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Smarticus

Member Since: 26 May 2005
Location: Northumberland
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2005 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Rimini Red

Top Tips

When offroading remember to lower the seat height in the RRS to its lowest position.

In the highest position ones head is a mere couple of inches from the roof (ok so I am a 6 footer but then again so are most people these days). A bit of speed accross a bump can cause head to contact roof with great ease resulting in compressed neck joints and seriously unhappy driver

In a D3 or Defender there is a lot more headroom to play with so the RRS can take you unawares.

Needless to say I write this with a rather crooked neck and a big glass of medicine (MacCallan 12) to dull the pain..... RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
Disco 4 TDv6 HSE Ipanema
Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

Sun Oct 15 2006 5:57pm

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Sun Oct 15 2006 6:06pm

Andy

Member Since: 15 Oct 2005
Location: Shropshire
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Another top tip, you heard it here first! 2002 Discovery Adventurer LE
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Sun Oct 15 2006 6:15pm

Gary

Member Since: 22 Jun 2006
Location: Essex
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2006 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Java Black

yep, did the same, now got neck strain?

Sun Oct 15 2006 6:50pm

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Wheel in the chiropractor then. Mine is actually quite cute too...

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Sun Oct 15 2006 8:53pm

ronnie

Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: West Midlands, UK
Posts: 104

2005 Range Rover Sport TDV6 SE Rimini Red

Re: Top Tips

Smarticus wrote:
When offroading remember to lower the seat height in the RRS to its lowest position.

In the highest position ones head is a mere couple of inches from the roof (ok so I am a 6 footer but then again so are most people these days). A bit of speed accross a bump can cause head to contact roof with great ease resulting in compressed neck joints and seriously unhappy driver

In a D3 or Defender there is a lot more headroom to play with so the RRS can take you unawares.

Needless to say I write this with a rather crooked neck and a big glass of medicine (MacCallan 12) to dull the pain.....

By this i take it you've owned or have good experience of driving a Defender. However, on a different forum, somebody of similar height complained about lack of head room in the Defender. I am over 6 ft and really admire the Defender but was put off by this comment. Just wandering then if that other person was just being fussy. I don't know.

Fri Jan 19 2007 8:01pm

Smarticus

Member Since: 26 May 2005
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 939

Re: Top Tips

ronnie wrote:

By this i take it you've owned or have good experience of driving a Defender. However, on a different forum, somebody of similar height complained about lack of head room in the Defender. I am over 6 ft and really admire the Defender but was put off by this comment. Just wandering then if that other person was just being fussy. I don't know.

Ronnie, yes I have a defender and use it in some pretty extreme offraod events. Never contacted head on roof (except for the time I pitch forked her end over and landed on the roof. Even then it was the roof that came down to hit my head, rather than my head going up onto roof - needless to say I now have a full roll cage fitted). The seats in the defender dont have any up / down adjustment (your lucky to get front to back and due to the bulk head, even thats a token gesture). There is ample headroom when in the driving seat. Any passengers on the rear benches have little headroom, but they can at least duck when hitting bumps at speed. Thats harder to do when you are driving .... RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
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Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

Tue Jan 23 2007 9:27pm

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