{"id":149,"date":"2012-03-09T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/new\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2025-02-12T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:35:45","slug":"vehicle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/?page_id=149","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Vehicle is a 1999 Land Rover 110 Defender 300TDi Hard Top called &#8216;George&#8217; (after the Abominable Snow Rabbit cartoon). This is it pre-conversion. The conversion work was done by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foleysv.com\/\">Foley Specialist Vehicles<\/a>&nbsp;who we have no hesitation in recommending.<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africaexplorer.org\/landy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" align=\"centre\" border=\"4\" hspace=\"140\" vspace=\"6\"><\/p>\n<h2>Conversion<\/h2>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The vehicle was fitted with a Warn Winch, long range fuel tank, water tank, upgraded suspension, side lockers. It already had a roll cage and snorkel.<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africaexplorer.org\/landy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" align=\"centre\" border=\"4\" hspace=\"140\" vspace=\"6\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africaexplorer.org\/landy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" align=\"centre\" border=\"4\" hspace=\"140\" vspace=\"6\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africaexplorer.org\/landy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" align=\"centre\" border=\"4\" hspace=\"140\" vspace=\"6\"><\/p>\n<h2>Fuel costs and economy<\/h2>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaexplorer.org\/fuel%20consumption.xls\">fuel use, cost and economy<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Vehicle Problems en route<\/h2>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<ul>\n<li>5 Punctures (so far in 8 months, two thorns, two nails, one 6 inch piece of steel reinforcement rod!)<\/li>\n<li>leaking power steering fluid, new pipe fitted<\/li>\n<li>broken welds on sand ladder and spare wheel brackets, broken roof rack bracket, all re-welded<\/li>\n<li>broken weld on fuel tank breather pipe (4 times so far!) causing fuel leak, re-welded 3 times<\/li>\n<li>relay for split charge system defunct after a few weeks, replaced<\/li>\n<li>2 rear shocks leaking fluid, new ones fitted<\/li>\n<li>boot on front offside ball joint split, ball joint kit fitted<\/li>\n<li>3 out of 4 support brackets for roof tent sheared, all replaced<\/li>\n<li>differential weeping oil, will live with it until we return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vehicle is a 1999 Land Rover 110 Defender 300TDi Hard Top called &#8216;George&#8217; (after the Abominable Snow Rabbit cartoon). This is it pre-conversion. The conversion work was done by&nbsp;Foley Specialist Vehicles&nbsp;who we have no hesitation in recommending. Conversion The vehicle was fitted with a Warn Winch, long range fuel tank, water tank, upgraded suspension, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africaexplorer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}