Does anyone know what this is?

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ActionDan said:
Showed these pics to a vehicle safety engineer. The box looks like a data logging unit, the sensors looks like they could be accelerometers, especially given their placing around the vehicle.

So, that would indicate some kind of vehicle testing that involved logging how the vehicle moved and rotated in all dimensions.

Car manufacturers do use setups like this to test how vehicles behave under various driving conditions but it doesn't look like original manufacturer equipment, which would never make it onto a production vehicle in any case.

One theory is that someone, maybe a magazine or someone involved in a legal case, decided to do some third party stability testing on the rangerover (although its a mystery why the equipment would be fitted under the floors rather than just temporarily fitted inside)
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Yes that would make a lot of sense, although I too was puzzled why everything was so well hidden, had I not stripped everything out to weld the flooring I would never have know it was there. I am now wondering how many other RRC have something like this fitted to them?
 
TD5power said:
Going on that theory, could it be a vehicle tuning company with a rather large budget say over finch? That did vehicle testing on their modifications and you could possibly have one that they put back to standard?
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This is something I hadn't even considered ... its interesting you mention overfinch because they do tend to 'improve' things, and this is a really fast vehicle, we did some checks last year and this Range Rover with an apparently standard setup does 0-60 in 6.1 seconds! not bad for such a heavy vehicle, and this is the vogue fully equipped with a standard 3.9 efi V8 engine, a full toolkit, off-road tyres and carrying 2 people and spares ! although those engines are good, I never had one that threw me back in the seat like this one does, everyone comments how fast it is too. So that could make a lot of sense if what modified in some weird and wonderful way.
 
Have you considered contacting the DVLA for a list of previous owners. I believe they will sell such information to the present owner, and it may give a clue as to who has had the vehicle and who would be interested in making such modifications.
 
Sheffield said:
Have you considered contacting the DVLA for a list of previous owners. I believe they will sell such information to the present owner, and it may give a clue as to who has had the vehicle and who would be interested in making such modifications.
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Thats the only way to go about it, I think its around £20 for a list of previous owners, just write each one a letter and wait for the reply. Thats what i'd do. Only cost £20 and the price of a few stamps.
 
slartybartfast said:
Yes, something similar was suggested, but the boxes are held down with double sided tape, and not in direct contact with any part of the chassis. There are 8 boxes, two were actually in the roof lining! I only found them by tracing the wires from the main unit. two more were fitted in the load space near the rear wheels ( the main unit was also located in the load space under the carpet and rubber underlay) the remaining four were placed under the carpets, two behind and two in front of the front seats.
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These boxes - were they in a sort of 'T' configuration? two boxes together in each place one pointing say, north-south and the other east-west?
This would then cover all attitudes that the vehicle could get into.
-just a thought - special forces use RR's - not one of them is it? Although i was told that when they'd finished with theirs - they were crushed?
 
Bump said:
I woke up on Saturday night with a disco under my bed...

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Me to :O

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I wonder how many people have broken ankles climbing out of those roof tents after being drunk and needing to take a **** in the night. Would have to laugh at any ones misfortune though. :)
 
Trick is to get out the other end **** off the side, nah seriously. I've not got into it yet much less than blithering. **** before bed. To drunk to wake up and go....


To OP. sorry. I have no clue what your device is. Never seen anything like it and could only think of plugging it into a computer somehow and see what that says?
 
Im with a previous poster on here. Looks like it is for anti corrosion. I notice it has a frequency crystal on the pcb which would likely mean some form of transmiting is going on. I believe you can buy systems that put out an electric field around the metal ratherthan attaching to bare metal. Yo
you live in a country with shocking rust issues. To me i wouldnt look to far past just a simple device like this. If you search for electronic car body protection devices you will see similar systems with remote units like the one in your photo
 
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