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All good ideas - is the tunnel metal or plastic in yours, Jeremy? Someone wanted extra leg room Mo, so the bulkhead and it's useful mountings is gone but I can use the bulkhead replacement bar to mount quick fists using some substantial cable ties. I can't fit it to the driver's side seatbox as the X-End pedal lock flips down, might be able to go into the passenger side but my monster battery cut off switch is likely going to get in the way - I'll take a look later. Passenger side tunnel sounds good but will need some hefty washers as it's plastic - albeit thick. Like me. What have people got for actually mounting it? As Mr. Landroversforever says, there's a vast array but not sure what to go for.

I know these things get a lot of love on here and I completely understand why. But that rear bumper structure is so low. 🤥

That's actually a good point, I don't have anything besides a basic tool roll planned for there so will have plenty of room. Even so, I can see benefit in tripling the available storage in a Defender with one of these rear covers, especially as I plan on using the car for camping.

I think you're right and I'll look at strapping it down another way (I have a 2kg powder extinguisher). I did want to mount it on the rear door so furthest away from any point of ignition but there's nowhere solid enough to secure it through the door card. Still interested in anyone has experience with any kind of seat organiser and if they are worth bothering with, though.

Good day All, I have a really noddy question but as I refuse to take part in some of the more.... aesthetically-focussed forums, hopefully people here have experience. I want a seat organiser, I am primarily looking at one for the passenger seat but if they come in pairs then I'm sure I'll find a use. My main reason is that I will have two or three things I will always be carrying; an X-Defend gearstick lock, a steering wheel lock and a fire extinguisher and I want to properly secure them in case of the worst happening. I am mostly trying to secure the X-Defend as it might not be realistic for a seat organiser to hold a disklock or a fire extinguisher and I can find alternatives (quick fists, load bay tie-downs) for those. I like the look of this one by Inka (who make genuine seat covers) and the pouches seem to be a good size for a X-Defend but they don't appear to have clasps (I assume magnetic closing) and I could do without the HUE logo but that's being fussy. I'm just not confident in placing a big, heavy bit of metal in these and there is no scope for any additional items. Available Here So with this elegant, classical look in mind, I've been searching for something a bit more secure. Unfortunately this results in something like this by Terrafirma: Available Here Or this: Available here These are relatively expensive for what they are, especially the latter as it comes with no pouches but because of that, do give a lot of flexibility in how you can configure them. However, as I am not looking to overthrow a democratically elected government any time soon, I don't need to strap down my AR15 in this (frankly irresponsible) way. MOLLE pouches are great if you need them but I would prefer something a bit more in keeping with the non-military look I'm going for. So, what is there in a similar theme but alternatives to the above? If MOLLE is the way to go then so be it, I just want to see what else is around.

It's not for me to tell you what to do with your new-found nightvision capabilities, but I'm just going to leave these here for... inspiration. + =

Is the pin meant to be lubricated? I'm at the opposite point to this - my hinges have been painted but I'm now wondering if applying some grease internally will help them stay new. I know they can be disassembled, so is it worth it?

Thanks both, I think I'll leave it alone in that case.

This is getting weird. I fitted wing top plates last week after a year of thinking about it, because I am not a fan of chequer plate either but I also think they're quite vulnerable and the wings are useful with the plates on. I was going to buy those exact ones too, but found some plain ones by Bearmach... I am not sold on the look so will probably still go with Mammoth. If, however, you think you can prevent me copying every element of your build by spending £250 on wheel boxes..... you are absolutely correct sir, well played.

I've just been checking my spark settings prior to starting back up. I found something odd, my Cranking advance Angle was set as -10, not 10 as below: What would be the effect of that? I assume nothing once the engine stops cranking and is running but it's weird that it was wrong and makes me question what else could be wrongly configured.

Yeah, unfortunately the first guy just registered so we could tell him his car was rare so he could ask more for it on another forum at the time.

That explains it, my first purchase from them was in March. There would have been many more as I move to the "shiny shiny" accessories part of the build, they had a lot of good stuff.

Looks like FF Off-road has closed it's doors. Didn't see any hint of that when I placed my order for some of their bumperettes. Shame as they're one of the best made parts on the car.

I quite like the front view before I saw the slope... I was fully ready to hate what they'd done to such a rare vehicle until I read about the original body being destroyed. After that point, fair enough. As someone that hates drawing attention, I couldn't drive that though.

That has to be a typo. But then, even 1,850 seems a touch high.

Apologies, I realised it didn't fit the brief as soon as I posted it. Also doesn't work if they get the hinges off and can slide the door forward.

Not quite the same but similar in effect: https://www.landroverdefendersecurity.com/products/powered-deadlock

The one I bought is currently £23 and having the whole unit ready to use is great, especially with how expensive a phone is these days. If my Linux laptop's USB ports weren't completely screwed (as discovered last year while trying to get it to talk to the MS ECU) that would have worked, then.

PM me your address, I have one you can have. I bought one that plugs into your own device but it won't work for me without downloading an app, which I refuse to do as they want access to contacts, GPS, etc. for no possible reason beneficial to me. There are some devices that can recognise these as webcams and will load the correct drivers so you don't need the app, I'm just unlucky with what I have available. If you have no joy with it, you can just chuck it in the bin and buy a different one. It's useless to me just lying around so you might as well make use. I bought one with a screen for that reason, and very happy with that as it's all self contained.

This is going to be a really interesting build!

The deeper sills serve to balance out the wheelbase so it doesn't look too thin for its length, if you take them off I bet it looks very wrong. That's really been thought out.

I think you need to provide before and after photos, if you are going to make such bold claims.

I meant to say, I wasn't going to watch it as I am a bit 'over' their stilted back-and-forth delivery style ("I think the new Defender is good but unreliable, what do you think Tommy" "I think it's unreliable but good, Dad" "valuable insight, Tommy") so I wasn't being rhetorical when I asked which one scraped, but having watched it now, initially I assumed it must have been the Defender because of how they were talking. They cannot say that the Defender will do 80% of what the Wrangler will do, then show it doing 100% of what the Wrangler does but also better than the Wrangler did it. The most annoying part is that I don't doubt they're right, but the quality of their testing does not demonstrate this as fact and renders the statement pointless. If they need to design a better test, they should have done that.

If it's a choice between a safari/protected reservation or a zoo when trying to conserve species in something even vaguely like their wild habitat, I'll take this any time. If visitors are required to fund the reservation, then that's the cost. It might have an impact on the animals' behavior but if it wasn't for some of these places, there wouldn't be some species - modified behavior or not.

I have grown grow weary of Skipper and Champ's wholesome All-American review style. Which one scraped its belly?