Signs that you're a LR owner

[B92 8NW]

I'm house sitting at present. I went around and noticed the hot tap in the shower was dripping. I bought a pack of tap washers and changed it over.... then changed the cold, as well as both the hand basin taps:eek:. For $3.45, might as well do them all for preventative:wasntme:.



Any others?

[dmdigital]

Seats might need grinding so best get a tool for that.

Did you get some thread tape for when you put it all back together? No, sounds like another trip to Bunnings.

Of course if they are ceramic washers then you'll just have to chuck the ones you bought and start again.

Does that help?

[Rangier Rover]

My roof has a small leak .:twisted: Windows are a bit drafty:D

Tony

[rick130]

My roof has a small leak .:twisted: Windows are a bit drafty:D

Tony

Spooky :eek:

and our floors have gaps, and.......

damn, I live in a house just like my Defender :eek:

[duncanw]

Fingernails full of oily crap, cuts randomly placed on both hands.

Bad back from being in wierd positions while you work on the electrics

Improved French vocabulary while speculating the heritage of the engineer who thought of putting the nut in an impossible place.

A sense of humour

[Rangier Rover]

Spooky :eek:

and our floors have gaps, and.......

damn, I live in a house just like my Defender :eek:
:Rolling:
Come to think of it...:eek: we have a electrical gremlin here that can pop the RCD usually when away:mad: The air con here doesn't work properly either:confused: The front door latch plays up. ahh.. that beter do for now I think;)

Tony

[B92 8NW]

I'm having BIG problems with the cooling system on my kettle, it keeps boiling.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I'm having BIG problems with the cooling system on my kettle, it keeps boiling.Have you fitted an engine saver low coolant sensor to the kettle yet? :D

[dullbird]

I can find a bloody good bargain when I want to.....

[Sleepy]

When you choose the colour for the new driveway......BLACK

[abaddonxi]

Not buying the rather nice house because the only driveway option only lets in cars lower than 1.8m

Or should I look at buying the vacant block next door that has the driveway on it?

Simon

[Shonky]

Entertaining yourself on the bus to work by looking out the windows at houses and going:

"no, no, no, no, no, no, no, YES!, no, no no, no..."

...looking for bloodbox sized garages!

:lol2:

[foz.in.oz]

You chose a house with a driveway wide enough to fit a car trailer on it!

[p38arover]

When you choose the colour for the new driveway......BLACK

We dug up all the front lawn and laid gravel.

[foz.in.oz]

You bought a house on stilts for "extra ground clearance"

[loanrangie]

We dug up all the front lawn and laid gravel.

Better make that kitty litter for a grease trap :D.

[Shonky]

You have Uni Joints holding down the piles of paperwork on your desk at the office.


Or maybe thats just because I'm so good at trashing UJ.s :(

[abaddonxi]

You bought a house on stilts for "extra ground clearance"

You bought a house and then stilted it for extra ground clearance.

Simon

[abaddonxi]

And once you'd done that it just seemed sensible to put in lockers, just in case.

Simon

You never know when your house might lose traction.

[rick130]

You bought a house and then stilted it for extra ground clearance.

Simon


And once you'd done that it just seemed sensible to put in lockers, just in case.

Simon

You never know when your house might lose traction.

Oh no !
another thread on lifts and lockers.........











:p

[scando]

You bought a house and then stilted it for extra ground clearance.

Simon

That's all well and good, but how dose it articulate???:p

[Blknight.aus]

You're S.O. who isnt mechanicaly inclined can name by sight most primary components of an engine from whats been learned from conversations that started with "can you come and move this landrover bit so I can clean the laundry/bathroom/kitchen"

Youve had OPEC companies survey your land before and your getting sick of everytime they hire a new executive you have to tell them its just where your park your car.

you can lip read but your not deaf.

you watch documentries on the panama canal and scoff "Thats more clearance than I get when parking at woolies and they have spotters and tugs to help" when the comment about the manouvering room in the locks.


none of your pants have a right hand side belt loop.

the EPA turn up with spill control booms every time it rains.

Arab nations send you a thank you card every xmas (if you own a V8)

its raining, your wearing gumboots but you take them off once you get out of the car to go into the shops.

you're not worried about leaving pets in the car with the windows wound up, theres still plenty of ventilation.

your toyota owning mates consistently bag you on your choice of 4x4 but when you get hold of one of their phones you find your number listed under "recovery"

you slow down to a near stop and listen intently every time you go under a minimum height boom.

you know to the nearest 5cms the actual height of your vehicle and have a mark on the roo bar mounted antennae that reflects this.

you get sick of having to pull over in convoy for toyotas with supposed long range tanks whining on the 2way about the low fuel light coming on, again.

youve ever wondered why when you get in a new toyota it seems like theres less space on the inside than the outside shape would have you believe.

when some one asks for a 9/16th you ask them imperial or witworth.

you're aware that aside from metric and imperial thread gauges there is also SAE, BSP and witworth, you dont mind that all of them turn up on the same component occasionally. especially if your vehicle predates the metric thread gauge

somewhere you have or know where a copy resides of the landrover antiFAQ. you know some of the items it contains by heart.

given the following
"its not an oil leak its......."
you can come up with at least 3 ways of completing that line.

you wonder why people look at you weird when you finish washing the outside of the car and start on the inside without putting the hose down.

youve considered repainting the tongue of the reece hitch but decide not to bother cause somones just going to run into it again.

you're not sure if you should park on the flat incase the handbrake fails or on the slope in case the starter fails.

you firmly believe, thanks to lucas, that landrover invented the intermittant wiper, the dimming dash lights and the blackout light.

you know both the 2 man made objects joke AND the cat joke.

The real star of the gods must be crazy was the car.

behind closed doors youve actually had an ARB/TJM salesman admit that the reason they dont stock as much landy stuff as mitsoytasan parts is because the mitsoytasan owners are just trying to keep up with the landies in the first place. doing the same mods on a landie is tantamout to rubbing salt in the wounds.

from personal experience you know hand cranking an engine isnt as hard as it sounds.

your idea of really cranking the aircon is removing the door tops.

you understand the difference between a command driving position and elevated seat height

youve fully deflated the ego of a heavily modded mitsoytasan driver whos just spent an hour and a half shredding his tyres and bending panels scrabbling up a track to where your having a lunch break by responding to his question of "did you have an easy time on the chicken track?" by replying "I thought that was the chicken track."

you happily upset creationist/intelligent design supporters wrong by saying "if it was all created it would have been made properly the first time. The landrover was created 60 years ago and hasnt changed, mankind however has evolved from where it started so therefore was not created or designed but follows the rules of evolution."

you understand at least half of the points/digs in this thread.

you've posted some.

you think that theres some we've missed.

[Slunnie]

I have a workshop manual and a parts book on my bedside table. :(

[Sleepy]

You watch "Cliffhanger" for the first 5 minutes only - (Slyvester Stallone drives up in a nice S3 ;) )

The toilet (sorry "Library" ) is full of LRO, LRe and LRW magazines.

[aew849]

The workshop manual is your bedside table.

The semi-automatic under chassis anti-corrosion system works just fine.

Lollypop ladies stop traffic for you when you need a 3 point turn.

Scrap metal recyclers pause driving past your place, wondering when the motherload will come there way.

Honest dear this spare series heater matrix ( insert any other part) will be valuable one day.....


aew849

[Slunnie]

Scrap metal recyclers pause driving past your place, wondering when the motherload will come there way.

:Rolling:

[disco_thrasher]

there is always something to do on ya LAND ROVER on the weekend ,replacing ,maintaning ,or just checking for preventive reasons ,or best of all showing toymitssans how easy a track can be done,and how large a toolbox you have when the toymitssans regretfully ask for help , or the icing on the cake you come to a section of the track and there is a toy stuck with a pootrol trying to recover it and all have massive lifts huge tyres and along you come after 30 min of refusing your help finally give up on goes the strap and before they know it they buying you beers at the boatshed in the Gold coast not believing that your Land rover is almost stock :D:):ehigh5::Rolling:and before you know it they back on there :soapbox: