Hey everyone, I wanted to discuss this with u just to see what u think about the subject


we all know that range rovers are considers "luxury" vehicles and are viewed by most ppl as "fancy" cars....but in the same time it is well known that Range rovers have a strong ability to deal with off road driving, so how could we deal with the vehicle to be sure that we are getting the most of it with out ruining it !

Most fancy luxury cars just couldnt handle very Rough driving like on surfaces with lots of rocks ! Now I know about the special terrain response programs that deal with things that we may face in the road ! but is the Range Rover (including the terrain response system) really designed to be used constantly or only as the last solution !!!

bottom line question: as a RR/RRS driver...is there a harm to be Rough? or should u be soft ?

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Driving any car rough in any conditions is not going to be good for it

Agree with VA, wheels really need to be 18 inch size, terrain response does its job all the time and the RRS is a tough car to take in rough conditions.

One design fault is the skirts on the doors, they do tend to get bashed sometimes, mostly just break the plastic pins and are cheap and easy to replace, but they can also cause the door to become mis-aligned.

the Americans do a lot of rock climbing/crawling with them, so they can do it well and the rock crawl mode on the RRS is superb

well one of the reasons I'm asking the question is coz where I live, a lot of roads are kinda messed up!! I went through a road once that was so filled with rocks where I literally waited for the car to just collapse into pieces. I'm used to land cruisers or nissan patrol in this kind of environment but maybe the RRS shouldn't be used this way.

I suggest you have a look around here or have a look on you tube to see what it can really do, it is very capable of handling rough terrain
http://www.rrsport.co.uk/forum/off-roading-vf19.html

Hello from UAE to Saudi!

The off roading brigade in the Middle East tend to tackle different obstacles than the guys in Europe. One problem I want to over come is being able to travel over 30 mph without the suspension reverting back to Normal Height. This is very annoying when driving sand tracks that I would usually drive at around 120 KPH in my 4.6 Discovery.
The rims and tyres of the RRS are also not suited to basic gatch tracks & wadi bashing never mind sand driving when deflating is essential.
Fitting after market drop arms will enable you to fit taller tires as the susension is tricked into thinking the car is at normal height. The LR3 boys have already learnt that trick!

Finding a solution to the under belly mounted spare wheel would also help the off roadability IMHO. A swing out wheel carrier would be great.... I'm surprised that the Australian market hasn't found a solution by way of the KAYMAR company for example.

I hope some one else can contribute to this thread with some solutions for our cars.

Good luck!

Streaky wrote:

I'm surprised that the Australian market hasn't found a solution by way of the KAYMAR company for example.

I'd like to see how they've addressed the centrally located number plate. The LR3 rear door design made it easy by off-setting the number plate to one side.

Thanks for the link..... if anyone was going to make stuff like that it would be from down under.

The number plate is attached to the wheel holder. There will likely be photos of a car with this fitted in te next couple of days from a meet over this last weekend.

Thanks for the info...please be sure to post a link if you come across the pictures!

As matter of interest, what other products have they made in the Australian market for the RRS? We've seen raised air intakes, roof racks, steel wheels...... but thats about it really.
I don't think it's possible to fit a winch to RRS equipped with air conditioning.... would you know about that?

Thx.

S

The winch can be fitted to a RRS, but it prevents Active Cruise Control working if you have it fitted.. Not the Air Conditioning as far as I understand .

This is Very Annoyed's old Range Rover Sport with winch fitted.

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Ah...thx for clarifying that. May be it's the RRS SC that can not fit the winch to then? Or...is it possible to fit a winch to all RRS models without compromising other factory fitted equipment?

I realize you may not know the answers to this but hopefully someone else will pick up on it!

Thx.

S

As I understand the intercooler airvent on the S/C is lower than on the other engines. Thus when fitting the underbody guard you need to modify it like some of the guys in the US have.

Read this thread:

http://www.rrsport.co.uk/forum/topic11424.html

This is an example in the thread, although this car does not have the winch fitted

Hi all,

There is rough driving and hard driving at speed to get to a venue or place if you ask me.

Rough driving; it seems to me, is slow cautious driving in all manner of terrain, which rr can perform of course. They may have been designed for this, 40 years ago - and tony sher my mate up here (a mere 70) actually drove the first blue rr featured elswhere on the anniversary of this Demonstrator/show vehicle in London. But at the same time, they can be found, as everyone knows downtown in place like Jesmond, Chelsea, Beverley Hills and other great Cities of the World. They are very popular up here in the N.E., with a mixture of Town and Country driving.

Yesteday; I left Keswick around 11.30am and drove all the wat, cross country to near Beamish in County Durham, for 1.00pm - getting there at 1.20pm in fact.

Some hard driving to pick my Mum up, Lady Elsie who seemed pleased to see me, after a chaotic working week.

- cross to Penrith, a686 to Alston, at 1900 feet; then on Wear road via St Johns Church, Stanhope to Crook, thence to Tow Law, dropping at speed to Lanchester, and then to Stanley to Beamish.

What a journey - first time I have been across these roads, and the terrain, views and the drive were exhilarating. Didn't clock it, but about 85 miles in 2 hours all on a and b roads. Not too bad really.

And then a nice little cruise down the a1, with JoJo at wheel, for a spot of lunch at Rockliffe Hall, near Darlington.

Isn't this the real use and design of the modern rr?

Luxury capacity and safety - with heavy payload when neccesary and ability to be put to sports use too.

Fenham.