What have you done to your Landie today.

Just fitted a Bonnet insulation pad on my 110, 200tdi. When I first saw the pad it looked a bit thin to what I was expecting. At first I thought I had wasted £79. However I fitted it in a few minutes., 6 screws and large washers. Took it for a test drive and there is a noticeable difference. I seem to have lost that tinny echoing sound that comes from under the bonnet. The noise reduction goes right across the range from ticking over to motoring along at 70 mph. I think I will be able to have a conversation without having to shout. Even with the front vents open engine noise is reduced. Happy with my purchase.

fitted all new leds lights and relays to my boys series all work fine except the indicators now stay on except when in hazard mode then thier fine. can get em to run on the old dash panel switch they just don,t like the stalk

Wrestled with a fuel tank for over an hour. First it was one of the rear mounting bolts which I had to cut off after rounding off the nut. Next it was the front bracket, followed by one of the bolts for the side step, which was just too long to allow the tank to drop out. Of course, that bolt was seized (the other one predictably came out fine) so had to cut about 5mm off the end of the bolt to finally allow the tank to drop free.

I also swore at it a lot

Was at Cheshire show and saw this

danny6801 said:

Was at Cheshire show and saw this

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now thats what a landie's susposed to look like. can't see the that new discovery looking like that at the same age

I can't imagine a Discovery Sport with such useful attachments as a circular saw or reciprocating mower either.

I fitted an in car video recorder with front and rear facing cameras cost £26 and is actually really good!

Got a delivery of parts and some new tools too so now I have a long list of jobs to do and I'm off for the next two weeks.

Copied from my jobs list the jobs from this month done and to do:

June

<MOT> *
Replace rear brake discs*
Replace rear brake calipers*
Replace rear brake pads*
Check and reseat rear wheel bearings*
Correction headlight aim*
Change fluid and bleed rear brakes*
Replace O/S ball joint on steering drag link*
Replace both ball joint on rear steering bar*
Replace front lower damper rubber bushes*
Change oil in front diff
Change front diff input pinion oil seal


** Stone chip paint to all the arches.
** Chassis paint (Dinitrol)
** Dinitrol inside of doors
** Dinitrol inside of bulkhead
** Check why rear wiper keeps stopping in up position then starting again.
** Change gearbox oil
** Change transfer box oil
** Replace transfer box front oil seal
** Replace transfer box rear oil seal
** Change oil in rear diff
** Bleed and change fluid in clutch
** Change both engine mounts
** Change both gearbox mounts
** Fit diff covers

cowasaki said:

I fitted an in car video recorder with front and rear facing cameras cost £26 and is actually really good!

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Do you have a link? I could do with those.

Fan ku

viamphie said:

Do you have a link? I could do with those.

Fan ku

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Whoops.... it's £32....

HD 1080P In Car Vehicle Dual Lens Dashboard Camera Video Recorder DVR CAM | eBay

cowasaki said:

Whoops.... it's £32....



HD 1080P In Car Vehicle Dual Lens Dashboard Camera Video Recorder DVR CAM | eBay

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Thanks.

Purchased it. I've already got one similar in my works van. That'll do nicely. It's always best to buy through recommendation.

viamphie said:

Thanks.

Purchased it. I've already got one similar in my works van. That'll do nicely. It's always best to buy through recommendation.

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The build quality isn't brilliant but for £32 it's pretty good. It comes with a permanent mount which works perfectly on the nearly vertical defender windscreen and when set to the rear camera gives a better view than the rear view mirror for what behind. Shame it's only got a small screen I'd pay £100 for a better quality version with SD card slot that accepts bigger cards and a bigger screen. It has a video output socket so will see how that works because I have a 12v 7" screen

Dropped him off at flatdog

cowasaki said:

The build quality isn't brilliant but for £32 it's pretty good. It comes with a permanent mount which works perfectly on the nearly vertical defender windscreen and when set to the rear camera gives a better view than the rear view mirror for what behind. Shame it's only got a small screen I'd pay £100 for a better quality version with SD card slot that accepts bigger cards and a bigger screen. It has a video output socket so will see how that works because I have a 12v 7" screen

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I never thought to check..... Does it record both angles at the same time?

Typical Bloke. Just push the buy it now button and worry about it later [emoji57]

viamphie said:

I never thought to check..... Does it record both angles at the same time?

Typical Bloke. Just push the buy it now button and worry about it later [emoji57]

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Yes. If you take out the microSD card there are two folders, one for each camera. The display can be set for front, rear, front with rear in the top 1/3rd, rear with front in the top 1/3rd or off but it's always recording. If something happens you press one of the buttons and it transfers that recording to another protected folder so it doesn't get written over however it keeps the last maybe 8 hours anyway.

Excellent. Bargain.

Perfect for recording all the off-roading

viamphie said:

Excellent. Bargain.

Perfect for recording all the off-roading

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It'll arrive set to Chinese in the menu though!! You have to set it to English and set the time.


Also it's rechargeable battery needs fully charging a couple of times before it holds a decent charge so once switched to English turn OFF auto recording when powered up in order to charge it for the full 12 hours it says then set it to automatically start recording when powered up. It even has a microphone for commentaries

Fitted LED flashing 'hazard warning' lights. Also mounted spare wheel onto bonnet. Never liked it in the tub

Rosie are you wrapping it ready for Xmas? [emoji6]

Ordered a Southdown snorkel and a pre-filter, son has ordered a set of 16 x 8 black deep dish modular wheels.

i made a bit of an internal rod rack for carrying loose sea rods ( not in rod case ) nothing major just two pieces of 1.1/2" x 1" timber and 4 x brackets to suit then painted the brackets, here are some pic's before i painted the brackets more pic's tomorrow as the bracket are drying