Does this happen to Land Rover's too?

[wrinklearthur]

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[BigJon]

I have certainly heard of Defender 130's breaking in the middle.

[wrinklearthur]

This dual cab belongs to my Nephew Adrian and his wife Kirsty, the photo was taken today 20-9-13.
They are on Frazer Island at the moment and they were just about to start their two week holiday with their two year old son Harvey.

I don't know the circumstances of the lead up to the chassis failing, other than to say Adrian is a responsible driver and unlikely to be driving hard especially with his family on board.

My advice to them is to not drive it and get the vehicle back to a dealer on a tilt tray.
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[d2dave]

How old is it and what is it? I could be wrong here, but the only way I could see a full box chassis in a landy do this is if it was rusted out.

My D2 is safe. It has reinforcing in the chassis, called ACE pipes.

[Gary S11]

This dual cab belongs to my Nephew Adrian and his wife Kirsty, the photo was taken today 20-9-13.
They are on Frazer Island at the moment and they were just about to start their two week holiday with their two year old son Harvey.

I don't know the circumstances of the lead up to the chassis failing, other than to say Adrian is a responsible driver and unlikely to be driving hard especially with his family on board.

My advice to them is to not drive it and get the vehicle back to a dealer on a tilt tray.
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It is a tilt tray!!!!!

[GuyG]

If they can drive it off the Island it will reduce the recovery costs considerably as RACQ/towing company's charge from when they leave the mainland depot.

[Bearman]

It certainly can happen to a Landrover. I did exactly that to a S2A trayback 109. I was living in the Isa at the time and used to do trips up to Borroloola in the NT for a couple of weeks fishing. Needless to say loaded to the gunnels both ways. Bent the chassis about where the rear shockie mounts are. Luckily it happened not far from home and I managed to limp back. Several things contributed to it
1.....Overloaded
2.....The fitment of Aeon suspension rubbers to carry the heavy loads
3.....Insufficient tray to chassis mounts. The tray contacted the chassis at the front and rear only with no support in the centre above the axle area.

Took me a while but I did fix it and plated the chassis both sides in the failed area AND added more chassis to tray mounts.

[Kev the Fridgy]

If they can drive it off the Island it will reduce the recovery costs considerably as RACQ/towing company's charge from when they leave the mainland depot.

If they have RACQ Ultra the recovery is free from where the car is, my B2600 broke a transfer case at Waddy point a few years ago, we had it Tilt trayed to Rainbow, re-loaded to another tilt tray to Gympie, re-loaded to another tilt tray and then to my Mechanics at Shailer park, me as a passenger and at no additional cost........... well worth the membership as the off road tilt tray was quoted at $2500 to recover from Waddy Point to Rainbow

[Blknight.aus]

It can but its rare...

Ive seen it on a 130 but it was going the other way...

Just because you can put 2T in thetray doesnt mean you do it with a single bar ingot of metal up against the head board.

Failure method was as per Bearmans explination, tray mounts failed and the point loading crushed the chassis down from there.

[87County]

do you ever have deja vu ?


the following older links refer to a similar situation - link #1 also refers to it happening to D1s

dual cab utes seem to be the main type of vehicle that has the problem

the interesting question is cause - one suggestion is that lots of inexperienced people load them up and head for the bush without paying sufficient attention to correct load distribution and/or grossly overloading them ?

Mitsubishi Broken Chassis

http://www.4wdaction.com.au/forum/vi...hp?f=7&t=99859