dreadnought110
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IIRC the construction and use regs state that the driving lights may only come on with main beam, and should have a warning light to show they are in use.
If you are outside the UK ignore the above!
Unless your using them for offroad use only then anything goes!! (just keep them covered up otherwise(added for legal point's) ok)
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Good point Hmmm it would have to be TD5 or 300 TDI then couldn't bring myself to driving a Transit 2.4 IMHO...Including Depreciation
Sorry not for me thanks !!
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Decisions, decsions.
2007 defender or a D3 ?
How does one decide?
D3 allday long does everthing better!!!
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I'd take the wire for powering the lights straight from the battery, that way you know it is 100% up to the job, and you can easily fit a fuse in the battery box.
Take the earth from the batt as well then double guarantee!!
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Lady Jane named after the wife and the dog!! Hmmm the dog's name's first???
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Here is one missed oppertunity, why not do away with those stupid flipping rubber/plastic spats and make the cab a good 10" wider! More elbow room, proper 3 seat cab etc etc.
why don't theyput the defender badge above the grill anymore?
Cause the Australian's already did it??
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Just had 2 Brand new defenders through work over the past couple of day's one 110 hard top and one 110 hi-cap now is it me but have Land rover missed quite a few tricks with the new motor i mean yes the dash looks better BUT if your over 6ft in the truck cab your knee is pressed hard up against the New console and it's very uncomfortable ( by the way i know that there isn't much room to start with but the dash isn't quite as intrusive on the model before), the heater vents for keeping your feet warm burn your thigh's? why oh why have they put the engine ECU behind the block don't they know ford can't keep water out of ECU's etc.... Why have they put the dipstick that far back and it fouls on the feeble excuse for a bonnet!! Whats the idea of the arrangement on the passenger side? couldn't they have made a better use of it??
If you have just bought one sorry for having a go but after looking round and working on brand new Land rover's for years it just wind's me up how rubbish the build quality is and so many missed opportunity's they have had to improve something we all love? again sorry for having a gripe...NO offense meant to anyone (except may be Land rover?) -
If it's a genuine LR gauge you should throw it away as they are not made for the real world. Fit a VDO gauge and sender then you know they match.
Totaly utterly agree Land rover gauges do my head in!!!!
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If any one wants to swap there land rover gauge for a more reliable vdo gauge i now have the part no.s
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Oh teah sorry! - Silly me!!
OK totally paranoid has anyone fitted a vdo temp gauge and sender?? any part no.s would help or the thread type etc.. of the sender would be nice please Thanks
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Les don't give him ideas!! and as for 65ish yeah right o! i was over 70 for 3 parts of that run and you were going a dam site quicker than that!!!
the limit's 70 couldn't possibly say i was doing 90ish
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I too have no cooling fan after chasing an overheating problem for weeks. My suggestion: lob a thermocouple in the header tank (£15 with a multimeter from Maplin), stuff a rag in the hole and go for a run to see if it's really getting hot - it could be the gauge that's lying to you. I bought a Racetech gauge (after changing nearly everything) and the problem just went away...
Now funny you should say that went up the road today and thrashed it being followed by Madmatt in his 130 (standard 300tdi engine) pulled up checked block temperature's mine 90degree's C his 100 degree's C my viscous was locked his wasn't he was running at 65 ish and i was running at 70 ish
his gauge was just under half way mine was just over half way!! what temp should the block be running at??? this is all confusing me!!! am i just getting paranoid!! might price up a VDO gauge at work today and change to that..... -
I had a 300Tdi, kept overheating, pressurising the pipes, i borrowed Les H's sniff tester and that didn't show up anything, but i whipped the head off and it needed 17thou' off to get it true again.
was fine after that.
strictly speaking it's not overheating it never went completly in the red and solo it's only ever moving close to the end of the white the viscous is coping my point is it seem's to be running to hot in comparison to 'A' before said problems and 'B' in comparison to other people's, i do not have a problem with any pipes pressurising...
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Are both the bleed hoses from the thermostat housing and rad clear? Do u get water circulating in the expansion tank from these pipes with the engine at fast idle? - take cap off and check.
The pipes are brand new that silly y'piece broke the housing was all cleaned checked etc.... i had water flow through everything that should have water through and it is still clean etc...
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when I rebuilt mine, and then had to do it again due to an incompetent machine shop the only syptom I had was a rapid build up of pressure in the cooling sytem, no loss of any fluid, no smoke
nothing...
No rise in temp....even during events
but the hose went solid in seconds after starting.....the sniffer test never picked it up either
only cured it by having the head skimmed and putting it all back together
haven't got any excess pressure the only thing someone says to me is are the injectors faulty causing it to run a lean mixture???
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Doubt you would hear the viscous unit lock up over the sound of the engine, I can't hear mine. as Les B said ^^^^^ .
AAAh but when you come of the said road you can hear it then until it cools
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Did you follow the correct proceedure for fill a 300Tdi up.
Fill header tank with the radiator plug and the plug on the top of the thermostat housing off and the heater set to hot.
Fill at the thermostat housing until water flows out the top of the rad. Work the hoses to get rid of all air locks.
Fit plug into radiator.
Fill at the top of the thermostat until full. Again work hoses. Fit plug.
Fill header tank to level.
Road test.
HTH
mike
YES !! England is a free country. As long as you do as you are told.
yep did all that no problem with flow heater's warm as toast etc...
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I had a Electric fan on...fine with no weight on the back as soon as I put the Caravan on the back 15 miles and the head gasket had gone
You might have cooked it again I'm afraid , get a sniff test etc done...
I've gone back to a Viscous with no further trouble
it starts no problem is using no water no oil there's no smoking surely i would have one of these problems if the head gasket had gone again??? and no excessive breathing out of the filler etc...
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Ok at easter my land rover 110 300tdi allisport intercooler etc... boiled up due to suspect blocked rad (bars fluid??) put Brand new Turner engineering performance head on brand new water pump brand new thermostat had the rad recored fully flushed the system fitted brand new pacet 16" electric fan and went to wales for the week towning the caravan (all up weight 4.5 tonnes!!) on the way there the temp went almost into the red and wouldn't come down until i was going down hill.. and had similer trouble up all hills except went to the edge of the white!! got back and dumped the electric and went back to the viscous now thrashed it down the road the temp only moves a couple of mill of normal but the viscous cut's in oh and the viscous is brand new the gauge is brand new and so is the sender!! HELP PLEASE!! before any of this kicked off you hardly ever heard the viscous cut in and it would never move on the gauge???
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you can't beat a good 2 sided argument on the TV!!! Problem is they ran out of time for our argument's doe your head in..
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bit extreme to check your propshafts etc isn't it??
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Wow they look good where did you get them
still looking good, almost as good as mine 
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Just completed a 200 mile round trip in our new(ish) 110 - collected yesterday from our local LR dealer. (that's another story)
I've a numb bum from the seats, a sore elbow from the bashing against the door, cramp in both legs from the poor leg room (I'm 6' 2") and a splitting headache from the engine roar - but in the immortal words of the comedian Dick Emery.....You Are Awful......................But I Like You!
Well i'am 6'3" and have done trip's as long as 400miles + i've had the old gel 12 years and done nearly 200'000 miles and feel more comfortable in the Land rover than most cars the only changes i've made are trakkers seats haven't done any bulkhead changes etc..
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had a the rad recored about 50% of the cores where blocked!! HMM could be overheating problem??
If you have just bought one sorry for having a go but after looking round and working on brand new Land rover's for years it just wind's me up how rubbish the build quality is and so many missed opportunity's they have had to improve something we all love? again sorry for having a gripe...NO offense meant to anyone (except may be Land rover?) 
2007 Defender CSW
in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
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I must admit the new dash looks better it just doen't work as well as it could have they had an oportunity to improve the defender and fluffed it i mean on the truck cab they could have done it like (dare i say it) santana which would have made living with it a lot better the county and hardtop's are better but why couldn't they have improved arm room etc... it's better but not by much??
By the way after driving a santana and looking round them they make Land rover build quality look good!!! 
