Danger, Will Smith! Danger!

[p38arover]

I never knew that Land Rover Discovery steps were dangerous until I saw this advert ( Item number: 260106377395 )on eVilBay.



I removed this rear step from my discovery a few years ago because the hydrochloric strut was blown, and I did't use the step anyway.
Please note: There is some damage on the under side, and the hydrochloric strut does not work

Ron

[abaddonxi]

Isn't that an anti-theft device?



Hmm, didn't think rear steps were that much of a commodity.

cheers
Simon

[crump]

at least he spelt it correctly.:D

[p38arover]

at least he spelt it correctly.:D


Err, no. "Hydrochloric" - he forgot the second "h". :)

Ron

[Pedro_The_Swift]

why would you buy a rear step that doesnt work,,
even the infamous hydrochloric version?:eek:

[Utemad]

Do these affect ground clearance much?

My wife would love one of these. To get into the fridge she has to climb up onto the bumper.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

your fridge has a bumper?:eek:
:p:p

[tracker]

Gee utemad,maybe you should be a gentleman and buy a step so the wife can get the fridge out .

[Utemad]

your fridge has a bumper?:eek:
:p:p

The Disco bumper of course :p.


Gee utemad,maybe you should be a gentleman and buy a step so the wife can get the fridge out .

It's an 80L fridge and when full it weighs more than she does. Although....... maybe if I bought two steps......................... :)

Maybe I could just fit air suspension from a Rangie and lower the whole car to her :cool:

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Do these affect ground clearance much?



yes and no,,
they do hang down below the bumper
but then, all the cars that have them also have
airbags that can raise the rear,,, if needed.

we use ours all the time:D

[sclarke]

good thing it was not the Colonicirrigation version......

[p38arover]

To get into the fridge she has to climb up onto the bumper.

Why is she climbing into the fridge? :eek:

Ron

[stevo]

the step lasted about 2 years before getting ripped off on a rock, they do hang down a bit but if you do not do much hard core rock hopping you should be right

[dobbo]

Do these affect ground clearance much?

My wife would love one of these. To get into the fridge she has to climb up onto the bumper.

It depends, if it's the Hydrochloric version and it leaks whilst the car is parked for a while it might just eat a hole in the ground underneath the car causing an OH&S nightmare. The Hydraulic version is much safer.

[Wazza]

wasn't it "danger Will Robinson danger"

:cool::eek:

or am i dreaming?

i am not really that old to know

[EchiDna]

wasn't it "danger Will Robinson danger"

:cool::eek:

or am i dreaming?

i am not really that old to know


you are correct!
Mr Smith was the blardy annoying non-Robinson family member in the show...

the show was loosely based on Swiss family Robinson afterall...

[dobbo]

wasn't it "danger Will Robinson danger"

:cool::eek:

or am i dreaming?

i am not really that old to know

Yes your right, Ron must have black men on his mind. He's a dark horse that Ron, I've heard he likes to be beaten down and humiliated (but we know that he's a P38 owner)


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Will Smith

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Dr Smith (he wants a P38)

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Will Robinson

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Another P38 owner

[ladas]

Do these affect ground clearance much?

My wife would love one of these. To get into the fridge she has to climb up onto the bumper.

This picture shows the extent of how much they 'intrude' downwards

[crump]

you are correct!
Mr Smith was the blardy annoying non-Robinson family member in the show...

the show was loosely based on Swiss family Robinson afterall...

it was DR Smith.;)

[p38arover]

I was wrong! :eek:

It was Will Robinson and dastardly Dr Smith!

Oops!

Ron

[Utemad]

the step lasted about 2 years before getting ripped off on a rock, they do hang down a bit but if you do not do much hard core rock hopping you should be right


This picture shows the extent of how much they 'intrude' downwards

It does look like it would be fairly prone to damage. Unless you could protect the leading edge of it so rocks didn't snag it.

I'll have to have a look under my Disco and see if there is any existing rock rash in that area.

[EchiDna]

it was DR Smith.;)

:wasntme:

found out again *sigh*

[Ken]

Oh the Pain :D :D

[crump]

you blithering nincompoop!:D Bubble headed booby, it just came to me.

[p38arover]

Oh the Pain :D :D
Abso-bloody-lutely, Ken.


I once thought I was wrong - but I was mistaken.

Ron

[EchiDna]

Aluminum Canary
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
Astigmatic Automaton
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Bloated Blimp
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book-Making Booby
Bosom Companion
Broken-down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World
Bubble Brain
Bubble-Head
Bubble-Headed Booby
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
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Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cookoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod-Like Collection of Condensors
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Cloot
Clumsy Clump
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Complete Moron
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Cowardly Clump
Cowardly Friend
Cumbersome Clod
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispenser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dunderhead
Despotic Dunce
Digitised Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Doctor Dunderhead
Dottering Dolt
Dottering Dunderhead
Dunderhead
Elephantine Adam
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin Clothing
Floundering Flunky
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive From a Junkheap
Fugitive From a Junkyard
Jabbering Jackanape
Jangling Junkheap
Jespoty Dunce
Juvenile Junkpile
Klunker
Know Nothing Numskull
Lamebrained Lump
Lead-lined Lump
Lily-Livered Lead-Lined Lummox
Ludricous Lump
Lugubrious Lagert
Lugubrious Lump
Magnificent Mobile
Malicious Moon
Mass of Fear
Mealy-Mouthed Rogue
Meandering Mental Midget
Mechanical Dunderhead
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misery
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Monolith
Mechanical Moron
Mechanical Murderer
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Medical Misfit
Mental Midget
Metallic Ham
Metallic Hero
Metallic Monstrosity
Metallic Murderer
Metallurgical Friend
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monstrous Mechanized Misguided Moron
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Monstrous Metallurgical Meddler
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Insensitive Friend
Myna Bird
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickering Ninny
Nincompoop
Noxious Ninny
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/04/218.jpg
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Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pedagogical Pip-squeak
Pitiable Pip-squeak
Plasticized Parrot
Pompous Pip-squeak
Ponderous Plumber
Poor Dear Sick Friend
Pot-Headed Prankster
Pot-Bellied Prankster
Pot-Bellied Pumpkin
Powered Prankster
Preening Popinjay
Presumptuous Pip Squeak
Presumptuous Popinjay
Pretentious Popinjay
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Pusillanimous Pinhead
Pusillanimous Puncher
Pusillanimous Punkah
Pusillanimous Puppet
Pusillanimous Tyrant
Quivering Quintessence of Fear
Ramshackled Romeo
Rattletrap
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Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruin
Robust Rock Hound
Roly-Poly Rowdy
Rusty Rasputin
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silver-Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinderbox
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Stalwart Companion
Stalwart Sortie
Steely-Eyed Sorcerer
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/04/218.jpg
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin-Plated Fool
Tin-Plated Fraud
Tin-Plated Snitch
Tin-Plated Tattletale
Tin-Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin-Plated Traitor
Tin-Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulation Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile
Traitorous Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous Transistorized Toad
Transistorized Tiger
Treasonous Tyrant
Tyrannical Tin Plate
Unctuous Underling
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult Wretch

[100I]

Robust Rock Hound
must of us would wear that badge with honour:D

[crump]

Aluminum Canary
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
Astigmatic Automaton
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Bloated Blimp
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book-Making Booby
Bosom Companion
Broken-down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World
Bubble Brain
Bubble-Head
Bubble-Headed Booby
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith2.jpg
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cookoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod-Like Collection of Condensors
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Cloot
Clumsy Clump
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith3.jpg
Complete Moron
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Cowardly Clump
Cowardly Friend
Cumbersome Clod
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispenser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dunderhead
Despotic Dunce
Digitised Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Doctor Dunderhead
Dottering Dolt
Dottering Dunderhead
Dunderhead
Elephantine Adam
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin Clothing
Floundering Flunky
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive From a Junkheap
Fugitive From a Junkyard
Jabbering Jackanape
Jangling Junkheap
Jespoty Dunce
Juvenile Junkpile
Klunker
Know Nothing Numskull
Lamebrained Lump
Lead-lined Lump
Lily-Livered Lead-Lined Lummox
Ludricous Lump
Lugubrious Lagert
Lugubrious Lump
Magnificent Mobile
Malicious Moon
Mass of Fear
Mealy-Mouthed Rogue
Meandering Mental Midget
Mechanical Dunderhead
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misery
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Monolith
Mechanical Moron
Mechanical Murderer
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Medical Misfit
Mental Midget
Metallic Ham
Metallic Hero
Metallic Monstrosity
Metallic Murderer
Metallurgical Friend
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monstrous Mechanized Misguided Moron
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith4.jpg
Monstrous Metallurgical Meddler
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Insensitive Friend
Myna Bird
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickering Ninny
Nincompoop
Noxious Ninny
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith5.jpg
Obsolete Oaf
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pedagogical Pip-squeak
Pitiable Pip-squeak
Plasticized Parrot
Pompous Pip-squeak
Ponderous Plumber
Poor Dear Sick Friend
Pot-Headed Prankster
Pot-Bellied Prankster
Pot-Bellied Pumpkin
Powered Prankster
Preening Popinjay
Presumptuous Pip Squeak
Presumptuous Popinjay
Pretentious Popinjay
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Pusillanimous Pinhead
Pusillanimous Puncher
Pusillanimous Punkah
Pusillanimous Puppet
Pusillanimous Tyrant
Quivering Quintessence of Fear
Ramshackled Romeo
Rattletrap
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith6.jpg
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruin
Robust Rock Hound
Roly-Poly Rowdy
Rusty Rasputin
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silver-Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinderbox
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Stalwart Companion
Stalwart Sortie
Steely-Eyed Sorcerer
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ART/fun/DrSmith7.jpg
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin-Plated Fool
Tin-Plated Fraud
Tin-Plated Snitch
Tin-Plated Tattletale
Tin-Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin-Plated Traitor
Tin-Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulation Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile
Traitorous Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous Transistorized Toad
Transistorized Tiger
Treasonous Tyrant
Tyrannical Tin Plate
Unctuous Underling
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult Wretch


ok, ok, I tap out.:D