Enthusiastman
Well-Known Member
Taking my L405 to have its front and rear lights tinted today. Only having a light tint applied as do not want to " chav " it. My mate had his done a few weeks ago and its looks so much better for it.
Is that legal?
gold rover
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Yes, with restrictions. Off the top of my head : the original colour of headlights cannot be changed, and cannot reduce light emitted by more than 50%* , that's the only two I can think of right now.
* quite interesting as the usual cry is "how can I make my headlights brighter"
dont forget 'how can i make my headlights more white'
we seem to be obsessed at the mo with LED lighting on cars/roads because its 'more like daylight, with more colour' and 'better than yellow sodium lamps', but the thing is once your eyes adjust, you become night blind again
Enthusiastman
Well-Known Member
Yes 100% legal Kermie. I only went for the very lightest tint available which brings the car up to the 2018/9 model lights which are the same level of tint from factory. He also has a special light emitter machine which he puts in front ( bit like an M.O.T tester uses ) which gives out a digital " LEGAL " reading. They are well within the law. Its those muppets who go " Illegal " dark like windows who ask for trouble from plod. Ive noticed tinted number plates lately!!!! WHY!!!!! numpties. Plus i am not allowed out to play now after 6pm as have tea at 5pm, quick walkies around the block, bath time and jammies ready for bed. LOL. Its the safer option these days.
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Enthusiastman
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I very rarely drive at night now Kermie so TBF it don't bother me. Far too many knobbers out on the roads at night these days usually dealing drugs. You only have to watch Police interceptors of an evening to see why. LOL
You mean in black range rovers wiv blacked out windows n blacked out lights?
myfirstl322
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L322 boots fill themselves, there must have been 1.5 gallons in my SC boot, although to be fair most of that was of @tomcat59alans making.
This is the only thing going into my next one!
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Enthusiastman
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Each to their own.
Enthusiastman
Well-Known Member
Most likely Kermie. LOLYou mean in black range rovers wiv blacked out windows n blacked out lights?
Bricking too? Is there no end to your talents?
brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
Working on my own for so many years you get to do all sorts, i have built rooms put up ceilings and plastered them and the walls do all the wood work, used to do the electrics on kitchens as well as fit them and occasionally i actually do a bit of plumbing
Fl@pper
Active Member
Picked it up yesterday (doesn't count I know)
Spent the morning using BMW scanner to try reprogram the lock chirp and all door unlock on remote (Mrs always too fast pulling doors and I know it will annoy her)
Lost a knuckle changing dash Interior light bulb (her side)
Put me fluffy toys in it
Removed and refitted rear lamps to see what bulbs to get as the supercharged rear lights (already fitted) look good but at night the red looks a little pink to me / save up for red n clear one methinks
Oh and parked up after meal out tonight with suspension on full height for ***** n giggles just to see short ass Mrs drop out the door hehehehe
Spent the morning using BMW scanner to try reprogram the lock chirp and all door unlock on remote (Mrs always too fast pulling doors and I know it will annoy her)
Lost a knuckle changing dash Interior light bulb (her side)
Put me fluffy toys in it
Removed and refitted rear lamps to see what bulbs to get as the supercharged rear lights (already fitted) look good but at night the red looks a little pink to me / save up for red n clear one methinks
Oh and parked up after meal out tonight with suspension on full height for ***** n giggles just to see short ass Mrs drop out the door hehehehe
hef19898
Well-Known Member
Today we arrived at the mid way point of our trip to Normandie, France. And well I really am spoiled by modern cars!
But right now she performed the 1k km trip marvelous! Rear suspension is acting up, but I didn't have to replace the shocks before. Lessons learned:
- the sleeping arrangement doesn't work, the kids in a ground tent is fine, the adults in the car not so much. To much hassle building the bed every other day, let alone cooking. So next time we'll try a roof top tent and put the folding kayak in the back.
- Fuel consumption. Man, she's thirsty! On our way to Paris, we filled up THREE times. That hurts. So for the planned Sardinia trip we switched cars to my dad's T5 California.
- Noise: Acceptable, starts to be an issue after 4 hours of driving.
I love the V8, I really do. But with a potential gearbox replacement coming up (the current one is getting noisier, and she did some really heavy pulling of over 6 tons over the alps in a previous life) I almost thinking about throwing a Diesel and a 5 speed gearbox in there. Did anybody do something like that with a pre-85 model? I am asking for a friend!
Stay safe everybody!
But right now she performed the 1k km trip marvelous! Rear suspension is acting up, but I didn't have to replace the shocks before. Lessons learned:
- the sleeping arrangement doesn't work, the kids in a ground tent is fine, the adults in the car not so much. To much hassle building the bed every other day, let alone cooking. So next time we'll try a roof top tent and put the folding kayak in the back.
- Fuel consumption. Man, she's thirsty! On our way to Paris, we filled up THREE times. That hurts. So for the planned Sardinia trip we switched cars to my dad's T5 California.
- Noise: Acceptable, starts to be an issue after 4 hours of driving.
I love the V8, I really do. But with a potential gearbox replacement coming up (the current one is getting noisier, and she did some really heavy pulling of over 6 tons over the alps in a previous life) I almost thinking about throwing a Diesel and a 5 speed gearbox in there. Did anybody do something like that with a pre-85 model? I am asking for a friend!
Stay safe everybody!
Fl@pper
Active Member
Have topped up cars before with a quick can kit but after alternator change mine needs as full refilll. May as well get it done proper machine u guess
Henry_b
Think outside, no box required.
I went to collect some RV8 cylinder head from a local chap We shook hands and said our laterz dude bit and I returned to the car, pulled the handle and only then did it sink in the gravity of the situation I had just put myself into I had inadvertently hit the lock when getting out
The car was locked! Running, phone in there all cozy and warm and locked... with me outside.
Holy crap!
By now the geezer had run back to whatever flat he had come from and I was alone...
Ill phone the missis I thought as I stared at my phone on the passenger seat...
Funnily enough, only today was I discussing the extortionate cost of rear quarter windows and I thought of that as I laid the boot in to the nsr window. It's very strong and resisted my frustrating attempts. I NEED A BRICK! Yeah, old skool stuff, lob a brick at it! I couldn't do it, not to my beloved Rangie and I couldn't find a brick anyway. I needed another plan and to calm the hell down. All this wanton destruction All I needed was a set of specialist tools. lolz.
I decided to go and have a local search of the area for appropriate materials to fashion into tools. It was a weird feeling jogging away from your own car, with your life on display and running, but hey, if it got broken into, they would actually be doing me a favour.
Would you believe that under 5 minutes I had found a bundle of plastic coated metal lengths discarded in a park, approx 1 meter long, just shy really. I went back to the car, forced the top on the passenger door frame but really it was consuming all my strength and no way would I get a bit of this metal in there, let alone **** about with it trying to hit the lock release. I needed a wedge.
Where do you get a wedge from I hear you ask? Well everyone knows that there is always foam pipe lagging discarded in the front storage of a dumped caravan. Tore me a bit of that off and ran back to the car. Forcing the frame out in the rain whist trying not to damage the paint and cause any dents from knees is near on impossible, but we got the foam in there a bit. Looking through the gap, I had made a 3mm gap through the rubbers, certainly enough to ram a 10mm piece of powder coated metal into. Depends how desperate you are really.
I got the metal in and saw it emerge on the inside- much excitement, and I was near on having a hyper when it latched onto the internal catch, but would that thing move? No. the metal kept slipping off in the most dumb, frustrating way possible. As Edd China once said "I need more purchase", and using all my ramming skillz and the power of Greyskull, managed to open the frame another 0.5 mm. Several thousand attempts at 'flicking' the release later and in the dim light it looked as though it had gone, I paused...
I couldn't believe my eyes, it had actually worked, the door was unlocked!
My rod controlling hand (ooer) is shredded to bits with skin falling off and ****. I got home and put a light over the areas. We are very lucky, the plastic coating saved any damage to the paint, I bent the frame slightly so that it lined up again, it really wasn't too bad at all. Some grazing on the rubber is the worst of it and loads of debris stuck to the wet car from that lagging breaking up.
The most impressive thing is that whilst I was doing all this, not one person, not one even batted an eyelid at me!
What a day!
The car was locked! Running, phone in there all cozy and warm and locked... with me outside.
Holy crap!
By now the geezer had run back to whatever flat he had come from and I was alone...
Ill phone the missis I thought as I stared at my phone on the passenger seat...
Funnily enough, only today was I discussing the extortionate cost of rear quarter windows and I thought of that as I laid the boot in to the nsr window. It's very strong and resisted my frustrating attempts. I NEED A BRICK! Yeah, old skool stuff, lob a brick at it! I couldn't do it, not to my beloved Rangie and I couldn't find a brick anyway. I needed another plan and to calm the hell down. All this wanton destruction All I needed was a set of specialist tools. lolz.
I decided to go and have a local search of the area for appropriate materials to fashion into tools. It was a weird feeling jogging away from your own car, with your life on display and running, but hey, if it got broken into, they would actually be doing me a favour.
Would you believe that under 5 minutes I had found a bundle of plastic coated metal lengths discarded in a park, approx 1 meter long, just shy really. I went back to the car, forced the top on the passenger door frame but really it was consuming all my strength and no way would I get a bit of this metal in there, let alone **** about with it trying to hit the lock release. I needed a wedge.
Where do you get a wedge from I hear you ask? Well everyone knows that there is always foam pipe lagging discarded in the front storage of a dumped caravan. Tore me a bit of that off and ran back to the car. Forcing the frame out in the rain whist trying not to damage the paint and cause any dents from knees is near on impossible, but we got the foam in there a bit. Looking through the gap, I had made a 3mm gap through the rubbers, certainly enough to ram a 10mm piece of powder coated metal into. Depends how desperate you are really.
I got the metal in and saw it emerge on the inside- much excitement, and I was near on having a hyper when it latched onto the internal catch, but would that thing move? No. the metal kept slipping off in the most dumb, frustrating way possible. As Edd China once said "I need more purchase", and using all my ramming skillz and the power of Greyskull, managed to open the frame another 0.5 mm. Several thousand attempts at 'flicking' the release later and in the dim light it looked as though it had gone, I paused...
I couldn't believe my eyes, it had actually worked, the door was unlocked!
My rod controlling hand (ooer) is shredded to bits with skin falling off and ****. I got home and put a light over the areas. We are very lucky, the plastic coating saved any damage to the paint, I bent the frame slightly so that it lined up again, it really wasn't too bad at all. Some grazing on the rubber is the worst of it and loads of debris stuck to the wet car from that lagging breaking up.
The most impressive thing is that whilst I was doing all this, not one person, not one even batted an eyelid at me!
What a day!
RangeRoller dt
Well-Sprung Member
like brake lines you mean?occasionally i actually do a bit of plumbing
So the wipers, scuttle and trims have been taken off. If I’ve come this far, for the money I reckon only way get her back on the road relatively quickly is to do windshield Me self? There’s many different options relating to vin number so in my head that means the cheapest one fits whatever vin it’s for
all same shape Shirley? the bond is only about £15 and all the trim and fixings are intact even after 26 years...no point in wasting them ...
