Land Rover 90 in the Arctic

Hi, has anyone got any experience of taking a Land Rover to the arctic circle in Jan/Feb? Apart from a good battery and antifreeze and good tyres anything else I can do? I have a 90 with a 200tdi engine.

Some extra thick sox wouldn't go a miss either

Stuart Ward said:

Hi, has anyone got any experience of taking a Land Rover to the arctic circle in Jan/Feb? Apart from a good battery and antifreeze and good tyres anything else I can do? I have a 90 with a 200tdi engine.

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Welcome to LZ. Stuart!

No, but i have been to Aberdeenshire in a series.

You might do better posting that one in Expeditions.

If it won't start in the UK when it's cold. How the fook is it going to start when it is -50 in the artic?

Thor1950 said:

If it won't start in the UK when it's cold. How the fook is it going to start when it is -50 in the artic?

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They start fine in the UK, and a water pre heater and a diesel heater will deal with the Arctic.

Are there not any companies in Iceland that can offer advice for this sort of trip? Some of their 4x4's are serious pieces of kit.

And no, I don't mean the souping market

Oil change as well.Get some good runny stuff in there..

Cheers

Shimsteriom said:

Are there not any companies in Iceland that can offer advice for this sort of trip? Some of their 4x4's are serious pieces of kit.

And no, I don't mean the souping market

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see there's a few utube videos on Iceland 4x4 s and as u say a serious bit of kit, from having to run the engine 24/7 or keeping it in a specially adapted garage

they must spend at least 50k on modding there's out, dread to think what the tyres cost alone

Stuart Ward said:

Hi, has anyone got any experience of taking a Land Rover to the arctic circle in Jan/Feb? Apart from a good battery and antifreeze and good tyres anything else I can do? I have a 90 with a 200tdi engine.

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hi and welcome to the asylum , good luck with the trip, assume ur be booking through an artic trip organiser and how to mod ur landy , can imagine it's some serious money but a trip of a lifetime


in case u haven't seen them

Stuart Ward said:

Hi, has anyone got any experience of taking a Land Rover to the arctic circle in Jan/Feb? Apart from a good battery and antifreeze and good tyres anything else I can do? I have a 90 with a 200tdi engine.

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Have a look at the MOD winter kitted out Defenders.... They have a few extra bits such as Eberspacher heaters (blowing on windows and heating CAB).

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Heated front & rear screens • Rear radiators (seen in Pictures) • Snow covers remade in black to match • 12 volt slave socket • Inverter in rear with 2 x 240v

Webasto or eberspacher block pre heater, with its own kerosene supply.

julianf said:

Webasto or eberspacher block pre heater, with its own kerosene supply.

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Or an electric one if their camp will have a generator.

Landrover used to do a "winter pack" for the 300. I know one (possibly the only) component was an electric element for the fuel filter.

If you got for block heating, then you can also fit a flat plate heat exchanger to the fuel line, so as (if its diesel) the waxing of the fuel does not cause filter blocking.

You would imagine that locally purchased fuel would have winteriser to suit the conditions, but id still feel easier with the kit.

A VAG oil cooler fits the spin on filter heads, or just get a small fphe from somthing like an audi, and run with that.

neilly said:

Oil change as well.Get some good runny stuff in there..

Cheers

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for Christ sake, let the man settle in before you make a move on him!

Stuart Ward said:

Hi, has anyone got any experience of taking a Land Rover to the arctic circle in Jan/Feb? Apart from a good battery and antifreeze and good tyres anything else I can do? I have a 90 with a 200tdi engine.

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sounds amazing! think lots of spares! let us know how you get on.