What's your annual mileage?

[rmp]

Just wondering...and how much of that is really using the LR, eg offroad, heavy towing, moving things or something you couldn't do in a Falcodore.

My Defender will click over 30,000 before it's 12 months old and that is 90% 4WD trips, it's not a daily driver. Our three year old town car has 31,000km so the Defender has already nearly caught it!

[DEFENDERZOOK]

mine is my daily driver......

if i had time off work and fuel dollars those would be my monthly kms not my annual kms.

[incisor]

mine is a daily driver and i seem to click up about 1000k a week, hence the diesel style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif

[RichardK]

Mine is also a daily driver/ business vehicle, the high country trip will be its first real 4wd outing and the start of speccing it up for heavier duties

[Tyrepower]

My lady uses it as a daily driver, however only 60-80km/week. The rest is long distance trips, desert trips and such. ie 2003 Perth to Townsville via Great Victoria Desert- Simpson Desert and back. 04 Holland track WA, trip to VIC over Xmas hols having a look around SA on the way back (Getting out the day of the fires, just) and later this year Tassie for 6 weeks.
Cheers Tyrepower.

PS. rmp read your article in the Mag about the spare wheel carrier. Looks very neat, you may have converted me.
PPS. Buy the Mrs the 90, can't go letting good LR fans miss out now can we style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[rmp]

Originally posted by Tyrepower

PS. rmp read your article in the Mag about the spare wheel carrier. Looks very neat, you may have converted me.
PPS. Buy the Mrs the 90, can't go letting good LR fans miss out now can we style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif :lol:

She isn't allowed a yellow 90, so after sulking she now she wants a Freelander!!! "because it's not boring". Maybe a Forester GT though :-)

I'd definitely get a carrier, it takes the stress off the door, improves rear visibility, makes the door easier to open and the handle more accessible.

I felt I had to write that response after Denis highlighted the Defender's door problem.

[Tyrepower]

Perhaps I've just been lucky, but as I said before this is the 2nd Defender I've owned, and no problems with the rear door. And they have been over some really rough tracks, corrugations for days.
But I know that just because I havn't had the problem dosn't mean it's not a problem for others.
I like the way yours opens with the door, instead of as a separate action. And I need a place to carry the shovel and high lift.
So considering all things who is the manufacturer of the carrier?
Cheers Tyrepower

[rmp]

Bearmach make the carrier, and 4x4 Equip (http://www.4x4equip.com.au) make the spade/axe carrier. I wouldn't hang a hi-lift off it though, I'd put that on the passenger side, resting the base of the jack on a bracket attached to the chassis. I've seen a Patrol door killed by a hi-lift, albeit with a 33" tyre.

[Tyrepower]

Thanks for that Rob, I wonder why I even worry about the Hi lift. For the damage and trouble it causes in packing/carrying, and considering the amount of times I've used it in anger (never)And how it needs so much modification to the vehice to even use. The last couple of trips I've been on I have not worried about taking it.
"Yeah, yeah I know" If you use it once it's worth the trouble. Thing is there has been a couple of times when I could of used it, yet even when I did carry it, it was such a hassel to unload that I ended up using a bottle jack on a hard base that was quicker to access and position. And just as effective. Bogged one day on the beach with the tide coming in
If we carried everything that we should, there would be no room for the rest of the gear.
This has most likely opened up a real can of worms. But thats just my 20cents worth.
Cheers Tyrepower

[disco95]

15000-20000 per year, not enough of that is offroad. I'm sure those figures will increase now we're moving to the country.

[Ace]

I voted 20-30K, mine is a daily driver, 4wder etc all in one. I can sometimes do more than 30K, but its more often between 20-30k. I havent owned the disco 12 months yet but judging on Km i have done in other cars and how much i have done so far, i would say this is pretty close. Matt

[hiline]

20,001 - 30,000km mine is a daily driver work truck

dont do much 4wd anymore only when needed style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[disco95]

Only when needed hey hiline, and I need to go 4WDing every day :wink:

[harry]

8) ah, i'm a about a 100k a day, so it gets used mainly on hwy, with as many dirt tracks as will allow, and that isn't enough,
i want to see more nice bits of this country, never been on a big fwd trip, although i think i took my old ford to a lot of places we fwd owners think we need a fwd to get to.

[hiline]

Originally posted by disco95
Only when needed hey hiline, and I need to go 4WDing every day :wink:

when i first got it
we went every 2nd weekend style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

but the repairs :evil: :evil: just got out of control
never mind the extra's after every trip style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[disco95]

You'd have it all pretty much sorted now wouldn't you hiline :?:
After all it's not breakage, just hilighting the areas that need attention. and there can't be too many more of them. :wink:

[HSVRangie]

RR 10-15k

Car 75k

Michael.

[Redback]

10 to 15k we bought the Explorer at 51,000k it went at 105,000k in 4 yrs, will be the same with the Disco maybe, we are doing more trips this year so it might bring that up.

Baz.

[disco95]

Once you get behind the wheel of that Disco Baz youy won't want to get out :wink:
Better make it 40000 for the next 12 months 8)

[DiscoTDI]

15-20, nowhere near enough time spent off road :cry:

[Bushie]

Mine does around 14000 a year majority of it on trip although SWMBO uses it during the week.
Mileage would have been around 30k a year when a bought it but a change of jobs got me a GU Nissan as the work truck so it gets a flogging (all the non-4WD taxi jobs) to avoid the FBT woes.


Bushie

[lewy110]

I do about 5-10k a year and most of that last year was on dirt getting to places to ride mountain bikes.

I usually tow a trailer with bikes on the back that are worth about 3 times what the landy is.