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Thread: Now I Know Why They Carry Highlift Jacks in Namibia

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    Does that count as a breakdown or an accident?
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    Just about Namibia.

    In general the dirt roads are much better maintained than in Australia. I was amazed at how there was a lack of corrugations until I spied why. We went from kalagari combined National Park to Fish River Canyon then up the dirt road connecting Fish River and Walvis Bay/Swakopmund via the coast road next to the dunes, then up the Skeleton Coast then east to the Caprivi strip to Botswana and Zambia

    There are roaming graders which traverse the country continuously towing a trailer which the grader driver lives out of with his second wife who is chosen by his first wife so that he will not muck around and get HIV.

    I was told by our truck/bus driver that the main dirt roads are done every two weeks or so.

    So the Defender has hardly been tested under typical Australian conditions of hundreds of Ks of unremitting corrugations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don 130 View Post
    I'm pretty sure in the Cnet article I posted, the journo said there were no breakdowns, the cars were just refuelled. I wonder if he knew or not?
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    That’s not a breakdown Now I Know Why They Carry Highlift Jacks in Namibia

    I note they reported it wrong as the “arm snapped”. Looks like the mount on the housing fractured in the impact.

    That would have taken some seriously silly driving!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Thats a good review.

    Lets hope its a lot more mechanically stronger and reliable than the last model.

    Then JC and Dazza won't have anything to complain about
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipA View Post
    So the Defender has hardly been tested under typical Australian conditions of hundreds of Ks of unremitting corrugations.
    Regards PhilipA
    a good point, it has been claimed that the under pinning suspension has been beefed up on the new Defender say compared to the D3/D4/RRS. As someone who has
    a MY10.5 L320 RRS, if the Defender can soak up the thousands of K's mine has done on corrugations, such as on the PDR in Cape York etc, and the control arm bushes
    can last at least to 125K KM's before the bushes need changing has mine have done, I would hope that it would cope quite easily with the majority of corrugated roads
    in OZ.. fingers crossed

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