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23 hours ago, lo-fi said:
Don't worry Deep, I bet they'll supply it with one of those cassettes with the cable dangling out so you can connect your Discman
Bluetooth "just works". For anyone that can afford one of these things, it'll be a must have. I get in my car, the phone connects, it plays Spotify or iplayer where I left off. I touch literally nothing. My girlfriend, on the other hand, has an older fiat. It has a USB connection that patchily supports nothing but the phones of the day. She bought a Bluetooth adaptor, which lives in said USB port. Despite being Bluetooth (a wireless protocol, let's not forget), you have to plug the phone in to charge through the adaptor before it'll work. Its the most bonkers, irritating thing. Cables? Ain't nobody got time fo dat. Modern iPhones don't even have a 3.5mm jack any more either. Bluetooth A2DP is a single standard more broadly supported than even a cable now, so I'd expect both the new thing and Grenadier (however basic) to come with support, and I'd be willing to bet its more widely used than any cabled connection.
I like the idea of the "dumb" head unit though, pretty much just being an amp with volume control. That's pretty much all I ever want out of a car stereo!
No it doesn't. Bluetooth is carp. I've never had anything that 'just works'. And I don't keep music on my phone, I want to listen to local radio a lot of the time not my own collection. Other people can bugger around with wireless technology if they want, I just want a wireless in the vehicle!
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De-contented is fine. Give me something with power steering, electric windows, central locking and a wireless, a heater that works and preferably aircon, and I don't much care about the rest.
3.0 straight six BMW diesel or 2.0 flymo engine that's even branded as an "engine...er...um"? Er let me think about that for .... about 0.3 seconds
The biggest risk the Gren will have is early sales, others waiting to see if it takes off or flops, and not wanting to risk getting stuck with something that goes out of production after a year or two. I hope it's a roaring success.
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I rather doubt that modern common-rail systems can be cleaned in the way one might have dealt with older engines, but I may be wrong.
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No use here. The outside of all vehicles even on road is usually covered in corrosive muck off the roads through the winter months. A permanent live on the outside of the vehicle would dissolve in no time. The 'rufty tufty awf roaders' who carry their high-lifts on the outside of the vehicle always amuse me, if you did that here it wouldn't work after a week without a full stripdown
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17 hours ago, Mo Murphy said:
Blimey, the price went up quick !
Have we left the EU already and tied ourselves to the Argentinian economy ?
I hope not ... if you think Brexit is gonna be bad for the economy, wait until after the Argies have put the lunatic party back in power in October and you'll see what an economy in freefall looks like
Inflation to date this year is about 54% ... and that's with the sensible (ish) lot still in charge (just).
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Have seen this happen before with air getting into the fuel. It could be anywhere in the system but one weakness on 200Tdi, not sure about 300, is that the metal pipes that go in to the top of the fuel tank get pinholes in with rust. At idle, fuel flows through, as soon as you increase revs the lift pump sucks harder and draws air in, and then it cuts out.
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Hmm. Will check the sockets with the meter. I have two Defenders, a Shogun and a Thailand-build ROW spec Ford Ranger, so they may not all be the same.
Otherwise I'll give up and just stop being lazy
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Cig lighter in both mine is switched off the ignition, so wouldn't work with that off.
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I can't get the videos here but for sport I have just been through the configurator. Ignoring the price for a moment the configurator tells the whole story.
You have options like "off road tyres" with no detail on size, type, tread (look more like ATs at best) - no useful info, and designed to appeal to people that will select that option without having any idea what they need, or even if they need it. It's all aimed to be digestible to the target market, which is people who think they need something but know nothing about it.
You have an electric deploying tow hitch FFS. And most of the rest of the configurator is filled with page after page of utter lifestyle tat that is massively overpriced and, if Land Rover history is anything to go by, usually not very good quality. No wonder it's running about 10 years late, most of that time has been spent building the accessory list.
£45k for a base spec model with steel wheels and a silly little 2 litre engine? Nah. Just not a chance.
What a shame. What an utter shame. It's what everybody predicted really. A lightly tarted up DC100 which somebody has let the mad engineers and the madder marketing people loose on. It's no Defender.
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It is always windy, but actually less annual rainfall than much of the UK I believe. It's also a lot cooler (more like Shetland) because we're sat in a cold ocean current coming up from the Antarctic, whereas the UK has the Gulf Stream. Doesn't bother the battery charger though
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10 hours ago, Snagger said:
In the Falklands? 😳
Er yes...
Latitude is the same as London so daylight hours are the same season for season, I would guess on average there's probably more sunshine hours than the UK - and it certainly has a lot less smog to carve through 😛
My father runs his farmhouse off-grid using a solar power array and it produces about 10% more than the rated maximum output in direct sunshine. I just leave this 30W energiser panel plugged in for a few days (it's weatherproof and regulated so won't boil the battery) and it's charging wherever I park it - which is usually nowhere near mains power.
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Ta. I have a repurposed solar panel from an electric fence energiser which keeps my tipper topped up
If it needs work to the vehicle electrics then I won't bother, it was an attractive option to charge Defenders in the garage without taking the seat out.
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98 model Freelander...
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Having reflected on it, while we have a lot yet to find out, I think it's going to have roughly got back to where the Discovery used to be before they made that look like a hearse. It ticks a lot of the boxes of the Discovery 2 successor which I might have bought to replace mine. But still not for £50k, which is twice what my Shogun cost with a 3.2L diesel. I don't think I need to see any more to see that it isn't a Defender, but it might fit in as a comfy SUV which is more rugged and capable than the crowd off road. Given that they do love their branding nonsense, it should have been introduced as a 'Discovery 4Work' or 'Discovery Utility' or some such, to sit alongside the styled-on-a-whoopee-cushion D5 and the
new FreelanderDiscovery Sport. It would have been much better as a tough Discovery rather than a soft Defender.-
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OK thanks. All my vehicles and trailers have standard 7 pin electrics, so that destroys the idea anyway. I thought so - just checking I hadn't missed something obvious!
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I am sure I saw a post somewhere about trickle charging vehicles not in use through the towing socket, as a neat solution for easy connect/disconnect.
But unless I am mistaken, there's no way of doing this in a standard 7 pin socket is there? As far as I can see there is nothing on a 7 pin that would be permanently live?
I'm thinking it must have been a 13 pin or other type, but just checking I am not missing anything obvious.
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Just come across these posted on a Facebook group, which look very much like a cat hurtling out of an already-open bag.
Still not sure though... and the liferaft canister on the side is an interesting touch
Actually belay that, I've just checked and R910400 is just over £50,000 at the present exchange rate. I am more sure than I was five minutes ago
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1 hour ago, reb78 said:
That last pic looks like they have cracked it.
Plenty of carrying capacity combined with light weight, excellent approach/departure angles and ramp breakover clearance, innovative suspension design which keeps all wheels on the ground in any terrain, ability to wade to twice the wheel diameter without getting the occupants wet coupled with a built-in high level air intake for the drivetrain, and best of all a price that is probably quite reasonable. I reckon you're right
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That's quite a specific problem, good to see a resolution.
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I managed to get some reasonable screen grabs from the video this time, and upscaled them a bit. No idea what is going on with the white or silver bit on the rear bodyside! I think the general shape could have been OK (rear 3/4 view is not bad) but will be ruined by the old-Freelander front end we've already seen. And it's still got pram wheels on...
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21 hours ago, Happyoldgit said:
All very formulaic. Designed to appeal to the urban dwelling metrosexual with surplus income who dreams of hugging lions and conquering the last of the remote places on the planet.
You forgot the bit about 'tinkering with veganism' Mr Hog sir
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1 hour ago, HampshireHog said:
cross axle gender , bender defender .
That would work
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OK ... I don't own one but on the old vehicles they used to engage the handbrake automatically when you switched the ignition off as far as I recall (either that or when you take the key out). If they have done away with that it would be a good thing!
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We clearly need to refer to it as the 'Obranca'....
Job done.
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Thoughts and Musings on the Ineos Grenadier
in The New Ineos Grenadier
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Bit of a shame about that track rod geometry, if that is what it is (it looks like it). The reg number on the vehicle in front doesn't come up on DVLA.