Thread: Overlander stuffs up again!

I have a subscription to Land Rover World as well and enjoy it. This month has an add for the Lynx Diagnostic interface. Has anyone used this?

Originally Posted by connock

There is LR International and also LR Monthly
Hey tell me another 4x4 that has a mag solely on that vehicle, are that's right there isn't ha
There both good reading and its good porn for camping trips.

connock

There are plenty of Jeep only mags available around the world

Originally Posted by LowRanger

There are plenty of Jeep only mags available around the world

ok never seen one ,you learn something new everyday.not that I have looked.
connock

Hi Cannock,
I agree, LROI and LRM, also still get 4X4 Australia still has a bit of good stuff in it.

Originally Posted by discojools

Another inaccurate article on Land Rover in this months edition of Overlander (part of 4x4 Action) magazine.
Apparently the 3 ltr D4 HSE featured has a been chipped with aTunit chip "and the result is 522nm and a handy 158kw" !
And Llams comes from the UK not our mate Graeme in NSW.
"The standard candles upfront have been replaced with a set of Super Vision high and low beam HID lights". I thought an HSE would have had Xenons as standard.
Also no mention of Gordon's 18 inch wheels. Quote: "because of the front brakes, 18" wheels simply don't fit".
Later on in the mag in there 15 best bush tourers article the Defender only gets 2 stars in the aftermarket options and yet the D4 gets 5! The D4 gets 3 stars for economy but the 200 LC gets 4 even though the figures in the magazine's buyers guide show D4 at 8.5/9.3 and LC at a very optimistic 10.3.

I probably won't renew my subscription!

Jools.

I picked those points up as well Jools.
Kinda puts you off a D4 if you believe what you read. Pretty poor power & torque figures for a modern day 3.0Lt Turbo diesel.......with a chip?
The 18" wheel bit ****es me off as well. The odd mag does mention that 18" wheels are available, but most mention that you are stuck with 19's.

Cheers, Craig

Originally Posted by rb30gtr

What would be a good read for accurate technical Land Rover info?

WARNING BLATANT PLUG FOLLOWING

Join the Range Rover Club of NSW. They produce a monthly magazine "Marque" very high quality magazine for a club and dedicated to only Land Rover vehicles !!!

Range Rover Club NSW Home Page

Regards,

George

The last time I read one of these magazines was over a year ago and the main article was a comparison of the D4 against the usual suspects.

While it was rated highly (came in second), the premise of the loss to the LC200 was completely flawed....it outscored the LC200 on every test but sand climb and the ride on gravel when at Off-road height. Even though they admitted the drivers stuffed the run up to the sand (made it easily second time round) and the ride issue may have been the standard 19" UHP tyres at max pressure.

However, what really stuck in my craw was the fact that many of the criticisms were either blatant operator error or ignorance of the cars functions and features and complete silliness...."the Multi-Mode TC is very complicated to use"....WTF....its a knob you turn once!!! "The difficult to get to recovery points"....a 20c coin, two fasteners front and back and viola...and of course the Handbook even recommends removing these BEFORE going off-road. Many comments like that.

What did make me laugh was the fact that will all the inaccuracies, stupidity and one-eyed-ness, they still couldn't stop it coming in second....LOL!!!

Rubbish magazine.

Agreed the RRC of NSW is well worth joining and they provide excellent driver training courses as part of the membership fee as well as a monthly mag.

A number of Aulro members with other models often used to joke and laugh on here about being up at Stockton beach and seeing all the dumb RRC members bogged up in the sand hills and how useless they were.

In reality they take you up there for a one day course, then make you get bogged and then teach you how to rescue yourself. This was repeatedly missed by the Defender brigade who failed to understand what was happening.