BIG BILL

BIG BILL

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I was out shooting the other night with my son and the car was faultless in very muddy conditions on Scorpion AT's.. Vouge 4.6 2000 in Blue.

My question is there are lots of bit's for Discovery's or defenders but not alot for Range Rovers (after the classic) is it because they are so good?

I know about tyres etc but can you get a snorkle or do you need one.
As I said the car was unstoppable in very heavy mud and climbing steep muddy/grassy inclines.

18 inch alloys don't seem to have many tyre options.

Cheers BIG BILL
 
996turbo does a range of off road stuff. Look at the Yankee sites to see what they can really do off road.
 
There's a guy on Ebay that sells some nice HD steel bumpers for the P38. A friend of mine got both front and rear and they look very nice (they're also very dear).
If you want some nice offroad tyres it's better to consider getting some 16'' rims. Lots of them around and you can certainly get them cheap. This will open you to to a very wide selection of profiles and heights.
 
mcapinha said:
There's a guy on Ebay that sells some nice HD steel bumpers for the P38. A friend of mine got both front and rear and they look very nice (they're also very dear).
If you want some nice offroad tyres it's better to consider getting some 16'' rims. Lots of them around and you can certainly get them cheap. This will open you to to a very wide selection of profiles and heights.
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Will 16" wheels change the car much ie: speed indicator?
or do the tyre size compinsate?

And do they look smaller?
I would like some serious off road tyres mud terains and the like.


Cheers again BIG BILL
 
There might be 1 or 2 mph difference due to the tyre/wheel sizes, but not enough to worry about.
 
The reason there is not much about is that they are a newer car and, until the last couple of years, have been too new/shiney/expensive to interest the die-hard offroad enthusiasts, who tend to stick to Series vehicles, early Discovery's, Range Rover Classics and Defenders for the more well-off. They also arrived right between the end of Camel Trophy and before the G4 Challenges, so there was no inspiration for owners like there has been for other newer models such as the Disco 3, L322 and RR Sport.

Having said that, in the past few years more and more stuff is becoming available for the P38 and, as it does, it will become cheaper too. Winch bumpers, expedition roof racks, uprated air springs (Arnott Gen III's) and swingaway spare wheel/jerry can carriers are all becoming more widely available. 996Turbo can sort you out with under body protection I believe.

As someone else said, the yanks do things properly and are big fans of the P38, using them for rock crawling and expedition use. I have always been a fan of this car: Range Rover P38 as it looks so standard from the outside.

With regards to tyres, think twice before fitting Mud-Terrains. Unless you spend more time offroad in deep mud than on it, I think they are unnecessary - a good set of All Terrain tyres will serve you much better if you drive on the road with regular use across fields for shoots, rather than depp-mud pay and play days. If it coped so well with the conditions you mention, why both changing?
 
The P38 had 16" wheels as standard so the speedo should be accurate as long as the tyres are not oversized.
 
Standard wheels for P38 are from memory 255x65x16 or 255x55x18 rolling radiuses are identical.
 
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Have a look at these:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0_V6H3Jk4&feature=related]Chinamans trail 11-6-10 - YouTube[/ame]

and

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nYaH8tfVE&feature=related]Illinois Gultch May 09 - Range Rover 4.6l - YouTube[/ame]
 
Some new ones
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