What's your annual mileage?

[rmp]

Just wondering...and how much of that is really using the LR, eg offroad, heavy towing, moving things or something you couldn't do in a Falcodore.

My Defender will click over 30,000 before it's 12 months old and that is 90% 4WD trips, it's not a daily driver. Our three year old town car has 31,000km so the Defender has already nearly caught it!

[DEFENDERZOOK]

mine is my daily driver......

if i had time off work and fuel dollars those would be my monthly kms not my annual kms.

[incisor]

mine is a daily driver and i seem to click up about 1000k a week, hence the diesel [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

[RichardK]

Mine is also a daily driver/ business vehicle, the high country trip will be its first real 4wd outing and the start of speccing it up for heavier duties

[Tyrepower]

My lady uses it as a daily driver, however only 60-80km/week. The rest is long distance trips, desert trips and such. ie 2003 Perth to Townsville via Great Victoria Desert- Simpson Desert and back. 04 Holland track WA, trip to VIC over Xmas hols having a look around SA on the way back (Getting out the day of the fires, just) and later this year Tassie for 6 weeks.
Cheers Tyrepower.

PS. rmp read your article in the Mag about the spare wheel carrier. Looks very neat, you may have converted me.
PPS. Buy the Mrs the 90, can't go letting good LR fans miss out now can we [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

[rmp]

Originally posted by Tyrepower

PS. rmp read your article in the Mag about the spare wheel carrier. Looks very neat, you may have converted me.
PPS. Buy the Mrs the 90, can't go letting good LR fans miss out now can we [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

She isn't allowed a yellow 90, so after sulking she now she wants a Freelander!!! "because it's not boring". Maybe a Forester GT though :-)

I'd definitely get a carrier, it takes the stress off the door, improves rear visibility, makes the door easier to open and the handle more accessible.

I felt I had to write that response after Denis highlighted the Defender's door problem.

[Tyrepower]

Perhaps I've just been lucky, but as I said before this is the 2nd Defender I've owned, and no problems with the rear door. And they have been over some really rough tracks, corrugations for days.
But I know that just because I havn't had the problem dosn't mean it's not a problem for others.
I like the way yours opens with the door, instead of as a separate action. And I need a place to carry the shovel and high lift.
So considering all things who is the manufacturer of the carrier?
Cheers Tyrepower

[rmp]

Bearmach make the carrier, and 4x4 Equip (http://www.4x4equip.com.au) make the spade/axe carrier. I wouldn't hang a hi-lift off it though, I'd put that on the passenger side, resting the base of the jack on a bracket attached to the chassis. I've seen a Patrol door killed by a hi-lift, albeit with a 33" tyre.

[Tyrepower]

Thanks for that Rob, I wonder why I even worry about the Hi lift. For the damage and trouble it causes in packing/carrying, and considering the amount of times I've used it in anger (never)And how it needs so much modification to the vehice to even use. The last couple of trips I've been on I have not worried about taking it.
"Yeah, yeah I know" If you use it once it's worth the trouble. Thing is there has been a couple of times when I could of used it, yet even when I did carry it, it was such a hassel to unload that I ended up using a bottle jack on a hard base that was quicker to access and position. And just as effective. Bogged one day on the beach with the tide coming in
If we carried everything that we should, there would be no room for the rest of the gear.
This has most likely opened up a real can of worms. But thats just my 20cents worth.
Cheers Tyrepower

[disco95]

15000-20000 per year, not enough of that is offroad. I'm sure those figures will increase now we're moving to the country.