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DIGITAL EDITIONS Access Land Rover Monthly’s extensive digital library including the latest issue and all issues dating back to May 2015. Visit: bit.ly/lrmdigi22 Or if you would like a digital edition with extra photos, videos and more, visit bit.ly/lrmpocketmags PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS Get your magazine delivered through your door every month. UK and International: bit.ly/lrmprintsubs Tel: +44 (0)1778 392033 Email: subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk Where to buy LRM LRM is available at all good newsagents and supermarkets, but quickly sells out. Why not ask your newsagent to reserve your copy? If you still have difficulty obtaining a copy of LRM, phone 01778 391171. How to advertise Contact our Advertising Manager, Steve Miller. Tel: 01778 391106 or 07586 023248 Email: stevemiller@lrm.co.uk Tell us about your new product We’re eager to hear about new products and so are our readers. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk Show us your Land Rover Want to see your Land Rover featured in LRM? Email: martin@lrm.co.uk Tell us about your event or news Our readers want to know what’s going on. Share your news with them in LRM. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk Technical queries Pick the brains of LRM’s tech experts. Email: lrmtechnical@gmail.com Letters to the Editor Tell us what you think about LRM and the world in general. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk Our contact details Warners Group Publications, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9PH Tel: 01778 391000 Email: editorial@lrm.co.uk BOOK YOUR 2023 EVENTS NOW! 2 Apr Newbury Showground 23 Apr Rutland Showground NEW 1 Oct Newbury Showground 15 Oct Ripon Racecourse NEW 29 Oct Malvern, Three Counties Showground To book visitor and trade tickets visit landrovermonthly.co.uk/ information/events or call trade: 07586 023248; visitors 01778 395155 These events are kindly supported by WELCOME FIND US ON @LRMonthly LandRoverMonthly @land_rover_monthly Land Rover Monthly Whatever else you think about the L663, never doubt its off-road ability ITCHELL CR : TOM PHOTO Rise of the L663 THOSE new Defenders get everywhere, don’t they? Well, they certainly have this month, and I have to say my enthusiasm for the L663 is growing rapidly. On my visit to new off-road venture Dalton 4x4, I was lucky enough to pilot the owner of the site’s very smart 110 D250 around the stunning Cumbrian hillside course, and the capability of the Defender is staggering even in slick , sticky mud and on seemingly impossible climbs. Elsewhere in the issue, Patrick Cruywagen puts a 2016 Defender 130 up against another L663 Defender 110 – this time in the rugged terrain of Botswana. What a place to pit these two very different vehicles against each other; flick to page 48 to find out what he and his fellow overlanders think of both the old and new models. One area the old Defender certainly outranks the new is in sheer simplicity and MARTIN DOMONEY EDITOR @LAND_ROVER_MARTIN ease of DIY-ability, as you’ll see where we fit a new Terrafirma winch and mount to an L663 Defender 90 in the Tech section (p102). Don’t get me wrong, upgrading a new Defender is still within the remit of a competent DIY mechanic, but removing the front bumper is rather more involved than undoing four bolts… Has your opinion of the new Defender changed since it was launched? Feel free to give me a shout at martin@lrm.co.uk and let me know your thoughts, I ’d love to hear them. And, as always, enjoy the issue. IN THIS ISSUE... NICK DIMBLEBY Nick takes a trip to United Arab Emirates’ One Stop Workshop – a thriving Range Rover restoration business. JAKE SHOOLHEIFER Axle bump-stop brackets have a bad habit of collecting mud and rotting away. Resto ace Jake shows how to renew them – a good job, too, given the load they might take. LANDROVERMONTHLY.CO.UK 3

DIGITAL EDITIONS Access Land Rover Monthly’s extensive digital library including the latest issue and all issues dating back to May 2015. Visit: bit.ly/lrmdigi22 Or if you would like a digital edition with extra photos, videos and more, visit bit.ly/lrmpocketmags

PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS Get your magazine delivered through your door every month. UK and International: bit.ly/lrmprintsubs Tel: +44 (0)1778 392033 Email: subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk

Where to buy LRM LRM is available at all good newsagents and supermarkets, but quickly sells out. Why not ask your newsagent to reserve your copy? If you still have difficulty obtaining a copy of LRM, phone 01778 391171.

How to advertise Contact our Advertising Manager, Steve Miller. Tel: 01778 391106 or 07586 023248 Email: stevemiller@lrm.co.uk

Tell us about your new product We’re eager to hear about new products and so are our readers. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk

Show us your Land Rover Want to see your Land Rover featured in LRM? Email: martin@lrm.co.uk

Tell us about your event or news Our readers want to know what’s going on. Share your news with them in LRM. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk

Technical queries Pick the brains of LRM’s tech experts. Email: lrmtechnical@gmail.com

Letters to the Editor Tell us what you think about LRM and the world in general. Email: martin@lrm.co.uk

Our contact details Warners Group Publications, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9PH Tel: 01778 391000 Email: editorial@lrm.co.uk

BOOK YOUR 2023 EVENTS NOW!

2 Apr Newbury Showground 23 Apr Rutland Showground NEW 1 Oct Newbury Showground 15 Oct Ripon Racecourse NEW 29 Oct Malvern, Three Counties

Showground

To book visitor and trade tickets visit landrovermonthly.co.uk/ information/events or call trade: 07586 023248; visitors 01778 395155

These events are kindly supported by

WELCOME

FIND US ON @LRMonthly LandRoverMonthly @land_rover_monthly Land Rover Monthly

Whatever else you think about the L663, never doubt its off-road ability

ITCHELL

CR

: TOM

PHOTO

Rise of the L663

THOSE new Defenders get everywhere, don’t they? Well, they certainly have this month, and I have to say my enthusiasm for the L663 is growing rapidly. On my visit to new off-road venture Dalton 4x4, I was lucky enough to pilot the owner of the site’s very smart 110 D250 around the stunning Cumbrian hillside course, and the capability of the Defender is staggering even in slick , sticky mud and on seemingly impossible climbs.

Elsewhere in the issue, Patrick Cruywagen puts a 2016 Defender 130 up against another L663 Defender 110 – this time in the rugged terrain of Botswana. What a place to pit these two very different vehicles against each other; flick to page 48 to find out what he and his fellow overlanders think of both the old and new models.

One area the old Defender certainly outranks the new is in sheer simplicity and

MARTIN DOMONEY

EDITOR

@LAND_ROVER_MARTIN

ease of DIY-ability, as you’ll see where we fit a new Terrafirma winch and mount to an L663 Defender 90 in the Tech section (p102). Don’t get me wrong, upgrading a new Defender is still within the remit of a competent DIY mechanic, but removing the front bumper is rather more involved than undoing four bolts…

Has your opinion of the new Defender changed since it was launched? Feel free to give me a shout at martin@lrm.co.uk and let me know your thoughts, I ’d love to hear them. And, as always, enjoy the issue.

IN THIS ISSUE...

NICK DIMBLEBY Nick takes a trip to United Arab Emirates’ One Stop Workshop

– a thriving

Range Rover restoration business.

JAKE SHOOLHEIFER Axle bump-stop brackets have a bad habit of collecting mud and rotting away. Resto ace Jake shows how to renew them – a good job, too, given the load they might take.

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