Link up with your local Rover club and see what's happening in your neck of the woods. I'm in Georgia and went to Texas for this one.

 

Is there ever anything in Georgia? Or adjacent states? I’m new to the whole Rover side of things, coming from jeep.

 

North Carolina has 2 events at uwharrie each year. A group called SOLAROS puts on an event here and there in Georgia as well

 

There are LONG distances across Texas. So, for the same ride duration, you should look into Rover Owners of Virginia (https://www.roav.org/). Their fall Mid-Atlantic Rally was always fun. I have fond memories of riding in a Forward Control 101 that used to show up.

On that note, maybe someone can resurrect (or make) a thread on Rover gatherings!

 

Yup. You play, you pay. Simple as that.

I have no sympathy for those who do.

I see this all the time of Rennlist. People beating the snot out of their P-cars on track and some with significant (crap mods, bad aftermarket parts, etc., etc.,) bitch and complain at Porsche when their cars break.

 

Most of us are not looking for sympathy and are usually the ones that understand the pay to play analogy. I see far more complaints from the folks whe keep their vehicles stock and think because they spend "a lot" of money on a vehicle, that nothing should break, squeak, rattle or ever be a problem. My fix was simple and i didnt blame the vehicle or the manufacturer. I had the dealer replace the part and i paid for it. They could they have warrantied it for me, but they chose not to and i am ok with that. Pay to play. The awesome news was that i was able to get back on the road quickly and leave texas to meet my wife at the Biltmore for her half day experience! Still an amazing vehicle! In 22k miles, only one broken axle! Not bad 😀

 

^^ Love it! I did a full day in Asheville in November and learned a lot about the specifics of off-roading this truck vs. conventional 4x4s. In fact, I just spend a half-day in north Georgia mountains doing things like you’re picturing there, and I remain amazed at this truck’s capability compared to my heavily built Rubicon-Plus on 37s. Not that this did anything I couldn’t do in the Jeep, but the calm, quiet, non-chalant way it goes about it is so very different.

One of the “tells” came when I got home and cleaned up. The Jeep would take an hour with a pressure washer, just trying to get the mud out of the crannies. The Defender was dirty but looked no different than if I’d been driving on a paved road with muddy puddles in it that I was forced to drive through. I realized that this was because there was zero — and I mean ZERO — wheel slip. The programming just doesn’t allow it. So I wasn’t flinging mud every time I went through a slop hole. And one of them in particular was 30” deep and filled with opaque mud-water lying on top of mud that had been underwater for weeks. The Landie just settled down into it and walked calmly across the floor, then eased up the steep other bank without any drama. The Jeep would have been showing 30mph on the speedo and making a rooster tail out the back 15 feet high.

 

I REALLY want to do that but it is a LONG road trip to Vermont, California or NC from Texas...

 

Don’t be a wuss. I drove my two-door soft-top lifted wrangler on mud tires pulling a 4 x 6 trailer from Atlanta to Southern Utah every year from 2016 till last April. The whole reason I bought the defender was to make that excursion something to be enjoyed rather than gotten through with gritted teeth. These things practically drive themselves. Just point it toward North Carolina and 16 hours later you’ll be enjoying some real barbecue instead of that blackened horse meat you guys eat.

 

I did the GA to TX and back with my lr3 and a trailer full of spares. Had a great time on the trails.