Defender rebuild - leave galvanised or paint?

[fizzy]

Nice work mate and thoughts are with you. Nice Landy to drive for winter up there now.

Yes well said!
All the best and a great job.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

There was a tragic case where a 110 went into a river or canal and a load of kids drowned. I am not going to comment on the case itself but I was very concerned by the coroners/police report. Basically they criticised the modifications to the vehicle. The main thing they attacked was the roll over cage. They said it made the vehicle top heavy on the road and dangerous. They criticised the bloke heavily for fitting it.
And yet there are plenty of police vehicles with roll cages along with many commercial Land Rovers. Should they be banned from main roads?

as i remember it, the main thing that was found in that case was a combination of mismatched brake calipers across an axle, and bushes knacked in the trailing arms that caused rear wheel steer under heavy braking?

 

[GW8IZR]

as i remember it, the main thing that was found in that case was a combination of mismatched brake calipers across an axle, and bushes knacked in the trailing arms that caused rear wheel steer under heavy braking?

There was a lot of evidence gathered from a forum that he had a history of make do and mend, he didn't do himself any favours nor did his partner.. it was a big mess made worse by the press baying for blood.

I remember reading his posts and he's an interesting bloke, he still has a net presence although nothing to do with motoring.

 

[Rannsachair]

Nice work mate and thoughts are with you. Nice Landy to drive for winter up there now.

Thanks, took some photo's crossing the Rest and be Thankful today to see my consultant, chemo on hold until I get a wee heart operation!

 

[Tinbasherdan]

There was a lot of evidence gathered from a forum that he had a history of make do and mend, he didn't do himself any favours nor did his partner.. it was a big mess made worse by the press baying for blood.

I remember reading his posts and he's an interesting bloke, he still has a net presence although nothing to do with motoring.

i remember the discussions from various forums, and yes there was the overall impression that he was an enthusiastic home mechanic, but was lacking in the ability department. whatever the press made of it, he still killed his kids by driving a poorly built bag of crap around with them in.

 

[GW8IZR]

Thanks, took some photo's crossing the Rest and be Thankful today, saw my consultant, chemo on hold until I get a wee heart operation!

Its my assumption that the piper wasn't there awaiting the coaches.

Fantastic place to visit, we had a radio site not far from there

 

[GW8IZR]

i remember the discussions from various forums, and yes there was the overall impression that he was an enthusiastic home mechanic, but was lacking in the ability department. whatever the press made of it, he still killed his kids by driving a poorly built bag of crap around with them in.

For sure that's not in dispute. He even had close friends telling him not to do some of the things he got up to. He has to live with that.

 

[Bobtail4x4]

For sure that's not in dispute. He even had close friends telling him not to do some of the things he got up to. He has to live with that.

I know him well, he was skint,

 

[GW8IZR]

I know him well, he was skint,

I'm certainly not making any judgement on his conduct or actions here, as I said I read many of his posts on another forum and he seemed like someone I'd get on with. Skint or not there are things I wouldn't chance but everyone makes their own way through life. It was a bad turn of events and in my view made worse by others. I'm not making any further comment about it on here.

 

[fizzy]

Awesome piccies there mate!

 

[mechman]

Thanks, took some photo's crossing the Rest and be Thankful today to see my consultant, chemo on hold until I get a wee heart operation! Stunning.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Its my assumption that the piper wasn't there awaiting the coaches.

I thought it might be Mrs R taking a pic on her phone?

 

[GW8IZR]

One of my customers engineers used to moonlight there doing that ;-)

by all accounts he was very good.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

One of my customers engineers used to moonlight there doing that ;-)

by all accounts he was very good.

Probably made "lodes of emone", like wot Harry Enfield did......

 

[Rannsachair]

I thought it might be Mrs R taking a pic on her phone?

She will kill me if she sees that

 

[Rannsachair]

I have owned my Defender for 13 years and never polished it. Parked next to the Alfa it looks very dull

, but with all its scratches from off roading I never bothered:

I picked up a cheap katsu DA polisher and after a few hours:

Am amazed at the difference for a few hours polishing...not quite in Kim's league, but certainly kooks better, even if the dents and dings don't polish out.

 

[lexi]

It's a cracker! I bet if you turned it upside down it would look good underneath too...........which is what really matters.
Hope you are healthy.

 

[Rannsachair]

It's a cracker! I bet if you turned it upside down it would look good underneath too...........which is what really matters.
Hope you are healthy.

Thanks is cleaner underneath....just fitted a bargain set of hardly used front calipers and new discs replacing the last set of cheap calipers that lasted about 5 years.

 

[wookie]

That's a tidy looking landy you got there @Rannsachair , I just had a thought, are the little windows either side of the rear door still as easy as ever to push in ? That's how they got into my old 110 when it was nicked. I'm not worried that I'm telling the wrong people how to break into a landy because all the scrotbags already know how to get into them but I know a few owners who don't realise how easy they can be to get into.

 

[Rannsachair]

That's a tidy looking landy you got there @Rannsachair , I just had a thought, are the little windows either side of the rear door still as easy as ever to push in ? That's how they got into my old 110 when it was nicked. I'm not worried that I'm telling the wrong people how to break into a landy because all the scrotbags already know how to get into them but I know a few owners who don't realise how easy they can be to get into.

I believe they are a weak point and the reason folk fit mesh grills over them. I am lucky i live out in the sticks where many folk leave the keys in their car and do not lock their front doors.

I do occasionally take mine into Glasgow, so will look into a security upgrade, though its big tyres and lifted suspension means it does not fit into multi-storey car parks, so it is really only when there is heavy snow.