heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
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Welcome back dude - must have a tea party in celebration . Same place same time on Friday ?
BTW what was your consumption like .
Had my long range tank fitted last week and managed to squeeze 187 l into the car . Wondering what range that will give me in overlanding conditions
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 18th Jun 2007 8:58 am |
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Baben
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Kyalami
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Hi Heine
I think a Friday afternoon tea party is in order.  Let's see if we can drum up some support?
My consumption for the entire trip of 6000km was 15.6l/100km. Only about 2000km was serious off-roading deep sand and low-range work, and the rest was relatively ok gravel or tar. In the deep sand I reckon 20-30l/100km is about what you get. On the way to Ondangwa, we got 15l/100km on the tar, but were towing a heavy trailer and traveling about 140, with the roofrack and the STT's adding to the drag.
With the additional tank, you can bank on 1000km in any conditions, and probably close to 2000km on tar if you don't have a rack on. We did notice the extra fuel aft of the rear axle made for interesting handling over big bumps, so would try pump fuel across to the main tank as soon as possible.
Deondef - we only towed the trailer to Ondangs then got rid of most of the load. We would have loved to have weighed the vehicle, but as far as I calculated, at the very beginning we were carrying about 100kg in the rear tank, 270kg on the roof (spare wheel, 4x full jerrycans, 60l water, airjack, 50l petrol for the boats) 2 fridges full of meat, beer packed in every crevice, 2 packets of peanuts, and of course a couple of tents, clothing, equipment etc. all in all I reckon we were about on the limit or slightly beyond.
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| 18th Jun 2007 5:51 pm |
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Herman
Member Since: 11 Jul 2006
Location: Walvis Bay, Namibia
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Hi Baben
Can you please tell us more about the compressor that overheated, why it happened and what message did the computer give?
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| 19th Jun 2007 6:32 am |
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Deondef
Member Since: 08 May 2007
Location: Randburg
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During my recent LR Experience course we were told absolute maximum weight on roof for Disco3 is 75KG on road and 50KG off road !!
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| 19th Jun 2007 6:36 am |
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Baben
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Kyalami
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Herman - we were traveling about 50km/h hence the suspension kept lowering itself, and I kept pumping it back up every time we slowed, this carried on for about an hour, then the suspension icon flashed red and the message was something like "suspension failure - max speed 30" After a couple of beers to cool down (10 minutes) all was OK again.
Deon - I know, but in the real world we need to carry more than just the spare wheel up top
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| 19th Jun 2007 7:04 am |
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TiaanS
Member Since: 25 May 2007
Location: Pretoria
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Baben, have the same problem with my Air suspension, think it is the 3rd or 4th compressor and this passed weekend it failed again...without any load…
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| 19th Jun 2007 1:35 pm |
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jtm
Member Since: 10 Sep 2006
Location: Stellenbosch
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Glad you are back with good news on the performance of the D3. Would like to see your pictures. How did it happen that you got the suspention compressor to overheat?
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| 19th Jun 2007 8:53 pm |
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jtm
Member Since: 10 Sep 2006
Location: Stellenbosch
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Baben
Sorry I see you have responded on the overheating of the compressor!!
Wish LR will increase the cut off to at least 50kmph?
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| 19th Jun 2007 9:00 pm |
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heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
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Baben wrote:Herman - we were traveling about 50km/h hence the suspension kept lowering itself, and I kept pumping it back up every time we slowed, this carried on for about an hour, then the suspension icon flashed red and the message was something like "suspension failure - max speed 30" After a couple of beers to cool down (10 minutes) all was OK again.
Deon - I know, but in the real world we need to carry more than just the spare wheel up top
Is the compressor FUBAR or are you going to keep using it
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| 20th Jun 2007 6:41 am |
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Baben
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Kyalami
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Afer cooling down its just fine, and we had no other problem. It was replaced last year, and since then has worked great
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| 20th Jun 2007 7:22 am |
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heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
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So in true Land Rover tradition don't scratch were it doesn't itch
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| 20th Jun 2007 7:30 am |
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Herman
Member Since: 11 Jul 2006
Location: Walvis Bay, Namibia
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Does any one have more information about the self-lowering suspension and the possibility of changing the speed at which the car lowers; I heard a rumour that there is a German ''chip'' that can address our problem?
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| 20th Jun 2007 8:57 am |
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heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
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I also saw something about that but I think it was expensive . Elton from Turbochip was also supposed to be querying it with them to see if they could add it in on their map
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| 20th Jun 2007 9:07 am |
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Baben
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Kyalami
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| Pics are now posted in my gallery |
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Apologies for the delay - had to do some work since I got back 
Posted some pics of the expedition.
If anyone needs more info on the expedition, please go to:
http://www.outsideedge.co.za/
http://www.getawaytoafrica.com
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| 19th Jul 2007 7:29 am |
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