garyrigden
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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
Who says hippo's don't like mud?
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garyrigden
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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.
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werent Pikey doing some marshalling there?
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Looking good, anymore pics?
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Oh yeah and standard wading depth for the hippo is 40cm, 50cm for factory standard defender
garyrigden
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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.
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Bloody Hippos!
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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
ming
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titter. . . . . .teld yous the gaylander wez good
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ming
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Yawn. . . . .dunt take em long to cum outa the wood werkAwww, carmon. Half hour ter wash it & 2 hours re-hanging the doors.
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haha good show gary, glad you had a good day!
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10/10 for style, looks like you had a corking bow wave going which probably accounts for getting through. well impressive.
garyrigden
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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.
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it took me 2 1/2 hours with a pressure washer to clean it this morning
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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Thats how long it normally takes me to clean the mud out of my radiator AFTER washing the outside of my landy.
ah but your rad isn't protected by a tastefully styled plastic bumper and grill like mine
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ah but your rad isn't protected by a tastefully styled plastic bumper and grill like mine
hehehehehehehehehehehe you just said gaylanders had bits on them that wuz tasteful. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oooh my sides hurt. hohohoohohohohohoho. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Tasteful? Nah. Tasty tho'. There's good eating on one of them leather armrests yer know.
