Off road.

Last sunday I've participated, for the first time, with the Belgian Freelander Club at a roadbook event as it was called. I really had a good time, in a couple of weeks there's another one coming up and if all goes well I'll be present again. It was supposed to be soft but due to the rain in the week before it turned out towards a medium event. Anyway was really good fun.
Pic.1 is probably the place where I lost my front licenseplate, pics.2 and 3 are taken on a private motorcross track where we, as a surprise, were admitted to drive around.

ey oop Willo.

Did you know that your steering wheel is on the wrong side?

Treworgey 90 said:

ey oop Willo.

Did you know that your steering wheel is on the wrong side?

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:doh:

Treworgey 90 said:

ey oop Willo.

Did you know that your steering wheel is on the wrong side?

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Didn't realise that until now, that explains why I was hitting the fence all the time ....

Looks like fun

I'd recommend taking off those side steps though. I had those exact ones and aside from the fact that they were useless as steps as they were too small to actually step on to and usually just got people covered in mud, they also caused a lot of damage to my sill when I hit the bracket that was holding the step on.

Because the step bracket (underneath) hanged down so low, it hit a small tree stump, sending the car up into the air and landing with quite some impact, causing this damage:



So yeah, I'd take them off and sell them on ebay. I noticed they go for quite a bit. Too bad I can't do that now that mine are completely wrecked!

Wrecked my steps in a simular way, but mine only bent the bottom edge of the sill.

Hippo said:

Wrecked my steps in a simular way, but mine only bent the bottom edge of the sill.

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I thought you said your damage was worse? I took that as some consolation and now I feel bad!

RichM said:

I thought you said your damage was worse? I took that as some consolation and now I feel bad!

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Mine are dented a bit like yours, but not that bad. I managed to bend the bottom of the sills over. Only just bent them back 2 weeks ago, then wax oyled the whole lot. The tube part of the sill has bent in a little. Not that noticable. Still need to put the plastic strips back. I thought the damage was far worse before, but the sill bent back ok. Well sort of. There's no cracks in the metal. No sign of rust worm either. Sorry if I misled before. I'm sure I'll damage them again sometime.

willo said:

Last sunday I've participated, for the first time, with the Belgian Freelander Club at a roadbook event as it was called. I really had a good time, in a couple of weeks there's another one coming up and if all goes well I'll be present again. It was supposed to be soft but due to the rain in the week before it turned out towards a medium event. Anyway was really good fun.
Pic.1 is probably the place where I lost my front licenseplate, pics.2 and 3 are taken on a private motorcross track where we, as a surprise, were admitted to drive around.

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Good job Willo, needs more wheel spin

Awwwww man....... motoX tracks are the best

RichM said:

Looks like fun

I'd recommend taking off those side steps though. I had those exact ones and aside from the fact that they were useless as steps as they were too small to actually step on to and usually just got people covered in mud, they also caused a lot of damage to my sill when I hit the bracket that was holding the step on.

Because the step bracket (underneath) hanged down so low, it hit a small tree stump, sending the car up into the air and landing with quite some impact, causing this damage:

So yeah, I'd take them off and sell them on ebay. I noticed they go for quite a bit. Too bad I can't do that now that mine are completely wrecked!

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Adds character

Re the sidesteps. I use them when washing the car, I stand on them to do the front part of the roof and then move backwards to do the middle of the roof, from the steps I step on the rearwheels to do the back of the roof. Thus I guess I make good use of these....(Guess 3 or 4 times a year, but I intend to do that more often from now on.)

As on monday I experienced some difficulties in cleaning the car underneath and in the wheelarches etc. (just had a straight lance on the Stihl powercleaner) I asked my son-in-law to get me a curved one (he works with Stihl in Belgium) and he brought it in today, looks as (see pic.), I guess this will be much easier now. (I just tried it "dry" and it seems fine).

Northern Irelander said:

Good job Willo, needs more wheel spin

Awwwww man....... motoX tracks are the best

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Yes, that was nice. Here another "action" picture of one of the "best LR's ever" gang ......
Picture also taken during the "soft?" roadbook of Sunday.....

*sits back and waits for comments about doors falling offop2:op2:*

GRATCH said:

*sits back and waits for comments about doors falling offop2:op2:*

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There won't be any comments like that, it was on purpose I used the phrase: the "best LR's ever" gang. (Trattor boys very easily intimidated you know, by reading things like that they immediately think people are talking about Def's).

willo said:

There won't be any comments like that, it was on purpose I used the phrase: the "best LR's ever" gang. (Trattor boys very easily intimidated you know, by reading things like that they immediately think people are talking about Def's).

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FFS:doh: I've just spent the last 20mins looking for the defender behind the gaylander splashing through a puddle, I didn't realise you were being sarcastic

Hi Will, glad you liked it last Sunday, and I hope to meet you more often.
Het was een plesant ritje toch? All that with normal road tires.

Hi Harry,

Glad to see you as I guess the "big attack" will start soon. At least we're two now to encounter. Ja, was echt tof, het was mijn eerste keer dat ik aan zoiets deelnam en is zeker voor herhaling vatbaar. Ben reeds aan het aftellen voor het 1e of 2e weekend in Maart. Hopelijk ben je ook van de partij. (For those not understanding the above couple of sentences, in English it means exactly the same as in Flemish(Dutch).

:speakenglish::mil82:

i just scrolled through here and found nobody slagging freelanders and never even noticed the word gaylander mentioned wtf

leg oot the bed said:

i just scrolled through here and found nobody slagging freelanders and never even noticed the word gaylander mentioned wtf

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GRATCH said:

FFS:doh: I've just spent the last 20mins looking for the defender behind the gaylander splashing through a puddle, I didn't realise you were being sarcastic

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Dint look very hard did ya I think we're all stunned into silence at the pictures of extreme off-roading:doh: