Thread: RRS Ground Clearance

Originally Posted by Leo

LR websites are not that accurate in some things

It was only about 18 months ago that the Oz LR web-site stated that 5 gears could be manually selected on the D3 auto gbox.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Thanks guys but that is not the issue. That system allows you to select various height settings within the design parameters of the vehicle.

The issue I have is that a RRS on its offroad setting is a full 83mm lower than a D3/D4 and they are supposedly the same vehicle underneath. So logically a RRS should be able to get to 310mm when offroad.

With only 227mm, a RRS will not be able to go many more places than my old Freelander will go if ground clearance is a limiting factor.

Cheers

Garry

Garry,

I am sure gghaggis will be along shortly to give you first hand advise but check out his green oval experience website as it has some footage of the RRS in action and I would be pretty confident it will go more paces than the FL2.

Regardless it would be handy inf LR published the right information about ground clearance of their vehicles and I would be surprised if there was that much difference between the RRS and D3/D4 on similar rubber, because I understood them to be basically the same or very similar.

George

Without suggesting that the RRS does have a lower off-road height which has been rebuffed anyway, it could be easily obtained using different shocks with shorter extended lengths, lower spring seats and different suspension ecu parameters even though the wishbones and other suspension parts might be the same. There are minor dimensional differences between the MY09 D3 and D4 shocks yet their mountings are indentical.

The std off-road clearance for a D3/D4 is approx 240mm. For the RRS it is 225mm. For the RR Vogue it is 280mm. These figures are averaged from a number of vehicles of each make.

The "310mm" figure is the maximum height you can attain with a D3/4 (emergency extended height). It's a marketing ploy by LR to quote this figure for the Discovery. Apparently RRS owners don't care

The difference between the RRS and D4 is only some 15mm, most of that is due to the slightly smaller tyres fitted as std (12mm less radius). If you fit the same tyres as the Disco, you basically have the same height and a better ramp-over angle due to the shorter wheelbase. This makes the RRS slightly more maneuverable off-road than the Disco.

And it will _definitely_ go places an FL2 won't

Cheers,

Gordon

Originally Posted by DiscoWeb

Garry,

I am sure gghaggis will be along shortly to give you first hand advise but check out his green oval experience website as it has some footage of the RRS in action and I would be pretty confident it will go more paces than the FL2.

Regardless it would be handy inf LR published the right information about ground clearance of their vehicles and I would be surprised if there was that much difference between the RRS and D3/D4 on similar rubber, because I understood them to be basically the same or very similar.

George

Thanks - hence my query - I would expect all the air suspended Land Rover products to have similar settings and clearances. I have the D3/RRS brochures and they all indicate that the RRS sport is lower - as does all the reviews I have read online - but they most likely use the the brochure figures.

I am glad people with first hand experience are placing comments and it is indicating that Land Rover has not listed the "extreme" offroad lift settings in their specification.

I am looking at a RRS as my everyday drive and for long distance outback type trips with others, so I want a vehicle that has the ground clearance if needed and onroad speed. For difficult fun, solo long trips or trips with older vehicles I would use my 101 which does not have the speed to get to distance locations but the clearance (285mm under the diffs - maybe 300mm if they are shaved).

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by gghaggis

The std off-road clearance for a D3/D4 is approx 240mm. For the RRS it is 225mm. For the RR Vogue it is 280mm. These figures are averaged from a number of vehicles of each make.

The "310mm" figure is the maximum height you can attain with a D3/4 (emergency extended height). It's a marketing ploy by LR to quote this figure for the Discovery. Apparently RRS owners don't care

The difference between the RRS and D4 is only some 15mm, most of that is due to the slightly smaller tyres fitted as std (12mm less radius). If you fit the same tyres as the Disco, you basically have the same height and a better ramp-over angle due to the shorter wheelbase. This makes the RRS slightly more maneuverable off-road than the Disco.

And it will _definitely_ go places an FL2 won't

Cheers,

Gordon

Thanks Gordon,

So on emergency height you should get about 290mm height. As I said I was just going by published specs which does make things a bit hard to judge. Not worried about going placed that a FL2 wont as I don't have a FL2 - however my FL1 has 210mm and if I put some better springs in it about the same as the RRS. I have to be particularly careful where I choose to go in it where ground clearance is concerned and I do not want to be restricted in a similar manner.

So I can assume that the Land Rover brochures are not showing all the specs of the RRS.


Cheers

Garry

Hi Gary,

The emergency height is about the same as the Disco (310mm) if you have the same tyres on both. If you're looking at getting out of the city, I'd advise getting better tyres, as the std RRS has very low profile ones fitted. I'd also suggest fitting one of my compressor protection plates. With that on, there's very little you can damage under the car. And you'll find the traction truly enormous

Cheers,

Gordon