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$80 bushes and 4 hours in the shed every 60,000km for that incredible ride - I can live with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by cjc_td5
Ironically, if off road and in dirt people drive as slow as a Solid Axle vehicle they last a lot longer. The beauty is that where my DC Cruiser owning mate has reached the limits at 70km/h I was able to stop, grab something out the back, take off and catch him at a casual 110km/h and not notice the vehicle working beneath me.
Live footage there of your P Plate 18 year old child borrowing your pride and joyQuote:
Originally Posted by blackrangie
DDL.Design 's latest effort, hes got some skills.[emoji41]
If only he matched the snorkel up with goodwood/tusk.
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I'm still surprised that it got across that tank trap and didn't simply flip on its nose and cartwheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackrangie
This showed up on another forum
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11miles of trail and both big trucks have blown out rear shocks and the Honda ridgeline 1 blown rear shock, titan ends up with all 4 blown shocks, broken boxes and trim, nissan give the the runaround.
Toyota deny and say it shouldn't happen and suspect misuse on invoice.
Honda are great and wins the day, what??
They put it down to IRS with less unspruung weight.
LR testing hopefully would involve this scenerio, The testing they did was 2 inch concrete sets amoungst other things then fed into the 8 week, 24hr tester from memory to repeat.
Shocks also have monitoring to adjust to avoid failures i believe.
I believe the track the journos from the recent articles were taken on is one of the torture tracks too.
Hope some journos take the new defender accross the Canning stock route in oz, like death valley on steroids, the gwagons all blew shocks when they tried. Will be interesting if the continuously variable shocks and monitoring avoid failures like these trucks
A few years ago a friend was working for Mercedes. They did a trip on the Canning in the then new G Wagon. Half way through all of them had killed their shocks. Not a good look. Mercedes flew in the Australian Military grade shocks and fixed the problem... LR should have got the Australian Army to do some testing... There are some interesting Perentie testing videos around... [emoji3][emoji6]
Thats the trip i was referring too [emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by grey_ghost
My associate worked for Mercedes in the PR department! [emoji15][emoji6]
The road in that video didn't look too bad, no worse than plenty in this country. They ran the tyres at highway pressures and went too fast though. I suspect their suspensions were tuned for sporty highway handling, not bouncing over rough roads. Their treatment of the vehicles was unsympathetic.
Agree best practice is to get speed right and lower pressures, however notice the comments from the main guy in vid though, development of vehicles is done at full pressures, that's why they tested at full pressure, also I think the titan or tacoma had an "offroad pack" & this happened in 11miles not 500km [emoji15]Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
In this video at moab i remember the landrover guy saying @ road pressures.
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