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Fox Member Since: 02 Apr 2010 Location: Essex Posts: 2313 |
Pay and play day ?
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1st Jan 2011 12:45pm |
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DMRR Member Since: 14 Apr 2010 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 2027 |
Make sure you wash Tixover mud off straight away. It sets like concrete and it will do damage...make special attention to your belts and anything in the engine bay with bearings
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1st Jan 2011 1:41pm |
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Jem0911 Member Since: 07 Jan 2010 Location: East Northants Posts: 357 |
Thank you.
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1st Jan 2011 1:47pm |
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JustinP Member Since: 24 Oct 2010 Location: Cambridge Posts: 889 |
Take plenty of photos to post on here.
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1st Jan 2011 4:30pm |
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dan_uk_1984 Member Since: 12 Nov 2008 Location: Bude, Cornwall Posts: 4014 |
I've only ever been to Tixover in the summer months, it's a nightmare as the dried mud is like concrete as previously mentioned. Very harsh if you're driving across it etc.
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1st Jan 2011 10:22pm |
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Jem0911 Member Since: 07 Jan 2010 Location: East Northants Posts: 357 |
Rained all day today down here.
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1st Jan 2011 10:38pm |
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Jem0911 Member Since: 07 Jan 2010 Location: East Northants Posts: 357 |
We had great time abit curtailed by the kids wanting Lunch.
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2nd Jan 2011 4:49pm |
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Fox Member Since: 02 Apr 2010 Location: Essex Posts: 2313 |
I got similar comments when i took my FFRR trialling.
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2nd Jan 2011 7:38pm |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 25 Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere between here and there, if not then I'm all at sea or at home in Scotland Posts: 2181 |
It makes me smile when I get the same reaction as Jem got - happened to me when I took my 3 weeks old TD6 on a gentle forest drive in 2003, for my troubles I got to take a journo from LRM magazine round one of the special stages - folks though I was mad, I got flamed on the LRE forum when somebody posted that I had smashed up the front end (I hadn't broken anything on the car but some bramble rash did stick to it!) - I have never experienced such jealousy over a car before. The most vocal were the Defender owners................... mainly because t6he L322 went everywhere they went (except into the bonnet covering water) on standard M&S tyres and didn't require pulling out once unlike some of them. My attitude to offroading is that the car is meant to do it so why not take it where it is designed to go - I certainly wouldn't take it into some of the rocky and muddy places I take my Defender into - that would be crazy, and it is about 6" too wide to take to most of the places in the forests I go off roading because of where the tracks go between trees, so what is the point of even trying to go there and stripping panels off, not just lightly scratching paint!. If I were at home now I would be putting the GY MTR's on in a couple of weeks and journeying south to join in the Forest Drives advertised here for the Keilder Forest, it was brilliant fun in the snow there last year - the course was specifically set out to be a very good compromise of challenging and non-damaging - even the D3 guys don't like to intentionally damage their cars off road and where some of them take their cars I would be worried about taking my 15 year old Def90, let alone the FFRR 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes |
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2nd Jan 2011 11:21pm |
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Jem0911 Member Since: 07 Jan 2010 Location: East Northants Posts: 357 |
A few Pictures.
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4th Jan 2011 8:42am |
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