Thread: 2010 defender in 4wd action mag.

No, it's the latest issue - just out. Subscribers get it first.

Re. LRs, they aren't looking very hard if they can't find them. How many LR clubs are there around the place - lots.

Re. availability of 300tdi or other LR parts, they're basically the same as for any other make - if you break down in the bush the bits get flown in overnight, usually from a capital centre supplier. Same for Toyota, Nissan etc. This 'no parts available' argument is just lazy rubbish.

Bugger i haven't got mine yet

I think its due out on the 23rd for those who don't have a subscription.

Originally Posted by Beast

I think its due out on the 23rd for those who don't have a subscription.

Im a subscriber but still haven't got mine must be a Tom Price thing.

They are actively looking for LR's, and if you actually want to get into the mag just shoot them an email. As Bob said the balls in our court if we feel under represented. Of course they will always feature lots more toys/datsuns as there are probably 10:1 of them to us. Probably 10:1 more show offs too

I have/had a very out of date "shed" on their forum/website (haven't logged in for well over a year), and they emailed me a while ago asking about my car and what mods it had, they wanted to run that. I emailed back when I am ready (after I make rear bar) I will be happy to put it in, hopefully on the DVD too

PS Broke down in Finke, not overly easy to organise delivery of parts to that hole overnight, but yes could have been done.... Luckily managed to patch up lift pump with quiksteel. The aboriginal machinery graveyards can be a gold mine. When the tiniest thing breaks in those communities it just gets chucked out, and replaced courtesy of tax payers. They had mig welders, whackers, etc etc just sitting there rotting, almost worth taking a trailer on your next outback trip haha.

Originally Posted by zuno555

They are actively looking for LR's, and if you actually want to get into the mag just shoot them an email. As Bob said the balls in our court if we feel under represented.

G'day all, yep the balls in your court as they say, we are on the hunt for another defender and would like to shoot it early next week, at this time I could organise a shoot in QLD, VIC or NSW for this one, but even if you are in another state and you think yours is magazine worthy, please forward me the details.

Now is the time to shine, email me at jason@4wdaction.com.au , if you know of anyone that hasn't been on here for awhile or any other 4WD out there that may not get this message, can you get there attention and we could feature it.

Come on show me what Defenders you have out there and email me as soon as possible to jason@4wdaction.com.au

Maybe Jason you should take your blinkers off and realise there is more to the world than Toyota's and Nissans and we might be a bit more accomodating.The 10 best tourers,ever heard of the 2002/2004 Td6 Range Rover?,the BEST TD wagon sold in Oz,I know I owned one,the latest greatest 200 series is no improvement.And please drop the not made for Australian conditions,you can't buy parts for them etc etc,I live in outback Oz and have owned both Toyota's and Land Rovers and I can tell you it's the opposite.Publish facts not ''my mate said'',''the bloke down the pub told me'' and you might get some interest. Pat

I had some problems in Weipa a couple of years ago and the bits were flown in overnight from Cairns, so you can't complain about that.
Meanwhile, a bloke with a broken Jeep Wrangler suspension had been there for four days...
And the mechanic told me Toyota CVs were only lasting six months on the local corrugations.
Also, I'm really sick of reading that Toyota built the Snowy Mountains scheme when the truth is the Landys started arriving in 1950 and hundreds were used to do most of the tough pioneering work long before the first Toyota arrived eight years later - and it didn't even have low range!