Monday, 10 December 2012

Gift Vouchers now available at Challenger 4x4

Gift Vouchers at Challenger 4x4

Gift vouchers for Challenger 4x4's store, workshop and online shop are now available on order.

Starting as low as £10, you can offer your Land Rover/4x4 enthusiast friend or family member what ever amount you want. The voucher will allow the person presented with it to spend that amount at Challenger 4x4, in parts, accessories or workshop services.

And not just for Christmas! Gift vouchers will be available at Challenger 4x4 throughout the year, making for a great preset for anniversaries or special occasions.

Email us at sales@challenger4x4.com to order your gift voucher.

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Challenger 4x4 makes the cover of Land Italia magazine

Challenger 4x4 at 2012 Rainforest Challenge

Once more, Challenger 4x4 makes the cover of a Land Rover magazine. This time it's Land Italia, an Italian Land Rover magazine featuring a report on the 2012 Rainforest Challenge Spain-Portugal.

Having finished third overall and first of Land Rover based teams, "The Challenger II" was picked for the cover of the Italian Land Rover magazine. Inside, the even report of the 2012 Rainforest Challenge Spain-Portugal is the main feature of this issue, illustrated with a few more photos of Challenger 4x4 team.

Paul Bass, driver and owner of Challenger 4x4, and Paul Cook, co-driver, took third step of the podium on this international off-road challenge back in September, with a brand new vehicle built in only two weeks. "The Challenger II", as this new challenge Defender is known, is a testimony of Challenger 4x4's capability to deliver competitive and reliable fabrications and builds in a short period of time.

Challenger 4x4 makes the cover of Land Italia magazine
The entire build process took place right here, at Challenger 4x4's facilities in Tongham, Surrey, from the tube body/roll-cage to the portal axles with brake disk conversion. The vehicle went from our workshop straight to Portugal, with not even a test drive. And no test drive was needed. It behaved beautifully, with absolutely no problems at all, not even after a huge end over end roll over. The only thing that fell off was a strop and the team finished the stage in nine of the twenty minutes allowed, the second fastest time and one of only three teams to actually finish that particular stage.

The portal axles, a fairly common conversion at Challenger 4x4, were actually one of the elements that contributed the most for the team's success in this international event. While everyone else had their diffs locked in combat with the rocks and deep mud, Bass and Cook were having no such issues.

Portal axles on Challenger 4x4's Land Rover Defender at the 2012 Rainforest Challenge Spain Portugal
At Challenger 4x4 we completely rebuild and convert portal axles to disk brakes and also, if the costumer wishes so, fit them with proper mounts for hydraulic steering.