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| LR90XS2011 Member Since: 05 Apr 2011 Location: bickenhill Posts: 3640   
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Got this in the post today
 Click image to enlarge expect I will get a call now as I foolishly turned the knob, wonder how much these cost good marketing? good for the environment (certainly not) DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS, I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy |
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30th Oct 2020 3:32pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17354 
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Does it support SOTA?
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30th Oct 2020 3:59pm |
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| LR90XS2011 Member Since: 05 Apr 2011 Location: bickenhill Posts: 3640
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you have both lost me but I will dismantle it for you
its flashing all sorts of colours Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS, I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy |
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30th Oct 2020 5:09pm |
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| vlad Member Since: 11 Oct 2020 Location: RO Posts: 67 
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Thank you.
That does seem to be a very simple LTE modem (SoC and antenna) with eSIM. Interesting! MY2021 Defender 90 P400 SE |
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30th Oct 2020 5:21pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753 
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I’m really surprised that they are sending live batteries through the mail system, I thought that wasn’t permitted because of the fire / explosion rusk Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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30th Oct 2020 5:59pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6092 
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It'll probably need taking back to a stealership for an update soon.... or just crash as you open it up, leaving you not knowing what the *speshul* offer was
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30th Oct 2020 9:06pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3259 
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Easier than posting smoke and mirrors. WARNING. This post may contain sarcasm. |
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30th Oct 2020 9:55pm |
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| Balvaig Member Since: 19 Feb 2016 Location: Fife Posts: 730  
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Mine started flashing when I opened it. Dunked it in to a bucket of water just in case.
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30th Oct 2020 10:15pm |
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| Clemmo Member Since: 03 Aug 2012 Location: Mile Oak Posts: 1217  
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I pressed mine ..
Got email and text straight away Phone call 30 minutes later Great marketing...everybody’s going to want to press the knob! 
Clemmo Make today a little better than yesterday but not so good as tomorrow.... Defender 90 HT............Pangea Green BMW X3 Msport............Carbon Black Mini Electric................Grey. (wow!) MGB Roadster……..........Vermillion 17k miles Honda Benly CD200....Maroon --------McLouis Fusio........7.4m of fun |
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30th Oct 2020 11:11pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17354
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The restrictions vary from one carrier to another, and depend on whether it is going or may go by air, etc. In essence generally batteries up to a certain size can be sent provided that they are installed in a piece of equipment (which I imagine covers this case). If the batteries were on their own, Royal Mail probably wouldn't carry them. I ended up learning far more than I wanted to know about this when I ordered a NOCO boost starter device from Amazon a while back, which was delivered by Amazon's own carrier (no problem there) but was faulty. They sent me a new one, but I couldn't find a single carrier who would take the defective one back, since it didn't class as an installed battery since the device itself was a power supply, and the device was defective even though there was no suggestion that the battery was defective, and the battery was a Lithium type. Absolutely nobody was prepared to carry it, and Amazon's own carriers (who delivered it) won't do returns. In the end Amazon told me not to bother sending it back but to dispose of it in a legal and appropriate manner, which is also not easy with a lithium battery. As society's dependence on horrific battery chemistry increases I think that transport and disposal of these nasty things is an area which will require much revision. |
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31st Oct 2020 10:28am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3486 
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I am sorry, but in a world where we (and large multi-national companies) are suppose to be thinking about what we are doing to our environment, that is about as unfriendly as you can get.
As JLR must have your address, email and telephone number, turning the Knob is not going to give them the contact details, why on earth do they not just contact people without the utter waste. More landfill. I'm no way an eco warrior, but all the same I hate things that are waste for the sake of waste. I hope you are not twisting the knob in public, but doing it in the privacy of your house. People may get the wrong idea?  |
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31st Oct 2020 10:38am |
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| Balvaig Member Since: 19 Feb 2016 Location: Fife Posts: 730
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The packaging it came in can be reused to send it off for recycling.
However, this means giving whatever information the device contains to a third party. So environmentally totally unfriendly, and potential a data breach as well. Well done JLR. |
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31st Oct 2020 11:33am |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2526 
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Tried mine and it didn't work. Took it outside and still hasn't worked. Why doesn't that surprise me. Perhaps i should wait for the over the air update
Defender 90XS SW
Mini Countryman Cooper S Morgan Plus 8 |
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31st Oct 2020 12:11pm |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6298 
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I presume if you can rotate it there's some kind of axle - has the end snapped off?
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