salisbury plain sun 13th dec confirmation

I doubt we will get on this trip but myself and my mate next door are dead keen to join you guy's sometime over the next few months. One thing we are unsure of is the capability of our cars in terms of off road preparation.

My mate has a 1990 Classic Range Rover I have a Discovery 2 both are V8's both are stock.... are they suitable for a trip like this or should we be doing a few things to them first?

Any advice gratefully received..

Edgie said:

I doubt we will get on this trip but myself and my mate next door are dead keen to join you guy's sometime over the next few months. One thing we are unsure of is the capability of our cars in terms of off road preparation.

My mate has a 1990 Classic Range Rover I have a Discovery 2 both are V8's both are stock.... are they suitable for a trip like this or should we be doing a few things to them first?

Any advice gratefully received..

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99% of the places we usually go are perfectly fine for standard vehicles, even gaylanders come on our routes and survive with the doors intact!!

seriously - its greenlaning, not a pay & play. most of the stuff we do is fine without mods as long as you dont mind the paintwork gettin scratched. the 'serious' bits like the deep puddles, its your choice. for the big holes on the Plains theres nearly always a 2nd path around the worst places so standard vehicles never have to worry. if you do get stuck, were a friendly bunch and will happily pull you out of trouble. but do remember that gettin stuck is a 1 month sentence to having the **** taken on the forum

Thanks Mark, we will make sure that in the not too distant future we will join you guy's..

If we get stuck we deserve the month long **** taking ritual...

Edgie said:

Thanks Mark, we will make sure that in the not too distant future we will join you guy's..

If we get stuck we deserve the month long **** taking ritual...

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when u get stuck or drown your engine as much as me you just accept that the cameras will come out,you'll get the **** takin then get dragged out !

Disco71 said:

when u get stuck or drown your engine as much as me you just accept that the cameras will come out,you'll get the **** takin then get dragged out !

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would we take the **** out of a gnome fishing in a Salisbury puddle???

Jamese1505 said:

wiltshire landyman
jon k
ned25
redwings landrover
my mate jason
my mate neil from bristol
pandy 7203(will confirm nearer the time)
dirtyrhino
dirtys mate
redhand
mark disco(will confirm nearer the time)
dorset vogue se
bidg 4x4
jp
rojbarker(tbc)
jamese1505 (hopefully)
buckshot (tbc)
3 non lz members

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3 non lz members signed up aswell

i will give this one a miss, but i do want to do salisbury again at some point soon. D71 and Mark, at some point we will have to make a proper day or weekend of it if it can be sorted! was a good evenings laning in the summer, just a little brief!

carpy said:

i will give this one a miss, but i do want to do salisbury again at some point soon. D71 and Mark, at some point we will have to make a proper day or weekend of it if it can be sorted! was a good evenings laning in the summer, just a little brief!

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sounds like a plan Batman. i gotta spend some time sortin the disco out this month, got a potential water pump failure and a few leaks i need to sort, but probably jan onwards il have a bit more time and money for laning.

i think Pikey got summat planned for early next year, but im sure i can plan a day on the plains and surrounding areas before then. be good to spend a day in a mud hole

Mark Disco said:

sounds like a plan Batman. i gotta spend some time sortin the disco out this month, got a potential water pump failure and a few leaks i need to sort, but probably jan onwards il have a bit more time and money for laning.

i think Pikey got summat planned for early next year, but im sure i can plan a day on the plains and surrounding areas before then. be good to spend a day in a mud hole

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yup last week in Feb. But I'll be out and about doing a recce of the route in the new year so I can give ya a shout f you like.

redhand said:

yup last week in Feb. But I'll be out and about doing a recce of the route in the new year so I can give ya a shout f you like.

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yeah give us a shout mate il be more than happy to tag along. il be the test dummy to see if amateurs can get round the route i got scores to settle - managed to rip a front wing off within 10 mins of my first ever laning trip, but ive not got stuck yet!! this means im not trying hard enuff and not being brave enuff - THINGS MUST CHANGE!!

my new years resolution - be more Dorset Vogue!!

yea i will tag along on that recce as well then, see if we can get D71 along, thats a decent group if i do say so myself, with anyluck less getting stuck and more moving forwards, unless lee finds a lake to have a play about it

Mark Disco said:

yeah give us a shout mate il be more than happy to tag along. il be the test dummy to see if amateurs can get round the route i got scores to settle - managed to rip a front wing off within 10 mins of my first ever laning trip, but ive not got stuck yet!! this means im not trying hard enuff and not being brave enuff - THINGS MUST CHANGE!!

my new years resolution - be more Dorset Vogue!!

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Sorted will have to see if yu can get the disco to lean over just a bit more than last time Have got a tirfor to get it back up so it'll be alrite

Mark Disco said:

yeah give us a shout mate il be more than happy to tag along. il be the test dummy to see if amateurs can get round the route i got scores to settle - managed to rip a front wing off within 10 mins of my first ever laning trip, but ive not got stuck yet!! this means im not trying hard enuff and not being brave enuff - THINGS MUST CHANGE!!

my new years resolution - be more Dorset Vogue!!

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so you want to be a grumpy old brummie then ?

redhand said:

Sorted will have to see if yu can get the disco to lean over just a bit more than last time Have got a tirfor to get it back up so it'll be alrite

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did you see the angle i got last time i was out with them 2? that was the closest i got to rolling the 110, i reckon if someone woulda pushed the landy it woulda fallen over!

carpy said:

did you see the angle i got last time i was out with them 2? that was the closest i got to rolling the 110, i reckon if someone woulda pushed the landy it woulda fallen over!

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No never saw that But I went thru just before Mark and nearly rolled the 90 meself. Track was on a cross slope and it had a big run off channel in the middle reckon angle had to be between 45 & 50 degrees. and ya had to put ya wheel in the runoff to get across. was well dodgy. If the look on Bigdave's face was owt ta go by He'd touched cloth.

redhand said:

No never saw that But I went thru just before Mark and nearly rolled the 90 meself. Track was on a cross slope and it had a big run off channel in the middle reckon angle had to be between 45 & 50 degrees. and ya had to put ya wheel in the runoff to get across. was well dodgy. If the look on Bigdave's face was owt ta go by He'd touched cloth.

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haha awesome

well i recently had a play about near tidworth after picking up my roofrack there and i tell you what theres some right good stuff around there!

Disco71 said:

so you want to be a grumpy old brummie then ?

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thats not fair on Brummies!!

redhand said:

If the look on Bigdave's face was owt ta go by He'd touched cloth.

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:hysterically_laughi it was his comment of "i think we might roll here" that got me going!! out of his side window he can just see rock about 6" from the glass, all i can see is sky, the land meter was WAY past 45deg.
conversation carried on ......

"we can only go forward cause i aint going back"

'il hold on tight then'

oh my lord !!!!!!!!!!!!! Dv's got one o they gay land meter thingies snigger

Mark Disco said:

thats not fair on Brummies!!




:hysterically_laughi it was his comment of "i think we might roll here" that got me going!! out of his side window he can just see rock about 6" from the glass, all i can see is sky, the land meter was WAY past 45deg.
conversation carried on ......

"we can only go forward cause i aint going back"

'il hold on tight then'

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Wheres the pics then

Disco71 said:

oh my lord !!!!!!!!!!!!! Dv's got one o they gay land meter thingies snigger

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I refuse ta have one cos I dunt want warning when I'm about to splat it big style I prefer it to just creep up on me.