Bit quiet!

[julianf]

We've had ours, coming up to, two years now, and there has only been one time when it did not get us home - and, even then, it would have got us home, assuming we had enough fuel to keep pouring into the leaking injector pump, and enough courage to skid around on that much bio falling out the bottom!

(we were about 200 miles away - had we have been around the corner, id just have driven home)

Things do break on it all the time though...  But then it is 18 yrs old now, and we do a fair few miles in it.

[Tony]

4x4s all require a bit of truck treatment when it comes to driving style.  That said I could easily beat all the boy racers off the lights with the Delica and its carefully tuned autobox.  At lights with two lanes you'd see them see the back of the truck and move into the right hand lane.  So it was embarrassing for them being left in a cloud of biodiesel smoke. Around corners is where it all fell apart though!

Anyway, welcome Mark to the 4x4 fraternity - they all need more maintenance than your average road car.

I say welcome, I don't have a 4x4 anymore.   I'll just commiserate myself with the thought that tyres won't be so expensive.

[greasemonkey]

The only time I have ever driven a Discovery was on a steep, slippy bank at a farm sale. It was hitched to a loaded trailer.
I stalled it three times, decided it needed a good reving, and ended up sliding down the bank and jack knifed it. My mate had to walk al the way back across the field to drive it from there.
A little embarrassing.