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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328  
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Ha ha you swizz
Will be out your way soon taking some of our Merc and BMW winter tyre testing n driving  |
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28th Dec 2012 9:30pm |
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| Welshsurferdude Member Since: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Newport Posts: 2447 
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Can I come ken?
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28th Dec 2012 11:00pm |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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David, I presume it was the underground parking lot which with all the works going on there we are forced to take instead of the above ground short term arrival parking? I see the scene already, and glad it was you, not me
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The only underground public parking in GVA which you can trust with a Defender is Rive, officially ok up to 2.05m, and it works ok, I can assure you. But, don't go to the levels lower than -5, as there the height restriction gradually becomes less without much more warning than a single small sign!!! Good to see you were able to back up harmless though
Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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29th Dec 2012 1:35am |
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| Rakthi Member Since: 30 Nov 2012 Location: Where the cats are Posts: 200 
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Had a similar experience in a Belgian underground car park with my TD5 ... couldn't back out, had to let air out of tires ... good thing we had one of those little compressors in the car.
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29th Dec 2012 1:59am |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069
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sorry to hear that David, when I visited the airport i took the wife's Q5. there aren't many car parks in Geneva that are above ground, my fav. was Square du Mont Blanc, not many people know about it... it's a tiny entrance and one-way only the Swiss could configure, but it's nice and central.
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29th Dec 2012 8:10am |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816
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No worry, it works well for me. My underground office parking has just enough clearance for me, and to go to town we use the centrally located Parking Rive. Only the top 5 underground floors as said.... Very funny, my wife once had to go all the way to -7 in Rive with her New Beetle convertible, and when she got out, she was astonished to see that the ceiling that far down was barely 20 cm above the top of her car.
The issue with the airport here is that while in principle with a Defender it is no problem to use both the short term open air departure or arrival parking lots, today there is massive renovation of the entire airport started, and currently the short term arrival parking is closed, with cars being automatically diverted to the underground parking lot, hence the problem you may get into if not careful......... You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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29th Dec 2012 9:19am |
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| DavidITGuru Member Since: 15 Aug 2011 Location: London Posts: 99 
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Revisited the airport this week and found the car park with the raised height. From the photo below it seems that every other Defender owner in the region already knows about it! What you can't see are the 2 Defenders behind me and another in the next row. You don't even see this many together at a dealership!
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9th Jan 2013 3:48pm |
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| BigRuss Member Since: 15 May 2010 Location: Norfolk Posts: 2785 
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so which one is yours?
that if it's the SK60 where did you get it from? Russell 2011MY 110 XS USW Black |
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9th Jan 2013 7:23pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069
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the amazing thing about these defenders in CH is that they are safe... you could leave them there for weeks, Switzerland is a very secure place... no one would dare take them .. lots of surveillance |
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9th Jan 2013 8:27pm |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555 
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That sounds like a challenge (Only joking, just to confirm  ) An engine to TDi for!
"Land Rover- Proudly turning drivers into mechanics since 1948" |
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9th Jan 2013 8:30pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Oh crikey I feel for you, I really do. I cannot tell you how many times I have approached a parking barrier, holding my breath, waiting for the scrape...
I am however yet to do "the reverse of shame", but it has come close, very close... In fact I have just removed the 2" lift as I am sick of not getting in to ANY car parks even Park and Ride car parks. Keep looking up |
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9th Jan 2013 8:41pm |
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| Green Machine Member Since: 19 Nov 2010 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1226 
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Many moons ago my Dad took his 110 into a multi-storey. He edged it under the height barrier, keeping a watchful eye out of the sunroof, got through, went and parked. We went off as a family with some friends to do whatever it was we were doing. Later he returned BY HIMSELF to discover that the defender had grown an inch or two during the few hours it had been in the car park! And would no longer fit under the barrier. He had to ask some nearby strangers to get in to compress the rear suspension so that it would fit through again. Lesson learnt. He hasn't ever gone into a multi-storey again.
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9th Jan 2013 9:06pm |
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| BigRuss Member Since: 15 May 2010 Location: Norfolk Posts: 2785
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could be worse, the Festival shopping centre in Basingstoke has a barrier stating the height as 2.1m. the defender would fit in there nicely.
However the route out of the carpark (once you actually leave it that is) sends you under the road for the one way system that and that only has a clerance of 1.8/1.9m 
glad to see someone thought about that  Russell
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10th Jan 2013 6:29am |
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| DavidITGuru Member Since: 15 Aug 2011 Location: London Posts: 99
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Mine's the Swiss one in the middle. As you can see it's a very cosmopolitan car park as I'm flanked by the French and British! |
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10th Jan 2013 12:48pm |
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