CocaineOnTheCob
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HI all, been a member of the forum for a few years now and have since inherited my families defender 90 for my birthday last year. (I know, spoilt brat)
Me and my dad have been working on this 90 for the last 3/4 years, using just for offroading every month (at best) and some light work pulling trailers, hauling fire wood. etc...
Thought it was about time to make a thread about it, from when we first started to now.
Sep '19 - I convinced my dad to take me to the LRO show, this got us started on the defender bug after we almost bought a cheap disco 2 for sale.
Nov '19 - Landy secured at some point in-between (hard to track) and first outing.
...it broke, what a way to spend my 15th birthday, freezing in a truck with no working alternator.
Jan '20 - A second try at offroading after making a few repairs and upgrade, alternator, steering gaurd, diff protection.
I got it stuck, just 5 mins after being given the wheel. A winch out at the play site and back to getting muddy we went.
March '21 - A while had gone past since anything major, a few offroad outings. Also a complete interior rebuild over the lockdowns, retrimmed seats, cheap Chinese stereo and sound deading. Sadly all these images were lost over time.
So, heres a picture of something being fixed during that time:
And a complete LOF brake upgrade to go along with the stage 1 remap and egr blanking.
Heres where it gets really fun though.
April '21 - new wheels, very sexy, mostly legal
Nov '22 - Not alot has happened. a few offroad outings, simply landrover show and the lro show. Things start to pick up from here.
The day we collected its younger brother? sister? who cares its another defender
Then later in November, it becomes mine and.... I broke it, first drive out in it after spending 2k on insurance (I sometimes hate being young) and handbrake cable snapped.
With that fixed it was onto some more upgrades, its time for the subwoofers
I put in a few upgrades:
Out with the Chinese stereo, nice sony double din instead.
Focal es1300k speakers with an Alpine amplifier
March '23 - Light bar on, not wired up and now creating an awful whine. Back off she goes then.
Light bar whine has been fixed, hopefully, but little chance to put it back on. A new battery when she failed to start during the cold winter days. Also removed the front spot lights due to their shoddy wiring that was spliced into the main headlight wires.
Which brings us to today, light bar still not back on, new centre exhaust pipe ready to be fitted, and college exams coming up soon so not a lot of work is being done.
Me and my dad have been working on this 90 for the last 3/4 years, using just for offroading every month (at best) and some light work pulling trailers, hauling fire wood. etc...
Thought it was about time to make a thread about it, from when we first started to now.
Sep '19 - I convinced my dad to take me to the LRO show, this got us started on the defender bug after we almost bought a cheap disco 2 for sale.
Nov '19 - Landy secured at some point in-between (hard to track) and first outing.
...it broke, what a way to spend my 15th birthday, freezing in a truck with no working alternator.
Jan '20 - A second try at offroading after making a few repairs and upgrade, alternator, steering gaurd, diff protection.
I got it stuck, just 5 mins after being given the wheel. A winch out at the play site and back to getting muddy we went.
March '21 - A while had gone past since anything major, a few offroad outings. Also a complete interior rebuild over the lockdowns, retrimmed seats, cheap Chinese stereo and sound deading. Sadly all these images were lost over time.
So, heres a picture of something being fixed during that time:
And a complete LOF brake upgrade to go along with the stage 1 remap and egr blanking.
Heres where it gets really fun though.
April '21 - new wheels, very sexy, mostly legal
Nov '22 - Not alot has happened. a few offroad outings, simply landrover show and the lro show. Things start to pick up from here.
The day we collected its younger brother? sister? who cares its another defender
Then later in November, it becomes mine and.... I broke it, first drive out in it after spending 2k on insurance (I sometimes hate being young) and handbrake cable snapped.
With that fixed it was onto some more upgrades, its time for the subwoofers
I put in a few upgrades:
Out with the Chinese stereo, nice sony double din instead.
Focal es1300k speakers with an Alpine amplifier
March '23 - Light bar on, not wired up and now creating an awful whine. Back off she goes then.
Light bar whine has been fixed, hopefully, but little chance to put it back on. A new battery when she failed to start during the cold winter days. Also removed the front spot lights due to their shoddy wiring that was spliced into the main headlight wires.
Which brings us to today, light bar still not back on, new centre exhaust pipe ready to be fitted, and college exams coming up soon so not a lot of work is being done.
