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Does make sense. Why have a chance of watee staying in chassis. Girder style etc. I wonder if anyone has attempted a remanufactured fender chassis galvanized.
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Does make sense. Why have a chance of watee staying in chassis. Girder style etc. I wonder if anyone has attempted a remanufactured fender chassis galvanized.
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bit of channel section would be ideal as all surfaces are exposed and can therefore be rustproofed, its the boxes that rot from the inside that seem to be the problem.... couple that with a paint system thats chosen for durability and rust protection rather than looks and cheapness and theres no reason for rot to start
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I suspect that you get the same strength for considerably less weight on the box design.
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Maybe. But using new alloys and smaller struts with additional cross struts could work. Would eliminate one of defenders weak points surely.
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Only slightly, strength is in the top and bottom flange though box is better for torsional stress,lorrys have channel for ease of build up and the main reason of flexibility because box would fracture
Open C chassis require much bigger presses and cost more to produce.
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But I've seen a hell of a lot of jap crap corroded to ****.
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true and I heard that troopers did but looked at a lot when buying mine and none were. looked and load of 80 series cruisers too and none were and heard they never do.
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Also, Jap crap is ancient at 20 years old - most get scrapped before they've been around as long as half the Series Rovers have.
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My two penneth;
1. A gauge to show and potentially alter tyre pressure from the cab. Being able to let tyres down to a lower PSI and then pump them up again from the cockpit would be handy I would've thought.
2. I've always quite liked something I saw in the video below. At 8 seconds in, you can see a sort of detachable cubby box-cum-shoulder bag. I always imagine that would be very very handy. Quite simply because, alot of people aren't comfortable having things like satnavs, and other valuables kept in the car overnight. To be able to take your cubby box with you when leaving the car, would not only mean you could keep valuables with you when the car is parked, but also for convenience when preparing for a journey. I always have to pack, sandwiches, camera, sunglasses etc. into another bag, then put it in the 2nd row footwell, in my disco. In practical terms, this means that to try and reach into the bag to retrieve my sunglasses, or a drink while driving would be dangerous, and therefore inaccessible while travelling. If I had a bag that I could fill up in the house, then zip, or clip into the car in place of a cubby box it would be handy.
20 Years of Land Rover Discovery - YouTube
3. Not sure if this is quite fitting with the concept you have in mind. But what makes a Land Rover distinct, and more suitable than most 4x4s, (as Sir Ranulph Fiennes has said in interviews), is the key term; ruggedness. Particularly the defender in this respect. The fact that every modern car now comes equipped with plastic mouldings on every interior surface, plastic clip on bumpers and wheel arches stuck onto every curve and corner of it's exterior, makes modern off roaders ironically, more fragile, cumbersome, and impact the load capacity. You lose that sense of functionality, and in place, sits a bit of moulded plastic, destined to become scuffed and tattered after only a little practical use.
The wonderful mechano-esque practicality that the original landrovers, and subsequent defenders had, is something, I expect will be lost with the defenders replacement in the forthcoming years. So too the key element of classlessness, will be lost, as the bog standard everymans landy, shape shifts into a designer jeep, beach buggie, that wouldn't look out of place in a barbie advert. I'm not saying change is something that shouldn't happen. But a move to make things more sleek, chic, and plastic-y, is a move, undoubtadly in the wrong direction in terms of improving an off road vehicle.
1. A gauge to show and potentially alter tyre pressure from the cab. Being able to let tyres down to a lower PSI and then pump them up again from the cockpit would be handy I would've thought.
2. I've always quite liked something I saw in the video below. At 8 seconds in, you can see a sort of detachable cubby box-cum-shoulder bag. I always imagine that would be very very handy. Quite simply because, alot of people aren't comfortable having things like satnavs, and other valuables kept in the car overnight. To be able to take your cubby box with you when leaving the car, would not only mean you could keep valuables with you when the car is parked, but also for convenience when preparing for a journey. I always have to pack, sandwiches, camera, sunglasses etc. into another bag, then put it in the 2nd row footwell, in my disco. In practical terms, this means that to try and reach into the bag to retrieve my sunglasses, or a drink while driving would be dangerous, and therefore inaccessible while travelling. If I had a bag that I could fill up in the house, then zip, or clip into the car in place of a cubby box it would be handy.
20 Years of Land Rover Discovery - YouTube
3. Not sure if this is quite fitting with the concept you have in mind. But what makes a Land Rover distinct, and more suitable than most 4x4s, (as Sir Ranulph Fiennes has said in interviews), is the key term; ruggedness. Particularly the defender in this respect. The fact that every modern car now comes equipped with plastic mouldings on every interior surface, plastic clip on bumpers and wheel arches stuck onto every curve and corner of it's exterior, makes modern off roaders ironically, more fragile, cumbersome, and impact the load capacity. You lose that sense of functionality, and in place, sits a bit of moulded plastic, destined to become scuffed and tattered after only a little practical use.
The wonderful mechano-esque practicality that the original landrovers, and subsequent defenders had, is something, I expect will be lost with the defenders replacement in the forthcoming years. So too the key element of classlessness, will be lost, as the bog standard everymans landy, shape shifts into a designer jeep, beach buggie, that wouldn't look out of place in a barbie advert. I'm not saying change is something that shouldn't happen. But a move to make things more sleek, chic, and plastic-y, is a move, undoubtadly in the wrong direction in terms of improving an off road vehicle.
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Come on, dim87 is a cock.
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WTF is a TfT screen 
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One of them touchy things like an iphone methinks
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What would you want with one of them in an off road vehicle? It's bad enough trying to work the electric window button FFS.
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I know, my disco is as complex as I'd like it to be! Well…..wouldn't mind air lockers rather than the lever but thats me just being lazy.
Dont need some stupid screen to break
Dont need some stupid screen to break
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trouble is these geeks live and breath computers and touchy screens they cant comprehend that most of us just want a lever we can pull when we need it.... it may be days , or even months since we last used that particular feature and we just aint going to scroll through umpteen computer screens to find it..hidden in a menu...
my bloody smart phone is so full of buttons that nearly every time i pull it out me pocket to answere a call ive pressed something and gone into some stupid menu, usually something about the time in the azores????... by the time ive got out of it the callers gone to answere phone... its ****ed them off and ive got to spend my minutes ringing them back.... im seriously considering binning it and going back to me 10 quid flip phone cos its just user friendly for the way i use a phone.
my bloody smart phone is so full of buttons that nearly every time i pull it out me pocket to answere a call ive pressed something and gone into some stupid menu, usually something about the time in the azores????... by the time ive got out of it the callers gone to answere phone... its ****ed them off and ive got to spend my minutes ringing them back.... im seriously considering binning it and going back to me 10 quid flip phone cos its just user friendly for the way i use a phone.
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