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RED-DOT

Member Since: 29 Jun 2009
Location: stirling
Posts: 2363

Black hinges... very original. Sorry but its a CARbunkle!! 2008 RS4 gone, 123d M Sport, and a Puma 90 XS..

2nd Jan 2011 11:03am

pom

Member Since: 01 Jun 2010
Location: Worcester
Posts: 1343

i like the colour change, did you have it wrapped or sprayed ?

I must admit I'm very tempted to do the same to mine albeit the opposite of yours as mins is black.

Pom

2nd Jan 2011 11:16am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

pom wrote:
i like the colour change, did you have it wrapped or sprayed ?

I must admit I'm very tempted to do the same to mine albeit the opposite of yours as mins is black.

Pom

it's original except for the ZUs, it's known as the "ICE" edition, the opposite would look interesting, white hinges, bonnet, roof and wheel arches - anyone good with photoshop ?

2nd Jan 2011 11:31am

pom

Member Since: 01 Jun 2010
Location: Worcester
Posts: 1343

bpman wrote:
pom wrote:
i like the colour change, did you have it wrapped or sprayed ?

I must admit I'm very tempted to do the same to mine albeit the opposite of yours as mins is black.

Pom

it's original except for the ZUs, it's known as the "ICE" edition, the opposite would look interesting, white hinges, bonnet, roof and wheel arches - anyone good with photoshop ?

tinkering atm

pom

2nd Jan 2011 11:36am

noworries4x4

Member Since: 24 Dec 2010
Location: Newton Abbot Devon
Posts: 1195

Most of my problems with the Puma i am now surmising is due to fact i am towing heavy all the time, and i dont think Land Rover have sorted cooling issues properly.
I have had 6 new egr valves
2 new manifolds (warped)
2 new Turbos (they sized up)
2 Gearboxes (1st gear blew then second one leaked)
2 rear diffs
1 new engine (very early on 12thou hydrauiiced up on engine oil and threw a leg out of bed)
oh and anoying stuff like wipers siezing up, back door lock siezing up etc etc

If there was better oil and intercooling fitted i bet most of those problems would have never occured

Anyway all is good Matfords in Exeter is one of the best dealers in the world and have always sorted it Land Rover Warrenty is bulletproof would never own one with out it

My TD5 was the same except that just ate head gaskets every 10thou that could not hack the hard life i gave it either but that was being thrased up and down the motorways constantly with the old 5 spd box.

All the new ones i have driven (while mine is in) dont have the same get up and go as mine but the engines do seam to run better smoother but the also seam worse on fuel a little 260 280 per tank against 280 300 a tank

Have fun with your new toy its the only thing that i would ever have on my drive as a workhorse If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.

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3rd Jan 2011 10:48am

110SEB

Member Since: 29 Jan 2009
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 1444

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Java Black

RED-DOT wrote:
Black hinges... very original. Sorry but its a CARbunkle!!

How about a New Year resolution of being positive?

3rd Jan 2011 10:59am

RED-DOT

Member Since: 29 Jun 2009
Location: stirling
Posts: 2363

I am being positive and that is what you don't like... LR keep churning out LE's and this colour combination is the worst yet or were you the youth with the black shirt with the white collar and white tie and a moustache like an earwig? C'mon, ALL white is miles better? 2008 RS4 gone, 123d M Sport, and a Puma 90 XS..

3rd Jan 2011 11:39am

DefenderOfTheEarth

Member Since: 09 Nov 2010
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 1304

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Tonga Green

Wouldn't spec that look myself but I like it.

Defenders get worked hard. Not surprising they can struggle. Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion.

3rd Jan 2011 11:59am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

RED-DOT wrote:
I am being positive and that is what you don't like... LR keep churning out LE's and this colour combination is the worst yet or were you the youth with the black shirt with the white collar and white tie and a moustache like an earwig? C'mon, ALL white is miles better?

RD: Each to their own

- The Fire and Ice editions are only available in mainland Europe, not Scotland so you are very unlikely to see one.

You never know, Land Rover may release a tartan edition to the Scottish market

3rd Jan 2011 12:13pm

110SEB

Member Since: 29 Jan 2009
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 1444

RED-DOT wrote:
I am being positive and that is what you don't like...

I don't get your logic. I don't like Salvador Dali paintings, but i don't call them ugly because clearly not everyone agrees with me.

I quite like LEs, i wouldn't want to buy many of them if i had the money, but they're a bit of a laugh.

I suppose my point is that taste is personal but i'm not going to say to someone that their pride and joy is ugly - where does that get them or me?

Happy New Year Scotty

3rd Jan 2011 1:13pm

Naks

Member Since: 27 Jan 2009
Location: Stellenbosch, ZA
Posts: 2646

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Alpine White

bpman wrote:
RD: Each to their own - The Fire and Ice editions are only available in mainland Europe, not Scotland so you are very unlikely to see one. You never know, Land Rover may release a tartan edition to the Scottish market

Fire & Ice are also available in SA and Oz

3rd Jan 2011 1:38pm

Lorryman100

Member Since: 01 Oct 2010
Location: Here
Posts: 2686

bpman wrote:

You never know, Land Rover may release a tartan edition to the Scottish market
_______________

F~@%en H#ll, hope not

and stop giving LR design ideas, you have seen the RR Evoque,

nuff said

3rd Jan 2011 6:21pm

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

RED-DOT wrote:
I am being positive and that is what you don't like... LR keep churning out LE's and this colour combination is the worst yet or were you the youth with the black shirt with the white collar and white tie and a moustache like an earwig? C'mon, ALL white is miles better?

The thing that put me off white was the truck looking like a UN vehicle, or a jungle ambulance. Probably very practical in Africa (reflecting sunlight) but sticks out like a sore thumb in farming country in UK - IMHO

3rd Jan 2011 6:28pm

TallPaul

Member Since: 28 Aug 2007
Location: Nr Reading
Posts: 270

Hey Evoke will sell like hotcakes, which hopefully means they can fund a Defender replacement!

Fire & Ice clearly not to UK tastes, hence they don't sell it here

Disco 3 gone but the memory of the bills remain...
XS 110 Utility maybe one day..... (did they fix the quality yet?)

4th Jan 2011 9:40am

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