james6546 · Mar 15, 2016

I also hate the KBX ones

mikescuba · Mar 15, 2016

james6546 said:
I also hate the KBX ones

You said you were selling yours so your opinion shouldn't count. LOL, good to hear from you. I still can't make up my mind. I thought I had made my choice until I went and saw my Defender in the paint shop. Its been sprayed Aintree Green. In certain light it looks almost black, in the sun its a very dark speckled green. My thoughts are that for a more modern color perhaps I should go with a face lift front grill.

james6546 · Mar 17, 2016

mikescuba said:
You said you were selling yours so your opinion shouldn't count. LOL, good to hear from you. I still can't make up my mind. I thought I had made my choice until I went and saw my Defender in the paint shop. Its been sprayed Aintree Green. In certain light it looks almost black, in the sun its a very dark speckled green. My thoughts are that for a more modern color perhaps I should go with a face lift front grill.

I was going for a silver grille and surrounds until Sarah talked me out of it, I'm glad she did as I saw one the other day and it looked terrible!

The KBX ones may be acceptable in Matt black, but only just acceptable...

Anyways, I'm not selling my 90 now no one was interested!

flat · Mar 17, 2016

aaronmorris said:
I quite like the Nakatanenga grill, was looking at them only last week, think I quite fancy one for my project.
But we'll see, I'm not one for straying too far from standard.

Says he with the lorry engine

mikescuba · Mar 17, 2016

james6546 said:
I was going for a silver grille and surrounds until Sarah talked me out of it, I'm glad she did as I saw one the other day and it looked terrible!

The KBX ones may be acceptable in Matt black, but only just acceptable...

Anyways, I'm not selling my 90 now no one was interested!

I'm surprised no one was interested. I thought they were going like hot cakes. I'm planning on doing the Pyrenees around May time and Morocco later in the year.I finish up working the end of April so I will have plenty of time.
Mine should be ready tomorrow, but I have heard that for the last few weeks. I will put the old grill back on and make a decisions then.

SpaceDawg · Mar 18, 2016

flat said:
Says he with the lorry engine

I'd love a Cummins in mine it would pull really well.

mikescuba · Mar 18, 2016

A 200 tdi that works does the job fairly well. You'l find out once you get yours sorted. I would imagine having a Cummins with all that power would crunch things like diffs etc.

mikescuba · Mar 18, 2016

SpaceDawg said:
I'd love a Cummins in mine it would pull really well.

A 200 tdi that works does the job fairly well. You'l find out once you get yours sorted. I would imagine having a Cummins with all that power would crunch things like diffs etc.

bankz5152 · Mar 18, 2016

mikescuba said:
A 200 tdi that works does the job fairly well. You'l find out once you get yours sorted. I would imagine having a Cummins with all that power would crunch things like diffs etc.

Excuse to fit lockers or LSDs and some HD Ashcroft bits tho!

flat · Mar 18, 2016

mikescuba said:
A 200 tdi that works does the job fairly well. You'l find out once you get yours sorted. I would imagine having a Cummins with all that power would crunch things like diffs etc.

A tdi in fine fettle and an appropriate amount of tune is surprisingly responsive. Love mine.

mikescuba · Mar 19, 2016

flat said:
A tdi in fine fettle and an appropriate amount of tune is surprisingly responsive. Love mine.

Love mine, wouldn't want anything else.

Foxyred · Mar 26, 2016

Re-Spray started

Shanec · Mar 26, 2016

The only manly choice is original.

Anything else is like women with caked makeup, heels, tango-tan, and bleached hair.

Shanec · Mar 26, 2016

Ditto flat; mine is very torquey and pulls much better than td5 Discovery.

mikescuba said:
I'm surprised no one was interested. I thought they were going like hot cakes. I'm planning on doing the Pyrenees around May time and Morocco later in the year.I finish up working the end of April so I will have plenty of time.
Mine should be ready tomorrow, but I have heard that for the last few weeks. I will put the old grill back on and make a decisions then.

They do seem to attract attention. I had a guy stop and ask to buy mine because it looked tidy for original. I told him I don't spend one day a week maintaining it for nothing.

Just this morning I came out to find a business card asking to buy it stuck in the drivers door glass seal.

I have taken some tracking equipment from work and fitted.

mikescuba · Mar 27, 2016

Shanec said:
The only manly choice is original.

Anything else is like women with caked makeup, heels, tango-tan, and bleached hair.

All sounds good to me.

mikescuba · Mar 27, 2016

Foxyred said:
Re-Spray started

Hey, what color is yours? I had mine resprayed Aintree Green.

Shanec · Mar 27, 2016

mikescuba said:
All sounds good to me.

Get yourself a range rover

Foxyred · Mar 27, 2016

The black is primer ready for santinni black, the body colour will be Renault B76 Flame Red.

elan23 · Mar 27, 2016

FYI Just returned from the Nackerthingy website, pleasantly surprised at the grill prices...so bought one, £55 all in delivered. One thing that is interesting is their l/h wing vent lockbox.

mikescuba · Mar 27, 2016

elan23 said:
FYI Just returned from the Nackerthingy website, pleasantly surprised at the grill prices...so bought one, £55 all in delivered. One thing that is interesting is their l/h wing vent lockbox.

Which website is that? Nothing comes up when I do a search. Was that for a Standard Defender grill?

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