Help Fitting an Outside Temperature Guage

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Hi all, I'm new here, so please be gentle with me!

When I bought my (first) Freelander Freestyle 4 Door TD4 Automatic (2005 Reg) a few months ago, I was disappointed to find that there was no Outside Temperature Guage (something I have become quite used to on all my other non Land Rover vehicles). I have bought an aftermarket small backlit LCD Inside/Outside Temperature Guage which works quite well. It comes with 3m of cable with a small sensor on the end, which they recommend goes just behind the front bumper away from the heat of the engine and of course avoiding the wind chill factor. Starting from somewhere around the centre console, does anyone have any tips or advice on which is the best route through to the Engine Compartment, thence on and down to behind the front bumper. I'm no car mechanic, but I do know the basics and have the Haynes Manual to hand! Many thanks in advance for any help out there.

Regards
 
Have a look up behind the fusebox (below steering wheel) at the bulkhead between the car and engine compartment to find an opening thats sealed with a rubber grommet then cut the grommet to allow the sensor to pass through. I fitted one (not on a Freelander) and had to extend the sensor - easy to cut the cable and solder in additional length of wire.

I have fitted this one to my Freelander
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It comes with a backlight and it fits in place of the clock in the dash and you can use the clock light feed to power the backlight. Due to running out of time my sensor is temporarily fitted at the bottom of the drivers door shut.
 
"I have fitted this one to my Freelander
Click
It comes with a backlight and it fits in place of the clock in the dash and you can use the clock light feed to power the backlight. Due to running out of time my sensor is temporarily fitted at the bottom of the drivers door shut. "

If anyone is interested I have a brand-new one of these for sale, not even removed from the packaging. I bought a pair, one for the 90 and one for the Freelander but my wife has decided she doesn't want one in the Freelander after all.
 
Mantamad said:
Have a look up behind the fusebox (below steering wheel) at the bulkhead between the car and engine compartment to find an opening thats sealed with a rubber grommet then cut the grommet to allow the sensor to pass through. I fitted one (not on a Freelander) and had to extend the sensor - easy to cut the cable and solder in additional length of wire.

I have fitted this one to my Freelander
Click
It comes with a backlight and it fits in place of the clock in the dash and you can use the clock light feed to power the backlight. Due to running out of time my sensor is temporarily fitted at the bottom of the drivers door shut.
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Thanks for the advice/tip Mantamad as well as the link - looks interesting. Much appreciated.

Regards
 
Does anyone know more of the temperature kit used here:
Freelander MY2001 Exterior Temperature Display
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50cc you are better saving the photo and adding as a attachment as the the link won't let you see it unless your logged in
 
facer said:
50cc you are better saving the photo and adding as a attachment as the the link won't let you see it unless your logged in
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You're right:
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Litch said:
"I have fitted this one to my Freelander
Click
It comes with a backlight and it fits in place of the clock in the dash and you can use the clock light feed to power the backlight. Due to running out of time my sensor is temporarily fitted at the bottom of the drivers door shut. "

If anyone is interested I have a brand-new one of these for sale, not even removed from the packaging. I bought a pair, one for the 90 and one for the Freelander but my wife has decided she doesn't want one in the Freelander after all.
Click to expand...
What colour is the backlight and is it permanently on or can the backlight be wired to come on with the lights???GD
 
Here are a couple of photos showing the unit fitted in my Freelander. The digits are quite bright and easy to read but have not come up very well with my phone camera:rolleyes:

I have set it to the orange back light but there is a switch on the unit that allows this to change to a blue back light.

Clock2.jpg


Clock1.jpg
 
freelander2002 said:
Did you just remove the clock and sit it in the whole?
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You can do this if you don't need the back light working as the clock is powered by 2 watch type batteries, the clock is just taped to the inside of the surround piece by insulating tape.

I wired it into the light feed of the original clock so the back light comes on with the ignition, there is a bit of work involved here as the backlight is designed to be plugged into the cars cigarette lighter and this plug has some circuitry inside it to reduce the voltage to the clock unit to something like 1.5v.

One end of the plug is into the cigarette lighter, the other has a plug to put into the clock unit but this plug that goes into the clock makes the unit too big to fit into the recess into the dash so I had to cut off the plug and solder the wires directly to the circuit board - not difficult to do though.

At the other end the wire from the car used to light the original clock is connected to the cigarette lighter plug, this is then installed behind the clock and the clock fitted together with the original fascia surround.
 
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