Couldn't believe my eyes re Hummer 3

I thought you only find rear coils on the softroaders :-)))


And 200 series???....lol

"And 200 series???....lol "

Yep, that's a softroader too :-))

Just to explain......a 200series has half the payload of the 79series.

Real men use leaves, coils are for goils hahahahahaha

You said it Al.. LOL

==> I thought you only find rear coils on the softroaders :-)))
It was a good one :-)

Cheers
Serg

Coils for girls he??

My UNIMOG has coils front and rear.. Girls truck?? I don't think so.

Put it in front of a LC or Patrol, and see who moves over first!!!

Coils are great, never broken one yet. (yes, i know that they do break, just a lot less often than them leaves)

Was on my way to Jamestown to collect 2 x rainwater tanks. 2 trips. Hadn't used the Datto for a week before that. So there you go, smart arse....lol

Look, leaf is OK on an old pusbucket like yours but on a U beaut new fangdangle Hummer...more like a bummer.

Cheers

Nah. The Datto is my last 4by........After owning more that 100 vehicles in my lifetime I have had enough. Just getting used to the Datto and its little foibles and on top of that it is specially set-up for my style of camping.

Queensland prisons bought some H1 Hummers and all they did was breakdown, must be hard work driving round the outside of prisons on all that dirt and graded roads.

is this what you heard or saw ?

Newspapers, government sold them off cause the cost of repairs and the time they were off the road was rediculous.

Corrective Services has bought a prototype protective personnel vehicle to replace the
inoperable Hummer vehicles. This is an armour plated armed vehicle that will patrol prison
perimeters to lessen the chances even further of a prison escape. After successful thorough testing
in May, we will buy additional vehicles to provide added security at all of the government run
secure prisons in Queensland.

This is from a Qld gov report.

ok so somethng you heard lol. news papers dont lie either lol. H1 hummers have served in some of the worst situations on the planet , but they cant patrol a prison. Please

I SEEN the ex prison Hummers lined for sale as SCRAP, this is not what I heard, They could not be sold to general public for on road use.
Prison guards went on stike to get them, once they got them they kept breaking down, it all became a huge white elephant, now they are driving troopy again.
This is not hear say, it was on the news about the Government spending close to $200K a pop on an item that went to scrap.
Newspaper don't lie? If the hummers where are they now?
Shane

The last line should read,
If the Hummers are SO GOOD where are they now?

The paragraph starting with Corrective services and then going on to say "inoperable Hummer vehicles" is straight from a government report not a newspaper. Series 1 and 2 landrovers also served in some of the worst situations on the planet but that doesn't mean they didn't breakdown alot and I should know having owned 1 series1 and 2 series 2s. I must have been a dipstick for owning more than 1.

Believe it or don't I don't care

I am glad to hear that you dont car what I think as only a fool would. If I was betting man, I would think there was more to this story. Would be interesting to here from the Hummer H1 owners of this site on the matter .

I will answer you, newspapers/government reports are not good enough for you then it must be that the Nissan and Toyota owners got together to spread Bulls$it, someone else you told the story to back me up so get over it.

I neither have to believe you , your paper or get over it.

My point , you say a vehicle that has served all over the world under the worst conditions cant patrol a prison. Yes they may have had issues but me and you will never know why. Maintenance ? god knows . You are telling me a story that you read about , Great thank you for telling me what you read about . I chose not to believe me it.

Dont tell me what to think and I have nothing to get over.

Ignorance is bliss

To enlighten you a little on the Queensland Corrective Services Hummers here goes.
First of all they started life as the civilian version of a Humvee, a Hummer or H1 if you prefer. Most civvie Hummers imported into Australia are of 1996 or 97 vintage as they were purchased back then as a bulk lot. Some were not registered for several years after importataion due to slow sales.
The RHD conversion kit used to convert the QCS Hummers does have issues especially in the steering dept, asomething that most engineers and DOTARS are aware of. The company that supplied the conversion are no longer in existance although you can still get compnents from another company which obtained what was left.
The QCS Hummers would have had all the civilian 'accessories' and trim which makes them a lot heavier than the original Humvee.
They were further loaded with body armour and other equipment which probably took them close to if not over GVM. I have no more exact knowledge but apparently when in use by the QCS they were driven very hard, jumped and generally abused, (the guards probably thought they were driving tanks!) which combined with the previously mentioned RHD conversion problems led to steering failures and a subsequent withdrawal from use. There were also apparently legal manouverings between QCS and the suppliers which eventually resulted in the VIN's on all the vehicles being rescinded and the remains marked 'never to be re-registered' .
Just another case of a govt dept trying to make something on the cheap to do a job they were never designed for and subsequently bagging the 'product' as being the scapegoat. The ones who made the decision to buy never get to wear the fallout.
Most of the QCS Hummers have ended up being used for parts as despite trying to sell them buyers dissappear when they find out they can't register them.
Take it from me a Humvee like mine is vastly different to a civilian Hummer or H1. H2's 3's etc are nothing but pretenders. Like most of the soft roaders masquerading as 4wd's these days.

If anyone is ignorant rock APE its not me , as stated before I dont believe what I am told ,

Thank you Traveller 2 for showing us another angle to the story.

Rock ape , I dont intend to argue with you . You gave me a story that you believed to be true , I just chose not to beleive it. Please dont take this as offence , I am not going against you , ijust dont beeve what you have been told.

>> Should be called a Chevy in my view , nothing Hummer about it
well put! but dont say that to someone who owns one,they get all gnarly.. well the one I saw did.

>> Lined up at the scrap yard as they couldnt sell them?
yea? Damn, Jim will be bleep tered to know they cant sell
http://www.american.com.au/pages/home.php

Rock crawler, definately no offence taken and I hope the same goes for you, that's the reason for forums so you can all have a good chat about things.

Catch you

The Ape

Rock Ape

I knew a guard who used to drive the H1's at a prison in Qld

The armour plating was apparently so thick that the vehicles were useless on all but flat ground

They hated them, but it was because they had been modified and made so heavy, not because they were a 'bad vehicle'