Anderzander
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Yep … you ain’t fitting that lot in a 90!
I just had a look at the double cabs on eBay - they look to be wanting the strongest money of all of them these days.
I probably should have bought one ages ago - but 1 child, 1 pushchair, and 1 spaniel just about worked in a 90 😅
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5 hours ago, Happyoldgit said:
Good review that🙂
Very good review !
On the review subject:
I actually think the reviews point to them having done an incredible job. Creating a whole new brand and model of car cannot be anything other than incredibly hard.
There are very few cars brought to market by the established players that have wholly positive reviews, and more than enough with enormously negative reviews from somewhere.
Quite remarkable really - and I wish them every success.
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How have you found the Masai one @Paul C ?
My headlining isn’t great - tears in the front and sagging in the back.
I actually thought of seeing if I could recover it and painting the card with fibreglass resin to stiffen it up and stop the sagging.
I’ve yet to settle on repair vs buy though.
I’ve never done any upholstery and I think I’d be really disappointed if I put the time in and it turned out rubbish …
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11 hours ago, Nonimouse said:
But first give it some love
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There are a few threads on this topic - so worth doing a search for more info.
When you say extending - how many are we talking ?
We have one and have made that work - finding the right child seat was a big part of it.
When she was tiny we found a child seat that worked in a middle seat … it had a four point harness for the child - but was designed to fit with a lap belt…. And crucially didn’t interfere with the gear lever.
When she was too big for that we found a second hand 2nd generation exmoor trim forward facing seat - it was a lucky find though because they are expensive.
The 1st gen ones looked awful - the 2nd gen were very like the puma ones but worked with the square wheel boxes.
They sell a 3rd iteration now - I haven’t really looked at them - but they seem to be even more expensive.
We are still using that single back seat for her (and the occasional adult) - and she’s just about to turn 12.
One thing is for certain- Land Rovers and kids are a magic combination 😊
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Heritage are good for classic and modified - very easy to deal with.
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Fabulous to see you making progress with this Daan 😀
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17 hours ago, mickeyw said:
I think a lot of rescue organisations do tend to hang onto vehicles for longer than many users, possibly because they are quite customised units, and/or maybe they don't rack up the miles that quickly. I know my local St John's Ambulance branch still has a 1989 V8 110 on the fleet, and it was only 10 years or so since I used to see a Gatwick airport fire service 200 Tdi Discovery our local Tesco.
The mountain rescues around me still have their defenders - one of them has just has their 110 put on a galvanised chassis.
My assumption is because there hasn’t been anything that does what they want it to, or it’s better long term value for them to have vehicles they can repair and keep going, and / or their fleet guy just loves them ?
Very small market - but I could easily see them running Grenadiers.
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Just noticed that exmoor trim have a 15% off offer for Black Friday - so a good opportunity to buy seats if you want some.
discount code is BF15
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If you need a Td5 intercooler I’ve a new one you can have.
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I’ll have a look out for it then 😆
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Yes they have a button for the wiper and another for the washer jet. The wiper switch being a latching switch and the jet a momentary one.
I wanted more space on my dash so required them both to a single momentary switch, press to wipe, press and hold to wipe and wash.
Can’t for the life of me remember how I did it - but it works nicely.
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Is Bangers and Cash one of the programmes with Henry Cole?
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Oh - I missed the 3.54 diffs. I tried them in mine and hated them, especially on B roads they seemed to have a real mismatch with the tdi and the lt76. I put P4 4.2’s in and they work well.
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I might be mistaken … but a 200 in a series doesn’t usually struggle on hills.
Are you sure there isn’t an issue with your standard set up?
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I didn’t know that !
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Love that !
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Great news
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1 hour ago, muddy said:
Go to William Moore and son in Preston next door to the prison, be warned though, it's difficult to exit without spending money.
Thank you ! Didn’t know that existed. I’ll have a look.
Are you near Preston ? I thought you were Yorkshire way ..
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On 9/10/2023 at 8:38 AM, Stinkfloyd said:
Not sure I will be fitting defender seats, though they I won't be fitting standard ones I will be looking for something slimline as I'm just shy of 6ft 3. So space is at a premium in the cab!
There are some nice aftermarket seats for the S2/3 now.
On the wheels - I love the look of ‘standard’ steel wheels - you can get the beaded rims from SP4x4 for a decent price - so you can fit tubeless modern tyres, and with the wider axles it should fill the arches nicely.
https://www.sp-4x4.com/ANR4636PM_LR053845_land_rover_standard_steel_wheel_p/lr053845.htm
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I’m looking for a nice smaller Milwaukee to match that kind of description - that balance of small enough to get in places but powerful enough to be worth while.
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I did mine with grease and anti seize on the long bolts.
Do be careful with your wrist though - it’s so easy to over work them when they are healing - and then end up either setting it back or even getting a permanent problem.
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google says yes ! Is that why people say their heads are prone to being cooked? With the water pump so high I’d guess you wouldn’t need the level to drop much for it to be a problem?
looks like the belt would run very close to the PAS pump if you didn’t use the fan and tensioner though.
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29 minutes ago, fmmv said:
I have dim memory of someone posting that you could use a shorter belt, and bypass the fan pulley thus removing the bearing wear on yhe timing cover, but I can't find it just now.
On the 200 the fan runs off the water pump, so it needed to stay, is it different on these?
Head lining,
in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
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I missed that @reb78 I’ll do a search in your content.
Did you manage to remove any sag from the rear ? Mine hangs down across the alpine lights.