Thread: Alice Springs Defender

Looking at the damage, and your resultant (minor) injuries, bears great testament to the strength of these vehicles.

Travelling at 110 km/h guessing the front wheel hit a washout, and flipped you end on end. Bullbar & rear look relatively unscathed, all things considered.

Would not have been a nice ride thou.

Kinda makes me glad that my daughter loves Defenders, and wants one, rather than some little zippy thing. I will use this as supporting evidence for her mother...

Glad to hear you survived the ordeal as well as you did.

Looks like it was the snorkel that saved you, somehow it's still standing proud.

Originally Posted by olbod

Not nice, was it insured ?

Yes. But the "agreed" value wasn't as much as I would have liked NRMA to have agreed with me. Still it was better than no insurance at all.

Originally Posted by digger

Sam, impressive damage!, Glad (and slightly surprised) you got out reasonably unscathed!... are you making the foray back to defenders again?

(looks like it was nice beforehand.)

It was fully set up how I wanted and even won 4WD Touring Magazine "Reader's Rig" in January this year. (I only found this out when ARB gave me a free copy which happened to be one I missed).

Sadly I am leaving Defenders and have gone back to a Discovery for now. I found I missed the creature comforts and ability to talk to passengers in the car. I wouldn't hesitate to go back to a Defender if finances meant I could also keep a Disco too.

Originally Posted by Basil135

Looking at the damage, and your resultant (minor) injuries, bears great testament to the strength of these vehicles.

Travelling at 110 km/h guessing the front wheel hit a washout, and flipped you end on end. Bullbar & rear look relatively unscathed, all things considered.

Would not have been a nice ride thou.

Kinda makes me glad that my daughter loves Defenders, and wants one, rather than some little zippy thing. I will use this as supporting evidence for her mother...

Glad to hear you survived the ordeal as well as you did.

It certainly is a testament to the vehicles strength and crash survivability. I'm pretty sure my beard helped in lieu of there being airbags.

I was only doing about 90kph at the time - there's no need to rush when you're not going anywhere in particular. Still, it was scary enough at that speed.

Well the wreck went for 2300 today.
If someone here bought it give me a yell. Id like to buy a couple of bits before it leaves