Thread: His & Her's Discos ...Expensive lesson Learned

In our house the D3 belongs to the missus...

At one stage we both had D1s, in fact it was my D1 that converted her.

Now she wants a D4

Go the whole hog & get her a Olive drab Unimog

Hopefully she wont like it and you will have to drive it.

Not a problem for me. My wife absolutely refuses to go off road, she hates the feel of it (unless she's on a horse).

She won't even drive the Rangie.

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

My BIL and sister bought a late model D4 and he rarely gets a drive as she has claimed it!

Same here,until she once got it well and truly bogged then it became mine for a couple of hours.
It was brand new at the time and i can still remember her saying this one is no where near as good in the mud as the old one was.

Those were the days when were learning that it was a totally different animal compared to the D2.

Eventually we got it out mud everywhere,all over every friggin thing.


all fun and games

you blokes should be proud of your ladies! getting in on it! not many men get to share their love of all things landrover and 4x4!
i am a woman, and it seems ive converted the man! he now wants his own disco! given he does not believe they are as capable off road as his hilux which has big tyres and lift and diff still nto much higher off the ground than mine! but tryign to explain to him they are more capable than he can imagine is like hitting my head agaisnt a brick wall. but still, he has grown fond of mine and wants one himself!

Where did you guys end up? I passed you with a patrol and navara in tow. We end up just working our way through the area and found a crazy hill climb try to follow the power lines. Wow what an experience! There seem to have been a few about, noticed a big Jeep club on entry.

Originally Posted by jammers

Where did you guys end up? I passed you with a patrol and navara in tow. We end up just working our way through the area and found a crazy hill climb try to follow the power lines. Wow what an experience! There seem to have been a few about, noticed a big Jeep club on entry.

I'm guessing you were in the D4 with a couple of little ones in the back that stopped for a minute or two then drove off?

The Basic skills day is just that, that particular hill has about four or five good little tracks up and over it that provide a good cross section for people starting out to learn various skills while still in view of the trainers.

I strongly recommend that anyone in this part of NSW that would like to get some good training consider joining the Range Rover Club, there are various training days including sand driving and recovery courses. All good stuff when starting out and well worth the membership fee.

Terry,

Your lovely wife did a great job on the weekend as did a number of other of our female club members at another well attended Range Rover Club Intro driver training day (shameless plug).

It is great to see how many of the ladies who come to our training days go from having either no desire to drive or lack the confidence to have a drive.

As Terry is well aware, being one of the clubs trainers, once we kick their respective better halves out of the car and get them driving on progressively harder tracks it great to see how much they not only enjoy the driving but actually get the attraction of driving these vehicles off road and understand the capability of the vehicles.

I would encourage everyone to let the ladies take the wheel in an environment where you are not the one giving the instructions.

Terry, your real problem is she will probably the D4 but also want all the fun bits fitted as well then you can chase each other around the tracks !!

Best.

George