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| LRmud Member Since: 22 Oct 2014 Location: IV12 Highland Posts: 198   
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Aston Martin do it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1989 Defender 90 Toyota Aygo & Honda FR-V |
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25th Jan 2016 11:03pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20291 
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I've done a fair bit with them.
Exterior door handles are possible but two issues. A, waterproofing, B, drilling / mounting. The waterproofing is fairly easy to over come with some ingenuity . However, I would not be drilling door handles or door skins myself. Interior door handle recesses are cheaply. (Fairly!) replaceable if anything does go wrong drilling a or if you wanted to ever go back to standard. Puddle lights again have a bit of a mounting difficulty at the bottom of the doors. I do enjoy mine though at right, it's dark red doesn't illuminate you to others. (You don't always want to be in car parks etc!) Red is also the colour of some ladies boudoir's, some have mentioned here in the past.  |
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25th Jan 2016 11:11pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20291
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Gallery of mine: https://www.defender2.net/gallery/thumbnai...amp;page=1
 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Need to do some work on these though as I have some black strips now instead of white and also the tape which has stayed put for over two years have gave way due to being caught on bags in the passenger footwell. So need to take these out and replace, new ones are brighter and blend in better. 
Like the idea of the LED's in the lower doorcard, I avoided this due to the possibility of moisture ingress / damage as my 90 is used for working too. Anyone that does wading too it would be a no go, although I don't think many of us Puma owners often go very deep. |
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25th Jan 2016 11:21pm |
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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967
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i have these (small one at bottom) in my head lining, red, from mud uk. they are wired to come on with lights and give a nice red glow, they are a bit bright at moment but plan to spray them with boy racer smoked glass look spray!!
Click image to enlarge My 109 thread my youtube channel |
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25th Jan 2016 11:22pm |
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| Butchers Boy Member Since: 10 Jan 2016 Location: Essex Posts: 426 
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Love the idea of the lights on the interior door handles! Where can I get those LED's and what did you wire them in to for the power
2010 Defender 90 HT
The longer I live..... The better I was! |
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25th Jan 2016 11:23pm |
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| rustyboxx Member Since: 08 Oct 2012 Location: Poole Posts: 548 
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Here you go
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic19379.html 2015 90 XS CSW TDCi - Beautiful
2007 110 XS DCPU - An itch that needed scratching 2005 90 Td5 XS CSW - Utterly brilliant 2001 Discovery 2 ES Auto - A phase I went through 1996 90 Tdi CSW - Uber reliable 1989 90 2.5 Petrol Hardtop - My first proper Landy 1985 Range Rover Vogue V8 -Troublesome |
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26th Jan 2016 12:12am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20291
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Rusty above has blue, which is nice if that's your colour. I have red.
Click image to enlarge White is more functional, but every man to his own. |
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26th Jan 2016 12:23am |
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| Alexke Member Since: 03 Jan 2011 Location: Antwerp Posts: 113 
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So I got the LEDS from here :
http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/291132733600?_...EBIDX%3AIT 3 mm where used. I connected them to the interior lights , which is oddly enough negatively switched. I already had for LED light strips in my defender for a few years. it is all double fused and soldered and then heat shrunk. no crimps! Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge My goal to every mod is too look as factory as possible. I am thinking of doing a second LED in the door handle recces that lights up Landrover Green. But at a lower light output. : it Requires a second circuit though. A few years ago , I nearly built in a Programmable PLC in my car for various cool functions... (remote lights, ventilation etc...) I like that Alcantara headliner where do I get it ? Discovery 4 SDV6 Landmark F31 320dA Msport xDrive LR Defender 90SW TD4 Stornoway grey 320d E46 E70 X5 3.0d Sold! FFRR TD6 - Sold Last edited by Alexke on 26th Jan 2016 12:34am. Edited 1 time in total |
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26th Jan 2016 12:26am |
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| Alexke Member Since: 03 Jan 2011 Location: Antwerp Posts: 113
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The trick to a better illumination is to use an iron file and grind away the head of the LED flat: this gives a better diffuse light Discovery 4 SDV6 Landmark F31 320dA Msport xDrive LR Defender 90SW TD4 Stornoway grey 320d E46 E70 X5 3.0d Sold! FFRR TD6 - Sold |
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26th Jan 2016 12:29am |
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| Ranger Member Since: 17 Nov 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 75 
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Ref the head liner, try this guy, he trades on ebay under the name Droverbits. Got mine from him, very cheap, brand new and fitted perfect.
Ben 07973 796721 |
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26th Jan 2016 7:54am |
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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967
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head liner is a DIY job, bought materiel from eBay
My 109 thread
my youtube channel |
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26th Jan 2016 7:59am |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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Have you seen the little 12-24V Barth units that RS are selling at the moment? I'm very tempted to get one to play with. I've also built some low powered radio receivers at work, based on something from RF Solutions but only using 4mA at 12V so won't put undue strain on the battery. One day I might get round to some remote control lights, but there are more important things to do first  |
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26th Jan 2016 8:23am |
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| Alexke Member Since: 03 Jan 2011 Location: Antwerp Posts: 113
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I used http://www.velleman.eu/products/view/?coun...;id=375928 this kit for remote lightning. very easy and quick. range was great! Discovery 4 SDV6 Landmark
F31 320dA Msport xDrive LR Defender 90SW TD4 Stornoway grey 320d E46 E70 X5 3.0d Sold! FFRR TD6 - Sold |
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26th Jan 2016 10:32am |
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| Alexke Member Since: 03 Jan 2011 Location: Antwerp Posts: 113
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Just did the Driver (UK passenger side) :
took 1 hour (hardest part is pulling cable trough grommet.) After removing the door , test fitting LEDīs Click image to enlarge grinding the LEDīs flat for diffuse light Click image to enlarge fitting LEDīs and using hot glue . Also using heatshrink on connections. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Door handle LED test fit. Click image to enlarge Soldering ! Click image to enlarge Stil works + heat shrink Click image to enlarge Hot glue is amazing! its flexible and easy to remove! Click image to enlarge Done! Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge I am tempted to change the puddle LEDīs to 5mm versions for a bit more illumination. Discovery 4 SDV6 Landmark F31 320dA Msport xDrive LR Defender 90SW TD4 Stornoway grey 320d E46 E70 X5 3.0d Sold! FFRR TD6 - Sold |
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26th Jan 2016 11:24pm |
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