For those who may have missed it from Land Rover Denver's feed, a pretty exciting and well shot video of a modded P400 D110 (on 35s, subframe lift and rock sliders) conquering Poison Spider in Moab.

 

Such an awkward looking suv with 35's. And the razor thin roof rack with the lone HiLift jack. To each his own I suppose. At least the guy took it off-road.

 

Man, painful watching how awkward it is on a big rock trail like PSM. I’ve done it 11 times, most recently in March, mostly in my own 2-door Jeep but probably 3 times in rental Jeeps from Twisted Jeeps in town. I’ve watched a lot of Jeeps and other live-axle off-road vehicles do it, and I’m so used to the body staying close to level and the tires “reaching down” to the rock below on one side and squishing up into the flat-fendered wheel well on the other side. Watching the poor 110 twist itself up into the air with the tires staying right up against the body was painful. It looked like it was close to toppling half of that video.

that confirms something I’ve already known: Now that I’ve sold my Jeep to a buddy, the Defender is for getting to Moab; built Rubicons from Twisted are for doing the trails.

 

I’m actually pretty impressed at the engineering required to still be a competent off road vehicle with that super stiff unibody chassis. The fact that it can traverse obstacles as well as it can with less than 4 wheels on the ground, because the transfer case is able to on the fly figure out the wheels that need power (and which dont) and apply it is marvelous.

 

Gotta say: 35" tires & a 2" lift is a pretty tame "build" for what most of the folks out there are doing to their 4x4's. To take what is essentially a weekend mod to Moab shows what massive capabilities the truck has. And it is a sweet ride to the trail.

So, as a buddy always told me who was a Navy SEAL: if it looks stupid and works, it's not stupid.

Personally, I'm impressed.

 

Tail lights seem to be working nicely too.

 

It didn't have to be that sketchy. The spotter was useless. Wheels were far to passenger, needed to straighten out until top of the rock, then turn passenger.
Made for a nice tippy shot - we call that doing the rock crawling version of the "jeep wave".

 

Oh, I'm impressed and all that he made it, especially with the sketchy spotting; just pointing out that the Defender's the wrong tool for the job. I was even more impressed with the old guy in the YouTube video doing parts of Elephant Hill in a Crown Vic with his dog running alongside a few years ago (filmed and posted by somebody else), but that doesn't make the CV the right tool for the job, either.

You'll find this funny. In April 2017 I was out there with my Jeep for 3 weeks; met up with a couple dudes from CO airing down at the parking lot entrance to Poison Spider and we ran it together. Near the top of the waterfall we had to stop because of this:



Testing on the 2018 JLUR in camo (like that disguises it!) and they had managed to high-center it. The Jeep engineers up on the hill asked us to ****** him off so the other guy threw him a line and pulled him back off of it. They weren't happy engineers; they had been sawing at it for a few minutes when we got there and couldn't get it off. No idea why with that many men they didn't just lift a corner and push or pull it off.

 

for stealth mode?

 

Soon all over suburbia