Thread: Sugestion to abandon 4WD

My D4 would have brilliant vis out the back if it weren't for the headrests and pillars (doubt if you'd see a small kid thou) but the sensors are really good. They will even pick up individual, thin metal poles and long grass (which is actually sort of annoying). They would pick up a kid no worries at all. The rest of the vision is great and the side mirrors are huge.

I had a loaner small Volvo station-wagon from LR, that would have been close to unparkable without the sensors as the vis was horrendous due to the rear shape of the car and the tiny side mirrors.

One day, due to my wife being rushed and the kids cracking away (over the top of the noise of the sensors), she reversed over our letter box. As the house was new, she wasn't familiar with the layout of the drive way and garden beds, etc. A contractor had parked her in and she was trying to get the kids to school.

So I guess the message is, regardless of the size of the car, you can have vis issues and circumstances are probably more to blame.

It's BS to try to target 4WDs.

My 2 cents anyway.

Kev.

I remember years ago, before 4WD's were popular, there were several incidents of station wagons reversing over kiddies. There was a sad case reported of a mother putting her baby in a bassinet down behind a station wagon in a shopping centre car park. Whilst packing her car, the owner of the station wagon, unaware of what was placed behind her, reversed over the baby. The victims of these incidents called for station wagons to be banned.
Banning 4WD's will not solve this problem.

back to horses ban all cars

but dont look up the statistics of injuries and deaths from horses or we will all be walking

Originally Posted by Chucaro

I would love to see the design of the cooling system in a nuclear powered vehicle

Just don't let the people who designed the cooling system on my Rangie do it!!!

Originally Posted by blitz

back to horses ban all cars

but dont look up the statistics of injuries and deaths from horses or we will all be walking

Walking! Do you know how dangerous that is?

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Walking! Do you know how dangerous that is?

Yeah, you might get run over by a 4WD...

...with a bull bar on it...

Originally Posted by p38arover

You've capitalised that so it must be a person's name. Poor Numpty (who is on this forum). Taking the blame for it.

oops Sorry Numpty There's so many names on this forum, one has to be carefully what one says....... No offense i hope?