Reply With QuoteWith the new Defender,you are going to have to get a trailer,as in the rear,it is similar size to a D1
Good story,i would be worried sick if that was my wife,travelling long distances on those types of roads.
Killer Wabbit!
SWMBO decided to drive to Mt Isa for some retail therapy, as SWMBO has done it several times before she decided to go the Hills Road.
This is a mainly rough, rocky dirt road from Gregory to about 100k West of Isa. It cuts about 2 - 3 hours of going via Burke & Wills & Cloncurry.
She gets to Mt Isa & phones to tell me she is there but says the Hills Road is rough as guts, corrugated & the rocks are being pulled up.
Anyway, she does 2 days of shopping & gets her A/C re-gassed (where does that gas go after 14 years).
Now, SWMBO believes if you can fit in the car the car can carry it. So she has 2 X large car fridges chocka, 10 cartons of L/L milk, boxes & bags of groceries including 24 large dog food, sheets towels, tinned food, large bags of rice, potatoes, dog food & cat food, cordial, drinks, tinned foods, biscuits & so on until the car is pretty much overloaded.
Big Car, those Delicas.
She phones me to tell me she is leaving the Isa & I suggest that maybe the long way home might be better as it is all sealed, she says she will be OK & just poke along.
In the first 100k of dirt the side window (like an old VW rear window, pops out at the back) locking thing disintegrates & the window is flapping in the breeze. She finally gets into Gregory to have a brake & fuel up when she notices a rear tyre going down real fast. She phones me up & I tell her I will send a staff member over to her but she is 2 or so hours away. She phones me back (just before the staff drive off) to tell me a bloke at the Pub is going to change her tyre for her, OK, great.
She finally gets home at about 5:45, a bit grumpy but all OK.
I finish work & go out to help her unload the car & …………………………… the other rear tyre has gone flat.
In the mean time I forget about the loose window, bump it & ……………………..smash.
So, despite 2 flat tyres, both repaired now, & being up for a new window (NO insurance as we just had the windscreen done) her bloody Delica is in perfect nick & doesn't even seem to have been driven except for dust!
How am I ever going to get my New Defender if this bloody thing won't die even when SWMBO tries to MURDER it.
Jonesfaam
Swaggie
With the new Defender,you are going to have to get a trailer,as in the rear,it is similar size to a D1
Good story,i would be worried sick if that was my wife,travelling long distances on those types of roads.
ForumSage
SupporterWife had a Delica some years back & loved it.
Great for the school run on rainy days, open the sliding rear door and bundle them in then plenty of room to sort them out and strap them in.
Kids misbehaving while you're driving...stop at the lights, unbuckle, move between the front seats into the rear, threaten them, move back into drivers seat and buckle up again.
Apparently not bad offroad but break over angle not flash due to the long wheelbase.
Distictive vehicle so all her mates knew the car. I used to take it out and women were waving to me, thought it was my good looks but they thought it was the wife.
Colin
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
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Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C, Suzuki SV650
ForumSage
SupporterThe a/c gas normally goes out the shaft seal, usually due to little use during winter, some cars have tricks to overcome this, like the a/c running on a timer when started or put into reverse.Originally Posted by jonesfam
2005 D3 TDV6 Present
1999 D2 TD5 Gone
Killer Wabbit!
SWMBO had to drive to Mt Isa again to do the Christmas shopping for the kids, the difference this time was she drove my D2 as I have not replaced the Delica window yet.
She had never driven the D2 before (she drove the D3 occasionally when we had that) so this was a new experience for her.
First problem - she is 5 foot nothing, seat right forward she could only push the accelerator with her foot off the floor. Not a big thing as she used cruise on the highway & only poked along through the Hills dirt road.
She managed to completely fill the car with shopping including the front passengers foot well. Knows how to shop does SWMBO!
The trip to - from Mt Isa usually takes 6 hours & a bit depending on road conditions, cattle, wild life & tourist, she did it in 5 & a half each way.
I now call her "Lead Foot Loony", she reckons she took it easy.
Yer, Right!
Although she won't sat the D2 is better than her Delica she did say it was OK, I said at least it didn't have flat tyres & still has all its windows.
I also told her she was banned from driving it, for going to fast!
Jonesfam
Swaggie
You might have to get accustomed to driving the Delica now.
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Killer Wabbit!
There are somethings I do for Love...……………………………………⠀¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦
But there are limits!!
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If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Wizard
SubscriberI owned a 1997 diesel Delica for a wile. It was the short wheel base one. Which is the same wheel base as the Pajero. Did quite well of road. Interesting that for a vehicle that is considered a soft of roader it has a lot of off road options standard that others did not. Duel battery tray, built in snorkel, a place for a compressor and the fuse already in the fuse board where the one I can remember. With 31" tyres fitted it had decent clearance. Front diff was weak though as I found out.
Cheers Hall
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I can see I'm going to be asked to preinspect D4s.
Anyone in the northwest interested in a slightly used Delica, needs a window.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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