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Should defender 90 td5s be tested on a single axle rolling rig. I know its been said before but i want to get to the bottom of it. The MOT testers say yeah yeah its fine then many just say hell no you cant do that but what does the engineering of the defenders transmission say? The 90 TD5 has...

Hi all, Took my defender 90 county 2.5 station wagon for its MOT at my usual garage and everything was spot on apart from the rear brakes were not performing as well as they should. Last year i had it tested at the same place and there were no problems. All the brake components are the same...

Hi all I've been trying to diagnose a popping noise on my 90 for a while now, and I seem to have found a situation that makes it so it more frequently. It doesn't do it all the time but I have noticed it tends to do it say if I reverse back fairly quick then stop then set off in forward gear...

Hi all somewhere in the near future i am considering re trimming my front seats in my td5 90. I am considering either exmoors black leather re trim kit with white stitching or was also wondering if the black vinyl trim kit would look smart. Obviously there is a big difference in price...

Hi all, I am wanting to fit heated seats to my defender 90. I have been on the exmoor trim site and you can get full leather re trim kit with new foams and bases for about £300, and then they also sell the genuine landrover heated pads for the seats at £65 each. I have then seen a...

Hi all i have just replaced my wiper assembly on my 2004 td5 90 so ive had the entire dash and connectors in pieces. Ive reassembled it about 80% but went to test everything before finishing the job and found the cd player is now not working. I have checked the fuse in the back of the radio...

Hi all i am fitting some DRL lights to my defender 90 The kit i have is very easy to wire up to a standard car where the battery is under the bonnet. However on the td5 90 the battery is under the passenger seat as you know. Due to the length of the supplied wiring loom it is designed to...

Hi all, i am looking for a new door seal for the bottom of the drivers door on my defender as i can see daylight through it. Does anyone know the part number? Also is it the same for the passenger side as i may do both at the same time. THanks

Hi all, I am looking at changing my tyres in the next month or so and wanted to get some suggestions. At the minute i have four general grabber tr tyres on 235/85 r16 However i have been looking around abit and wondered what these bf goodrich at tyres are like 2 summer tyres 235/85 R16 120S...

Defender TD5 Rear half shafts for sale on ebay. Taken from used defender 90 td5 24 splines on each end done 60,000 miles looks like fair life left in them still. GENUINE Land Rover Defender 24 Spline Rear Halfshaft Drivers Side | eBay GENUINE Land Rover Defender 24 Spline...

I am considering fitting some of these to the front bumper on my defender 90 Phillips Daylight 8 LED series lights http://www.invisionsales.com/lighting/pdfs/led_daylight_8_installation_guide.pdf These units obviously have an ignition feed so they come on when the engine is started...

Hi all a friend of mine is selling a heavy duty steel rope puller and 136ft of rope just thought I'd share the links and see if it could be any use to anyone. Could be used for vehicle recovery's possibly. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=221614160415...

Hi all i have quite a fair gap at the bottom of my drivers door about an inch long where the door meets the sill. Im trying to reduce the motorway noise so im assuming this will be big bonus and reduce the wind coming in. Do i need a new seal and can you recommend good ones? Thanks

Hi all I'm planning on taking my front bumper and a bar off soon so I can re spray them. I was wondering though about fitting some of them LED day running lights and thought I'd ask can you get them so they just fit onto the existing bumper on my 2004 CSW 90 td5. I know Ive seen RDX and...

Hi all, Thought is share with you all that I've just fitted the later tdci defender springs and shocks to my 2004 td5 defender! Before I did it my defender was all un even and the back end was tired. During the removal of the old ones I noticed that the shocks were completely shot there was no...

Hi all, I am still on my mission to eliminate this odd clunk that i am getting on the rear of my 90. As previously mentioned every now and then not very frequent at all i get this little pop sound from the rear of my td5 90. It tends to occur when you have a bit of a judder such as braking and...

Hi all i am doing a complete renew front and back of the dampers and coil springs on my td5 defender 90 2004 I have everything i need to do the job tomorrow but i was wondering does anyone have any torque settings for the upper and lower bolts on the shocks front and rear torque...

Hi all, I own a landrover defender 90 2005 (54 reg) td5 county station wagon. I have just purchased a full set of front and back genuine land rover coil springs and a full set of front and back genuine landrover dampers. I was wondering if anyone could suggest any useful tips or other...

Hi all, I think my rear shock absorber bushes are starting to come to the end of their life. If I look at the top bush although there isn't a lot of play in it the bushes look warped and there is a small gap round the side of the bush. This comes as a part of a mission to resolve the...

Hi all, I get the occasional odd clonk from my 90 definitely sounds like it's coming from the rear. It's very intermittent and doesn't do it some times. It seems to occur like when I reverse into my drive and I go over the kerb. Or sometimes when a change of speed occurs such as breaking...