I'm truly sorry to hear this. Ouch! It's a real beaut. Looks like one I saw at Famous Four, Louth, belonging to one of the staff. One of your photos appears to show a grille across the back window. Was this cut too?

On my Defender 110 CSW’s roof-rack I want to carry my second spare wheel. For a vehicle that will be quite heavily or perhaps fully loaded, what is the best possible position for the 32 kg wheel: fully forward, in the centre, or where?

Thanks again. My answers to a couple of points: Oman is extremely safe and crime is as low as it's likely to be in any place on earth. However, we are in the preparation stages of a long trip and want to be able to park the vehicle anywhere and feel it's as secure as it can be. All our...

Simmonites sell a two-piece rear side set for GBP 99.99. On a pro-rata basis (area in sq. metres), the remaining four grilles would be priced at GBP 63 and GBP 80 (each, per pair). The windscreen grille would cost GBP 110. That's a total of GBP 353 for grilles that are basically one piece of...

Thanks for the feedback. So would you three guys like to say how much you think the seven-piece set should cost? Can you say where the pricing I've given is too expensive? Oman is generally cheaper than the UK, but not in everything and I'm not sure by how much. (If you're interested, diesel...

But pop rivets would make them non-removable.

I’m about to have removable window grilles fitted to the inside of my rear and front doors. The guy doing it suggests simply drilling through the inner layer of aluminium and bolting the frames onto the door that way. My idea was to fit Rivnuts or something similar. That would give something...

I’ve just been reading about powder coating and watching some YouTube vids extolling its virtues. From recent experience, however, I’m not fully convinced. My powder-coated aluminium roof rack has been on for less than a year and was the worse for wear (til renovated) and the powder coating on...

I am having window grilles made for my LR Defender 110 CSW. I already have grilles across the back (two small side windows and the rear screen) and there will be new ones as follows: on each rear side window, on each rear passenger window, on each front (driver & front-seat passenger) window...

I’ve just talked to a metalworker/fitter about having protective grilles fitted to the rear side windows (i.e. the ones behind the passenger doors) of my Landrover DefenderTd5 County Station Wagon 110 (year 2005). One of the ideas he mentioned is as follows: weld a number of bolts...

Not to me, it doesn't, treestump.

On my Defender I at present have the following security measures installed: Meck Lock; electrical cut-out (in the form of a battery isolator switch); full metal jacket; heavy chain and padlock between floor and steering wheel. With the exception of the chain and possibly the FMJ (depending on...

Hi, thanks for replies and advice so far. I notice that so far there’s no mention of MICHELIN. Though money is not the key issue, the fact that I have one unused Michelin LTX A/T 23/85 (cost of app.USD 130 equiv) sitting on my spare wheel carrier means that if I used it I’d need...

From new, my Landrover Defender (2005) CSW 110 has had fitted General Grabber TR tyres, 235/85R 16C tubeless. I have run them on-road at 48 psi back and 28psi front, the pressures reccd in the LR handbook. For various off-road terrains I’ve run them at what I believed to be suitable pressures...

I want to buy a bottle jack for my LR Defender. These are pretty thin on the ground where I live, especially since I won’t buy one made in China. “Mega” brand is available (Melchor Gabilondo, Vigo, Spain) and I’d be happy with that. There is a 3-ton model (costs equiv. GBP 18) and a 15-ton...

Having reflected more on the noise and listened to it again, I want to say that there's also an element of creaking in there. Sort of rattle + creak + vibration.

My Defender CSW is a 110, year 2005. For both tanks, I paid a total of South African rand 4,035.09, free of VAT as they were exported. That included all fittings etc. and pump. It was a reasonable price. Please look at exchange site for GBP equivalent. Price might be different now. Please...

I posted recently about a very problematic (but intermittent) rattle coming from sometimes one, occasionally two front doors on my Defender 110 CSW, 2005. The vehicle - from which the driver's-side front door lock actually fell out into the street, on opening the door after taking it off-road...

Landrover have just fitted to my Defender CSW the two extra fuel tanks I bought from Frontrunner, South Africa. One tank (60 litres) is "under-body", and the other (40 litres) fits under the rear fender. My understanding is that during filling, (diesel) fuel will flow from the outlet in the...

I have a Safari snorkel fitted to the RHS of my LHD Landrover Defender. I’m in the process of fitting a Mantec wader kit. Have got to the point where the front-axle breather tube and two engine-block breather-tube extensions are to be fitted either along the rear-outside of the snorkel or led...