bluedog333
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Utter bollox, of course! Albeit, my mate, who until recently had a TD5 Disco, utterly swears by the the Frontera he used to have! Rare and rusty these days.
Littelwill
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Fronters Vs Land Rover... Why have cotton when you can have silk?
That silk will however be covered in oil your blood and tears tho... but i think you get what I'm saying
That silk will however be covered in oil your blood and tears tho... but i think you get what I'm saying
top drive
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i ran a 3 door 2.2 diesel frontera for a couple years .
i got it for free, it didnt need much work and when it did it was cheap and easy to work on.
It was speedy, certainly flegged a few folk with a tweeked pump :d
being RWD it was good fun in the wet or the snow.
best of all cause it was free i didnt mind throwing it into ditches / bankings towing **** etc.
best of all - my mrs parked it in a bus at 30mph after being side swipped by a corsa pulling out into the side of her
i reversed it out of the bus changed the front wheel and drove it home - before changing otu the mangled wishbone and the wing for 60 quid.
downsides were **** attack and departure angles - i used to hit the rear coming off kerbs, and lack of ground clearance/Independant front suspension was a bit ****.
i got it for free, it didnt need much work and when it did it was cheap and easy to work on.
It was speedy, certainly flegged a few folk with a tweeked pump :d
being RWD it was good fun in the wet or the snow.
best of all cause it was free i didnt mind throwing it into ditches / bankings towing **** etc.
best of all - my mrs parked it in a bus at 30mph after being side swipped by a corsa pulling out into the side of her
i reversed it out of the bus changed the front wheel and drove it home - before changing otu the mangled wishbone and the wing for 60 quid.
downsides were **** attack and departure angles - i used to hit the rear coming off kerbs, and lack of ground clearance/Independant front suspension was a bit ****.
nobber
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martin1512
Well-Known Member
Well considering that the Disco 2 has a higher towing capacity, higher load capacity, better axle articulation, better ground clearance and better approach and departure angles, I think the answer is quite a lot.
easye1
Banned
landies of allsorts are great tow vehicles, both on road and off, but....
my old neighbour had a petrol frontera of his own after many years of rugged building and motorway making using mainly landies.
he put them to the test as they were new, and not his....
when he retired he bought the 2.2 frontera, a new heavy duty plant trailor, and a brand new VOLVO mini digger...
using his contacts in the london areas he found work for 4 or 5 days a week,
then home again..
his early morning monday drive from coastal north essex into london was done so without any problems at all, and he swears it was the best tow vehicle he ever used "on main roads"
wonderful digger his volvo, done the clearence for my rear drive after we moved in...
no wasted movement of bucket or arm, perfect timing indeed...but spent most his life around machines and its men operating them...
after a year or two he resolved himself for not needing that lifestyle - again, so he sold the whole lot as one sale...
10 years later, hes had many new vehicles every two years, not once a LR product.
his latest is a misubishi 4 wheel drive posh thing, far too posh to go offroad,
but still swears by his old frontera...
my old neighbour had a petrol frontera of his own after many years of rugged building and motorway making using mainly landies.
he put them to the test as they were new, and not his....
when he retired he bought the 2.2 frontera, a new heavy duty plant trailor, and a brand new VOLVO mini digger...
using his contacts in the london areas he found work for 4 or 5 days a week,
then home again..
his early morning monday drive from coastal north essex into london was done so without any problems at all, and he swears it was the best tow vehicle he ever used "on main roads"
wonderful digger his volvo, done the clearence for my rear drive after we moved in...
no wasted movement of bucket or arm, perfect timing indeed...but spent most his life around machines and its men operating them...
after a year or two he resolved himself for not needing that lifestyle - again, so he sold the whole lot as one sale...
10 years later, hes had many new vehicles every two years, not once a LR product.
his latest is a misubishi 4 wheel drive posh thing, far too posh to go offroad,
but still swears by his old frontera...
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
We sent a frontera onto a wet muddy field to rescue a prick in a rangey with a trailer full of rangey alloys and wheels figured it was a win win situation. If the fronty failed. We could take the **** out of him. If he succeeded then we could laugh at the Rangey owner. We laughed at the rangie owner.
stuu
Well-Known Member
iv got a p38 and father in law has a peice of **** frontera and the only thing it is more capable on road and around the farm then the p38 is leak and let the water in and its nice and light to tow out of trouble. Apart from that it deserves a vauxhall badge and can rot in hell
nobber
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honolulujoe
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never had a fronty but always liked the look of them, the 4 door model anyway, always reminded me of a chevy blazer, don't see why they wouldn't be capable off road plenty of 4x4 vehicles within the gm group
nobber
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Ground clearance is a bit pants and they usually come equipped with road tyres, but these issues can be sorted very easily. They had locking front hubs.
The older petrols suffered from low oil pressure but they were decent enough engines all the same.
Id have another at the drop of a hat, brilliant things for just bombing around in.
easye1
Banned
We sent a frontera onto a wet muddy field to rescue a prick in a rangey with a trailer full of rangey alloys and wheels figured it was a win win situation. If the fronty failed. We could take the **** out of him. If he succeeded then we could laugh at the Rangey owner. We laughed at the rangie owner.
lol....
I did giggle at this.......
top drive
Well-Known Member
I saw v257hpt on the road today, thats my old frontera the mrs was driving when a corsa hit her and forced her into a bus.
Snapped the steering rack , bent the wishbones and the chassis and the wing.
I fixed it up ran it for 6 months and flogged it spares or repaira.
It looks to have been sold 5 times since then for about 4 times what i sold it for...
I dont feel guilty at all.
Blind pew must have mot'd it on a back hander. The nudge bars still ziptied to the chassis at the front ffs
Snapped the steering rack , bent the wishbones and the chassis and the wing.
I fixed it up ran it for 6 months and flogged it spares or repaira.
It looks to have been sold 5 times since then for about 4 times what i sold it for...
I dont feel guilty at all.
Blind pew must have mot'd it on a back hander. The nudge bars still ziptied to the chassis at the front ffs
