Isuzu Trooper Owners Club UK™

[brucewayne]

Well....now that I'm over my initial Trooper troubles (£900 clutch, dodgy door pillars, injector recalls) I thought I'd chuck the thing at our local Thetford Forest. So we bought an OS Landranger map, chucked the kids in the back with a picnic and set off on an 80 mile round trip of the dense woodland and green lanes.
Had an absolutely brilliant time and took a couple of pics, one of where I bottomed out at 6pm on Sunday night....had to wander around a bit and find some old logs to shove under the wheels, without those we'd still be there I think.
On the second day we saw a group of 15 deer and stopped for a while to watch.

Gonna get some more Landranger maps from the library on the rest of Norfolk/Suffolk this week and plan more outings....once I've poked the mud out from underneath.

And the great thing....no ENGINE CHECK light for the whole weekend






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[J1ODY A]

looks cool - am going to get into landranger maps now too... never heard of them before!

I'm Suffolk too

[markymoan]

They are standard Ordanance survey maps, the sort of thing people used before sat nav  
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[The Laird]

Landranger maps include more tourist info. Including rights of way. There is a better series of maps called 'Explorer Map'. They are printed in a larger scale, 1:25000 or 2-1/2 inches to the mile, than standard O.S. maps, 1:50000 or 1-1/4 inch to the mile.
If you haven't done a lot of 'map reading' it is worth spending some time studying the map to familiarise yourself on how they work.

[badendesigns]

You can get the updated ones online through the club can't you? I'm sure I've seen them while looking for greenlanes near us.
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[Gribble]

Only thing with OS maps is they are a bit behind with current info and you might find the lanes is not a byway any more or have winter traffic  restrictions on it  , in surrey and hants you can use the on line interactive council map to see whats open and drivable , plus its a free service .
Also you can report any blocked lanes , did one just outside Alton last week which had not been driven in ages as its a bit tame but where it came out the house owner had claimed it as Lawn    now I am not the type to say ' its a lane I'm just gonna drive over  it ' so did a 360  but I did log it with the byways man who said he would look at it and see if the guy had a claim in so maybe it will be opened up .

Would think they have them up North too  ?
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[markymoan]

I would have checked with the ROW Officer then gone back  
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[rallymarshall]

if you want OS maps then try here
http://www.dash4it.co.uk/store/
£4.89 each
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[TimBanham]

[brucewayne]

Stick this into google maps

52.360286,0.67464

That's the monument to Kings Forest where we started, then SW from there
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[DAVID's J99P]

We'll have to have a little get together one sunday i'm only 30mins away.
Give us a shout (PM) next time your planning on coming down with your tin tent Tim.
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David ltm47

[The Laird]

I'd go for that too if I could. Pretty please!  I'm on the Beds/Cambs border. Just off the A603, 5 miles from Arrington.

[DAVID's J99P]

Goes with saying mate
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David ltm47

[The Laird]

Incidentaly, Check out my brothers web site!   Minis
He made me drive one once when he was going to a mini rally! Said that I couldn't go in my own car!

[TimBanham]

looks like a good route
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