I have a 12-volt, 100W Coleman halogen lantern, run from vehicle (second) battery, and like it. However, for most purposes the light is too bright. Would it be a simple matter to add into the cable a regulator (this probably isn’t the correct word) – a dimmer, more like- so I can adjust the...

For camp cooking up to now, we’ve been using a small one-burner stove that runs on 16 cm x 6.5 cm-diameter cylinders of what we call “Korea gas’ since it’s ubiquitous in Korea (and also found in Mongolia (Korean cylinders refilled) and Iran, but by no means everywhere. For the overland trip...

By the time we leave on our overland trip, which might be for 40,000 / 50,000 km., our LR Defender 110 Td5 (2.5 litre diesel engine) CSW will have done about 60,000 km. It has been well taken care of and serviced every 10,000 km. I plan to carry a well-stocked supply of spare parts...

By the time we leave on our overland trip, which might be for 40,000 / 50,000 km., our LR Defender 110 Td5 (2.5 litre diesel engine) CSW will have done about 60,000 km. It has been well taken care of and serviced every 10,000 km. I plan to carry a well-stocked supply of spare parts, including...

I’ve been keen to buy an A-Bar for my Defender 110 CSW, but am wondering if these bars are mainly just cosmetic and mainly useful for putting extra lights on. I’d thought that an A-bar would offer some protection in the case of a lightish front-end bump, but maybe they’re not very useful. I...

Some time ago I had an internal roll cage fitted to my Defender 110 CSW. The front vertical pieces are fitted at the point where the door frame divides front from second-row seats; the rear vertical bars bolt to the body just behind the rear door. Thus, the front cross section runs just behind...

Is Rebel4x4 so named because it has rebelled against norms of decent service and decided that customers (this one, anyway) should be treated as beggars who are pleading for their goods? (Unfortunately) I'd like to buy an A-Bar from them, but they don't seem very interested in this fact. Even my...

I am thinking of buying Wipac spotlights to mount on the bull bar of my defender 110 CSW. Surveying the forums, I read “go for a flood over a spot, obviously”, but all the lights of this kind I see advertised are referred to as “spots”. Nowhere is “flood (light)” mentioned. Is there something...

Noisekiller UK tells me that Lead-lined engine blankets are available for the engine and bell houing areas. They cost £78.26 and £91.30 each, plus carriage. These would be for my Defender 110 CSW Td5. I wonder if any of you have used them, or a similar thing. I've already fitted Noisekiller's...

Yeah, noise has already been mentioned. I'm in the process of fitting sound-dampening materials to my Defender. I have a chequer-plate sheet for the rear door (never fitted it) but now don't plan too as it would be a wonderful reflector of noise.

In my Defender 110 CSW – as in everyone else’s, I believe, and no doubt in all Defenders – the front seat belts coil up into a kind of “box” which is mounted with one large nut on the bottom panelling behind the seat and near the rear door. I want to loosen off this nut in order to release...

As part of my sound-dampening procedures for my Defender 110 CSW, I’ve been considering the use of Bituplus Modified Waterproofing membrane to reduce vibration in the floors, side panels and roof. Of course, bitumen (asphalt) contains carcinogens. While there is most danger to (e.g.) roofing...

I am wondering about the usefulness of POLYETHYLENE FOAM SHEET for use as sound dampening material in my Defender. Locally (southern Oman) it is difficult to find the materials I want, but I can buy the above (3/8 inch thick). Would it be suitable/effective/useful? I envisage using it in...

Hi Rowley, I don't have lead-lined engine and transmission blankets and don't know where I could get them.

Hi Jai, I’ve just finished fitting to my LR 110 CSW almost all the bits contained in the “Noisekiller” sound-dampening kit. The Noisekiller kit contains a piece about 42 x 33 cm, designed to fit to passenger-side bulkhead (not fitted) The NK kit contains some “pads”, thin, rubbery and...

I’ve just finished fitting to my LR 110 CSW almost all the bits contained in the “Noisekiller” sound-dampening kit. As my expectation wasn’t high, I’m perhaps not too disappointed with the results. Suffice to say that the noise is far from “killed”. My first question: as regards...

On my Landrover Defender Td5 County Station Wagon 110 (year 2005) I have just fitted new Michelin LTX A/T 2 tyres (LT 235/85R16 120R). (The treads are different from the earlier LTX A/T.) What pressures (front and back) and FULLY LOADED and NOT LOADED should these be run at? The LR handbook...

it's shirley a Morrisons lock now though? It's surely a Morrison's lock now, though?

I would like some advice, from anyone who’s used it or knows about it, about the Safeway D-101 Lock, which I am considering using for the doors of my Defender 110 County Station Wagon, 2005. Specifically: Why did you choose this lock rather than one of the alternatives? Can it be...

I need an A-Bar for my air-con Defender 110. Was looking at the one marketed by Rebel 4x4. Are these reliable and trustworthy people, both in terms of the quality of what they sell and delivering what they say they’ll deliver when they say they’ll do that? (I asked them about another item...