New Defender owner, 110SW TD5.

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

Hi everyone,

Recently imported a 1999 110. Import was an expensive pita but it's here now and I'm looking forward to getting it cleaned up. Seems to have some common issues for the year/mileage...door corrosion, oil in injector harness, etc.

Pics to follow, will definitely be looking for forum help/advice as I take it apart and put it back together.

Chime in with anything you notice that you think I might missed.

Cheers,

John

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

Gave it a quick wash and vac, reinstalled the seats with whatever hardware was in the vehicle and took some detailed pics:

Exterior...definitely been well used:

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

Interior:

Rear seat belts; seat attaching hardware and interior trim panels are AWOL.

Door corrosion...the front doors are "ok", the rear doors and rear cargo door are probably too far gone:

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

Frame/chassis/driveline:

Actually pretty solid. It appears that my corrosion problems are mostly limited to body panels.

It's also leak free/drip free after parking in the same spot for 48 hours.

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

More undercarriage:

mick the builder · Jun 5, 2015

kilr4d said:
Hi everyone,

Recently imported a 1999 110. Import was an expensive pita but it's here now and I'm looking forward to getting it cleaned up. Seems to have some common issues for the year/mileage...door corrosion, oil in injector harness, etc.

Pics to follow, will definitely be looking for forum help/advice as I take it apart and put it back together.

Chime in with anything you notice that you think I might missed.

Cheers,
You didnt say where you are but looking at those trucks and the sunshine, im guessing the us of a

Thor1950 · Jun 5, 2015

how did you gt that through customs? isn't there a 25 year old rule?

Thor1950 · Jun 5, 2015

mick the builder said:
kilr4d said:

Hi everyone,

Recently imported a 1999 110. Import was an expensive pita but it's here now and I'm looking forward to getting it cleaned up. Seems to have some common issues for the year/mileage...door corrosion, oil in injector harness, etc.

Pics to follow, will definitely be looking for forum help/advice as I take it apart and put it back together.

Chime in with anything you notice that you think I might missed.

Cheers,
You didnt say where you are but looking at those trucks and the sunshine, im guessing the us of a

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Innovative Trailer Design of America
St. Petersburg, FL 33715

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

mick the builder said:
Cheers,
You didnt say where you are but looking at those trucks and the sunshine, im guessing the us of a

Thor1950 said:
how did you gt that through customs? isn't there a 25 year old rule?

Thor1950 said:
Innovative Trailer Design of America
St. Petersburg, FL 33715

Woops. Thought I filled that in.

Anyway, I'm in Mississauga which is a suburb of Toronto.

Thor1950 · Jun 5, 2015

kilr4d said:
Woops. Thought I filled that in.

Anyway, I'm in Mississauga which is a suburb of Toronto.

Lucky you. Can't figure out how they can get into Canada. and not the US. The difference of rules:Cry:

Dragonwalker · Jun 5, 2015

Thor1950 said:
Lucky you. Can't figure out how they can get into Canada. and not the US. The difference of rules:Cry:

20yrs for Canada

Datatek · Jun 5, 2015

Thor1950 said:
Lucky you. Can't figure out how they can get into Canada. and not the US. The difference of rules:Cry:

Canada has a British influence, USA is protecting Jeep maybe?
Had folks in Mississauga.

Thor1950 · Jun 5, 2015

Dragonwalker said:
20yrs for Canada

All need to be aware that it is almost impossible to import defenders into the U S unless the truck is 25 or more years old and for Canada it needs to be at least 15 years old

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

Dragonwalker said:
20yrs for Canada

15 actually.

Datatek said:
Canada has a British influence...

You would be a surprised at the amount of Canadians that don't know we're still a constitutional monarchy.

blue beasty · Jun 5, 2015

kilr4d said:
15 actually.

You would be a surprised at the amount of Canadians that don't know we're still a constitutional monarchy.

You'd be surprised at how many Brits think of the US as Southern Canada

Datatek · Jun 5, 2015

blue beasty said:
You'd be surprised at how many Brits think of the US as Southern Canada

A lot of Brits think South America starts at the Canadian border

kilr4d · Jun 5, 2015

More digging, few more pics:

Power seemed surprisingly strong for a TD5 with 308k kms...took a look under the passenger seat and sure enough there's a "Powerlink" box attached to the ECM:

The guy that invented wire taps should shot and ****ed on:

Oil has wicked down the harness and into the ECU:

Jam1 · Jun 5, 2015

Canada or as one comedian referred to it " America light"

Thor1950 · Jun 5, 2015

blue beasty said:
You'd be surprised at how many Brits think of the US as Southern Canada

Plenty of snow birds migrante come winter

Datatek · Jun 5, 2015

Thor1950 said:
Plenty of snow birds migrante come winter

Yep brother in law used to spend the winter down south in the USA.

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