DaveB Vehicle Delivery

CountyV8 said:

Wait till he gets the "Jacket"

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DaveB said:

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• city traffic
• 4 lane in each direction motorway
• 2 lane each way highway
• 1 lane each way country highway
• 1 lane each way country poor condition/patchwork B road
• patchy blacktop with no lanes
• finally country gravel/dirt.

• first few turns swung wide and overcorrected the wheel.
• In traffic focussed on staying in narrow lanes so lost focus on wheel.
• On motorway no problem and experimented with hands off with no problems.
• Country roads the vehicle tends to tram line a bit and follow the camber of the road. As we have tropical downpours the roads have extreme camber.
• First time driving into a parking space was embarrassing. Had to reverse out for a second take. Luckily nobody was watching.
• poor quality country roads showed how good the steering is at making up for crap road surface.

• Felt really strange and squashed front of my foot.
• Adjusted seat and foot position so only on actual footrest, not upright section, and all good.
• Not perfect but acceptable.

• strangely small compared to vehicle.
• Both pushed as far out as possible.
• worked ok
• view out rear window ok for a large 4wd
• no blind spot as easy to turn head and look out rear passenger windows. (anyone have problems should do neck exercises or try yoga).

bigleonski said:

I thought you might have dressed up for the occasion @DaveB

Nice one good sir.

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• It took me about 10 minutes to get used to glancing to the left to see speed instead of looking down below wheel rim to see speed. Not a problem.
• Fonts are very small so sadly it showed up my failing eyesight. Not a problem in my Mercedes or wife's mini.
• Writing on overhead switches impossible to read while driving. will need to become memory items.
• i can easily see that after i finish showing friends all the wonderful screens, most will never be viewed again.
• Reversing camera screen could be better but it works ok.
• Phone synced easily and zero problems with waze map using apple carplay

Tazzieman said:

Phew!
Now I can get to bed.
Well done, and don't forget to put the roos out tonight

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• i didn't have any music on for the trip home ( 4 hours) as i wanted to hear for any issues.
• Lots of wind noise but low volume.
• Safari windows open over 80 kmh is a noise festival.
• very little road noise
• No tyre noise (BFG K02)
• No squeaks, rattles or wierd sounds.
• No suspension bump stop bangs despite rough roads.
• Talked to wife on phone and no issues at all with apple phones and hand free.

DenisM said:

Thanks for the update Dave. Hope you get much quiet enjoyment and that your shed project stays on "cost and schedule"
Did lads at the dealership say whether or not they'd performed even a partial software update??

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• Initially very large (not by US standards) but quickly shrinking around me.
• Very good take off from lights when needed.
• Extremely good overtaking capability (not anywhere near as good as Mercedes) diesel just pulls and pulls.
• motorway done at 110 (ish) to to 140 kmh before cross winds caused problems.
• Overtaking very easy
• vision around, to the side and straight ahead fantastic.
• 100kmh cruising effortless.

Krabby said:

435 posts and the vehicle has been delivered.

Should we close the thread?

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Krabby said:

435 posts and the vehicle has been delivered.

Should we close the thread?

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