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I drop my bonnet about 10cm and it closes I would never slam it shut.
Here is a link for what I am talking about, it is not the panel pulled in by the handle it is the panel dented because some idiot does not know what the handle is for, every door too!!
2001 Land Rover Defender Manual 4x4
Chris
Yep I'm a bonnet dropper too. Only way to avoid denting it.
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And lets NOT mention people (like the Top Gear Mob) who sit on cars!:censored:
Just a no, no.
Jonesfam
PS Dad taught me as a kid to drop a bonnet, close a door firmly but not slammed & that the place for your feet in a car was the floor or the peddles. SWMBO uses the window frame to close the door, not if I'm looking though.
Sit on a car, yes I hate that too.. I picked up someone who was working at the range and was late. He got in my car with an egg and bacon sandwich I almost told him to get out right away. I thought all was well, when he got out there was egg on my leather seats and grease on the door trim :censored::censored::censored:
Chris
If Defender doors weren't such a PITA to close it wouldnt be an issue, problem is, the handle is designed for opening them, not closing them, thats why people push on the panel...
Dad was always in one of his demo Defenders when I was a kid, so I had to learn to use the handle :p
:lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by cafe latte
On the Defender I don't mind so much but when I had my old Audi S3 there was a "no eating inside" rule. Then a dog came along and the rule kind of got forgotten about after dribble on windows and seats, dog hair etc, etc.
:D
Pluto my gsp who is a fruit loop has been in my Defender on the back seat once and that was stress enough. Now he camps in the back tied up on his bed seats and car safe :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Aguy
Chris
My dogs best mate was a GSP. Unfortunantly he moved up north with his parents.
They are great dogs. I had short listed a vizsla before my ridgeback but like gsp's, vizsla's remain puppies all there life, unlike my ridgy who is a couch potato!
:)
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...6&d=1451722125
Anyway, I think I'm off topic! :D
You guys would hate me then. Decades ago when in the army for some reason that I can't remember I had to use another sections Defender. As it wasn't mine I wasn't aware that the driver door didn't close properly. I slammed it a few times,no luck, so I gave it a bit more weeties and really pulled it shut. It had the sliding half glass windows. They shattered and I was covered in glass. And the door still wasn't properly shut. The other section weren't impressed. We still had over a month to go, out in the sticks with no hope of replacement. And it was a cold wet winter.
Chris
I'm procrastinating on upgrading / regrading my 300 130 dual cab to something ford motivated and had contemplated offering you the old girl... Nice and close and would be cheap. Reading this thread I'm too embarrassed to consider that plan now. I bought it near ten years ago ex NSW forestry had been rolled a few times but chassis was straight. It pulls as good as a 300 can running out to 20plus psi but EGTs under control. But of course every panel is binged banged bent and twisted... You would cringe!
And to think we are both fans of GSPs. My mate Zero a three year old is into day four of teaching his brand new eight week old sister Mollie how to do the GSP thang !
Anyways ramble off
Steve