Thread: Show us your Deefers !

Originally Posted by tact

What colour is that? Looks a bit like my Galway Green dual cab TDCi.

It's Gallway Green. I've had it for three years now and don't think I'll get sick of it soon..

Originally Posted by Robmacca

Very Cool.... how did the Landy handle those conditions?

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!

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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