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I've got a Discovery 2 HSE, my brother bought a new 90 last year. We both love the look of his, but agree that despite the 10 year age gap mine is still far more comfortable and luxurious! I can only imagine it being even more drastic difference from a D3.
I could have a Defender as a second car, but wouldn't be my choice on a primary vehicle in an urban environment.
Absolutely correct Terry.Quote:
Originally Posted by TerryO
Please stick to your D3/4's and the real 4wder's will continue with our 90/110/130's :angel:
And FWIW I'm such a Luddite I only have an S2 Galaxy 'phone, and there's not an i-pad to be seen anywhere in this humpy :D
You gentlemen do realise that if you keep posting in this thread it'll keep coming up in all the Neanderthals 'Your Posts' lists so we'll keep lobbing a comment or three occasionally just to stop you fella's nodding off in your club lounges on wheels ? :D
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Originally Posted by rick130
Yep we realise ....:D
cheers,
Terry
Thats what forums are for.....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by TerryO
Rick,you recon you have the base phone,you want to try the telstra tuff that i have,must be the most basic phone on the market:(
They should call it the defender phone:p:D
Naa, the SII isn't base Paul, it was only superseded by the III as the top of the line Samsung phone eight or nine months ago.
I have to say I love my smart phone, just don't let any of these other D3/4/RRS owners know the Neanderthals enjoy the fruits of modern tech sometimes too ;)
I actually just wanted a shockproof, basic tradies phone, just like a Deefer, but I succumbed :( :D
People seem amazed the D3/4s are 'better' off road than a Defender, but at twice the price they should be.
There is more to life than who has the most capable. I quite enjoyed the trip TerryO mentioned to Newnes as I made all the difficult bits without TC or lockers, I see it as improving my driving rather than improving my vehicle, or buying a 'better' vehicle.
The same comparison is like in my sidecar racing. I race a 16 year old $20,000 sidecar, but I'm up against newer $100,000 ones and I don't beat them often, but when I do I feel great satisfaction.
Jeff
:rocket:
Chuck,
Great drive from Carpenters Rocks thru to Millicent.
Never got to go any further as we ran out of time.
Have fun.
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Originally Posted by Jeff
Forget the fact that the D3/4 is better off road than a Defender, we pay twice the amount so we don't get wet feet when it rains and don't go deaf because of the loud rattles and the annoying clunks. ...;)
cheers,
Terry
Well I bought new Defender 90 Just over a year ago in thoery to replace my V8 D3 HSE which I was becoming tired off, a big heavy 4x4, well mine is as added a lot of steel front and back etc etc :mad: and it has only done 1800ks since its last service, I loved driving the 90 so much which now has 13k on the clock
But after 11 1/2 months I am so glad I did not sell d the D3 as after doing a few more Ks in the D3 my last swing home it seems the permagrin has come back behind the wheel of the D3 :D
I think you would miss the Discovery but you would be getting a friend in its place, a good comment from another post
I do have a little story about the two of them though
We all know the noise an old fridge makes when swithching on and off, the pipes rattle a bit
Well for 25Ks this fridge rattled about in the back of the 90 and at one point I stopped to try and arrest the moving pipes as fearing filling the cab full of freon or some other nasty that fills the system. This was going to the repair man
I picked up the fridge up in the D3 and half way home it rattled once and that was it for the whole 25k return trip, got to love driving on air
I love the 90 but its a bouncy little bugger :p
G
More a wheelbase thing than the spring medium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry
The longer they are the less pitching there is, it's just a simple fact of the extra time it takes for the back wheels to hit a bump after the fronts have been unsettled with a longer (and then longer again with 127") wheelbase.