Lifted Lib cops abuse from Landrover driver.

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Lifted Lib cops abuse from Landrover driver.

Post by legacytt » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:31 am

Was driving along a remote rough track over Easter, heading to a bushwalking area. It was one of the roughest tracks I have had the Lib on but at no stage did I bottom out, and was able to crawl around and over the biggest rocks. For the Tasweigians it was to Olive Lagoon in behind Bronte Park.
Nearing the end we passed a Landrover Defender parked by the track, it didn't seem that rough from there on so I kept going. Later on as I was out of the car checking the line around a particularly rocky section Mr Landrover appears walking back to his car. Turns out he had decided that the track was a bit rough so started his bushwalk early. We walked together back to my car and once he realised it was a Subie the tyrade started. "Oh, you've jacked it up a bit, that just makes them handle really badly on the road" I replied that no, it went very well on the road. He then peered underneath and began telling me how "pissweak" the Subie suspension was and that I was in danger of bending something as soon as I hit a big rock. Being a beleiver of the motto "Actions speak louder than words" in such situations I jumped in and left him to the sweet sound of a boxer EJ20T burbleing off into the distance while he continued his walk back to his super tough Landrover.

Here is a pic of one of the smaller bogs, in winter some look like they would swallow a car whole.
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Post by Wilbur » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:36 am

It should be leagal to run people like that over.

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Post by BRUMBERTY » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:36 am

It is probably still there.
stopped with an electrical problem or out of fuel.

Leave him be.
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Post by BrennyV » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:10 am

hahaha, jelious! nice lookn lib btw
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Post by vincentvega » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:16 pm

one of those "put **** on you so you dont put **** on him" wankers

why does everything have to be a competition with these guys! he could have just said hello
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Post by fredsub » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:39 pm

legacytt wrote: ....peered underneath and began telling me how "pissweak" the Subie suspension was and that I was in danger of bending something as soon as I hit a big rock.
whilst that may be right, it only takes a handful of spare parts to fix problems,
even spare cross members don't take up that much room......
now with a larger 4by it only takes a bigger rock or something to bust things...and its a major bigger problem to fix things, everything is heavier,
the broken bits break in a bigger way... etc...
lol,i better stop there b4 i talk meself out of future intentions...
IMO a lot of big 4wd drivers don't know **** in driving off-road, and only got the big 4wd to be king **** of the paved road...**** idiots.

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Post by Alex » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:17 pm

lol...i just ignore wankas like that..or slap them..

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Post by Subafury » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:19 pm

tough looking lib u got there. i got a similar scenario on my easter break when some dude in a v8 pootrol told me id never get up this dune hill climb in my lil suba. but i did eventually prove him wrong. and there were a few big boys that didnt make it too :p
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Post by julian » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:38 pm

As you so rightly proved, the "proof is in the pudding". Good on you for not getting hot under the collar.
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Post by Suby Wan Kenobi » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:44 pm

On the weekends trip to Double Island we saw many "Real" 4wds stuck in the softer sand and Byron was even told by the Ranger that he had no hope of making a particular track (he had come that same track to get to the beach not 4 hours earlier) to the end.
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Post by legacytt » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:54 am

His pride was obviously dented, he was then telling me that as a mechanic he knew these things and that the only decent independent suspension 4wd's was on the Paris Dakar BMW's. I did mention that the Subie suspension seems to cope well with the abuse it gets in group N rallies etc but he thought that rallying wasn't any where near as harsh as the track I was on. While it may have been rough I was going at less than walking pace in spots so hardly comparable to getting air at 150KPH in a rally. It was a laugh really, as I usually get positive comments about the car from non subaru owners.
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Post by bluesteel » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:19 pm

good on ya ian

just keep on driving that thing when everyone tells you that you cant
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Post by smoov » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:21 pm

legacytt - your car is awesome. one day when i get tired with mine being so low..... ;)
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Post by AlpineRaven » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:05 pm

*drools.* nice ride mate.. yeah ignore other people what they say - it means they're jealous!
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Post by chubby37 » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:48 am

this thread is funny...we were out one day near my place....very boggy and nasty tracks...cant remember which of the boys it was but....these guys were there in hilux and a patrol looking at the mud and woundering if they should attemp it.....all of a sudden a subby just blasts pasts them into the bog....mud everywere...and out the other side....should have seen the look on there faces....think of it it may have been stinky in the ej18 sedan???
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Post by last celtic warrior » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:16 pm

We can't all be so pissweak as to drive the "best 4WD" out there so there's as little chance of getting stuck as possible... Obviously the "big guy" couldn't stomach a challenge.
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