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No More Goodyears!!
When I bought my '08 LR3 early last year, the dealer "threw in" a set of Toyo Open Country 255/55R18 tires. They're about the size of the Nitto's I ran on my '05 and I actually like them every bit as good. This has been an awful winter for mud and I've spent a lot of time in "mud ruts" mode in... -
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Do car washers strip of your LR3's wax?
This is an interesting thread. My LR3 is a work truck. It spends as much time in the mud, dirt, dust, rocks, scratchy bushes, etc. as it does on the highway. Babying it through a wash just seems dumb. It goes through a regular car wash every time it gets too disgusting to touch (about once a... -
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Air Compressor Noise
Guys, remember the ideal gas law from high school physics or chemistry? The air in the tank tends to warm up while you are driving and cool down when the car is sitting idle without any exhaust heat under the car. As the temperature of the air in the tank drops, so does the pressure. In the... -
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Worried about flipping or rolling over.
Chief Justice, If you want to learn about your car, sign up for the Land Rover Experience. The locations are in Carmel, CA, somewhere in Qubec, Canada, and one of the Carolinas. You are about the same distance from any of them, the one in California is awsome, I don't know about the rest from... -
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Compressor noise from Sliders
That was why I was thinking about encasing it in spray foam insulation. The stuff is pretty much impervious to moisture, but still has some resiliancy. It sounds like Off Roving doesn't like the idea of putting a dynamat between the compressor and the slider? David -
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Compressor noise from Sliders
After thinking about the compressor noise when you take off the factory cover and put on the sliders, I wondered what folks think about squirting some thermal-insulation foam between the slider and the compressor. The compresor seems pretty self-contained and sealed, but I've never had one off... -
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lr3 wheelin
drzjoint, Farmington, NM. I was just doing some work for a Traverse City company up in Gaylord. David -
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lr3 wheelin
I did some work in Gaylord last year, It never stopped snowing so I couldn't really tell there were cool trails too (and Hertz would have minded if I had taken their Focus on any of the trails you showed). David -
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lr3 wheelin
Ok, I give, where were those taken? I wasn't even able to guess from front license plates 'cause there weren't any. David -
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Help! Driver's side rock slider doesn't fit!
After a while the sound of the compressor becomes reasuring that it is working. It becomes really interesting to see what causes it to come on. I started treating it like a fart--a bit annoying to the wife, but it ultimately makes you feel better. David -
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How long to install rock sliders?
When you go to Sears, get a second floor jack. It will save you way more time than it will cost. Also, I forgot to say, I found that a movers trolley (3 ft square platform on 4 steerable wheels) really works well for getting the slider lined up before you jack it into place. You can position... -
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How long to install rock sliders?
I did the first one by myself and it took 4 hours. My wife "helped" with the second and it took 9 hours--not really, I couldn't resist the cheep shot. With someone there to hand me tools it took a couple of hours, but I was pretty tired by that point. The biggest problem by far is keeping... -
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Never Coming Back Again
Not much chance of meeting him on the trail in his Fusion. Seriously, I had an early 2005 model and found this forum to see if there were easy fixes to all the electronics problems I was having. This board was full of real complaints about annoying glitches like I was having. Over time LR... -
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Passenger Side Wheel Vibrates at Full Turn
The 05 had outriggers right behind the front wheels (I think they were stand offs for the body support). I had a transport company use them to tie the truck to a trailer and they bent both of them pretty severely. With small changes in wheel position I would get serious vibration and a lot of... -
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Anyone here own a LR2?
I traded my wife's Volvo XC-90 on a new LR2 HSE last week. It feels very much like my LR3 and we both think it is a blast to drive. So far so good. David -
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New Windshield
I replaced the heated, rain sensing windshield on my '08 LR3 (with 300 miles on it). I've had bad experiences with insurance companies over the years so I don't turn in anything under $2k. The windshield at TechnaGlass was $1,454 installed. Two days after I got it we had a big snow storm and... -
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Rock Sliders Available for LR3?
I got the sliders week before last, and put them on last night. It took about an hour to get the truck to the point where I could start installing them, then 6 hours to get them on (working by myself most of the time). Biggest problem was keeping the body bushings on the post while I lined... -
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LR3 makes "Worst of the Worst" used car list
I filled out a JD Powers New Car Survey on my new 08 LR3 today and was simply amazed that after 3 months and 4,600 miles there wasn't a single thing that I marked less than "Outstanding" and there were a bunch of items marked "Truly Exceptional". This vehicle feels so much more solid than my 05... -
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Power Outlet - Cigarette Lighter - how to mod?
When I screwed up my 05 LR3 installing XM, I was told that every wire has both a power function and a sensing function. Tieing into some innoxious wire (in my case the installer tied into one of the cigarette lighters) can easily set off a cascading series of alarms. Changing the performance... -
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Automatic Car Wash and Snorkel
My LR3 is also a work truck (no snorkle) and I've taken it through many regular car washes (brushes on the side, rug looking things dragged over the hood and roof) and even took it through an extreme truck wash (200 gpm at around 300 psig) a couple of times. Nothing fell off, but every so often... -
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MPG's again. The dead horse is back....
Houm_Wa, Both ends of the trip are pretty close to 5,200 ft. The trip crosses the Continental Divide at around 7,200 ft. It feels like the grades on both sides are similar, but going south (the direction that uses less fuel) seems slightly steeper. Remember, when I refuel in Albuquerque I... -
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MPG's again. The dead horse is back....
The Ethanol question may be important. Where I live it is not added. In Albuquerque it is added. Driving from home to Albuquerque (180 miles) uses about 9 gallons of 91 octane gasoline (no Ethanol). Driving home uses about 11 galons of 91 octane with ethanol. I've recently started just... -
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MPG's again. The dead horse is back....
I always run in sport mode and in my '05 I averaged around 18.5 over a pretty wide range of conditions (it is a work truck and I spend a lot of time on some barely developed Oil & Gas Lease roads and more mud than I'd like to see). I have 4,000 miles on my '08 and have been closer to 17.5-18... -
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How do I remove this?
They don't unscrew, they look like safety pins. David -
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Rock Sliders Available for LR3?
Got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago saying that they were scheduled to come out of the factory 4/4. With the threatened trucker strike I may see them before winter. OffRoving has worked hard to keep me updated and they seem pretty nice. I'll let you know how the install goes, I have a buddy...
