Thread: Disco beats the Cr4P out of Jeep

You get good and bad cars..tis fact of life..you will allways hear the negs and little from those who have nothing to complain about.. In 1984 on Exercise perentie.. the jeep entrant spent most of its trial being towed by a 110 on a trailer doing its trials sometimed with the jeep still on tow..
I would have a D3 if the price was a little more reasonable but at the moment the money is going towards house number 3, gearing up for a healthy retirement.. if I won lotto I would buy a RR3 and fullybomb it up for hard core bush trips, scatched and dented just to see the faces of people in shock

Dont you just hate coils?
injection is the devils work!
A Radio!?! (gasp!)

Bring back wooden wheels and the guy with the red flag I say!!

I wonder if this is the disco they took up to the cape?

Pedro_The_SwiftDont you just hate coils?
injection is the devils work!
A Radio!?! (gasp!)

Bring back wooden wheels and the guy with the red flag I say!!

The red flag guy never really left, apparently the law was never changed or remmoved it just became obsolete. Technically we all should have a person with a red flag walking in front of our vehicle's in built up areas.
I think theres another one where all cabs must carry a bale of hay, from when we had a different kind of horse power.

Originally Posted by boggo

I wonder if this is the disco they took up to the cape?

Well it's the same colour, could be. If it is then that particular vehicle has a history of the same kind of faults.
If so then two points:
1: Land rover should have sent a different car, one that didn't have a reaccuring problem to cape york or fixed the problem first!

2: 4wd monthly should have realised that it was the same vehicle (wasn't that long ago) and either asked for a different one or at least accept in the write up that this particular D3 has a history and the problem may not affect all D3's as they would if the Patrol or Crusier had a problem!.

Hi just did some looking and no it's not the same car.
However the same D3 in the Foreigner's comparo with the Jeep also was last years 4wd monthly 4wd of the year winner and Overlander took it on a "6,000k torture test" through the outback with a Patrol and Cruiser in October 05. So it's been a busey little beaver. I'd love to know where else the D3 that failed at the cape has been?, and if that vehicle has any prior faults.
On a tanjent here the D3 that is the subject of this thread beat the Landcruiser hands down for wheel travel last year. However landcruiser wins this year against a D3 that goes on to have suspension failure.

I think what Wortho said deserves some consideration. What the public dont get to know is how many Journo's have flogged the **** out of these vehicles before one unlucky journo gets it and it finally says its had enough. If this D3 was your car you wouldnt be driving it through rivers over the windscreen flat out, or through 4 foot deep mud and then complaining about it getting stuck. You would know the vehicles history, who has driven it and where and you would have had it fully checked and be prepared for an outback trip. We can whinge and moan about electronics all we like but its a fact of life, in ten years even patrols will have it, probaly not as much as the D3 does now, dont rush them, it takes time to steel other manufacturers ideas. God when LR introduced traction control we all paniced, now its common place, even the fender has that. Matt

Yeah, around here there are plenty of farmers who've whinged about how Patrols aren't strong enough.

It's seems that they've been twisting the chassis.

Of course, they claim that there's no way it could have been caused by towing an 8tn seeder around a paddock!