FFRR against TerraMax

manoftaste · Apr 18, 2014

This might have been posted here already, if so please forgive me for starting a new thread but its interesting:

(Notice a number of warning lights have come on in the instrument cluster

"Terminator" Vs Range Rover - TerraMax - Top Gear - Series 19 - BBC - YouTube

manoftaste · Apr 18, 2014

These guys have a lot of time (and money of course

The Marauder - Ten Ton Military Vehicle - Top Gear - BBC - YouTube

epiclr4 · Apr 18, 2014

I want to say that I read somewhere that they sliced a few tires open filming that. It wasn't all done in one shot....

NASdiesel · Apr 18, 2014

epiclr4 said:
I want to say that I read somewhere that they sliced a few tires open filming that. It wasn't all done in one shot....

Yes, I think the number was high, 13 or so.

RBA · Apr 18, 2014

Are you referring to the Marauder in the second video or the RR in the first?

epiclr4 · Apr 19, 2014

RBA said:
Are you referring to the Marauder in the second video or the RR in the first?

Range Rover. I think the quote on the number is about right. It was something really silly.

manoftaste · Apr 19, 2014

"But, But it can wade this much water, and and it has this much wheel articulation and terrain response 2 which would do things automatically for you...", responds the sales person at the dealership.

Anything less than 17 or 18 inch and you are asking for trouble, have no confidence while going off road, forget driving at moderate speeds on roads with gravel or sharp rocks, small or big, with always this fear looming on your head of having a flat.

Soccer mom vehicles they have become.

manoftaste · Apr 20, 2014

epiclr4 said:
Range Rover. I think the quote on the number is about right. It was something really silly.

Thats the type of fear that kept me from venturing into a dirt road in Mojave last week. I just didn't feel comfortable with Contis on that surface. I got on the dirt road but after thirty or forty feet into it, really, reversed back onto the pavement

Maybe I am being overly cautious, but I've already had two flats on new tires on separate occasions (both on road, nail and a bolt, and had to buy a new tire once), plus I recently had surgery so cannot lift and change a wheel myself.

Has anyone tried those roads (or similar) with Contis?

Here are some pics and a couple of the dirt road:

GoLoaf · Apr 20, 2014

To think that all they'd have to do is slap on some smaller wheels with more rubber, and the thing would be a monster . . .

I've always been under the impression that they needed the big rims to clear the giant brakes, which you need to stop these heavy vehicles. But with the ~400kg diet, don't you think they could put on some meatier shoes?

GoLoaf · Apr 20, 2014

manoftaste said:
Has anyone tried those roads (or similar) with Contis?

Here are some pics and a couple of the dirt road:

Even with the Contis, you should have been just fine.

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