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a small glimpse of my first off road experience yesterday
I have put a small clip of our first real off road expereince day with uklandrover events. It was a brilliant day, loads of different challenges . Only total of 6 cars in the convoy 5 defenders and me in the LR3. Started at 0945 and finished at 5pm. The car really handled like a dream. Rock Crawl up a small but very rocky hill and hill descent control was used. I found the best way thought was moving out of automatic gear and forcing the gearbox into first gear and she just went every where. In many cases she outshone the defenders who struggled in some places where the Disoc3 just powered on. I really recommend this type of event if its your first real off road experience. I am going again in the Lakes on the 29th July , hope its sunny. Cant wait.
This is just a short clip of the easy bits,
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9th Apr 2012 5:01 pm
Hairy Dan
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Glad you enjoyed it Where were the lanes you did?Cheers Ian
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9th Apr 2012 7:21 pm
lancsamb
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it was from Bootle on the west coast of cumbria and ended in Elerwater , we stopped for lunch at Grizedale Forest.Started out at 0945 and finished about 5pm . abour 46 miles of which 36 were totally off road.Some great views !!
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9th Apr 2012 9:54 pm
CFB
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Glad you had a good day out, I am always a little dubious about these 'tours' where they charge you to drive green lanes that you could do for free but I guess you pay for the organisation, route knowledge etc which does make it easier
10th Apr 2012 8:05 am
lancsamb
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Location: Blackpool where it does happen every night.
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yes your right they have loads of expereince and tell ou how to approach each obstacle. Also they have already tested the water crossings etc. You do pay but you get a lot of expereince and I look at it as a training session. At the end of the day i wnet home in my LR3 in one pice with no damage. We were told that just the day before soemone had tipped their defende rover by just approching the obsticle at the wrong angle. These guys really knew there stuffLandrover Discovery 3 TDV6 S 7 seat Automatic
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10th Apr 2012 6:40 pm
Peely
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Lancs
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That sounds good, think I might give one a try when there's a few more miles on the D4 !
What sort of cost are we talking ?
11th Apr 2012 10:11 am
Hairy Dan
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All the details are on their website HERECheers Ian
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11th Apr 2012 11:24 am
Peely
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Yeah, I did check out their website, should have edited my previous post !
11th Apr 2012 11:25 am
Hairy Dan
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Is this you lancsamb?
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11th Apr 2012 2:48 pm
lancsamb
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this is me having a scary time here but in the end all was ok. that near side wheel was in the air at that time !!!Landrover Discovery 3 TDV6 S 7 seat Automatic
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