Defender with muddy tyres, is this a factory option?

[yakka]

I live in and old Georgian town and we have loads of new Defenders to negotiate the cobbles and 4 inch kerbs as they are too wide for the parking spaces. Most have all the kit including snorkels, lunch boxes glued to the back windows, ladders and low profile tyres.

However for the first time I have seen one with muddy tyres and splashes up the sides, is this a factory option?

[sherman]

It might just have been taken up the farm track to the stables .

[mickyh7]

No it's not.
But you have found the 'Doggers' of your Village!
Perhaps follow them, next time they go out?

[georgefreeman918]

I saw one actually towing a trailer full of sheep (I applauded that man!)

[vikingaero]

If a farmer has a Defender now, it's probably been bought a while back and used on the farm. You'll always have their offspring spunk the family wealth on a newer ones. Most farmers now find the new Defender to be too expensive. Not everyone is Harry Metcalfe. And will have switched to pickups.

To me, most owners of Defenders now seem to be the airsoft, edc prepper type.

[thebraketester]

yakka said:

I live in and old Georgian town and we have loads of new Defenders to negotiate the cobbles and 4 inch kerbs as they are too wide for the parking spaces. Most have all the kit including snorkels, lunch boxes glued to the back windows, ladders and low profile tyres.

However for the first time I have seen one with muddy tyres and splashes up the sides, is this a factory option?

They were probably texting their beautician and accidentally veered onto a soft verge.

[Pica-Pica]

georgefreeman918 said:

I saw one actually towing a trailer full of sheep (I applauded that man!)

Nah! Not here. That would be an ISUZU pick up.

[A.J.M]

Local farmer to me has a 110 commercial.
It’s manky and always has a trailer attached to it.

He must upset all the “it’s not a real one as you wouldn’t use it on a farm” bellends. Good.

[unpc]

A.J.M said:

Local farmer to me has a 110 commercial.
It’s manky and always has a trailer attached to it.

He must upset all the “it’s not a real one as you wouldn’t use it on a farm” bellends. Good.

Yeah I've seen a few used for doing actual work, towing plant and so on despite everyone on here saying that would never happen.

[Bennet]

A.J.M said:

Local farmer to me has a 110 commercial.
It’s manky and always has a trailer attached to it.

He must upset all the “it’s not a real one as you wouldn’t use it on a farm” bellends. Good.

Not a real one? What else could it be? Are there people out there building fake Land Rover Defenders.....?

[Deranged Rover]

Bennet said:

Not a real one? What else could it be? Are there people out there building fake Land Rover Defenders.....?

Ineos...?

[Cold]

None of this new fangled stuff for me. If it hasn't got leaf springs it isn't a Land Rover. Power steering is for the urban housewife. I bet some even have floor mats. Pish.

Or something.

[A.J.M]

Bennet said:

A.J.M said:

Local farmer to me has a 110 commercial.
It’s manky and always has a trailer attached to it.

He must upset all the “it’s not a real one as you wouldn’t use it on a farm” bellends. Good.

Not a real one? What else could it be? Are there people out there building fake Land Rover Defenders.....?

There is a vocal lot on the landy forums who will tell anyone who will or won’t listen that because it’s not got a chassis and you can’t unbolt the body panels that it’s not a real defender like the old one.

But the old defender isn’t a real Landrover either.
They have power steering, coil suspension, a plastic dash and door cards along with windows that go up/down.

Us series 1 owners are the real Land Rover owners.
After that they went soft and feeble.

[Lester H]

I wish I had kept an ad from about 10years ago for spray on mud from an aerosol .It was for masking number plates to avoid speed cameras. Some of you will also recall for the same purpose those shiny looking plates, film coated at £70 a pair. These had two disadvantages: they didn't twork and they were illegal.

Edited by Lester H on Tuesday 26th April 20:15

[300bhp/ton]

yakka said:

I live in and old Georgian town and we have loads of new Defenders to negotiate the cobbles and 4 inch kerbs as they are too wide for the parking spaces. Most have all the kit including snorkels, lunch boxes glued to the back windows, ladders and low profile tyres.

However for the first time I have seen one with muddy tyres and splashes up the sides, is this a factory option?

It does happen.

[yakka]

Outstanding in its field. Very flat Norfolk.

[A.J.M]

Granted not in the U.K.

But they do get muddy.
And, despite the counter claims of some, these ones are ending used as humanitarian vehicles.

Check out Kingsley Holgate foundation on fb to see what they are doing and using these for.

[Red9zero]

unpc said:

A.J.M said:

Local farmer to me has a 110 commercial.
It’s manky and always has a trailer attached to it.

He must upset all the “it’s not a real one as you wouldn’t use it on a farm” bellends. Good.

Yeah I've seen a few used for doing actual work, towing plant and so on despite everyone on here saying that would never happen.

There's a mix by us. A few being used on the farm and a few cruising Clifton. I've seen a couple of nicely renovated old HC pick ups being used by local farmers too.

[300bhp/ton]

yakka said:

Outstanding in its field. Very flat Norfolk.

I'm sorry, is there something wrong with you?

Where f do you think it should be? And no, long long way from Norfolk thanks.

For the record it got muddy doing something else.... and was then parked up. But maybe we need to call in Sherlock Holmes to help you fathom this mystery

[yakka]

Oh Goody, a mystery challenge.

Well, given the low camera angle I would deduce that it was a Borrower's Jamboree.

Did you drive to the location by the Humour Bypass by any chance?