Thread: D3 RAGE!!!!!!!!!

If it makes you feel better, my little sister washed my rangie one day and managed to douse the most sophisticated electronic device in the whole thing.
The stereo.


After sitting it under a fan for half an hour everything worked again.

Originally Posted by big guy

They are not outback vehicles!!!!!

I don't agree with that comment at all. I used to, but I ahve been proven wrong. I have been away on some very tough trips with a guy I know in his D3 and it has never caused a problem once. We did Simpson desert and Hay river last year and we did Madigans line this year. He went fine and he drives it a lot harder than I do, but my D2 never stopped breaking down!


I agree that if something goes wrong there is not much you can do, but as far as I have seen the D3 is the most reliable LR yet.

Originally Posted by PAT303

I'll pass this tip on.I have worked on water trucks now for years,the one I have now carts water that is 12 times saltyer(how do you spell that?) than sea water.Every day there would be a fault light on the dash or the brake,headlights etc wouldn't work.Now for the tip,every time I dis-connect a plug,terminal,connector I spray it with lanolin before re-connecting.Water resistant,water repellant best lube besides Ballistol you can buy and non conductive.No more grey hairs and I sleep soundly at night.JC I'll post you some. Pat

Either that or Inox. CRC is probably the last thing these days for anything electronic.
Love Inox tho. Rods, reels, batt terminals, tyre shine, dash shine. A quick squirt down the missus throat shuts her up for a while too and no problems with poisoning her as its food grade!!

Guys

We`are blinded by our affection to the make.

Modern cars need constant expensive attention.
Manufacturers do not make money through sales but through servicing and parts.

Pull up at a outback service station in a D3 and they say what the F___.

They have no idea how to fix or or find out how to isolate a problem.
Its all computer controlled, not just Land rover but Nissan and Toyota as well.
They are the facts, you can argue till the cows come home but thats just the way it is.
To pass emission controls, they need the computers and technology etc.

Taking one of these in the outback is like putting a escalator in an out-house.

Keep it simple when travelling in outback.
Isuzu or simple tdi or V8.

The locals drive fords and point sticks away or towards their cars depending on if they will be back to collect their cars etc.
Its harsh and no place for computers.
City slicker cars and nothing else.

I want one, I always had Rangies and now an old Disco, I can't help myself.

Most of us are the same but lets face it , we hold our breath every time we get in our car to see if it starts.

proove me wrong, not with theories but facts.

Originally Posted by big guy

Guys

We`are blinded by our affection to the make.

Modern cars need constant expensive attention.
Manufacturers do not make money through sales but through servicing and parts.

Pull up at a outback service station in a D3 and they say what the F___.

They have no idea how to fix or or find out how to isolate a problem.
Its all computer controlled, not just Land rover but Nissan and Toyota as well.
They are the facts, you can argue till the cows come home but thats just the way it is.
To pass emission controls, they need the computers and technology etc.

Taking one of these in the outback is like putting a escalator in an out-house.

Keep it simple when travelling in outback.
Isuzu or simple tdi or V8.

The locals drive fords and point sticks away or towards their cars depending on if they will be back to collect their cars etc.
Its harsh and no place for computers.
City slicker cars and nothing else.

I want one, I always had Rangies and now an old Disco, I can't help myself.

Most of us are the same but lets face it , we hold our breath every time we get in our car to see if it starts.
proove me wrong, not with theories but facts.

I hear you Big Guy,

I drive everything from RRS, D3 Tdv6, to old 2 door classics and even old stage 1's during the course of working on them.
I love the new stuff, quiet, grunty, smooth and efficient. I equally love my noisy, grunty, rough and reasonably efficient Isuzu RRC.
Some I would drive to the ends of the earth without a care, some of the others I wouldn't take off graded gravel roads...
Any of them may not start one morning, but it's what you have to do to GET it started is where the problem lies I feel
That is why I still enjoy my old Rangie so much

JC

Originally Posted by LOVEMYRANGIE

Love Inox tho ... A quick squirt down the missus throat shuts her up for a while too and no problems with poisoning her as its food grade!!

gees are we back to red flags and solid rubber tyres again, again, again???

imagine the furore when the first coil springs came out!!!
ignition modules??? OMG!!!

EFI??? what devils spawn is that!!!

you guys make me laugh,,

stay in the 30's

good music,, nice dresses,, no nonsence cars,

whatever happened to the straight 8?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

gees are we back to red flags and solid rubber tyres???

imagine the furore when the first coil springs came out!!!
ignition modules??? OMG!!!

EFI??? what devils spawn is that!!!

you guys make me laugh,,

stay in the 30's

good music,, nice dresses,, no nonsence cars,

whatever happened to the straight 8?

Maybe we should be going west in Sal's Model A...

but we only have a week.