New Discovery 4 review!

[Bluepete]

It's pants off-road!



Cue embarrassed calls to the recovery company who were coming to get the car out of the field opposite where I was mired!

Then more embarrassed calls from the recovery truck man when his winch broke. It's a heavy beasty this Disco!

Then embarrassed explanations to the Sergeant (the car is the Boss's car - he isn't in at the moment - promise no to tell, please!)

So. Clarkson says it'll go to the top of a mountain. PAH! It'll not make it out of a muddy field!

Pete

[G]

Not on pimp wheels and roads Tyres.

Budget cuts and job loses... many comments could be made in this thread!

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by G

Not on pimp wheels and roads Tyres.

Budget cuts and job loses... many comments could be made in this thread!

Ha haa, get some InsaTurbo's on em. Their cheap enough.

[Bluepete]

To put the vehicle fleet in perspective, we are loosing 20% of out vehicles.

Traffic cars used to be changed at around 80,000 miles. We now have a situation where most of our cars are over 100,000 and some of the motorway jeeps are approaching 200,000!

I heard two lads having to slow down whilst en-route to serious RTC's and attend at normal road speed 'cos the emergency equipment packed in.

Pete

[maviczap]

What do you expect from a Chelsea Tractor

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Traffic cars used to be changed at around 80,000 miles. We now have a situation where most of our cars are over 100,000 and some of the motorway jeeps are approaching 200,000!

Surely thats because motors are seen to be less stressed on motorway miles

Originally Posted by maviczap

What do you expect from a Chelsea Tractor

hey my mates chelsea tractor, which is a rather new Land rover of some super duper description, was pulling lorries up our road in the snow before xmas because it was the only vehicle managing to get up it that could tow them Thems BIG lorries!

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Surely thats because motors are seen to be less stressed on motorway miles

Probably not the case with Traffic cars. They'll have a fairly hard life. But they are serviced regularly

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Surely thats because motors are seen to be less stressed on motorway miles

The motors aren't the problem, it's everything else. The steering and suspension get loose and lazy, the switches and interior get knackered and fail on a regular basis.

The X5's seem to be lasting well, better than the Mercedes ML's we used to use.

The engines get ragged senseless, max rate acceleration off the hard shoulder, full speed runs around the motorways, towing huge vehicles, often without wheels. It al takes it's toll.

Even the Vectra VXR's are all very tired now. The 330's are superb, very fast and handle well, but the cuts mean they will be here for a long time.

Pete

advanced driver FAIL! lmfao

[kaivalagi]

Take any off road vehicle with road tyres through something like that and you've got to expect it to get stuck surely...it's all about the tyres......reminds me I need to ditch the Dunlop 220's on my bike...