Thread: Video reviews

Originally Posted by ozscott

Thanks for posting. Good review. Then watched their others. They like it but it has its issues. Some may be ironed out, others won't be. The air box is the same as the Amarok and isn't suited to outback dirt where you do a lot of that type of travelling. The GVM isn't as impressive in real life as the manual would lead us to believe. Cheers

Pretty sure if you have the RAI you can cut down on the amount of dust that gets in, my RRS air filter only needing cleaning about once a week when i did Cape York,
and it was still relatively clear, my Bro-in-laws Patrol at least every two days, and it was pretty filthy.. i put that mainly down to the LR OEM RAI doing
its job relatively well on the RRS..i am sure the RAI on our Defender will be just as good.. fingers crossed

I have put a deposit down on a Zone Base off Road caravan, i am not planning to load it to the gills, i.e the full 3.5T and 350KG on the nose, but something that is more in line with just what
the two of us will require for out trip, so <3T or lower fully loaded, and no more than 280KG, lighter if possible on the nose.. should come within both the vehicle GVM and the rear
axle loading..

Originally Posted by zilch

Pretty sure if you have the RAI you can cut down on the amount of dust that gets in, my RRS air filter only needing cleaning about once a week when i did Cape York,
and it was still relatively clear, my Bro-in-laws Patrol at least every two days, and it was pretty filthy.. i put that mainly down to the LR OEM RAI doing
its job relatively well on the RRS..i am sure the RAI on our Defender will be just as good.. fingers crossed

I have put a deposit down on a Zone Base off Road caravan, i am not planning to load it to the gills, i.e the full 3.5T and 350KG on the nose, but something that is more in line with just what
the two of us will require for out trip, so <3T or lower fully loaded, and no more than 280KG, lighter if possible on the nose.. should come within both the vehicle GVM and the rear
axle loading..

Yes I did one Cape trip in the D2a no snorkel,used three air filters.(one did get wet)
Next trip,a week longer, with snorkel fitted, did the whole trip without changing the air filter.

Interesting this rear axle loading.i have seen a couple of RRS towing huge vans lately,i wonder if they have had the rear axle load checked, i doubt it?
Looking on JLR site I can't find any rating for the rear axle on RR or RRS,it should be on a tag on the vehicle somewhere I presume.
I did notice Velar has a much lower tow rating than the other models.

Originally Posted by scarry

Yes I did one Cape trip in the D2a no snorkel,used three air filters.(one did get wet)
Next trip,a week longer, with snorkel fitted, did the whole trip without changing the air filter.

Interesting this rear axle loading.i have seen a couple of RRS towing huge vans lately,i wonder if they have had the rear axle load checked, i doubt it?
Looking on JLR site I can't find any rating for the rear axle on RR or RRS,it should be on a tag on the vehicle somewhere I presume.
I did notice Velar has a much lower tow rating than the other models.

you can get the weights from the online user manual

https://www.ownerinfo.landrover.com/

Originally Posted by zilch

you can get the weights from the online user manual

https://www.ownerinfo.landrover.com/

I don't know if that info is Aus specs?

This is interesting,

¹ For every pound above 331 lbs (150 kg) added to the trailer tongue weight, the same weight must be removed from the vehicle's payload. Make sure that the GVW, the GTW, and the maximum rear axle weight limits are not exceeded when applying the trailer tongue weight. If required, reduce the weight of the vehicle's payload.

This wasn't mentioned in the Vids above, so may not be relevant to Aus?
I wonder if its in the owners handbook, for Aus spec New Defender vehicles?

I am pretty sure it was relevant for D4,in Aus,but I can't check the manual to be sure, as our D4 is gone.

Originally Posted by scarry

I don't know if that info is Aus specs?

This is interesting,

¹ For every pound above 331 lbs (150 kg) added to the trailer tongue weight, the same weight must be removed from the vehicle's payload. Make sure that the GVW, the GTW, and the maximum rear axle weight limits are not exceeded when applying the trailer tongue weight. If required, reduce the weight of the vehicle's payload.

This wasn't mentioned in the Vids above, so may not be relevant to Aus?
I wonder if its in the owners handbook, for Aus spec New Defender vehicles?

I am pretty sure it was relevant for D4,in Aus,but I can't check the manual to be sure, as our D4 is gone.

The Aussie tow hitch on the new Defender is fully rated to 350KG by design (same A/NZ coupling as D4/D5/RRS etc), i had the weights confirmed by LR OZ,
but every Kilo in nose weight adds to the GVM when calculating, hence why i am working with Zone to make sure i stay within axles limits..
rear axle is 1900KG on my 5+2 seater

Originally Posted by zilch

The Aussie tow hitch on the new Defender is fully rated to 350KG by design (same A/NZ coupling as D4/D5/RRS etc), i had the weights confirmed by LR OZ,
but every Kilo in nose weight adds to the GVM when calculating, hence why i am working with Zone to make sure i stay within axles limits..
rear axle is 1900KG on my 5+2 seater

Yes but looking at what I copied and pasted, which came from the link you provided you have an extra 150KG up your sleeve, if you know what I mean.

If nose weight is 350Kg,then 200Kg is added to payload, not full 350Kg.But I dunno how that affects rear axle weight.

As I said,D4 was like that for Aus.

Would vehicles built with different seat configurations and different engines be built with different axles? I cannot understand why a 2.0L diesel with 5 seats comes with lower axle and GVM figures than a 2.0L diesel with 5+2 seats, and a 3.0L petrol with 7+2 is higher again. I would expect payload to be different among all the different configs (because different amounts of weight built into the vehicle) but having loads and GVM based on seats is doing my head in.

My 5-seat D240 is apparently only good for 1800kg on the rear axle and a GVM of 3150kg, but if I had the 3rd row they'd be happy for 1900kg and 3215 respectively. Are there parts I can upgrade to gain an extra 65kg of GVM? Or better yet get all the way to 3250 like the P400?

This guy might be worth keeping an eye on. He's just started doing some small tests with his new vehicle to get an understanding of how it works. He has an old Def too.

Really interesting to see the night and day difference between two TR mode on the same obstacle


Thought it was a nice touch to overlay the 4WD info screen with the exterior footage. It really shows how responsive the traction control is.