D3/D4 rear headroom load area space.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Just a quick question for the D3/D4 owners.

Could you fit an electric wheelchair in the back of a D3/D4 and still have second row seats occupied?

Height 1040 (1400 with person seated)
width 710mm
length 1100mm

[gghaggis]

Hi

The rear opening height is 950mm, by 970mm wide, so don't think so.

Cheers,

Gordon

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Hi

The rear opening height is 950mm, by 970mm wide, so don't think so.

Cheers,

Gordon

That's a buggar!

I don't want to buy a new car and if I have to, I most certainly don't want to buy some sort of Japanese or Euro van, that seems like a waste of money to me.

If the opening is that size, would it still be possible to load the chair? (Dad can transfer to the front seat of my RRc O.K., and the chair back can rake down to lower it's effective height to get it in.) It's height is 1040 with the seat back raised.

So all I need is a luggage load area of 1100mm from inside the back door to the back of the 2nd row seats (raised or lowered) and preferably nominally 1040mm height.

[Larry]

That's a buggar!

I don't want to buy a new car and if I have to, I most certainly don't want to buy some sort of Japanese or Euro van, that seems like a waste of money to me.

If the opening is that size, would it still be possible to load the chair? (Dad can transfer to the front seat of my RRc O.K., and the chair back can rake down to lower it's effective height to get it in.) It's height is 1040 with the seat back raised.

So all I need is a luggage load area of 1100mm from inside the back door to the back of the 2nd row seats (raised or lowered) and preferably nominally 1040mm height.

6X6 D/C Defender, plenty of room in the back!

[Lotz-A-Landies]

6X6 D/C Defender, plenty of room in the back!

A Defender would be great, except that it won't neal down to assist getting in and out and won't be ready for some months.

Next Monday, I have to be on the farm in the bright and early take dad to the hospital in Sydney for an 11.00 am appt, wait then drive him back to the farm and then return to Sydney and be ready for work. 500KM+ in the day, with lots of waiting around twiddling thumbs in the mean time. I can't get the chair in the RRc and cant use a loading dock at the hospital for the trailer andchair, so I have to use a manual chair removing Dad's autonomy even more.

This is going to be an ongoing issue and I may as well masticate the ordnance now rather than later, so looking at options. If not a D4 then maybe it'll have to be a LC200!

[gghaggis]

The measurements I gave was for the opening to the rear load space. The space itself is 1030mm high. The length is 1120, but that's at floor level. As the 2nd-row seat backs rake backwards a little, it would be less at the height of the top of the seat-back. I didn't measure that, so hazarding a guess, somewhere around 1000mm?

Cheers,

Gordon

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Thanks Gordon

The numbers are getting close!

The 1120mm floor level front to rear is within the limits, particularly as the footrest folds up, but the height still may be an issue.

It's easier if the chair goes in backwards as you can stand outside and operate the joystick. This means the backrest will lean forward over the 2nd row seats and I don't know if I can fold the backrest forward but will check.

Diana

[jonesy63]

What about if you removed the two rear-most seats? That could buy you another 100+ mm in height.

[Graeme]

it won't neal down to assist getting in and out

Llams can now drop a D4 virtually to the bump-stops but watch your head getting in and out, so perhaps too low.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

What about if you removed the two rear-most seats? That could buy you another 100+ mm in height.

I take it you are talking about the 3rd row seating? (seats 6 and 7) Hadn't decided whether to include the 3rd row seats in the purchase, but don't understand how removing something bolted in the corners of the floor will add head room, or is there something about D4 seats i don't know??? Or do they only fold flat not up to the sides like the D2 seats?

Addit: Doesn't look like JLR think much of the reliability of the Defender Puma!