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bang goes the landy!

Post by suzukisteve » Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:33 am

the old man was driving home from walkin the dogs last nite, he's got an old 200tdi disco. it was mine at one point :oops: lol

anyways trundling home and BOOM!!! the radius arm snapped! just like that! its nearly flipped the car by all accounts. i haven't seen the damage yet but dam!

needless to say he wont be getting another disco! :twisted:

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Re: bang goes the landy!

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:44 am

The radius arm snapped :shock: good old landrover quality steel :lol:
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Post by suzukisteve » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:18 am

yeah man couldn't believe it. just went outta no where!!
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Post by Edweird » Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:21 pm

Wow, we never had that happen to any of ours, and we've had four, plus three Range Rover classics. That said, all of ours were 300s, not 200s. The 200s had a less powerful engine, crap headlights and rubbish suspension.
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Post by suzukisteve » Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:29 pm

Yeah my first car was an old 200 and it just rusted away. the one that went bang was mine before me dad had it. done a fair amount of work on it and it never saw any hardcore stuff.

but yeah ive never herd of em doin that i must admit, should ave got a suzuki :hahaha:
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Re: bang goes the landy!

Post by Highlander » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:54 am

ScottieJ wrote:The radius arm snapped :shock: good old landrover quality steel :lol:
As Suzuki owners maybe we shouldn't be commenting on steel quality :hahaha:
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Post by Edweird » Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:09 pm

Highlander wrote:
ScottieJ wrote:The radius arm snapped :shock: good old landrover quality steel :lol:
As Suzuki owners maybe we shouldn't be commenting on steel quality :hahaha:
Hahahaha! Good point.
Though generally it's just bodywork for us.
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Re: bang goes the landy!

Post by twiss » Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:49 pm

Thinking about it.... I've broken several springs, a shackle, shock mounts, etc... ;)
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Post by Edweird » Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:33 pm

twiss wrote:Thinking about it.... I've broken several springs, a shackle, shock mounts, etc... ;)
Oh. I've broken.......A fence........that's about it, apart from shearing a few bolts.
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Re: bang goes the landy!

Post by turbo-tom » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:02 pm

im not going to say what ive broken :roll: :twisted:
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