Thread: Which is better Off Road a D3/4 or a late model Defender? ... Puma 110

Originally Posted by frantic

To get disco 3/4 to run at a higher height on the air suspension you can fit a bit that fools the system, but I know Nada about that tomfoolery... More centre clearance, but less articulation.
If you fit the plus 10% tyres to a D4 they rub on plastic, which other D3/4 owners have reshaped with a heat gun.
To fit 10% larger tyres in nsw you need an engineer report.
That has zip to do with how a D4 works.

99% of the posts in this thread have been tounge in cheek taking the **** out of each side.
Why are you posting on **** you admit to knowing Nada about?????
Andrew

Originally Posted by 1nando

Ive never owned a disco, i only see them everywhere doing the school run in the eastern suburbs of sydney and as a result dont consider them a serious off road vehicle.

Sooooo a serious off road vehicle can't be good at anything else. The Disco starts to look a whole lot better price proposition if you don't need a /whole other vehicle/ for everything else!!!

Originally Posted by Stuart02

Sooooo a serious off road vehicle can't be good at anything else. The Disco starts to look a whole lot better price proposition if you don't need a /whole other vehicle/ for everything else!!!

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Originally Posted by komaterpillar

*OP starts a thread with a very controversial subject matter
*sooks and berates other posters who voice their opinion + back it up with evidence, if this opinion or evidence differs from his own
*wondering why I renewed my subscription a couple of days ago

It's good fun though - I've seriously never laughed so much at a thread on this forum!

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

99% of the posts in this thread have been tounge in cheek taking the **** out of each side.

Why are you posting on **** you admit to knowing Nada about?????

Andrew

So is what he just wrote not correct?

Originally Posted by TerryO

.... So me old mate even after all of this discussion you guys still don't have any clue how a late model Disco works do you?

I must admit I too am confounded as to the workings of a Disco.
I read somewhere (Wikipedia I think) that programmers of the software for the Disco had integrated "Biometric Recognition" capabilities into the system.
This allowed the vehicle to determine if the person attempting to use it was the lawful/correct owner before allowing the vehicle to start and also recalled typically driven routes, phone numbers driver preferences etc.

LR found the system worked very well but was forced to turn off a number of the biometric features following complaints from a small few owners.
Investigations found that those who had complained had been correctly scanned and confirmed as the rightful owner, however, driver preferences would only provide maps to poo farms, hay sheds and constantly provided notifications for nearby beard conventions.

The majority of vehicle owners had no complaints, with driver preferences reliably defaulting to maps for school runs, hairdressers, cafes, and bingo halls.
Notifications and full voice assisted instructions for nearby fanta pants conventions were well received.

Only 2 actual faults with the system were genuinely found through diagnostics download which were the reset in the settings menu
One owner was unable to start the vehicle until at least 3 or more inches of facial hair were detected. Being a woman made this all the more difficult.
The other incident was determined to be owner error - the owner was attempting to wear denim jeans which the vehicle default setting allowed on the first instance and intuitively provided maps/directions to a boutique.
On the second attempt the owner was unable to operate the vehicle until such time as tight pastel chinos were donned.

Originally Posted by frantic

To get disco 3/4 to run at a higher height on the air suspension you can fit a bit that fools the system, but I know Nada about that tomfoolery... More centre clearance, but less articulation.
If you fit the plus 10% tyres to a D4 they rub on plastic, which other D3/4 owners have reshaped with a heat gun.
To fit 10% larger tyres in nsw you need an engineer report.
That has zip to do with how a D4 works.

No, the OP said the D4 running under 32". That's nowhere near 10%. The closest equivalent would be a D4 on 285/60R18 and a Defender on 33's. No report required for either.

Cheers

Gordon

Land Rover Defender (off-) road trip: Birmingham to Kabul

Apart from the Journo getting it wrong again in the title, when you read this do you think:
OH my God i wish i could do that, or
OH my God no carpet or sat nav.

That's what separates Defender buyers and Disco buyers. And may you all fight the good fight against the heathen Asian things.