Picture it... pouring with rain and howling winds. Stuck on an A road somewhere near Ely, bogged down to 6 inches in some really goopy mud.
A huge thanks to the 2 Landrover owners that stopped and coordinated a quick and painless exit.
A huge thumbsdown to the impatient drivers of regular cars who couldn't wait the 2 minutes for us to pull the car out.....
Nick.
|
Nick,
Stage one in Land Rover ownership is the never ending "I'm doing it up, it's nearly finished".
Stage two, when it is on the road, is cruising the Fens looking for helpless victims to tow out of places, whether they want it or not!
So beware...if we see a car off tarmac it will be considered fair game for recovery.
David
|
|
|
Wonderful things, Land Rovers - or can be. Reminds me of a friend of mine with a Land Rover. One very snowy winter, he was on his way to work and stopped to tow out a stuck vehicle. It was a snow plough...
Richard
|
|
|
I've never owned a Landie, but I've driven miles in two of them over real LR territory - the Falkland Islands. If anyone wants to see the biggest collection of Landies then this is the place to go.
The roads are only tarmac in Port Stanley and at Mount Pleasant Airport (military base) - or at least, this was the case in 1999. Most of the roads are compressed stone which is occasionally re-rolled and repaired when the surface becomes impossible. The rest are dirt tracks.
It's like driving on marbles. You develop a knack of using the steering wheel like a boat tiller, especially in the severe winds that prevail - 50 knots is not uncommon. The speed limit om the MPA to Stanley road is 40mph (that's the highest anywhere on the islands) and when it's windy that limit is very sensible. A colleague of mine had his Landie blown over onto its side by a sudden squall.
It's also one of those places where you never go out in your vehicle unless the tank is full. I learned this, to my cost, when I ran out of diesel about 10 miles short of MPA. Trying to prime the system using the normal pump device just didn't work, and we had to tow start it with another Landie (probably a good tip for LR owners, here).
They're noisy, uncomfortable, draughty - and wonderful! If I could afford to run a third car as a toy, I'd seriously consider it.
Ian
|
|
|
My first job before going off to college was at a Landrover dealer in Littleover, Derby. I spent all summer fitting new gearboxes under warranty. I still reckon I could do one blindfold! Nice indoor job though. That was in 1970, and I still remember that the number plates being fitted to the new ones were H*** HCH. Why can't I remember what I did yesterday?
Regards, Mike.
|
"Why can't I remember what I did yesterday?"
Hi Mike,
Acc to my doctor the fact that you know can't remeber is a very good sign, it's when you don't know you've forgotten that you are in the mire, and no Landy can pull you out of that one! (just to keep it on topic.....ish)
Nurse! where are my slippers?
Regds,
Stuart
|
|
|
|
a mate of mine at college used to have a farm (this IS true, honestly), and he had a series 2 land rover, one day when a horse was put to sleep in the field, the vet who put it to sleep went into the field in his range rover and got bogged down in the mud (yes a range rover got stuck), but the land rover managed to go into the field and pull the range rover out, the next day the tractor that went into the field to drag the horse out, also got stuck, and my mates wifes lada niva 4X4 managed to pull the tractor out (the engine nearly gave up though)
so a lada CAN do something good, its just a shame the non 4X4s are junk)
|
|
If the vet had any sense, he'd have put the lada to sleep, and ...
|
|
|
Advice to vets and horse owners to avoid the ladas inspired road train.
When you put your horse down do it exactly where you want it to fall.
David
|
the horse was on its side and wouldnt get up, it had been on its side for about six hours before the vet arrived.
p.s i emailed my mate (his name is rick), and he said that the lada didnt make it out the field, so he had to rescue both the lada and the tractor pulling the horse.
|
|
|
|
|
A friend rolled an army Land Rover once. It came to rest upside down. He was trapped by the legs, mostly uninjured and conscious. He had to wait for the fire brigade to extract him, which took several hours.
The fuel filler cap for the Land Rover was located under the driver's seat. It leaked. It was a petrol model.
A slight design flaw there, I thought.
|
|
|
