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| Sulisuli Member Since: 30 Oct 2016 Location: South west Posts: 4795   
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That looks really smart Darren
 and it’s made me smile too. 2015 HT XS 90
2008 SVX 90 2000 XS TD5 90 |
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29th Sep 2019 9:25pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2142
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looks a bit like a Motorsport "rain" light
were the other two feeds not to simply illuminate as per a tail light?? |
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30th Sep 2019 8:00am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Yeah, I guess it does
The other two wires were supposed to make parts of the LED array flash when indicating. It's a US thing whereby they use their brake lights as indicators by making them flash. In my case, nothing happened when 12v was applied but as I didn't want the feature anyway I didn't spend long investigating. Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Sep 2019 11:12am |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3259 
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Looks good. There is a chap around here who put a similar light in the middle of his spare wheel.
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30th Sep 2019 11:41am |
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| Rkcorry Member Since: 23 Jan 2017 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 226 |
Looks the part Darren, I'm sure i have seen this very layout somewhere before mind.
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30th Sep 2019 12:14pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Nürburgring here I come
Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Sep 2019 12:49pm |
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| windy81 Member Since: 14 Mar 2018 Location: North Wales Posts: 311  
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i have a similar receiver hitch on my 200tdi, and wondered about those light myself.
did you wire it for brake and sidelights ? and i bet the aluminium billet is a lot more usable because of its lightness. Can I ask where you got it from ? |
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30th Sep 2019 9:24pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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No, the light is only wired as a brake light.
The shackle bracket came from Belgium via eBay but be warned that the picture doesn't match what arrived in the post: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNIVERSAL-RECEI...2749.l2649 Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Sep 2019 9:31pm |
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| windy81 Member Since: 14 Mar 2018 Location: North Wales Posts: 311
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top man, thanks for the quick reply.
I'll have a look now see what it's all about Oh and why not plug in to sidelights ? any particular reason ? |
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30th Sep 2019 9:43pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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It's not designed for it. It doesn't have any way to create a low and high brightness like a regular stop/tail lamp. Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Sep 2019 9:47pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Todays' little job was to install an X-grip phone holder, found on eBay by deaallen of this parish. The whole thing is remarkably similar to the offering from Ram Mounts, but at a fraction of the cost.
As delivered, the holder comes with a short arm and a ball with a flat mounting tab attached. In order to fit the Puma dashboard, the latter is ditched in favour of a ball with a thru' mount: Click image to enlarge The ball mount comes with an M6 cap head bolt but this must also be replaced to suit the mounting point on the dash. I managed to find a suitably long pan head screw with a similar coarse thread to the original that was removed: Click image to enlarge With the existing dash screw removed, fitting the new ball mount is a simple case of screwing it into position: Click image to enlarge And then the holder is positioned and the clamp on the arm tightened to hold it in place: Click image to enlarge I expect I'll have to fine tune the position a bit once I've been for a drive, but it does make a very neat installation: Click image to enlarge Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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20th Oct 2019 5:02pm |
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| seriesonenut Member Since: 19 Nov 2014 Location: Essex Posts: 1210
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Hi
Thats a neat set up. Do you have the ebay link by any chance? 2010 XS USW
1957 Series One 88 diesel 1958 Series One 88 4x2 |
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20th Oct 2019 5:40pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Yeah, sure.
Ball: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motorcycle-Hand...2749.l2649 Mount: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-X-Gri...2749.l2649 Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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20th Oct 2019 5:58pm |
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| seriesonenut Member Since: 19 Nov 2014 Location: Essex Posts: 1210
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Thank you
2010 XS USW
1957 Series One 88 diesel 1958 Series One 88 4x2 |
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20th Oct 2019 6:12pm |
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