to change my 4x4 more often than I change my pants?

[MitchyInge]

unlike with underwear the replacements get older and cruddier as I go along

RIP latest land rover

[monkeyfacegrace]

I think maybe you should add that you have horses, otherwise people's snob radars are going to be waggling

[MitchyInge]

haha oh yes

this sort of 4x4 would not register on anyone's snob radar, trust me, it's held together with baling twine to stop the boot flying open!

[ClaireDeLoon]

Would you like some emergency knickers?

[BrahmsThirdRacket]

Is that the one you crashed into a giant snowball?

[MitchyInge]

yes to knickers and snowball

it never bounced back from the experience and the other day a bit more of the front fell off so it actually ran itself over, a bit

would not mind if was upgrading as I go along but perhaps if I treat this one a bit more respectfully it will reward me?

[Poledra]

Sounds like it is trying to commit suicide, Mitchy.....

[MitchyInge]

yes, that is what they all do in the end, to get away from me

[Morloth]

I wish you had posted this a month ago, I had a friend who was giving away her old Range Rover as it was really old and they were moving overseas and she just wanted to be rid of it (I like big cars, but this thing was beyond my abilities).

I think she ended up gumtreeing it, you never know, have a look!

[MitchyInge]

oh wonder if is same one? this is a free old range rover too

well, free apart from the 4.5 litre v8 engine of course but will only cost about £10000000 a week in fuel hopefully

[fillybuster]

ya gotta love MN...I came on here ready to be amused by a tongue-in-cheek piss take thread (or lots of people shouting 'troll') and find Mitchy in a perfectly sane beaten-up-4x4 discussion.

...sigh...this isn't as much fun as I had hoped

[Morloth]

Could be, it was really old. Like pre-powersteering old. They were ahem "old money" and I think this thing just got passed on from her DH's parents. It was an excellent car though, the sort that you can wire back together and stick things back on with sticky tape and it still got up and going.

Was a massive guzzler. As I said she asked me if I wanted it and I am quite competent up to about Grand Cherokee size, but this monster scared me.

[MitchyInge]

the snowball wasn't anything LIKE as much fun as I'd hoped either, haha

this could be most pointless thread ever in a personal history of quite a few in similar vein, should get an award of some kind?

am just procrastinating because am scared to muck out the unholy mess inside the old one

[stealthsquiggle]

at poor desperate land rover resorting to running itself over. What did you do to it Mitchy - I think you should have sought therapy before it reached that stage, really...

DH is under the illusion that Land Rover's never actually die - he wants one for the days when his silly rear wheel drive car won't get out of bed - and for taking to shooting grounds because I don't much like bits of clays raining down on my car roof. I have tried pointing out the Land Rover graveyard we drive past every day, but he is just not seeing it.

[ooojimaflip]

I change my pants everyday - changing your car more often than that seems inpractical from an admin point of view alone.

[MitchyInge]

you don't get a name like mine by observing good underwear hygiene

in good hands and with replacement engines landies probably don't HAVE to die

there are few sights sadder than land rover graveyards tries not to look

[MitchyInge]

just found self praying for instant, painless death rather than muck out vehicle

surely am losing perspective here

[stealthsquiggle]

How bad is it, exactly? Is it a matter of rescuing possessions before Landie goes to the aforementioned place beginning with G or does it need to be really clear?

[MitchyInge]

it wasn't too bad, about 8 bin bags of assorted cigarette packets, coke bottles and apple cores bribed daughter and a friend to do it

now have new problem: how to drive this one without giggling uncontrollably at the size, noise (seems to be missing exhaust) and lack of any real manoeuvrability at all - particularly as driver seat permanently wedged in semi-recumbent position about a mile from the pedals

it has a radio tho

[MitchyInge]

also adjustable tow bar and standard land rover features of some doors not opening, ever, while others never quite properly close

hope we have a long and happy partnership of at least 6 months

[frostyfingers]

I'm afraid we gave up on Landies late last year - spent so much time and money repairing them over the years I think we could have had at least one Caribbean holiday. I've moved on to a Toyota Landcruiser which so far is fine although it does have a large selection of buttons to press that I really don't understand - hill descent, height, sport/comfort mode (???), and a lovely range of gears - I just pick one and see.

I have to admit it doesn't have the same character and whenever I hear the Discovery noise I feel a little pang!

[Quintessential12belowZero]

"it's held together with baling twine to stop the boot flying open! "

If your 4x4 is THAT old, it begs the question: just how often do you change your pants?

Every decayd(e)

[MitchyInge]

oh God

this one is so big it makes the Disco look like a Smart Car

[Poledra]

Holy shit, Mitchy, what exactly are you driving? Is it a Hummer in disguise?

BTW, you are really helping with my Landy envy

[MitchyInge]

it's just a Range Rover, about the same age as me - quite rugged looking

feel like have trapped self in some sort of swirling vortex of co-dependency on these things