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

  1. 31st March 2020, 09:46 AM #1
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    Now I Know Why They Carry Highlift Jacks in Namibia

    Looking at some of the pictures on Caradvice site I notice this picture of the of the rear suspension, it appears the mounting point for (from I work out) the lateral arm has broke and they replaced the lateral arm with part of highlift jack. Not sure how it got that way, there no mention of problems in the various articles/videos, if its damage from hitting a rock or something else maybe it’s OK but if it’s just broke that’s so good. Also included picture of my D5 which as far as I know is much the same and I haven’t heard any problem with D5 or Range Rovers but maybe they don’t get as much of a hard time.

    A few more observations

    All the Namibia vehicles appear to have the X rear recovery points but there is no option for them on the normal models. Standard they have a screw in towing eye and not even sure if you get 2 of them, why are they not standard or at least an option?

    Land Rover list a Warn Zeon Platinum winch, which has a wireless controller, for its winch kit but the Namibia vehicles have Zeon winches with normal controller. Is there a problem with the wireless controller?
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  2. 31st March 2020, 12:29 PM #2
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    Well spotted. Those vehicles must be leading a hell of a life, being constantly driven over those roads by a bunch of journos.

    A couple of things I noticed from the Carfection review:

    Namibia looks stunning. I think I want to go there.

    They haven't learnt their lesson with the jack. It still has that abomination from the Discovery.

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  3. 31st March 2020, 12:35 PM #3
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    The price of the winch fitted is around $10K for those that are interested in it as an option

    No me.For that money there are things higher up the list .

    Same jack as D4,FFS,unbelievable.....
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    Bit of digging in the comments to find the explanation:

    A bit of context for you on that photo: one of the journos on our loop had the unfortunate experience of hitting a big rock at high speed while doing a driving piece to camera. Steel front wheel buckled (got hammered back to useable) and after bouncing, the car came down on the rock with the rear control arm and snapped it.
    In the picture you can see the repair job: the.guys used a grinder to cut a length from a hi-lift jack, clearanced the holes a little, and bolted it onto between wheel and chassis. This car continued on for the next few days without any problems. And now they have a world first mid-lift jack.

    Hopefully the journo was driving a car with the brown interior specced to hide any accidents
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  5. 31st March 2020, 04:25 PM #5
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    Well, if anything, that’s a testament to it’s durability.
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  7. 31st March 2020, 07:23 PM #7
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    The first picture shows the reservoir attached to a CVD! However it doesn't guarantee its is CVD, instead just an external reservoir.

    Edit: Adaptive Dynamics standard on base model, so yes CVDs.
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    My opinion, when they fit a new hub then they should make new control arms out of high lift jacks. They look miles stronger than the pressed metal OEM fitting.
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    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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    There were multiple 3-day trips with different groups of journos.
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