WH(WK) Expo to Iceland with family August 2013

jeepgc

Adventurer
well you had it coming :)

Hope you and your family had a blast ! And westfjords are my favorite part of Iceland, long time since i traveled them thou. Did travel all westfjörds with my father back in the day. Always wantet to go back and will do someday :)

would be great to meet next time you wisit.
West fjords just blew us away, some scary roads, sheer drop offs into the ocean, but beautiful, our favourite too.

We had a great time thank you.

You're on Hranni, maybe we can get out into the wilderness too :) if not, we can share a meal and some drinks at least, no pickled shark though :)
 

jeepgc

Adventurer
I have to ask being as you have spent time with Discovery 3's and 4's.. How does the WK Overland stack up?
Stack up as in capability?

The Disco 2 was far from standard, the LR4 was standard though.

The WK did everything the Disco's did, but the terrain wasn't anything major or extreme.

They did have more storage than us but only had to accommodate 2 people, where our WK had to support 4 of us albeit 2 of us were preteens not adults.

Disco 2 was in the Yorkshire dales, LR4 was in Iceland.

The WK certainly held its own and didn't hold the Land Rover's back.

We all filled up on fuel at the same time but Mick's Defender was the most economical (surprise, surprise) he didn't really have to fill up anywhere as often as we did.

The only problems encountered by the group in Iceland were:

A) Defender:

River crossings caused some issues with the headlights, in Iceland headlights had to be on all the time day/night.

B) LR4:

Electronic handbrake stuck on during a river crossing, had to be disabled.

3 punctures on standard 19" wheels, we all were running with General Grabber ATs, but different sizes.

C) WK:

Front registration plate ripped off by current during river crossing.

So, pretty good overall.

The only thing that i could say was lacking compared to the Rover's was the range, we probably stopped at more petrol stations than they needed to.
 

Hranni

New member
West fjords just blew us away, some scary roads, sheer drop offs into the ocean, but beautiful, our favourite too.

We had a great time thank you.

You're on Hranni, maybe we can get out into the wilderness too :) if not, we can share a meal and some drinks at least, no pickled shark though :)

haha YEH worst roads of iceland there!, me and my dad had brake marks after meeting a bus in a tight corner of the road, changing underware after that.
Would be nice to get out :) pickled shark and Brennivín never gets old :p but yeah food would be better.
 

jeepgc

Adventurer
:) yes indeed, worst, but also the best!

When I'm not so busy, I'll put up a video of the roads we came across in the West fjords.

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Romberger

Member
Looks like this was an awesome trip! It’s also a much longer adventure than I’ve ever done. I’m really impressed with the planning and preparation that went into it.
 

jeepgc

Adventurer
Looks like this was an awesome trip! It’s also a much longer adventure than I’ve ever done. I’m really impressed with the planning and preparation that went into it.

Thanks Romberger.

It was a fantastic trip, I'd write "once in a lifetime", but don't want to as there are a few more trips like that I would like to take, but too many life things in our way right now.

Grateful to Russell Offroad (now H R Auto Specialists) that added the mods needed for to prep our Jeep for our trips.

Looking forward to reading about your future trips Romberger.
 

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