How tall is a LR Sereies 3?

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I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
metric? and how wide? long?

Thanks
 

On 12 Nov 2004 15:59:12 -0800, [email protected] (8unker) wrote:

>I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
>across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
>metric? and how wide? long?
>

Try measuring it. Series vehicle can vary in height by up to 6 inches,
in extreme cases, depending on tyre and spring fitments.

Officially:

Heights:
88" soft top - 1.97m/77.5"
88" hard top - 1.95m/76.9"
88" Station wagon - 1.98m/77.9"
109" hard top/truck cab - 2.06m/81"
109" station wagon - 2.07m/81.4"
109" Hi-Cap Soft Top - 2.03m/80.0"
109" Hi-Cap Hard top - 2.77m/109"
(I don't have data for 109" 2.6 or 1ton models, these are higher on
suspension, and also can have 9.00x16 tyres fitted, lifts by about 4"
above normal)

Length:
88" All models - 3.62m/142.6"
109" truck cab/station wgn - 4.44m/175"
109" hi-cap pickup - 4.64m/182.7"

Width:
All models (except Hi-cap) - 1.69m/66.6"
Hi-Cap - 1.72m/67.7"

Beware height limits in multistorey car parks, I have had an
interesting experience in my SIII 109" which was officially under the
height restriction by 2" but when going up/down a ramp managed to get
it's roof jammed on the concrete beams.

Alex


 
8unker wrote:

> I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
> across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
> metric? and how wide? long?
>
> Thanks

From owner's handbook, unladen, for S3 109:-

L 175" 4,44m
W 66" 1,68m
H Station Wagon 81.375" 2,07m
Cab or hardtop 81" 2,06m
Soft top - hood up 81" 2,03m
Hood down screen up 72.5" 1,79m
screen down 61" 1,52m

And yes, I know the metric/English figures are inconsistent - they are in
the handbook, suggesting how accurate they may be. Height will also vary
according to tyres fitted, tread wear, springs fitted, sag on springs, load
and fixed equipment and tyre pressure. Some tyres/ wheels may increase
width, and tow bar and rear mounted spare may increase length. Use these
figures as a start, but I suggest measuring yours. Depending on springs,
tyres etc, the highest point may be either at the rear or the front hood
bow on a full length soft top or 3/4 soft top, and either the rear or the
change in slope on a full length hard top or station wagon. but should be
the top of the cab on a cab type.
JD
 
On or around 12 Nov 2004 15:59:12 -0800, [email protected] (8unker)
enlightened us thusly:

>I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
>across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
>metric? and how wide? long?

A mate of mine took his S3 into a multi-storey car park. It went under the
height restriction bar on the entrance with about 2" to spare, so in he
went, drove along 'til he got to a fluorescent light fitting and destroyed
it. The car park people were quite annoyed, but in the end had to accept
that the height restriction bar was wrong, and had been fitted before the
lights were installed.

 
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:49:28 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On or around 12 Nov 2004 15:59:12 -0800, [email protected] (8unker)
>enlightened us thusly:
>
>>I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
>>across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
>>metric? and how wide? long?
>
>A mate of mine took his S3 into a multi-storey car park. It went under the
>height restriction bar on the entrance with about 2" to spare, so in he
>went, drove along 'til he got to a fluorescent light fitting and destroyed
>it. The car park people were quite annoyed, but in the end had to accept
>that the height restriction bar was wrong, and had been fitted before the
>lights were installed.

There is one here, where there is a height restriction (which i know
mine was an inch or 2 under as i measured it), and you can get in, but
as soon as you get to the first concrete support beam you can't go any
further.
Its amazing how hard it is to reverse out of a car park enrance when
there is a queue of people behind you (most of whom seemed unwilling
to move but happy to beep at me). Must have taken a good 5 minutes or
so.
 
>>
>>A mate of mine took his S3 into a multi-storey car park. It went under the
>>height restriction bar on the entrance with about 2" to spare, so in he
>>went, drove along 'til he got to a fluorescent light fitting and destroyed
>>it. The car park people were quite annoyed, but in the end had to accept
>>that the height restriction bar was wrong, and had been fitted before the
>>lights were installed.
>
>There is one here, where there is a height restriction (which i know
>mine was an inch or 2 under as i measured it), and you can get in, but
>as soon as you get to the first concrete support beam you can't go any
>further.
>Its amazing how hard it is to reverse out of a car park enrance when
>there is a queue of people behind you (most of whom seemed unwilling
>to move but happy to beep at me). Must have taken a good 5 minutes or
>so.

Luton Arndale multi-storey is quite interesting, as there are three
car parks, all connected on the top level, you can go in one, all the
way up to the top and cross over to the other two. However, two of the
car parks are plated at (IIRC) 2.2m, while the other one is plated at
2.0m Thus my SWB will go in all of them, while my LWB will not fit
into the lower one of the three.

This plan would work flawlessley if it were not for the fact that they
are all connected! It also makes the car park guys nervous when I take
the SWB into the lower one, as the roof just brushes the height bar.
Enough to make a lound clang as you go under it, but the SWB doesn't
catch anything once it's inside.

Alex
 
On Saturday, in article
<[email protected]>
[email protected] "Alex" wrote:

> On 12 Nov 2004 15:59:12 -0800, [email protected] (8unker) wrote:
>
> >I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
> >across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
> >metric? and how wide? long?
> >
>
> Try measuring it. Series vehicle can vary in height by up to 6 inches,
> in extreme cases, depending on tyre and spring fitments.
>
> Officially:

> Width:
> All models (except Hi-cap) - 1.69m/66.6"
> Hi-Cap - 1.72m/67.7"

A lightweight is nominally 60 inches, but it needs the flat axle-ends
and the wing mirrors also stick out. Thinking about that, I doubt those
figures include wing mirrors.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."
 
So Austin Shackles was, like

> On or around 12 Nov 2004 15:59:12 -0800, [email protected]
> (8unker) enlightened us thusly:
>
>> I got an 1979, Series 3 109 LWB, and was wondering, in case I come
>> across any of hight restrictions, how high it is in feet and in
>> metric? and how wide? long?
>
> A mate of mine took his S3 into a multi-storey car park. It went
> under the height restriction bar on the entrance with about 2" to
> spare, so in he went, drove along 'til he got to a fluorescent light
> fitting and destroyed it. The car park people were quite annoyed,
> but in the end had to accept that the height restriction bar was
> wrong, and had been fitted before the lights were installed.

I once parked in a multi-storey in Chartres (city, France, big church) in a
VW camper I used to have. Got in fine, cleared the height restriction bar
OK, did the tourist bit round the city. Came to leave at 5pm and we got
wedged under a concrete roof support on the very steep exit ramp. Made it
out with the attendant hanging off the back bumper to compress the rear
suspension. All done with camp-site French ("deux bieres, chop-chop"),
which I was quite proud of. As the pop-top roof was GRP, there was no
lasting damage except smashing off the roof vents. The height bar must have
been well over 2 metres, but there was a NOTICE containing the words
"hauteur", "vehicules", and "1.8 metres". If I'd only stopped to think that
1.8m is shorter than I am, and the V-Dub was taller than me, I might not
have made the mistake. Yer live an' learn.

--

Rich

Nullum Gratuitum Prandium


 

>
>I once parked in a multi-storey in Chartres (city, France, big church) in a
>VW camper I used to have. Got in fine, cleared the height restriction bar
>OK, did the tourist bit round the city. Came to leave at 5pm and we got
>wedged under a concrete roof support on the very steep exit ramp. Made it
>out with the attendant hanging off the back bumper to compress the rear
>suspension. All done with camp-site French ("deux bieres, chop-chop"),
>which I was quite proud of. As the pop-top roof was GRP, there was no
>lasting damage except smashing off the roof vents. The height bar must have
>been well over 2 metres, but there was a NOTICE containing the words
>"hauteur", "vehicules", and "1.8 metres". If I'd only stopped to think that
>1.8m is shorter than I am, and the V-Dub was taller than me, I might not
>have made the mistake. Yer live an' learn.

Whilst queuing to get into a mult-storey in Cardiff a couple of years
back, a family hit the height bar in a Discovery. They got out,
scratched their heads for a moment and then hit upon a great idea.
The two eldest sons stood on tiptoes, pushed the bar upwards a few
inches whilst Dad drove in...

I doubt if the strategy would have worked so well with a concrete roof
pillar, but they seemed to get away with it.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70

My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com
 
About the same as my 110, so 2M barriers are 2b avoided, and if the shift
leader tells me to park in one of the barriered car parks one more time,
I'll park my 110 on the top of his Fiesta.. So there ;)


 
Tom Woods wrote:

> Its amazing how hard it is to reverse out of a car park enrance when
> there is a queue of people behind you (most of whom seemed unwilling
> to move but happy to beep at me). Must have taken a good 5 minutes or
> so.

Yeah...... I swapped the 600x16's for 750's on my first SWB and promptly
got caught in a carpark I'd been using for the previous couple of months.


--
EMB
 
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (EMB) wrote:

> Tom Woods wrote:
>
> > Its amazing how hard it is to reverse out of a car park enrance when
> > there is a queue of people behind you (most of whom seemed unwilling
> > to move but happy to beep at me). Must have taken a good 5 minutes or
> > so.
>
> Yeah...... I swapped the 600x16's for 750's on my first SWB and
> promptly got caught in a carpark I'd been using for the previous couple
> of months.

Since fitting the 10.5 x 20 Unimog rims/tyres on my 101, it won't go into
most paint shops / garages as it's now taller than their 9' high doors :-(

Malcolm.
 
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