Sadly sold my LR3 as I'm going to be relocating and it was just not worth the time and cost of shipping it. So someone else will now get to enjoy it and once I have settled, I'll be looking for my next one.

 

The headliner and visors look great in black! I think you have the only vehicle you can go pick up a LR3 headliner in, an Excursion.

 

@Motoprophet it just fits. Also full sheets of drywall, plywood etc extremely handy truck

 

1st leg of the cross country drive. 850 miles, 0 issues. Got from RI to Indiana. Today will be get to western Nebraska

Averaged 20.1 mpg, which stunned me.

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Mileage is not always as bad as sometimes suggested. You probably do not have a roof rack; were not averaging 80 mph and perhaps a bit of a consistent tailwind. What engine do you have. I have the 4.4L petrol V8 and I regard it as pretty good.

You are going westwards; up here, the winds are mostly from the west; perhaps in the East, the prevailing winds are reversed?

 

Yeah, took the bars off and the 4.4. stuck it on 70-75

Winds work west to east all the way until the eastern seaboard where you get them from the south.

We hit mostly head and side winds but relatively calm. Pennsylvania on I-80 is up and down the Appalachians.

 

Went camping over the weekend:



Stopped to grab a bit to eat:

 

I have more than once averaged 22mpg from Seattle to Portland, but that's really sticking the speed limit the whole way and trying to minimize acceleration.

 

Got another set of 18's so i can paint them black, the pirelli scorpion ATR's were a bonus for the $250 price. Also found a ZF steel pan upgrade on Gumtree that the guy didnt get to use, $60 instead of the $185 he paid for it.

 

Are 18" factory rims now easy to obtain. I had to import mine from a bone yard in the States and I felt I was lucky to get them. This was at least ten years ago now, but I thought that they would even be tougher to source so many years later.

Re painting the rims black, I thought black was out of fashion and and either silver or white was in? The rims on the new Defender seem like they will be white steel, as in the eighties.