new kid on the road

[whisky]

Well, hi you'll,

I'm an owner of a 110 TD5 1999 from the land (rover) of far far away (Israel). I was reading here for some time but that's the first day of me being a formal member.

My big hope is to do Israel S-Africa with my 110 by the age of 35 (2y to go) I've had my landy for 2.5y:burnrubber:.

after that I want to do EU, Germany - Chaina with the same carriage.

the 110 is for keeps it's a kid's dream come true, so I'm here to stay :spudnikhattip:.

want to go far south and visit you'll, but it will have to waite (as long as the lottery manager doesn't call):thumbsdown:.

TNX for reading, hear from u soon.


Whisky

p.s.
If any of you come here to Israel or want to know somthing about it, tell\ask me. I may be helpfull, doesn't do any harm.

[Drover]

Hey Whisky,

Welcome aboard.

Cheers

[Benny_IIA]

Welcome mate,

Good to have another member of the elite "defender club" :D


ben....

[lardy]

shalom Whisky,
Good onya for joining enjoy your stay.
What do you do for parts in Israel?
Are they expensive hard to come by ?
Regards Andy

[whisky]

lardy Hi,

parts are not so hard to come by, but are very expensive.

we (LR owners) have a nice parts shop in Tel Aviv which sell BP and LR parts for reasnble price. other cases we bring things from the US or England. parts are not the issue here. It's the aftermarket that's hard to get.

Diff lock (arb) costs about 2200$ US each in Israel. and as you know its heavy to put when you fly from the US or any where else (extra whight).

the guy that used to bring macnamara here stoped, so that hard too.

the other issue is self feb, 2 years ago they decided that only a sertified place can install and legelise a winch that made it very expensive ( and a big problem to thw 2nd hand market).

but we are a very good comunety. we know each other and have a new LRO club, the importer decided It's good PR so he supports the club, there was a meeting 2 monthes ago.

there is a link to the pic from the meeting:

http://www.landrover.co.il/gallerypic.php?cat=30

here are some from an owner event (before the club was funded) the twins in the first pic are mine (Mika & Guy):
4X4 - - LRO 3 (http://landrover.4x4.co.il/articles/article.aspx?pCat=ARTICLES&catID=2&articleId=7105)


the good thing is that altough it is a small country, there is allot os off road over here and people are very friendly off road (in offroad racing events it's quit often that a team will get down help anther team and the helped team stop at the end let the helpers pass and get the first prize) or for people to stop a trip and help others (in the offroad forum we have adds of people that are stack and we try to give a hand if we can' some people try harder :) and it's very hart warmming).


enjoy,

Yariv (Whisky) Shimron

[spudboy]

Welcome Whisky. That's a good trip you have planned - down to SA will be an excellent drive.
Cheers
David

[Narangga]

Welcome. I was talking with an Isreali here in Nhulunbuy last night!

[whisky]

Welcome Whisky. That's a good trip you have planned - down to SA will be an excellent drive.
Cheers
David


I hope you understand I want to go to south africa (I dont know if the road to south ausrelia will be ready in 2 years time ;))

Austerlia is one of the places I want to go with out my LR (the great brier reef, the outdoors...

whisky

[spudboy]

Yep - got it that SA was South Africa :D I used to live in Nairobi and work down south, so I know a few of those roads down that way.