sportztragic
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G'day all, I'm Brian. I have a 4mth old D40 ST auto, done about 21,000kms so far and love it. Pretty stock apart from alloy bullbar, tow bar, UHF.
i'm a sales rep and it's my company car (No, I don't work for Wella, Pantene or similiar
). Hoping to bullshit the boss into paying for a 2" lift kit tho!
The ute has seen plenty of mud, gravel and sand around the farms in my area and aquited it's self well even on the standard road tyres altho the quicker i can wear them out and replace with some AT's (do plenty of bitumen km's too) the better.
Have only done one trip on a few tracks around Wood's point with the only real complaint being the obvious road tyres and lack of clearance through the river crossings and over the woopy-doo's. An extra ratio at the bottom of the auto would be handy on the desents too (new 7 speed should fix that tho!).
However at the end of the day I bought this ute for the space, comfort, power/towing capacity and the ability to handle mud and sand in flat country- for me it ticks every box.
Looking forward to reading the posts and have already got a chuckle out of the hairdresser's vs cavemen debait Got a mate with a brand new D22 ST-R who will obviously have to act as my recovery vehicle when we go bush, just hope he doesn't get too buggered stopping his vehicle, getting out locking the hubs in, getting back in, getting out unlocking the hubs, getting back in, changing gears etc
Anyway G'day and look forward to enjoying the forum!
i'm a sales rep and it's my company car (No, I don't work for Wella, Pantene or similiar
). Hoping to bullshit the boss into paying for a 2" lift kit tho!The ute has seen plenty of mud, gravel and sand around the farms in my area and aquited it's self well even on the standard road tyres altho the quicker i can wear them out and replace with some AT's (do plenty of bitumen km's too) the better.
Have only done one trip on a few tracks around Wood's point with the only real complaint being the obvious road tyres and lack of clearance through the river crossings and over the woopy-doo's. An extra ratio at the bottom of the auto would be handy on the desents too (new 7 speed should fix that tho!).
However at the end of the day I bought this ute for the space, comfort, power/towing capacity and the ability to handle mud and sand in flat country- for me it ticks every box.
Looking forward to reading the posts and have already got a chuckle out of the hairdresser's vs cavemen debait
Got a mate with a brand new D22 ST-R who will obviously have to act as my recovery vehicle when we go bush, just hope he doesn't get too buggered stopping his vehicle, getting out locking the hubs in, getting back in, getting out unlocking the hubs, getting back in, changing gears etc Anyway G'day and look forward to enjoying the forum!
