Ostonfamily said:

Having just read "The project has landed" I realised that I am one of the multitude who has sacrificed claret to the Land Rover God. bought the Defender nearly a year ago as a work/dog carrying/shooting bus, which it is great for and a project for my 18 yr old son and I to work on, I recently lost him and his good lambing hands to the lure of a year down under so am losing a lot more skin, blood etc as I try to free up bolts that are older than my daughter. Gradually doing her (the landy) up and cosmetically and mechanically she is looking good. Am now at the fitting goodies; spots, a working high level break light etc stage when I am completely out of my depth as done nothing with vehicle electronics before, hence joining the forum. I hope therefore that you can take pity on me and share your accumulated wisdom. I never thought I would enjoy owning a car I can drill holes is as much and if nothing else it has given my family a whole new range of present options.

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Turboman said:

Welcome to the loonyzone, mate!

Wouldnt waste too much skin on freeing bolts, grinder, hammer and cold chisel, or a welding torch makes light work of dismantling.

Dont think there are a huge amount of electronics on a 300Tdi, maybe has a simple ECU. Not 100% on that, my vehicle is a lot older.

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davcud said:

Hello and Welcome

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Ostonfamily said:

Thank you. I began to realise that when replacing the rear fog light. Soon resorted to the newly purchased angle grinder.. one of the reasons I bought her was that there was no electronic brain and "less to go wrong" thinking of fitting an auxiliary fuse box in the battery compt and running new electronics from there if I can get that right should hopefully make life easier going forward

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