Wading/Fording Experience

Been closed since about 11.30 a lorry has gone over between Banbury and Gaydon.. Long tailbacks..


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Phil,Just heard that it's open.


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Was reported on the radio traffic news as a transporter lorry, strangely enough still said road closed at 5:45PM.

Who needs sat nav, when we have you three ^. Any advice for driving to Norwich tomorrow

Main Road still busy when I arrived home, but was certainly clearing, can be a real pain when MWay shut. Heard Banbury centre was clogged up all day.

I wonder how hard is it to fit a new V8 petrol into a current Defender. Even the series iia are expensive. I would to find out how much it is to import one and retro fit a V8

It has been done to a "puma" Defender quite recently, both TDV6 and TDv8 conversions are possible if you have enough money! For a Series Land Rover even easier as they all were available with the good old Buick V8 as used by LR and Rover for many years, same engine was used also in Disco1 and should be a straight swap! Your problem with the Defenders built since 1977 is Federal Safety Regs requiring airbags so unless you have the equivalent of our personal importation rules then a more modern Defender Land Rover might not be possible to import. The s a specialist in Yorkshire - Huddersfield, I think, who will rebuild you a Series Land Rover especially to your requirements from an existing vehicle/wreck especially for import to the USA. I do know of people who have taken TDi200 and TDi300 Defenders into the US on a personal import basis but they ave been right hand drive UK vehicles, I also know a group of ex US military guys in Norfolk Va who have about 40 Defenders between them all left hand drive cars personally imported as service men's cars when they were serving in Germany, mostly diesels

Just found this thread! Here's a quick video that I made a few weeks back. The Evoque took it all in its stride!

Good stuff.

The one thing they teach you when on the LRE experience, is that a lot of people get caught out when then fail to take into account the speed of the current.