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Old 06-29-2009, 09:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi all

Thought I'd share this trip with you guys.

We had an epic trip to Matroosberg on Sunday. I left some scrapes of the rear diff there, could even see them on the way back down the mountain!

The one thing that I really liked about the D2: just put foot and the TC sorts you out. Except the one hill which was muddy and all I ended up doing was going backwards while all the wheels were driving forward. A quick reverse and 2nd Low momentum sorted that out, but it was touch and go for a few minutes

On the way back, I found it very tricky when going downhill in mud/slippery rocks because when you stand on the brakes in 1st Low, I think what happens is the ABS tries to stop you from locking up and releases the brakes selectively and I ended up slipping sideways quite a bit

My white hair count has definitely gone up after this trip!

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Nice pics man. Truck looks great as well!
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disco definitely looks different with a painted grille.
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disco definitely looks different with a painted grille.
The grill and I like the way it looks without the roof pipes/rack or whatever those useless things are called.

Beautiful country!
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didnt notice the missing aero tubes
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disco definitely looks different with a painted grille.

The Disco2 came standard with colour-coded grills in South Africa.



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didnt notice the missing aero tubes
also don't know what you mean by 'aero tube'!?
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It's those useless black pipes on the roof or as stolenheron calls them, aero tubes.

http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/q...5192009040.jpg
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It's those useless black pipes on the roof or as stolenheron calls them, aero tubes.

http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/q...5192009040.jpg

ah yes, not one of LR's finest moments
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Man, that is some beautiful country you folks have down there. Simply beautiful.
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Man, that is some beautiful country you folks have down there. Simply beautiful.
Indeed

and this is a 5300km/23 day trip (camping in the bush) I'm planning for June 2010:

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lthat looks like an amazing route!
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couple more pics from my passengers:










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