Thread: Youtube videos - D3, D4 & RRS off road

Originally Posted by ozscott

Some nice footage of the D2 too Baz. Looks like fun.

Cheers

That's Yorkie in the White D2, he's on a lap of Australia at the moment, I do still miss our ol' girl.

Baz.

Sweet mate. Looks like both Discos did it nicely. Good to see them getting out and doing what they were designed for.

Cheers

I don't know if I should post this here or not!

Top Gear US has a new episode - Desert Trail Blazers which has a 5ltr LR4 ( D4) vs a FJ Cruiser and a $130,000 USD tricked up Jeep Wrangler.
ARB Bullbar, Kaymar RWC fitted too. Not sure but it probably has Johnson Rods.

Here are some screen shots:






Yes a D4 with front and rear Air Lockers!


Lastly - you can tell they are not their cars:


This is a link to download the show, I've scanned it and it's virus free.
495mb download though.
https://app.box.com/s/kqyud1wiyfpf8jgt66vb

The LR4 puts up a good fight against the Jeeps running 37" tyres, it beats it on a hill climb race - easily.

Be better if they let their tyres down!!!!!

I thought ARB air lockers were unavailable for the D3/4...??

Lockers are available, just priced up a front one for mine last week. ...

Originally Posted by ~Rich~

I don't know if I should post this here or not!

Top Gear US has a new episode - Desert Trail Blazers which has a 5ltr LR4 ( D4) vs a FJ Cruiser and a $130,000 USD tricked up Jeep Wrangler.
ARB Bullbar, Kaymar RWC fitted too. Not sure but it probably has Johnson Rods.

....snip....


Be better if they let their tyres down!!!!!

Yeah exactly this. I think the whole reason the brute was walking over the rocks better was the big tyres only needed a few psi in them. The others looked at street pressure.

I also think the D4 would have bounced around a lot less on that rock climb if it didn't have the lockers in. With that sort of stair climbing each wheel has to cover a significantly different distance to make traction. The lockers are forcing it to slip and bounce.

I also think the "shortcut along a river" with the brute was complete bollocks (aka rigged). No way can driving down a river-bed compete with highway speeds along a dirt road for travel times.

Originally Posted by Dougal

Yeah exactly this. I think the whole reason the brute was walking over the rocks better was the big tyres only needed a few psi in them. The others looked at street pressure.

I also think the D4 would have bounced around a lot less on that rock climb if it didn't have the lockers in. With that sort of stair climbing each wheel has to cover a significantly different distance to make traction. The lockers are forcing it to slip and bounce.

I also think the "shortcut along a river" with the brute was complete bollocks (aka rigged). No way can driving down a river-bed compete with highway speeds along a dirt road for travel times.

In that show, the American vehicle must always win. I wonder how the centre diff coped with the drive onto the aircraft.

My wife and I watched that ep earlier in the week. Her bet was for the yota to win and I hoped for the disco. In fairness the only one that was stock was the yota and it did go everywhere the others went (with a little trouble and bad driving). Even my jeepnik mate agreed the jeep was a joke - 130k jeep wtf. As he rightly pointed out, a stock rubicon 4 door would have made an even match and a more interesting show. The disco made mince meat of them both on that hill !

And yes centre diff hahaha !