Terracan to the High Country

You wouldnt think to run the car in before taking it offroad?

There is a fellow on the web that runs a site on bike engines but he says the advice applies to most types of combustion engines. It is all about seating the rings. If you treat it too gently the rings don't seal properly all the way around leading to later poor performance. It is the first 20 miles is most important (about what many new cars have on the clock when delivered). Use it as normal from the start but just don't thrash it or redline it and don't sit on the same revs for too long in first 1000kms seems to be the general opinions.

Damned if I can find the site now but it is late so I did not spend alot of time searching.

Steven

If it is of any help to you I only had 162Km on my Teeracan when I hooked up my Camper Trailer (1000Kg) and drove from Bathurst to the Grampians (Vic) for a couple of weeks. I took it easy and did not drive the Tarracan hard and it never missed a beat. I now have 14500Kms on it and not one little thing to complain about. I actually took it for my first real "Off Road" here near Bathurst last weekend I was very pleased with its' performance "Off Road". They are not the "toy" that some biased people say they are.
For the price they are bloody good value.
I am one extremely happy Terracan owner. I have also noticed a few more of them getting around lately.

Can't wait to see the first one seriously modified for off road competition.

well how did it go at mansfield

We might have to catch up sometime not to far away from each other I live in Sale and compare notes Take the terracans 4x4 around the area will be in Melb for the month of Aug for work what colour did you get I wanted the sandstone buy end up getting a white one that they had in stock made me a offer I couldnt refuse. Got my side steps on it today they really look great next will be the bullbar once i decide what one to go for

my interior is the black cloth and so far I have found that it shows every bit of fluf have order the cloth car seat covers for the front they also only come in black have ordered the floor mats only come in black as well a little disapointed that they dont have seat covers for the 2 rear set of seats. so you got the highlaner then would have liked to get that model but was out of my price range. One thing with the black interior when you tint the windows it makes it look alot darker brought the white due to moving to th NT in SEP04 metalic colours tend to fade quickly up there also white stays cooler so they say. Sandstone is the goldy colour looked at the silver thought that there to much silver with the whole car being silver but like you I liked the new interiorcolour better also brought a manual even though I could have a atomatic for the same price mainly for the long distance I tow my boat. Did you get any extras on your car I'm looking for a bullbar at the moment not happy with the factory nudge bar

tim

My home phone is 0351443767 work 0351467298 ask for SGT Donoghue work hours 7:30 to 5:00 each day home after about 5:30 how does the terracan compare to your GQ patrol I think its a lot better than my old patrol the best thing so far is the stoping towing the speed boat at 100kms the patrol would skid if I applied the brakes but the terracan pulls up in the same distance but under control go the ABS the terracan feels like a car unlike the patrol it drove like a tank

PS I will be home all night tomorrow give me a ring

Jimbo when we were talking last night you mentioned that it was hard to find a replacement tyre for the jerry can what was the main issue can we fit bigger tyres to the vehicle
I s looking at 265 70 16 tyres from coopers

Tim