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bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705

My TD5 110 XS CSW - Bertha This is my beast, I tracked down the paint colour code - Cairns Blue apparently. I decided to call her Bertha after the children's TV show from the 80s - sing along now "Bertha, lovely Bertha, You are a lovely machine!" I wasn't looking for an XS model, but the air-con, heated seats & screen and the CD radio are nice to have! First mod I have done is Nakatenenga leather door pulls in the front. I hope to swap to LED or uprated lights, probably fiddling with the relays as well as I have seen threads on here about the weakness with the LR stock switch in the cab coping with the current... Also sort some storage in the "spare" space under boxing at the rear and under cubby in the front. Also researching baby seats - the lack of Isofix is worrying the wife. Long term plans - Disco cogs & remapped ECU. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Last edited by bluebottle on 6th Sep 2017 8:47pm. Edited 2 times in total

12th May 2015 10:08pm

shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347	Beautiful Colour Sounds like you have some fairly serious mods to come keep us updated with lots of pictures! Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter
12th May 2015 10:23pm

mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6772	Looks great good to see another 110 td5 and some good mods planned too. I've done most of those and a few more too  Ray My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html
12th May 2015 10:30pm

piecost76 Member Since: 29 Sep 2010 Location: Nr Sevenoaks, Kent Posts: 177

Re: My TD5 110 CSW - Bertha bluebottle wrote: Also researching baby seats - the lack of Isofix is worrying the wife. Why the ISOFIX worry - how old are your kids? We put both of ours in a Td5 with no worries - the "standard" Maxi Cosi baby seat fits without need for ISOFIX and then as they grow up, the rotating one does not need it either. We put an easy base in on seatbelts & it was then just drop in & out - easy! http://www.johnlewis.com/maxi-cosi-easybas...=231326865 This one for when they get a bit older: http://www.johnlewis.com/maxi-cosi-tobi-ca...n/p1829344 All done without ISOFIX! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 2015 110 XS UW sadly stolen 21/11/2017

13th May 2015 7:06am

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	Our daughter is still being measured in weeks! Thanks for the tip with the Easybase - we have a MaxiCosi in our car (on an Isofix base!) so that will be handy.
13th May 2015 7:38am

steve E Member Since: 06 Mar 2011 Location: Tenby Posts: 2073	Looks like a cracker look forward to your mods/pictures
13th May 2015 8:03am

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	This is the first, as seen elsewhere on this site, new door pulls. Click image to enlarge
13th May 2015 8:10am

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	New headlights, surrounds and bulbs: Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Fitted 12v aux in rear: Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge
13th Jun 2015 3:11pm

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	Finally got out and got muddy - spent the morning at Hogmoor with HBRO on Sunday, great fun ... need to find time to wash her now . Click image to enlarge Last edited by bluebottle on 17th Jun 2015 12:19pm. Edited 1 time in total
17th Jun 2015 9:56am

shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347	Looks Fantastic Especially when muddy Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter
17th Jun 2015 12:06pm

jk84 Member Since: 17 Feb 2015 Location: Wherever my Defender takes me... Posts: 720	One's got to love this blue, looks fab even when muddy just a little jealous of your Cairns  MY15 Aintree 110 SW - for sale - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic82781.html MY16 Santorini 90 HT - sold
23rd Jun 2015 11:58pm

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	jk84 wrote: got to love this blue, looks fab even when muddy Thanks! Today I fitted a new radio - so I have a take off Visteon CD Radio (manufactured 22.02.2005) if anyone's interested?! Click image to enlarge
24th Jun 2015 5:50pm

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705

Finally got round to sorting the sheared rear mudflap/wing fixing and decided to reinforce the other side at the same time. Now I've finally got round to posting it too! Ally angle from B&Q, knackered several hacksaw blades cutting it, suspect I had the wrong ones Also you can see the totally seized and sheared bolt originally fitted by LR. I was shocked when I saw this, as even to a mechanical novice like me it's just plain stupid... Then I remembered I was probably looking at a piece of design from the black nadir of British automotive history. Click image to enlarge A new experience for me, pop rivets. Never used one before but I understood the principle and gave it a bash. Also shiny new bolts etc. Click image to enlarge Completed job. Happy man, all for about a tenner (if I exclude the pop riveter, rivets, new hacksaw blades and metal drill bits ) Click image to enlarge

14th Mar 2016 10:57am

bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705	Milestone reached on our way home from a recent holiday in the Lakes: Click image to enlarge[/img]
5th Jun 2016 12:24pm

Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971	The mudflap design is stupid. One of mine fell off, fixed it then the other fell off. I've now got the Gwyn Lewis kit that also stops mud being blasted in to the rear crossmember but I haven't had a full day off to do it yet.
5th Jun 2016 3:17pm

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