Thread: Weight Distribtution Bars on Disco 3

It's more the electronics than the air suspension. Sophisticated electronics are rewriting what you can, and cannot do with 4WDs.

Having previously had a 93LSE (My Baby) with air suspension and a D3 with Air, I defiantly don’t want to go down the path of air is bad lets forgo all its benefits and go to coils.

Air suspension has been around for 15-20years, embrace it; its what makes the D3 great, etc.

Understand what air suspension is, its just another rubber air bag just the same as your tyres, no one wants to go back to solid rubber 1920 style. So air suspension is the next step.

There are ways around air spring problems, just do your homework and find a solution that fits you.

Now to the topic at hand, WDH, do Not, DO NOT, fit a wdt to your D3 or RRS. Your insurance Co will love you if you do, they can wipe any claim you may make, and yes I have made a claim of grater than $100K.

Further I have towed a 3ton van round Oz for 7 months and plan to do so again in the near future without a WDH. The van is a three-ton Kedron ATV tandem axle.

As has been said the D3 /RRS is a different beast to any other LR, and deserves to be treated as such.

This is not to say an anti-sway coupling would not go astray for your particular application, however it was not needed in my case and an anti sway device is not a WDH.

The latest Cvan and Motorhome issue has an article on WDH and ordinary vehicles and, also a D3. The conclusions were a towball weight of from memory 140kg resulted in a 60kg lighter load on the front wheels which still left a weight of grater than 1100kg on the front tyres of a D3, If I remember their conclusion correctly, the D3 SLS took care of everything and a downforce of 1ton plus on each front wheel maintained directional control.

Ryall