Should I buy this VehiCross?

[alanbradley]

Hi and welcome!

Mine's the mucky one to the right of Crotchrocket's piccy (normally silver-ish).

As regards off-roading, they're blooming competent. I'd recommend putting on some decent tyres, taking it for a run and then going from there. Mine has a slight lift from springs and some decent-szed tyres and will happily go anywhere a Lightweight Landy will go and a damn sight more comfortably. I get told off for "not entering into the spirit of it" when I complain about my CD skipping and the aircon being a little blowy when the Landy drivers are so shaken about they can hardly walk and covered in a film of dust.

Body protection is a pretty good thing to have given that the shiny bits and the see-through bits are the expensive parts to replace is you get things wrong. I had mine made my Billsons Steel in Kettering and they will still have all the steel profiles in their CAD system. More than happy to pass on Glynn's pohone number if you're interested...

I love mine and have no intention of selling it.

Alan

[MSHardeman]

FM, as soon as you found your way to our little part of the WWW you where part of the gang (we call it the family, though)

WELCOME and congrats!

[alterastro]

Welcome to the UK clan!

You definately got a good buy there, well done

We're all looking forward to regular reports of what and how your doing!

Hi and welcome!
Mine has a slight lift from springs and some decent-szed tyres and will happily go anywhere a Lightweight Landy will go and a damn sight more comfortably.

Blimey Alan - I think I must have a different model to you then? or have you changed the shocks too?

The FWDC have a couple of events coming up - one at Hogmoor at the end of Feb and one at Slab at the end of March. Maybe we can all get together then for a bit of muddy fun??

Cheers FM and enjoy!

Nick

[FuddyMucker]

Yes she was in a poor way, and yes the screen that don't work is the headunits.
Well after looking into it a bit closer I have found that the screen does work you just can't see anything on it because the back light has gone, when on radio if you shine a torch into the screen at an angle you can just about make out what station your on.
Have had a little look on other posts but it seems that alot of people dont repair it when it breaks but just replace it with a better unit like a Alpine IVA-W200 which is touch screen, dvd and works fine with the revercing camera.
http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php?xProd=404
I will look in to fixing it before spending that sort of money.
As for the TOC system... well also not good, if it is in anything but 2 wheel drive then all the dash wheels flash check. Not sure I want to know whats wrong with this....

[Sprey]

Another option for the Headunit, look out for ones that have been taken out of jap import cars. they have the same type of setup etc reversing cam option. the name for the plug is CCD.

Bad luck on the Tod, tho im sure its all fixable!

[alterastro]

Yeah my head unit had the same problem when I got mine. It did work intermitantly if you banged the dash! I swapped mine as the radio is japanese (I couldn't understand a word they were saying ) and so only have a limited frequesncy range. I swapped mine for an older version of this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-LCD-2-DIN-In...item35a65fe317
Works a treat!

It's possible that the TOD is just a bit sticky if it hasn't been used for a while. Try a mixture of shifting the lever and moving the car backards and forwards a bit. If you keep doing it it may free it up. The TOD is vacuum activiated and sometimes just needs freeing up.

Good luck

Nick

[kirk hilton]

this might be a quick fix, but I suspect you'll have already tried this, but the AddZest radio/camera display has a display dimmer on the left of the unit. It hasn't just been turned down to minimum has it?

[FuddyMucker]

Hi Alterastro that looks like a cheaper option but how did you connect the camera if you dont have a CCD input? did you need an adaptor?

Hello Kirk and yes I have played with that but it makes no change to the display, would have loved it to be that easy though, thanks anyway.

Just changed my insurance over and was suprised how cheap it was to insure, £320 Full Comp (£250 excess) or £200 3rd party