For all you who think a D4 is too shiny to take offroad...
These were at Whitecliff 4x4 in the Forest of Dean
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13th Mar 2010 4:26 pm
heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
Posts: 4054
Still looks too clean
13th Mar 2010 4:43 pm
Renton
Member Since: 13 Jan 2009
Location: Somewhere in the middle
Posts: 1718
Beautifull piccies there Show Off. Probably a rental car?
Sorry my jealousy is acting up again..... CLUB ILLEGAL CAR WASHERS
13th Mar 2010 4:47 pm
Ent
Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6485
Brilliant, well done that man Club Exped trailer
Club Timed Climate
Club Flappy paddle steering wheel
Club 300bhp
Club Prospeed test pilot/lab rat
Club National Luna Stella conditioner
13th Mar 2010 4:47 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72799
Hope you remembered to put it into offroad height and used all that electronic trickerygizmothingies!!! Look forward to seeing it in Tooneesia in October. It'll be old by then so a little sand will do it good!
13th Mar 2010 4:49 pm
ad15
Member Since: 14 Dec 2008
Location: up that tree
Posts: 4866
still looks too shiny..
is it just me or does the tow electric cover look like it was an afterthought..one wife.......livid
13th Mar 2010 5:15 pm
biskit
Member Since: 23 Dec 2009
Location: in my Mancave.
Posts: 1365
Nothing brave about it biskit - infact the opposite . I'm an instructor at the site so know it like the back of my hand and hence decided it was a good way to learn about all the electricery on the D4 HSE over the D3 coiler without having to worry too much about the terrain I was drive - and I could test things out using different settings on the same piece of terrain to see what difference it makes.
The overall result...
Very, very pleased indeedee.
Geraldine (the chief instructor/owner of the site) and I both agreed that the D3/D4 sometimes make things too easy for teaching off-road basics to beginners, simply because it just takes everything in it's stride and that could give novices a false sense of security which could lead to problems if they head off on their own.
Using Geraldines prior experience in D3 with TR on this site, we tried to compare the D4 TR electronics to those of a D3 - and in her informed opinion she thought that the D4 appeared to be quicker at changing settings to counter what we threw at it i.e. locking and unlocking of centre & rear diffs. The ideal would have been to have another D3 along and drive one following the other to get a direct comparison, but unfortunately on this occassion that didn't work out - so we plan to do it again some time later this year.
No matter what we had a really good time, and my thanks to SWMBO for taking all the photos for me
Before any asks - yes I am planning on organising a Disco3 event at the site at some point in the future.
Andy, unfortunately because they had courses running, like most days, I couldn't really bring anyone else along on this occasion - but as I said above, you'll all get the opportunity to see the site on a Disco3 event later this year. I've now driven pretty much every track on the site in D3 or D4 and am happy that it's D3/4 friendly.
Watch this space site
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. I'm an instructor at the site so know it like the back of my hand and hence decided it was a good way to learn about all the electricery on the D4 HSE over the D3 coiler without having to worry too much about the terrain I was drive - and I could test things out using different settings on the same piece of terrain to see what difference it makes.
Very, very pleased indeedee.
