By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 12:35 pm: Edit

hey all -

thinking about taking advantage of the low lease rate on the series II sd, and selling my series I to my sister. has anyone else swaped out from a I to a II - and any comments?

also - what is the optimum tire combo for this car?

thanks
steve

By Karen Jones on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 01:33 pm: Edit

Who cares about the details, just tell us what color you're getting! LOL, sorry, I just HAD to......

Karen, been working on breaking in the new cam most of the day today..... ;)

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 01:37 pm: Edit

white with black tiger stipe baby!

steve

By Karen Jones on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 01:40 pm: Edit

Jesus....good thing there's a continent between us you studpuppy!

Karen ;)

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 01:59 pm: Edit

our kittens would be really pale white gold with sublte brown stripes....

steve

By Iswearitsnotreallyme, mom.... on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 02:28 pm: Edit

Maybe we could pair our new payment books and hope for a litter of little striped Freelanders.....

Karen ;)

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 03:31 pm: Edit

oh my god! the thought of baby stripped freelanders is just too cute! can you imagine a white gold one with white stripes? (i think i just lost any manly credibility there, i'll have to go use some power tools very shortly....) but of course you would have to raise the litter on your own as my disco would slink back into the rain forest, as all male white tigers do....

but on a serious point - you brought up - the freelander is due out in two months, maybe i should wait? the freeland kalahari is close copy to the camel trophy one. hmmmm.....

steve

By Karen Jones on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 03:52 pm: Edit

Hmmmmm, you sure the Freelander will be out that soon? I thought they weren't shipping until December. 'Course, weren't they saying that LAST December? After all the delays, we'll know it when we see it I guess. LR Alexandria has one on the lot, it looked really nice, but obviously smaller than the Disco. Should whip the pants off the Rav4 group. God, a couple years ago I was so deep into SUV envy I actually thought about buying a Rav4. SOoooooooo glad I didn't! Delayed gratification has it's own rewards......

On a SUPER serious and masculinity-affirming note: What about interior color, Steve???? Man enough to go with Lightstone????? And (GASP!), would you consider the sissy automatic????? OMG, rev those power tools up, it might be a tough road! LOL!

Karen

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 04:04 pm: Edit

oh - karen,

if only you'd read your 'safe ordering' hand book. the lower spec sd's will give you any interior colour choice aslong as it's bahama beige duragrail vinyl. lightstone and the accompanying leather appearance upgrade with the butter soft leather is not available on the commoner's disco....

would definately put some neoprene seat covers on them. now the seat covers do have the center panels that you can choose colours on.... this will be tougher

www.wetokole.com

perhaps you can enlighten me on this one! of course i could go to pep boys and get some universal fit polyester animal fur seat covers (more tiger motiff or perhaps leopard?) with a complimentative snake skin looking steering wheel cover (and the faux fur windshield blocker) but i'm not sure you would be able to control yourself....white gold et al aside!

steve

By Roverine on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 05:25 pm: Edit

What I truly yearn for as far as the new Disco 2 goes, is a locking center diff kit. Think about it.

Kim

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 06:17 pm: Edit

kim-

i was under the impression that the etc made the need for a locking center diff redundant. is this incorrect?

steve

By Roverine on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 06:43 pm: Edit

Well, ... yes and no. How's that for an answer??!! I just think that the "etc." won't help near as much - It still has great capabilities completely stock, don't get me wrong. Call me crazy, (old fahioned, whatever) but I just can't quite get a good comfort level without diffs that can be locked/unlocked at will. When we tested out a little more, the answers to certain questions i had, seemed to keep coming back to the center diff lock/unlock. I'll elaborate more when i'm a little more sober (sorry, in middle of margarita right now - "Be responsible. Don't drink and drive Discoweb")

Kim

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 07:07 pm: Edit

as a woman, you are allowed as many answers as you like! 'twas reading an article in LRO about the trek disco2s. a commentary by an l/r engineer spoke of how the etc negates the need for a cld, and that it does take an amount of 'trust' to know that these little black boxes (brought to you by the same people who make the electrics for british rail) will 'catch' you when scrambling up a hill. and the hdc will carry you down. kinda takes the indiana (not karen) jones out of it though....

i can well understand the 'feeling' of a locked rig and how almost any obstacle now matter how steep or slimey gives one a sense of control and confidence.....(from personal experience with my yiep)

this engineer spoke of how the etc is actually makes for a 'just go for it' set up vs' 'diving for the cdl knob'

steve
ps - to be fair british rail worked fine when i used it and is it a strawberry blended or a regular on the rocks no salt?

By gil on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 07:10 pm: Edit

roverine, you can get the CDL kit for your truck. you have the same t-box, just no lever to lock the diff. thats basically all that has to be added. i heard today thru the grapevine that the 2002 disco kalahari (XD) will have a CDL as well as ETC...hmmmmm

By Steve (Steve2) on Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 05:23 am: Edit

gil

our man on the inside eh? that must mean when the cdl is 'in' it turns off the etc? (on the audi when the center diff was locked it turned the abs off) or would the addition of the cdl with the etc on make it theoretically like having lockers fore and aft?

the new kalahari looks the business and definately the cat's parjars would love to have one.... but i can't imagine they are going to be $2800 down, $399 a month!!

by chance do you know what year the new rangie got the bugs out? any particular year better than the rest? might look at a 98 4.0se

thanks!

steve

By Karen Jones on Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 12:45 pm: Edit

Steve, I just looked at the wetokole site and it does throw some interesting possibilites your way. You'd go from Jungle Steve to Rainforest Steve!

Now for true enthusiasts, the ONLY seat covers that will do are the DiscoWeb seat covers which Ho has promised shipment on by September 30. Choice of all faux animal print types as well as faux rhino and elephant skin. The steering wheel covers are actual snakes that Ho is training to lay very still while in use. They will come with their own tiny fish tanks for housing in off-duty hours. Hope none get left behind at next year's RoverFest. Oh, and Steve, there ARE no commoners driving Discos. By virtue of our choice (not to mention our payment books) we have arrived at the upper caste (G). Or not. Maybe we're just animals looking for a savannah/jungle home, and suckin' gas until we get there, LOL!

Karen, born in Africa, and that is no B.S.! ;)

By Steve (Steve2) on Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 01:34 pm: Edit

karen -

you had me going there for a minute about the rhino skin seat covers - there was a limited edition range rover that featured rhino look leather seat at last year's sema show - they and the car was really cool. if i do get white and stipe up the sucker - then my feeling is a subtle colour for the inside would be best as the outside will be quite 'loud'. the wet okole ones look nice - but there are ones made in the uk that look pretty good too.

afrika eh? - so you were 'born free?' what part?- i was raised in a british crown colony myself, so my perversion to the pommie way of life began at an early age...

upper caste? - animals? - there is a side to you that i did not see before - sounds like you need to go on a 'walk-about'.

all the best - god save the queen et al
steve

By Karen Jones on Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 05:21 pm: Edit

Steve,

LOL, I assure you, I'm as down-home as they come. Hell, I'm a farm girl, the only hand maiden I have is ME! I was born in Libya, which comes home to haunt me everytime we travel. Like clockwork I get yanked out of line at Customs, bags searched, often detained with no explanation. Hubby and I just sit there in the booth and hum a happy tune until the Feds come and let us go. God save the Queen? Next time I'm detained, (should happen this November when we come home from our favorite Crown Colony, btw) maybe I should hum "God Bless America"?

Oh, and stripes and florals would clash I think, subtle at that point makes the grade!

Karen P.S. Tonight hubby kept turning back the TV to a show about baby tigers. Keep the stripy vibe goin', I think we can make him crack, LOL!

By Ho Chung (Ho) on Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 07:39 pm: Edit

karen,

september 30th? try february 31

By Steve (Steve2) on Sunday, August 26, 2001 - 07:01 am: Edit

karen -

libya? - could you imagine waiting in for customs line with a kafir, sunglasses and fake moustache? - think you would never leave! so parents were with an oil company when you delivered? i hear it is a beautiful place - too bad of the political situation there are some really cool ruins of ancient stuff (my real passion, oh and land rovers too).

my mother was born in dairen, manchukwo. no one knows where that is as it no longer exists. it was imperial japanese occupied manchuria in the late 30's. but she does not get the full monty like you do going thru customs.

your situ reminds me of what happened when i was flying from cairo (where our group snuck into the giza plateau at 02:30 hrs on a misty moonlit night) to tel aviv on el al. when checking in my luggage - they asked where it had been - i told the truth as they were with my arab driver 'hussein' for three house whilst i was in a museum. everything got xrayed 3 times. they squeezed my tooth past, took apart my 1st aid kit etc etc etc. an arab helper brought me soda and i said "shukran" - more red lights - "ah mr miller you speak arabic!" (the only word i know!)

anyway looking back on it- it was great fun.

steve

By Garyk (Garyk) on Sunday, August 26, 2001 - 04:02 pm: Edit

Karen,

>> I was born in Libya, which comes home to haunt me everytime we travel. <<

It's horrible that you are treated like that! What is it with this country, it's so much more than just anglo anymore? Can't they get over it? It's part of what makes this country so great. Sounds like you have a sense of humor about it. I guess you have too?!

Gary

By Matt on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 07:34 am: Edit

Just coming in late on this cutesy little thread here. Karen, did they miss your point about the center diff lock? Or is my mind just in the gutter (again)?

Just checking.

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 07:46 am: Edit

Actually, I think that was Roverine's comment....




-L

By Matt on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 07:52 am: Edit

you girls and your shift knobs. I can't keep track.

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 07:58 am: Edit

Hey now! Don't lump me in on that, my wife'd kill me she knew I was talking about such...


LOL!!


-L

By Bill Leek on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 08:15 am: Edit

Steve2,

I know where Darien (now known as Dalien) is. I've never been there, but my daughter has traveled there several times for "language study" sessions at a local university, arranged through one of the "organizations" at her home university. (Not supposed to name the organization or its real "mission".)

By gil on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 08:16 am: Edit

hey steve, about the 4.0s, stay away from 95s and 96 4.6s, other than that they are all pretty good. i just bought a 96 4.0 and its a great truck. the 99 up Bosch rigs are the really the ones to go after, but they are still way up there in loot. good luck

By Steve (Steve2) on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 01:55 pm: Edit

gil-

thanks for the headsup- 99 up 4.0 or 4.6? - i've deieded to wait a year anyway, so gonna build up the 99 series 1.

bill leek-

never been there myself either - i don't think my mom have since 1941...but in the late 30's it was supposedly the height of everything wonderful and glamourous in imperial colonial living - unless you were a local peasant of course!

steve

By Karen Jones on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 05:33 pm: Edit

Matt, you little gutter strumpet, look to Steve who euphemistically said "They squeezed my toothpaste". Suuuuure they did, Steve.....and he pretended not to like it, LOL! And I think it was the girl with the cool handle (name, I mean NAME, LOL!) "Roverine" who was talking CLDs, though I tried to get back on tangent, I mean TOPIC, after I made someone want to cry with my silliness. Gary, if you want to know the truth, I'd LOVE to give the Customs boys shit about detaining us at the end of a long flight, but I usually have to pee so bad I really am not up for a longer delay, heehee.

The larger issue is when Ho will get to the sewing machine and run us up some DiscoWeb seat covers. Somebody must know.....on what calendar can we find the 31st of February?????

Karen ;)