what are the best mods

  • winch

    Votes: 2 4.5%
  • tyres

    Votes: 32 72.7%
  • suspention lift

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • engine perfomance

    Votes: 9 20.5%

  • Total voters
    44
  • Poll closed .

drewster

Well-Known Member
:well lets start with a snorkel
then new tyres 265 km2
thats all i have done
what abought you lot
 
diff gaurds(yellow),ring fog lights,and a preformance kit,new filters,and thats bout it , i dont agree with lifting,they were made to go offroad,just inhance it with some chunky tires,and wider stance for stabilty,and better handeling,dont need much else in my opinion. :) oh and the snorkel,light bar,two spotlights with bar, and a new bush kit, and anti roll bars,steering guard. thats ma perfect landy
 
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galvanise anything made from steel...

Fit stainless nuts, bolts and nylon washers where possible...

Now that that's out of the way you can concentrate on pimping it out.

Personally I like lights.... lots of them
 
4 inch lift (mainly helps seeing where the traffic jam ends)
Steering guard
Winch
Rock sliders
Bush guards/cables
Recovery points
Rear bench seats
Diff guards
Roof rack
4 front spots
1 rear spot
Halogen headlights
Clear indicators
Upgraded brakes all round
Braided extended brake hoses
Breathers
Snorkel
Radius arms
Trailing arms
Fully lined rear
Rear storage box for off roading bits
Ply lined rear door with fold down table for cooker
Mud terrain tyres
Extra speakers at head height
Re-spray
Few vinyl graphics (made my own at my last job, got a little carried away)
New exhaust
EGR blanked

Best mod...
New seats! (from a rover 620 or something)
Oh and those foam seat belt pads for boy racers, help with all the bouncing around

Still to do...
Replace van sides with sliding windows
Waxoil again
 
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at the moment wellers & tyres are probably the best mod so far.

tree sliders are to be fitted and will be making a tubular bumper with a-bar, fitting spots and changing the colour but thats about it unless you want to include removing the rear windows and fitting 88" van sides.

fancy a snorkel but dont really think there is much call for it doing what i do but if i found one cheap enough then probably would.
 
so far iv done to the 90

200tdi disco engine (done when i got it)
seat change (half bucket)
2 inch lift
Steering guard
x2 winch's
2x winch bumpers
extra battery
rock sliders
recovery points
2 rear seats
diff guards
roof rack
4 roof ring spots
2 more on A bar
1 rear spot
braided extended brake hoses
extra long breathers
snorkel
CB and 5 foot aerial
carpet lined rear
285,75,16 special track tyres
extra speakers 6x9
tint back windows
England flag graphics on doors
straight throw exhaust
hi lift jack

left to do

fit 300 tdi disco axles
roll cage

the disco

2 inch lift
265,75,16 insa muds
winch and winch bumper
snorkel
cb
seats from a 300tdi
6 spots
 
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Well I thought the Jam were pretty good - or is that the wrong mod for this forum?

Probably an age thing before someone starts!!!!!
 
snorkle 2inch lift full checker plate extended breathers insa turbo 265 trackers bush cables "when i feal like fitting them" light bar 4 spots full bull bar 2 spots raptor dash cb a
 
2 8inch 100w spotlamps, defender steels with 235/70 bfg all terrains, disco tranfer box, rear bench seat :)

Disco rear axle and an engine tweak on the way.. perfect :D
 
The previous owner had fitted a snorkel, driving lights and a soft A-bar. I've got diff guards on order. Then I'll be fitting a steering guard, followed by dog guard and window guards for the back. Probably gonna tint the life out of the back to make it more private (only the back).

The big thing for me is to get some decent steel wheels and get some decent A/T or M/Ts fitted.
 
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The best mod for my 90 was a set of cheap disco alloys which no one bid on so I got em for 99p off ebay and then as they have less offset I fitted a set of bulldog wheel spacers to get the right stance and full steering lock, I was so impressed with the quality that I now stock the spacers on my mail order shop! (sorry for the plug!) They were the only ones that I came accross that had the spiggot in the centre to locate the wheel and not just rely on the wheel nuts and as I do a fair bit of high speed A roads and motorway at 70 it was good to keep the wheels fully in balance, I would recommend them as a cheap way to spruce up the Defender. Mine looks a whole lot better than with the white steels that were on it before!
 

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