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Another cheap nasty illegal headlights from China. No approval markings on them so illegal. Certification according to blurb is DOT. Ooops that is wrong side of the road. Low beam 2250 lumens, well if that is correct you will need a wash system installed No IP rating Delivery via airmail...

Swingaway wheel carriers normally have a door plate which picks up on some of the holes of the standard door wheel carrier. So probably best to remove rear door card and see if the holes for standard wheel carrier are in the reinforcing ribs as a starting point. Brendan

A constant drain of 1.5 amps per hour is 36 amphrs/day from a 90 amphr battery. That battery will be fully discharged in less then 3 days. A battery will start to struggle when the battery is less then 50% charged. If you can not isolate the large parasitic draw an isolator switch with a...

Have you removed the door card and checked if the holes for the rear wheel carrier are in the reinforcing ribs? Brendan

The OP wants a rack for a 90 so unless going for a rack extended over the bonnet the rack will be about 2 metres long or 2.8 metres on a 110. Unless the 2 kayaks are shorter then 2 metres they will be resting on just the luggage rails/end rails of a caged rack unless some support is provided in...

Have a good look at the Nakatanenga Cargobear system. Low profile and modular so you can add/takeaway/alter to your own requirements. Full 90 flat rack, 1m rack at back with bar at front, flat rack down 1/3 or 2/3 sideways with open bars on other side just some possibilities...

Yes we run dashcams. After very nearly having a head on collision with a silly driver (it is not fun doing an emergency stop with a 3.5 tonne trailer behind us on a wet downhill road) we have fitted Nextbase dashcams to our Defenders. Could provide useful evidence in the occurrance of an...

Many sellers claim that their LED headlights are E marked and are road legal. To be road legal the headlights have to carry an approval mark. An approval mark consists of several different parts. Without the correct approval mark the lights are not road legal. If the only markings are DOT...

Lightbar on the road or offroad use only? Offroad anything goes. On road the lightbar will be what is known as an optional headlight so must be approved for road use and be wired correctly. The approval mark will have the light function code R on and the total peak beam reference number must...

Changing the type of light source from a halogen filament bulb to a LED or HID light source apart from the poor light pattern is illegal as the lights are not approved for anything but halogen filament type bulb. If you want to go LED or HID you will have to get an approved complete headlight...

Please be careful from whom and where you buy a Puma bonnet. If you see a so called 'genuine new Puma bonnet/never been fitted' on various auction sites there could be a high possibly it has been stolen! A new bonnet from LR comes in grey primer without hinges bonnet catch etc. So a painted...

Yes and no. The actual LED manufacturers make a big batch of light emitting diodes and then they actually grade them into different bins dependent on many factors including colour temperature, light output etc. There will be up to 10 bins or grades of the same LED. So a LED type from a...

Adrian, what are the light function code on the lights you want to use as a DRL? Brendan

Gottschalk, the maggiolina works well with the Australian Rhino rack heavy duty bars. Brendan

You will find that unistrut nuts will slide down the channels in the bottom of the Maggiolina tent. Two unistruts nuts with 6mm threaded bar either side of your roff bars 6 x 25/30 mm flat bar with 2 x 6.5 holes drilled in to fit the width of your roof bars. HTH Long time since we have been...

Most if not all cheap LED headlights are cheap for a very good reason, they are not road legal. Many sellers will claim that the LED headlights they sell are road legal, that they are E marked that they pass the MOT. However the vast majority of cheap LED headlights are ILLEGAL despite what...

Moron, if you look on sites such as ebay you will find a lot of dodgy, illegal, stolen goods. Comments such as my mate has sold his Jeep/Defender and now wants rid of the Puma bonnet! Really? His mate has sold his Defender without a bonnet? Or buy this named light with correct part number...

Nene Overland is insolvent and is in administration. The directors of Nene Overland formed a phoenix company Nene Overland SV LTD a few days before calling in the administrators. Now I thought it was illegal to trade whilst insolvent. Now a lot of the goods owned/in the possession of Nene...

So there is a 'company' selling a vehicle without the V5, without the VIN and without the number plate?? I would say that alarm bells are not ringing but clanging so loud that I am stone deaf! No legit company would have a vehicle with no identification for sale. Recently spoke to a legit 4x4...

A customer who had never paid their bill? Whilst I do not know what the legal remedy is for a garage who's customer has not paid their bills, why is the VIN missing? If the company has the legal right to sell the vehicle to recover their outstanding invoices any surplus should go to the owner...