Who says hippo's don't like mud?

here's a pic of me doing the mud run at the lro show last weekend, and yes i did make it,and no the doors didn't fall off

what mods have you got to get in such deep water?

ste220 said:

what mods have you got to get in such deep water?

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got a 2" lift and 15" wheels with MT tyres. its a 1.8 k series with no snorkel. feck knows how i made it through, the marshal said i would be ok going through if i took it easy and he said it wasn't deep. lying git!. the day after i did the course again but bypassed the mud run only to see a standard tdi disco emerge from the water with clouds of white exhaust smoke and a cylinder or 2 missing, so think i was pretty lucky getting through. as for the rest of the course i had no probs at all.

werent Pikey doing some marshalling there?

Looking good, anymore pics?

Oh yeah and standard wading depth for the hippo is 40cm, 50cm for factory standard defender

heres a couple more. my engine bay ended up the same colour as the front bumper and it took me 2 1/2 hours with a pressure washer to clean it this morning and then another 1/2 hour to clean the drive. there was also a couple of hills on the course that a disco and a 90 took 2 attempts to get up but i got up them first time so i'm well impressed with the hippo's off road abillity.who needs a low box . traction control and hdc are just as good.

Bloody Hippos!

If a disco and a defender struggled to get up what you did, its cus they couldnt drive for sh!t. Not cus the hippo is capable!

HuN73R said:

If a disco and a defender struggled to get up what you did, its cus they couldnt drive for sh!t. Not cus the hippo is capable!

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maybe, but it made me feel better

titter. . . . . .teld yous the gaylander wez good

garyrigden said:

it took me 2 1/2 hours with a pressure washer to clean it this morning

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Awww, carmon. Half hour ter wash it & 2 hours re-hanging the doors.

Grippa said:

Awww, carmon. Half hour ter wash it & 2 hours re-hanging the doors.

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Yawn. . . . .dunt take em long to cum outa the wood werk

haha good show gary, glad you had a good day!

10/10 for style, looks like you had a corking bow wave going which probably accounts for getting through. well impressive.

Optimus Prime said:

10/10 for style, looks like you had a corking bow wave going which probably accounts for getting through. well impressive.

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cheers.i was lucky though, the tide mark under the bonnet is touching the bottom of the air intake. i hope the guy who i saw on sunday from the kent land rover club in his 3 cylinder tdi disco got home ok. he sounded well ruff as he came out the mud run and was chucking out more smoke than the flying scotsman on full throttle.

garyrigden said:

it took me 2 1/2 hours with a pressure washer to clean it this morning

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Thats how long it normally takes me to clean the mud out of my radiator AFTER washing the outside of my landy.

ratty said:

Thats how long it normally takes me to clean the mud out of my radiator AFTER washing the outside of my landy.

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ah but your rad isn't protected by a tastefully styled plastic bumper and grill like mine

garyrigden said:

ah but your rad isn't protected by a tastefully styled plastic bumper and grill like mine

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hehehehehehehehehehehe you just said gaylanders had bits on them that wuz tasteful. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oooh my sides hurt. hohohoohohohohohoho. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Tasteful? Nah. Tasty tho'. There's good eating on one of them leather armrests yer know.