Ummm

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:53 pm

Looking at tow vehicles and found something that i quite like except for this picture. Not sure what to make of this, is it just a lot of dirt or could it be a warning.

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:25 pm

Just looks like loads and loads of dust. I loved my Explorer and would say that

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:37 pm

The Frontera has been an excellant work horse over the past 5 years and has trailered the car all over the place and has never missed a beat. But it struggled like hell with the welch hills going to Anglesey and one steep hill going to cadwell. The poor girl has had a hard life plus we now need something a bit bigger.

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:54 pm

The Explorer towed me and the M3 all over the place. A great workhorse and so comfortable it was frankly wonderful after a long day on circuit. A heavy car on all suspension parts so make sure you don't get any knocks, squeaks or bangs unless you allow for replacement bits

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:56 pm

Cheers stu. helpful advice:thumbs:

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:49 pm

At least you'd spot any oil leaks pretty damn quick

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:13 pm

There is that

dom187 · Post by **dom187** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 6:58 pm

Looks like a bag of self raising has been chucked over it!

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:18 pm

The engine bay's of the locally acquired civvy wagons in Afghan and Iraq used to look like that. Afghan has that same really fine talc like dust that gets everywhere and into everything, in fact the essential task of turning on the air con could be likened to sucking on a 1980's vintage Dust Buster!

Those wagons were Surfs and Shogun's mostly but a lot of the US guys favoured the Explorers (stick with what you know and all that I suppose) the wagons used to keep going with very little maintenance so I wouldn't be too put off by the dust

Granted the examples in question were just used for general pottering around and weren't really put under load but for day to day use they were reliable

It would be interesting to see what the story behind this wagon is and where it has come from

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:34 pm

I'm still debating whether or not to go and look/test drive it as it's 85 miles from me and i hate taking the train.