SVOMike86
Well-known member
So my Wife bought a new truck (new to us, also acting as my new tow rig ). A 2001 Land Rover Discovery. 80k miles, immaculately clean, meticulously maintained, and we paid about 3k less than book. So we're happy campers about that. So, being the fan of Forums that I am (I currently troll here approximately 23 hours a day since I've been in Afghanistan), I decided to find a Land Rover forum to join. First off, there are about 3 billion Land Rover Forums on the net. I found one that seems to be huge and reputable, so I joined. Now, Land Rovers are known for not being the most reliable vehicles around, so that was the first reason to try and find this site, to gain insight on what might (will) go wrong, and the easiest and cheapest ways to fix it (sounds a lot like tinboats ). Second reason to join was to find all the cool stuff you can do to those things. Anyways, right off the bat, I find this guy named "DiscoMike". He's got 20,000 (literal) posts on this site. He seems exceptionally knowledgable about everything that can go wrong, so I make a little mental note about that. That was the end of the coolness. These dudes (more than just a couple, but obviously not all of them) are complete a**holes. It seems like all they do is call out other peoples crap and bicker back and forth about who "thinks" hes a mechanic, versus who "really is" a mechanic. It was ridiculous watching these two guys go back and forth for 7 (SEVEN!) pages while this poor dude is trying to figure out how his oil pump exploded and went through the timing cover. Anyways, I just wanted to rant for a little bit and let yall know that even though things might get a little heated here every once in a while, its nothing like the crap I just witnessed, and even though I've never met any of you guys in person, I feel like everyone is cool enough to be called a friend. AND, of all the forums I think I have ever been to, Tinboats.net is by far the most well put together, logical, and efficient forum of all. Lucky for us. And I think I deserve some decals for that last remark. :lol: