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zippy656
24-02-2010, 12:10
Q: Why do Land Rovers have heated rear windows?
A: To keep your hands warm when you're pushing them.

Q: What goes on pages 4-5 of the Landy’s user's manual?
A: The train & bus schedule.

Q: What is the sport-version of a Landy?
A: The driver wears Nike shoes.

Q: How do you make a Rolls Royce leak oil?
A: Stick a Landy badge onto it.

Q: What do you call a Freelander at the top of a hill?
A: A miracle.

Q: What do you call a Landy with brakes?
A: Customized.

Q: What do you have to do if your Landy gets in the way of a
swarm of killer bees?
A: Stop pushing and take refuge in the car.

Q: How do you make a Landy go faster uphill?
A: Throw out the passenger.

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The New Land Rover range comes out without an oil filler cap.

You just pour the oil over the engine - it finds it's own way in
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Land Rover are global leaders in alternative energy...........................most Landies are powered by The Trooper towing it.
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What’s the difference between a Golf ball and a LR?

The golf ball you can at least drive for 200 meters....
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Why do Land Rovers always drive in convoy?

The are playing 'Who's the weakest Link'
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Defenders got the highest rating in Child safety in the Euro ncap test.
It is impossible to slam a kids fingers in the door, the gaps are to wide

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I saw earlier that someone has indeed found out that land rover is actualy an acronym.
L - Legendary
A - and
N - Noble
D - Device

for

R - Regular
O - other
V - Vehicle-make
E - Emergency
R – Recovery

OR:-

LAND ROVER: -

Loud,
Agonizing,
Noisy
Drive -

Rattles
On
Virtually
Every
Road

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There is a rumour that Defender drivers greet other passing Defenders with a friendly wave, this in fact is untrue. There are merely showing that their hands are clean, and they have not broken down yet.

And here I thought that the number of fingers lifted while waving indicated the number of oil leaks on your Landy! Will have to revise my LandyWave... (but don't think I have enough fingers)

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Land Rover is one of the most environmentally friendly cars you can find..

It puts the oil back in the earth

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If a Landie does not leak oil - the sump is empty !!

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What do you call 1 LR on top of a hill - A miracle.

What do you call 2 LR's on top of a hill - A mirage.
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Did you hear about the man whose Land Rover didn't leak oil?
The factory took it back and worked on it until it did.
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When you take a Land Rover for a valuation they don’t take out the blue book, they take out the scale to weigh it for scrap metal.
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Driving a Landy is like sleeping with the Ugliest woman you know.......
You can do it JUST NEVER tell your friends!
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Land Rovers don’t have engine numbers only expiry dates.

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There was once a competition between the Isuzu Trooper and the LandRover,
they wanted to determine which of the two is more air tight..
In order to do this they put a cat in each truck and left them overnight...
The next morning the cat in the Trooper was dead and the one in the landy got away....
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It’s true officer...it just fell off
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Did you know that 80% of all Land Rovers ever made are still on the road?





















The rest made it home.
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Every page of your repair manual has fingerprints

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What does the Titanic and a Land Rover have in common? It has the same turning circle and is just as waterproof
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Why did they use Land Rovers for the Camel trophy? To make things as difficult as possible for the contestants
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Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner "How can you tell one switch
from another at night? They all look the same. " - "He replied, "It does not matter which one you use, nothing happens !"
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Why does a Land Rover have so many holes in? For the water to get OUT.
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When you mount a portrait of a Land Rover against the wall, remember to put newspapers on the floor for the oil leaks.
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A Land Rover don't leak oil - they're only marking their territory.
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You know its a Land Rover when you stop at the fuel station and ask the attendant to check the fuel level and fill up the oil.
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All Land Rovers are like women - They leak when you don't want them to, moan on long journey's, embarrass you in front of friends and spend more money than you ever expected once you've commit yourself to one.
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Why is a land rover the best vehicle for overlanding in Africa?
If you break down you never have to walk very far before finding another broken down Land Rover you can steal parts from.
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There are two man made structures visible from space, the Great Wall of China and the gap in a defenders door frame.

tezzer
24-02-2010, 14:14
poor land rover only been around for over 50yrs, :naughty
i'd like to see 50yr old nissan, but we all know that will never happen because they are rot boxes, should'nt knock them zippy, one might pull you out of the mud some day, but then you would'nt tell us would you. :lol

zippy656
24-02-2010, 14:21
ah well, I have been pulled along some DEEP ruts by a 110

sidsid06
24-02-2010, 18:51
yes i know their not the best on the road but my brothers old 1976 land rover is better off road than most new 4x4!!! unless its a new land rover defender!

Deleted account DD
24-02-2010, 21:26
Excellent stuff zippy :thumb2:lol:lol:clap

tezzer
24-02-2010, 23:05
why is it people on here have to keep knocking land rovers, it gets on my fecking nerves, support british not foreign crap. :nenau

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 00:04
I dont know but I wonder how much of a landrover is actually British ?

Land Rover at times didnt do themselves any favours over the years. We had Range Rovers as armed response vehicles. They were crap and replaced by other more reliable "non british" (sic) makes.

One example of their poor performance apart from leaking more oil than they burnt was the alarm , immobiliser and security system. When you need to get from a to b asap the last thing you want is a car you cant get into or start............and it happened several times on a fleet of 3.

I also have a lot experience driving older landrovers inc lightweights, 90s 110s and special variants both petrol and diesel for my sins. I would sum up, particularly the older petrol ones, as fantastic off road if you can get them started on a morning and that's about it.

Only my very real experience but it would put me off buying one of the variants I've used in the past.

:nenau

Anyway , wtf do you expect on a nissan forum? I was told the only reason a land rover badge was green and oval was because it had gone rotten and the corners fallen off................not sure if thats true or not :augie

tezzer
25-02-2010, 02:00
i do expect some knocking of land rover on here but it's a bit two faced when people go out with other enthuiasts laning, and then knock there preference of vehicles, about the jeeps, my mate bought one new top of the range, had it six months he reckons the biggest piece of crap he's driven, he traded it for a landcruiser, did'nt keep that too long either, lol, but the old original jeeps are the dogs dangley bits, i had the wagoneer what a motor now that was brilliant off road, i towed my 18ft fishing cruiser across a shingle beach with no problem at all, and an ex neighbour had the willies jeep, thats a different kettle of fish, :thumb2

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 09:03
i do expect some knocking of land rover on here but it's a bit two faced when people go out with other enthusiasts laning, and then knock there preference of vehicles, about the jeeps, my mate bought one new top of the range, had it six months he reckons the biggest piece of crap he's driven, he traded it for a landcruiser, did'nt keep that too long either, lol, but the old original jeeps are the dogs dangley bits, i had the wagoneer what a motor now that was brilliant off road, i towed my 18ft fishing cruiser across a shingle beach with no problem at all, and an ex neighbour had the willies jeep, thats a different kettle of fish, :thumb2


Its impossible to judge a range on one vehicle ;) Ive always maintained that, my comments on Landrovers are based on using them from 1979 right through to about 2000 ish. In fact the last time I was out in a Range Rover was to tow my own car off the road after a dancing on ice prank :augie The first RR we tried wouldnt start, in fairness though it was around -1 :D

I also recall the UN withdrawing all Discoverys from front line services due reliability problems ;)

Your mate seems a bit picky, if you follow the link on my sig you'll see some interesting info about jeeps & nissans.

My Grand Cherokee in the 7 months I've been running it, on and off road, towing and travelling in the worst winter (they tell me) for years has been outstanding which sort of discounts horror stories of them :thumb2 but like I say, that's only one car. I even managed the lower 30s mpg on a 70mph 120mile motorway run last week....have to admit I was stunned :lol

By the by, its the first car of a similar age that doesn't have any trim rattles, its lovely and quiet which must say something good about its Austrian assembly origins............. Land Rover owners will know just what I mean about annoying rattles :augie

As far as Landcruisers go a mate of mine is a geology academic type and he did a lot of work in the wilder parts of Africa for mineral and oil companies. They had two brands of 4x4s on the fleet. Land Rover and Land Cruiser, I'll bet I don't need to tell you which one the last person to the key cabinet ended up driving because they needed soemthing that could go anywhwere reliably and with a degree of comfort :thumb2

Sorry but it does stack up against them in my humble experience :(

On the Brit built thing I recall a debate a while back and I'm sure it was regarding GM/Vauxhall when someone was on about Brit built cars. They had a look at where all the bits came from. The furthest away bit that was sourced then assembled in GB was the wiring loom which came from Australia :eek: :D


At the end of the day Tezzer its what makes the world go round and its not personal :thumbs

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 09:14
Actually I'll be honest here, one expense I've just had to meet was a new key. I never ever got the second set for it (just a discount from the seller :augie ) and it cost me £50 yesterday for a new coded key and recode.

Pricey in my books but a fraction of the dealer cost.

I thought I was going to have to go to the dealer, most locksmiths dont have the software to cover chrysler, but as I was about to given in and book it in I found the "expert" locksmith in our area is literaly just under a mile and a half from our house :doh

It was up until then I wished i'd got a LR instead and just continued using the screwdriver in the key barrel :naughty

zippy656
25-02-2010, 11:31
why is it people on here have to keep knocking land rovers, it gets on my fecking nerves, support british not foreign crap. :nenau

its all in jest Terrer, you know that.

im sure there are jokes about the Terranoo if you know where to look.

you cant say some of that is not true... I took a td5 out for a test drive
and the active suspention failed, he had to get us traliered back in. then said he could fix it and knock £500 off..

tezzer
25-02-2010, 11:56
all comments taken in, and there peoples opinions and i can live with that, i know it was in jest zipps, but as you know im a devout land rover man, i've only got a t2 because the wife loves them, now where the solicitors number, :lol

zippy656
25-02-2010, 11:59
id have one if they didnt have so meany problems..

and you love the T2 as well... less work to keep it going...LOL

sidsid06
25-02-2010, 12:31
well my opinon is you will not get a better off road vehical in standard for than a landrover! i have alway bought jeeps which i loved very much had a v reg wrangler which was a great truck but expensive to run due to it 4.0l engine. then i bought a new jeep wrangler jk which i did think the world of but had to sell it due to lack of work and mounting bills:( trouble with jeeps their prices drop like stones i lost nealy 9 grand on the jk in 13 months:eek:. no 1 wanted it!:nenau cant help thinking that i should have bought a land rover defender as they seem to hold their money better! that why i now have a terrano as i think their the best looking jap vehical and good performance for not too much money!!! also bought nissan as i have the d21 pick n reg and only spent 38 pounds on it in 4 years for a alternator!! was thinking the terrano be as reliable hmmm maybe not!

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 13:14
its all in jest Terrer, you know that.

Absolutely correct :thumb2 I took quite a bit of flack when I went to a Jeep :D


you cant say some of that is not true... I took a td5 out for a test drive
and the active suspention failed, he had to get us traliered back in. then said he could fix it and knock £500 off..

oops :(

What towed it back in ?

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 13:22
had a v reg wrangler which was a great truck but expensive to run due to it 4.0l engine. then i bought a new jeep wrangler jk which i did think the world of but had to sell it due to lack of work and mounting bills:( trouble with jeeps their prices drop like stones

I agree with the price bit. Thats why I bought the model I did at the price I paid :thumb2 I had been keeping an eye open for a long time (tight or what)

Got the Merc diesel engine , which is a cracker, in it and as I'll have it a few years even if its worth a big fat round zero when it goes in for another one I wont be arsed.

I did look at a nearly new (ex demo) grand cherokee which was in the higher £20k's after a lot of talking. Then I looked at a virtually identical one a couple of years older and realised the absolute tops to pay for that was around £16k :eek::eek:

Horrendous difference :( let someone with more money than me take the big hit :thumb2

zippy656
25-02-2010, 13:24
Absolutely correct :thumb2 I took quite a bit of flack when I went to a Jeep :D

and you keep comeing back for more!


oops :(

What towed it back in ?

was a new range rover and a trailer..

cause i didnt get it....

zippy656
25-02-2010, 14:36
Re: Lawn mower bashing (http://forum.fourwheeldriveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=6363#p64540)

http://forum.fourwheeldriveclub.com/styles/prosilverleft/imageset/icon_post_target.gif (http://forum.fourwheeldriveclub.com/viewtopic.php?p=64540#p64540)by rojbarker (http://forum.fourwheeldriveclub.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4455) on February 23rd, 2010, 4:47 pm
How do you know when a Landy owner has had sex?

















One of his fingers is clean.

magsleon
25-02-2010, 15:15
Last year we were looking for a land pig for Maggie, my wife, but could,nt see anything half decent for our price range so we opted for the t2 which we are very happy with. My brother has got a Disco on a k plate and has abused it for years, the locks are dodgy and so is the heater but other than that no problems. Last year before we got the t2 we borrowed the Disco to trailer my sons old Omega back from the deep south up to Yorkshire and it did the job just fine.
I am just waiting to see if spares for the t2 will be as cheap and plentiful as they are for LR, no doubt time will tell. By the way LR is now India owned.

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 17:03
By the way LR is now India owned.

Thats sort of stuffs it up for the buy british brigades campaign :lol

I think I'll stick with my Austrian built American offering :thumb2

Terranosaurus
25-02-2010, 17:21
By the way LR is now India owned.

Aye LR was owned by Ford for some years before that.

There basically aren't an UK car manufacturers anymore - biggest I can think of is Ginetta and I'm not 100% sure if they are still British owned.

tezzer
25-02-2010, 18:07
Thats sort of stuffs it up for the buy british brigades campaign :lol

I think I'll stick with my Austrian built American offering :thumb2

i suppose that's me then, i did'nt know they were owned by india, still they are best 4x4xfar though, :lol:naughty

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 18:28
i suppose that's me then,

My comment wasn't aimed at you specifically, sorry if it looked that way, no I meant the irrational ones who rant on about British stuff being the best but haven't a clue.

On a similar vein v interesting (and suprisingly balanced) program on last night about wisbech (is that how its spelt?) and their living with loads of immigrants. Called "the day the immigrants went home"

The conclusions were actually quite surprising.



still they are best 4x4xfar though, :lol:naughty

:doh no hope :D

tezzer
25-02-2010, 18:33
My comment wasn't aimed at you specifically, sorry if it looked that way, no I meant the irrational ones who rant on about British stuff being the best but haven't a clue.

On a similar vein v interesting (and suprisingly balanced) program on last night about wisbech (is that how its spelt?) and their living with loads of immigrants. Called "the day the immigrants went home"

The conclusions were actually quite surprising.





:doh no hope :D
no problem dave,
this program, was it about immigrant farm workers,and our unemployed changing places? i was with my mate today and he was telling me about it, needless to say out lot did'nt fair to good as im told, :doh

sidsid06
25-02-2010, 18:43
no problem dave,
this program, was it about immigrant farm workers,and our unemployed changing places? i was with my mate today and he was telling me about it, needless to say out lot did'nt fair to good as im told, :doh

YES THE PROGRAM made the british worker look like a right load lazy pr..k! dont think they could of found a more lazy bunch if they tryed! the one had been on benafits for 5 years he had no intenstion of working! all he done was sit and play on his x box! well i stop his benafits:D a couple of the chaps wanted to work but no change immagrants come first here you know:eek:

lacroupade
25-02-2010, 19:06
all comments taken in, and there peoples opinions and i can live with that, i know it was in jest zipps, but as you know im a devout land rover man, i've only got a t2 because the wife loves them, now where the solicitors number, :lol

Its OK we understand Tez, after your op it must be hell dealing with PMT and all that stuff.....:lol:lol:lol

tezzer
25-02-2010, 19:18
im having my patch fitted tomorrow, so i should be ok in a few weeks. :augie:naughty

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 20:43
One of the most interesting points was the boss from the spud factory. He admitted he paid lower wages to immigrants than Brits, and the immigrants saw them as good wages.

I was just about to start ranting on when he was asked what the impact of employing Brits would be.

Put dead simply the cost to the consumer would go up and from his point of view the extra money he would be paying out would justify in him investing the money instead in an automated potato processing system, presumably far more reliable than most humans :confused:.

Therefore no manual jobs for anyone, immigrants, locals....no one.

Sobering thought really and certainly wakes you up to the fact theres more to it than the "he's got my job" argument.

As far as the people they used, yes some real lazy twats. That 26yr old skateboarding x box player needs a kick up the arse as does that 19yr mollycoddled florists son who said the right words but when he was handed a job where pay was directly proportionate to his effort he couldnt be arsed. Ironically even with his wimpish efforts he still made more pro rata than his dole pays out !!!!! Losers

In fairness though the others in the field did have a go, the lad in the restaurant tried and the spud packers seemed to get on with it (eventually)

Best one of all the chippy & his mate even got kept on in favour of the immigrant worker.

I thought it was a good balanced prog but some of the ****ers give you an idea why we're in the state we are :(

My 18 yr old was made redundant last year. He has a good work ethos but it was made abundantly clear to him he would get nowt unless he at least made the effort to try and find work and he was to take anything so his cv read "employed" until he got back to what he wanted.

In fairness to him I was dead proud he did just that and his old boss has now taken him back on so he's happy. However one of the things she did ask him was what had been doing in the interim and was over the moon with the answer :thumb2

Spook
25-02-2010, 20:58
There basically aren't an UK car manufacturers anymore - biggest I can think of is Ginetta and I'm not 100% sure if they are still British owned.

London Taxi International were the biggest once Rover went.
everybody else just screws together stuff made elsewhere.

As for LR i had a disco 200, it leaked a bit but did 30+mpg, towed 'van no probs even averaged 28mpg towing 'van to isle of white and back (obviously had to use a ferry for a bit - it wasn't that good) BUT every year at mot time it failed on welding:( sold it :) bought mpv - no good for towing, bought Mav:):). Same age as my old disco (L reg) but solid, doesn't do as much mpg:(

Deleted account DD
25-02-2010, 21:08
everybody else just screws together stuff made elsewhere.



Arent London Taxi the same? I thought the engines were Renault :confused:

Not 100% sure though :nenau

Spook
25-02-2010, 21:16
think they out source the engines and 'box (they used to use 'our' 2.7td) but think the other main comonents are uk made.

tezzer
25-02-2010, 23:59
Arent London Taxi the same? I thought the engines were Renault :confused:

Not 100% sure though :nenau

the later taxi's are different, think their transit engines, earlier one were 2.7td, i did know a guy who had a disabled daughter and he used it to carry her and the wheel chair, he reckoned it was the best motor for the job. make him right, and fairly cheap too. :thumb2