Does KLR make any comment about the towing capacity being less than a civy 110, just curious .
Well, long story short, Dervish's new vehicle does not have the towing capacity of a Perentie, it has the towing capacity of a Defender.
The RMS has refused to acknowledge the existence of the "Land Rover Military 4x4". The poor lady I was dealing with behind the counter had to deal with me in one ear telling her that the vehicle existed and an "expert" on the other end of the phone telling her that the army only bought "Defenders" and modified them themselves. Sufficed to say, the expert won out.
So despite our very best intentions, the vehicle ended up being registered as a 110 (at least it wasn't a DEFENDER 109 SERIES III as suggested to be the closest match by the RMS
). As an exercise, I've been looking through all the Perenties for sale online with their number plates visible and putting them through the RMS' online rego check. It's amazing what they come back as:
One GS is a 1988 GREEN LAND ROVER DEFENDER 4 X4 UTILITY
One GS is a 1989 GREEN LAND ROVER 4WD UTE UTILITY
48-010 is a 1987 GREEN LANROV UNKNOWN UTILITY
One Senior Commander I found is a 1988 GREEN LAND ROVER 110 4WD ESTATE PANEL VAN WITH WINDOWS & SEAT/S - 4WD
A different one is 1988 GREEN LAND ROVER 110 4WD ESTATE SMALL BUS
And one FFR I found is 1989 GREEN LAND ROVER DEFENDER 4X4 PANEL VAN WITH WINDOWS & SEAT/S - 4WD!
Each of these options have different GVMs and GCMs.
Suffice to say the official tow limit of a Perentie may be 1.2T, but none of our vehicles are officially Perenties. Perenties don't exist, remember?
A question as I’m curious by your solution for the fuel tank, did you retain the spare on the safari door and put the civilian one back under?
The fuel tank is under the rear; the spare will sit on a wheel carrier, but we're still scratching our heads at the best way to do that. Hopefully we will be able to re-use the Kaymar wheel carrier from the Defender with a different means of mounting to the chassis, stay tuned.
That's awesome. Match the one JRA made back in the day
Thanks mate. That wasn't intentional, but there is more than a passing resemblance.
Great work there you've given me an idea now for a project. And actually it's real sister is my perentie 49513
I noticed that when I looked at the database, strange thing is; our membership numbers are consecutive too
What's the project idea?