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KevinD3
Member Since: 05 Aug 2020
Location: Sutton Coldfield
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| Off-road training in the midlands (ish) |
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Hey all, looks like I’ll have a couple of weeks family free in December so looking at travelling out to do some camping & driving. It’s also a good opportunity to travel somewhere to do a proper off road training course. Anyone got any suggestions of any good ones?
Prefer one that uses “own vehicle” as I want to get better with my D3 and its capabilities rather than learning on a vehicle I’d never drive.
While I know they’re not free, would prefer not to pay Landrover prices, and want a proper training session rather than an experience day. 2008 HSE Stornoway Grey
My Wife thinks the D3 is a hobby, The D3 thinks the wife is 💕
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 31st Oct 2021 12:41 am |
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galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525
  
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LRE solihull....may be different vehicle but principles will be same...doubt they still got a d3/4 there..
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| 31st Oct 2021 12:48 am |
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TigerRecovery
Member Since: 31 May 2017
Location: Long Stratton, Norwich, Norfolk
Posts: 901
 
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LRO Adventure Club host various events at Rockingham Castle and Tixover with Protrax where you can take your own vehicle. I’ve looked at them in the last for some winching training. 1972 Range Rover Classic 2 door V8
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| 31st Oct 2021 8:56 am |
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RogB
Member Since: 15 Jun 2018
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 1650
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galwaygreen wrote:LRE solihull....may be different vehicle but principles will be same...doubt they still got a d3/4 there..
I was at LRE Eastnor earlier this year and no D4 anymore, just the current range from Evoque/DS up to FFRR/D5 and of course Defender 110's
They did mention they were bringing in days out where you could take your own vehicle but they had no idea of cost at that time 2011 D4 XS 305 MY12 - gone but not forgotten
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| 1st Nov 2021 8:36 am |
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will.i.am
Member Since: 05 May 2016
Location: hertfordshire
Posts: 250
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look up protrax and tap up Ed Cobley for training - i've done a lantra course with him and i wouldn't go anywhere else for training, great kit, good fun and you learn a lot. you can also go in your own vehicle which makes it fun too
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| 1st Nov 2021 9:36 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13079
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RogB wrote:
I was at LRE Eastnor earlier this year and no D4 anymore, just the current range from Evoque/DS up to FFRR/D5 and of course Defender 110's
They did mention they were bringing in days out where you could take your own vehicle but they had no idea of cost at that time
Oh, I hope they bring the "self drive" days back. I did a couple of them a few years ago. Not sure why they stopped them. If they do them again, I shall go again, that's for sure.
There's a nice feeling driving your own LR around some of the tracks that were used to develop / test it.  Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 1st Nov 2021 10:33 am |
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RogB
Member Since: 15 Jun 2018
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 1650
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yeh that would be good as you know the tracks will be safe for your own motor but still push them to the limits.
Obviously they are only going to accept Land Rover products, no jap c**p 
Apparently it was down to popular customer feedback, the same as the unaccompanied drive with instructions via radio. 2011 D4 XS 305 MY12 - gone but not forgotten
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| 1st Nov 2021 12:38 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13079
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It really was a fun trip around the last time I went there. I took my Dad on one of the trips and he was shocked at what my RRS could do and he was amazed at the wading capability "you can't drive through that, you'll kill the engine!". I was amused by one comment from one of the LRE guides when he saw the sidesteps. He reckoned they would be a problem but we only scraped them once I think and they survived ok. I think he was surprised at the end to see them looking ok.
I don't have side steps these days as they did hang up when I went somewhere else which was a bit harsher than the Eastnor tracks. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 1st Nov 2021 4:31 pm |
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