First off roading lesson

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monkfish24

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As a birthday present from the wife, we are staying the night in a hotel with offroad driving instruction.

It was aimed as an introduction lesson but as I've never had an formal off road instruction and only one green road/lane trip under my belt, it has given me a bit more confidence and much better understanding of low box and centre diff (which I've never had on my series vehicles). Who'd have thought, eh?
What am I saying? Well my wife is awesome! And offroad is instruction is worth every penny!
Big grin on my face this evening.
 

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Where was it?
How did you drive from that seat?
You must be really tall........:D
Did you follow thru at any time?

Cheers
Bovey Castle in Devon, amazing place and a real treat from the wife.
The only part I followed through on was a 20%ish climb around a hair pin left in low and first and we lost grip, not enough run up speed being the cause. Reversing £30k (in todays defender money) of LR back down it was a bit worrying to say the least!

Brown lane = Brown stain
Not heard that before but luckily none of that, some really good professional instruction and a true advocate of slow and steady wins the race, wich suits my driving style.
 
Calm down or the payback will last for years instead of months
Not at all, Ive had enough crazy women in my little black book to know when to marry the right one. I have two land rovers which she doesnt know what gets spent on them and doesnt ask and she still buys me treats like this to keep up my obsession, she's an absolute diamond of a woman!
 
Standard landy off-road gear set up is low 2. As trained by the Army. Low 1 is too low momentum. Only to be used in extreme cases. A 110 is a right heavy bastard on sticky bendy hilly ground. You did the right thing reversing back. I'm a series owner so only used it diff lock on other vehicles. It's a great feature but you'd be surprised what a series will do without. Sounds like you had a great birthday .
 
Standard landy off-road gear set up is low 2. As trained by the Army. Low 1 is too low momentum. Only to be used in extreme cases. A 110 is a right heavy bastard on sticky bendy hilly ground. You did the right thing reversing back. I'm a series owner so only used it diff lock on other vehicles. It's a great feature but you'd be surprised what a series will do without. Sounds like you had a great birthday .
your better using high and dropping down when ground dictates it, a series in 4wd is the same as a 90/110 in diff lock
 
Standard landy off-road gear set up is low 2. As trained by the Army. Low 1 is too low momentum. Only to be used in extreme cases. A 110 is a right heavy bastard on sticky bendy hilly ground. You did the right thing reversing back. I'm a series owner so only used it diff lock on other vehicles. It's a great feature but you'd be surprised what a series will do without. Sounds like you had a great birthday .

+1 the only time I've used low 1st is crawling over rocks, even with the ambulance body and a 2 1/4 petrol injun I've never run out of grunt going up a slope I have traction on in low 2nd.

Series don't need a CDL. With CDL locked it's no different to the direct 4wd of a Series.
 
Bovey Castle in Devon, amazing place and a real treat from the wife.
The only part I followed through on was a 20%ish climb around a hair pin left in low and first and we lost grip, not enough run up speed being the cause. Reversing £30k (in todays defender money) of LR back down it was a bit worrying to say the least!


Not heard that before but luckily none of that, some really good professional instruction and a true advocate of slow and steady wins the race, wich suits my driving style.

Which course in Devon was it? I did one at Dave Bowyer's place and it was excellent
 
Which course in Devon was it? I did one at Dave Bowyer's place and it was excellent
It was the course at Bovey Castle, they have there own off road area with three different tracks, unfortunately it was too wet for the steeper inclines.
 
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