RRS Rubbish off-road?

[Rohan]

Nope. It's excellent!

Just spent the day playing on the tracks around Callignee, Churchill, Mount Tassie. What a great day & what a great vehicle!!!!!!
A couple of small creek crossings, rock steps. Dirt tracks. Ruts. Rocky climbs. What a blast!
Was out with my cousin who was in her GU Patrol, have to say, apart from the suspension tricks and Terrain Response, the trucks were pretty evenly matched. Hers had a 2" lift, mine has GOE's rods
The Bridgestone D697's were great too, very impressed with them on and off road (so far).

[Runnadude]

That is one hell of a nice rig

[DoctorJ]

I do want to see that RRS in action let us know the next time your heading out and I'll swing by and go for a run

Cheers
Julian

[Rohan]

No problem! Probably heading out for a few days labour day weekend (to anywhere that's not on fire!!!)
Should have most of the scratches polished out by then too

[camel_landy]

As the RRS is based on the T5 platform, it is a cracker off-road.

The only thing to look out for are the trim panels at the bottom of the doors. They will take a bit of a battering but if they do pop off, try not to run them over as they're quite easy to re-attach.

M

[Rohan]

The rock sliders/side steps should help avoid that

[camel_landy]

The rock sliders/side steps should help avoid that

Nah... They just trash the chassis when you rip them off.

M

[kaz11]

Very nice!

We loved taking our Sport off road as well, and we gave up trying to polish scratches out a long time ago.

They go pretty much anywhere (we've tried), and in comfort too

I also have to second the point about the trim and bumper etc... being able to just pop back on again. Ours is missing a few bits of trim now, but nearly every piece has at some stage been ripped off and popped back into position.

We've actually got footage of it in a couple of our Wallaroo videos.

Bumper comes away around the 9 minute mark and pushes back on: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUim1rGqn8s"]Land Rovers vs Wallaroo Offroad - YouTube[/ame]

Bumpers rip off both the D2 and the RRS from around the 1:45 minute mark (the D4 has a steel? bumper), and Jamie shows how to re-attach the Sport's: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8Jv0UByrQ"]Wallaroo Part IV: Land Rover extreme offroad test - YouTube[/ame]

Since buying a Defender as well, the RRS doesn't get much of a run anymore, but you've just inspired me to get her out on the tracks again soon

Karen

[kaz11]

camel_landy, re: the rock sliders trashing the chassis, did you have this happen to you or someone you know?

We were thinking of putting some on our Sport.


Karen

[Rohan]

The sliders don't attach to the chassis, only to the body. Gordon's web site is a good point of reference greenovalexperience.com I think. Will have to watch the vids later on the PC