@ Tigger

I take it you also have these 'spats' ahead of the front wheels down low, have they affected your off roading at all?
Looking at mine they look very fragile and in the way, like they would hit a 'step' before the front wheel could climb it.

EYorkshire wrote:

@ Tigger

I take it you also have these 'spats' ahead of the front wheels down low, have they affected your off roading at all?
Looking at mine they look very fragile and in the way, like they would hit a 'step' before the front wheel could climb it.

My neighbour, an agricultural contractor who runs a Mitsubishi L200 (well, nobody's perfect!), zeroed in on those flaps in about 10 seconds; they were the source of much merriment! They take me back to the days when I ripped the front bumper off my dad's nice shiny MG Maestro by catching the black plastic bumper extensions on a kerb stone in a car park

Suffice it to say that a few minutes work with a screw driver and they were both on a shelf in the garage where they'll stay for at least the next 90,000 miles! Interestingly, if you're planning on going off road, the manual recommends doing exactly the same thing!

I called in at Lakeland Land Rover in Coniston to pick up a little local knowledge about the conditions on the greenlane on Bottle Fell before attempting it today. The service manager was really helpful and though a Defender had got stuck there recently, he said that it had gone off piste! He said I should probably be okay (possibly rubbing his hands in the anticipation of a nice fat recovery fee from another idiot tourist!! )

It was huge fun and really not too bad at all in the end, but those useless bumper extension would almost certainly have grounded on the most exciting sections....