Sorry about no FL2's - we didn't have any in our group - we didn't have to worry about someone getting stuck (ducks and runs for cover) Steve N | 21MY Defender (on order) | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)

Hi everyone I have just joined the site
I am a member of disco3.co.uk and met some of you at Tong last Sunday.
Just to let you know I have some video footage of a couple of FL2's at Tong but I am not sure who is who. One of my clips is a FL2 tight between two trees and TFC is spotting you through, and the other one is of 2 FL2's coming down the hill towards the big lake. If anyone wants a copy I can send it to them.

Cheers Paul.

Hi Chester, I think there was only four of us there, one of us was with the Disco's doing tuition and RPJ, avtur and I were in our own little group, RPJ as you know had the silver FL2 that had a little too much to drink, avtur and i both had stornaways, but mine had the roof bars and side pipes....any idea who was on video??? my co-pilot was recording most of our circuit.

It's a 31 second clip and it looks like two Stronaways coming down the hill the second on has rails and tubes on. If you PM me I could send you the clip.

carlfraz wrote:

RPJ as you know had the silver FL2 that had a little too much to drink

Apparently RPJ's FL2 was just 2 days old at dunking point - that must be some record  Steve N | 21MY Defender (on order) | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)

Not even two days old SN, he picked it up the day before Saturday, did 30 miles around home then 140 to get to the off road day on Sunday, counting as days it was just one day old - he's totally mad!!!!!

After cleaning mine found rear offside wheel has a nasty scrtach, side pipes are all scored and scraped underneath, and the drivers side pipe has a dent in it. So just hope this damage happened to protect the car's underside

Bad luck

Side tubes are vulnerable as they are the lowest point when cresting a hill or driving across ruts etc. They will protect the car though. Scratched alloys are also a hazard of off-roading, plenty of companies around that can refurb a wheel for around £70 though. Most of us on DISCO3 have a spare set of wheels and off-road tyres

Glad that none of you guys suffered any lasting consequences as a result of the dunking. Regarding being mad to take a new car off roading in the first few days of ownership........................... I took my Monte Carlo Blue FFRR TD6 offroading when it was two days old (and the FFRR had only been on sale about 4 months) on a Forest Drive. Unknown to me there was a journo from LRE on the drives and my car was then shown in in the mag in all it's muddy glory as possibly one of the 1st privately owned FFRR's ever to have been spotted offroad! I got an amazing amount of flaming and hate mail on the various Land Rover forums for taking the car where it was designed to go too, somebody was soooooooooooo jealous that they even reported that I had done £1000's of damage to the car! I did get a couple of scratches and because I didn't read the owners manual and didn't remove the lip spoiler on the front valance before playing I managed to bend that little bit of plastic - total cost of the repairs was a couple of cans of polish and some elbow grease - small price for an awful lot of fun! I am also a Defender owner and it was just amazing what the FFRR could do on it's road tyres with the help of some fancy electronics and I think that was what upset some folks more than the fact it was a brand new FFRR! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Damage was not a complaint cfboy, sorry if it came across like was, just adds to fond memories of the day, like looking at the wife when she gets another wrinkle....adds to the character and enhances its beauty

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like looking at the wife when she gets another wrinkle....adds to the character and enhances its beauty

.....you old smoothy (does that line actually work ? )

He'll find out after Mrs Carlfraz has read the post and Mr Carlfraz wakes up in the morning and finds his testicles aren't in a jar on the bedside table , then and only then will he know that it has worked  ______________________
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ouch ! Don`t think Mrs carlfraz would want to do that ! perhaps removing one tyre valve cap each week would cause nearly as much pain but without the mess

The pain of those thoughts rendered me incapable of viewing the forum for the last week