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bolter

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Hi all,
I've just chopped in my Freelander commercial and bought a Disco II.
The Freelander was great workhorse but the Disco is another thing all together.

I'm very happy with the Disco so-far but after reading through some of the posts on this site; why do I get the feeling I'm going to need your technical know-how pretty soon?

Anyway, let me know if there's anything going off in the Harrogate Ripon area, I'm looking forward to trying the Disco out off-road.

cheers,
 
welcome mate great tae hear youve gotn rid o a freelander :D
discos a step in the right direction;) youll get there in the end though
hope you enjoy the forum dont take it to serious:D
 
Cheers Dave. It looks like a good forum-plenty of **** take! So a Disco is better than a Freelander but a Defender is better than a Disco? What's better than a Def bender then?
 
I have a disco 300tdi and you will be surprised how easy it is to get stuck, the diff lock only locks the front and rear axles together and means only one wheel front and one wheel rear turns when stuck, better get some waffle boards, and a high lift sos yer can get them under, or take a mate and you can both get stuck and keep one another company.
 
David, mine only has the yellow button. No diff lock to speak of. I presumed it worked the same way as the freelander tc by aplying the brakes to a spinning wheel. Are they pretty poor off road then? Must be better than the freelander?
 
I don't think that they are poor, just that they have limitations, I run colway AT tyres and on Sunday at 7.30 in the morning (wife still giving it big ZZZ's) I went down a grass track and got stuck, it wasn't a bog it was just wet and on a section the surface came off and I lost traction. The tyres were full of grass and mud and rocking, applying the brake whilst wheels spinning only made it worse. In actual fact each attempt got me deeper in the ****, I had left my kit in the garage since I never planned to be there and although I had my high lift jack the base was in the kit bag.

I took my time to think it out and never panicked, I had two chain saws with me so I chopped some trees but couldn't get them under far enough, I had a spade but it never helped. I had to phone the wife out of bed to come the one mile to where I was then a mile walk to the disco (with her guchi baffies on) with the waffle boards to get me out, a good twenty minutes of sheer hell she moaned the whole way. Just as I was about out she walked behind the disco as I was reversing at speed and back to digging again.

So are they poor, well I expected better, perhaps better tyres, more aggressive, who knows, the mud turned them into slicks in the first few seconds and it was the grit in the boards that gave the traction to pull it onto the boards. without them I was stuck, the only thing near me was a wooden pylon and pulling that down would have upset my molicules a tad, combined with plunging all of the village into a no power situation.
 
david451 said:
I don't think that they are poor, just that they have limitations, I run colway AT tyres and on Sunday at 7.30 in the morning (wife still giving it big ZZZ's) I went down a grass track and got stuck, it wasn't a bog it was just wet and on a section the surface came off and I lost traction. The tyres were full of grass and mud and rocking, applying the brake whilst wheels spinning only made it worse. In actual fact each attempt got me deeper in the ****, I had left my kit in the garage since I never planned to be there and although I had my high lift jack the base was in the kit bag.

I took my time to think it out and never panicked, I had two chain saws with me so I chopped some trees but couldn't get them under far enough, I had a spade but it never helped. I had to phone the wife out of bed to come the one mile to where I was then a mile walk to the disco (with her guchi baffies on) with the waffle boards to get me out, a good twenty minutes of sheer hell she moaned the whole way. Just as I was about out she walked behind the disco as I was reversing at speed and back to digging again.

So are they poor, well I expected better, perhaps better tyres, more aggressive, who knows, the mud turned them into slicks in the first few seconds and it was the grit in the boards that gave the traction to pull it onto the boards. without them I was stuck, the only thing near me was a wooden pylon and pulling that down would have upset my molicules a tad, combined with plunging all of the village into a no power situation.
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PS, meant to say freelanders get pelters on here so best not to mention it, but too late so wait for the pelters
 
TBH I found the freelander quite impressive for what is realy just a shopping cart. The ground clearance was a major problem but I had good tyres on and just kept it nailed and bounced off the scenary.
I don't think I'd do the same with the disco but it seems that the tyres are the important part. It'd be nice to have a LR for all occasions though or a pathfinder:eek:
 
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