for three years now and don't think I'll get sick of it soon..Quote:
Originally Posted by tact
Who did the canvas for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by HUE166
Looks great!
The canvas tilt has been with it from new. As I'm not the original owner, I'm not sure if it was an option or a standard accessory at the time. The original owner purchased the vehicle from Trivette in Alexandria in 2011. I generally only fit the tilt during the winter although I haven't had a need to this year. I only fit it if I need it just so it doesn't weather too quickly. It's a handy thing to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil B
Some nice rigs there fellas!
I bought mine new in 2013 and reckon the Galway Green colour is pretty special. Where I bought (Malaysia) there were only two options, Galway Green and a silver colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUE166
I thought the silver grey would be cooler in the tropical heat but was a bit too "Skyfall" and I liked the Galway Green so much.
The canvas was an optional extra when new here,, and probably still available if you wanted it when we bought ours in 2011. We opted not to get it as we were going for a hard canopy anyway,, although, in hindsight, I wish I'd have got it now.
Very nice. I’m a big fan of the dark greens. It’s a colour that Land Rovers just look right in.
Cheers,
Jon
Lots of long grass, plus a big rock. Had a great time hanging out in the landy with my lady. 4 weeks 10,000km.
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Very Cool.... how did the Landy handle those conditions?
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Originally Posted by ninetubes
It was an absolute pleasure. 10,000km in 28 days and about half of that offroad. Travelling with a ford ranger and a prado towing a patriot camper, both very well set up vehicles but obviously the 90 ran rings around them in the rough stuff. Not just in capability, but also practicality - it really was in it's element!Quote:
Originally Posted by Robmacca
The corrugations were not bad on the gibb or gunbarrel, but the roof rack came loose very early on, which was just a re-tighten which never came loose again.
Mitchell plateau and kalumbaru roads were pretty severe though with extreme corrugations and LH rear brake line suffered a fatigue failure. The steel piping broke away from the inboard nipple above the diff. I noticed the fluid loss early and was able to easily plug it and top up the fluid without needing to bleed it. This is a huge plus on the landy, it's so field repairable. Not sure if there was a stick or something in it that caused it, or just the weight of the line itself vibrating away.
Fortunately i wasn't with the other vehicles at this point and obviously didn't say anything (the LR reliability jokes wear a bit thin sometimes) and drove the next 5000km with 3 brakes, no issue. It pulled up so square that you'd hardly have known it was missing.
The dust was epic, but I had been working on a few mods to keep the truck dust free which worked a treat. Next to no dust inside. Used a snorkel precleaner which caught a lot, haven't checked the airfilter yet.
The highway driving was fine and got good economy.
The river and creek crossings (i lost count of these) were also no problem. Never got hung up or stuck and had no ingress dramas.
The proper offroading (munja track etc) was great and the defender made everyone else look like they'd bought a knife to a gun fight. Absolutely no issues. The worst of it was the tall grass (~90km of it, mostly taller than the car). It made navigation really hard and the constant risk of a concealed rock or stump etc made for very slow going. constantly having to clear it out from under the car wasn't much fun either.
In short it handled it all in it's stride. Conditions were remote, very arduous and just plain hard on the vehicles, and i would not have wanted to drive anything else.
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