TRAILER? NEVER

Tyler Mobraten’s Land Rover Discovery is not your average family road trip machine

“EVEN THOUGH WE’RE ON 33S, WE’RE ALWAYS PASSING PEOPLE ON ROUGH BITS OF TRAIL.” -TYLER MOBRATEN

With 150,000 miles on the clock, the 4.6L V-8 still runs strong. The Mobratens have installed an upgraded radiator and are careful to avoid overheating the aluminum block.

How does this Disco get by with just 33s? Lots of armor and even more skill. There’s a bash plate for the radiator up front, the diff boasts extra protection, and a 3-inch lift from RTE Welding and Fabrication makes room for the tires to work.

Each diff holds an ARB Air Locker with 4.11 gears and both axles have been beefed up with HD ’shafts from Great Basin Rovers. Bilstein 7100 remote-reservoir shocks are at each corner, as well, to handle damping.

To the Mobraten family, the Land Rover Discovery is the best compromise of on-road comfort and off-road capability. In fact, their ’04 Disco is used almost exclusively for 1,000-mile expeditions that bring the whole family together over many days of dirt between segments of highway—and it never needs to ride on a trailer.