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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410  
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I can understand it. So used to having a strong left thigh it can be disconcerting how light the pedal is now. But... it is lovely when in traffic
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18th Oct 2023 2:46pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Yes, you know how it goes. Early morning start, about 2 hours before sunrise. Cruising down a twisty A-road, there is a bit of mist hanging around drifting across. Take a slurp of Java and plough onwards. Nice long straight, another car coming towards you in the other lane, about 150 metres away and all your lights flick off
 Land Rover life...
I bet the other driver was a freaked out as I was, dosy clot what's he playing out switching his lights off like that.
Thankfully high beam still worked, so dipped the headlight levellers down to 3 and flick off the LED light bar. Life continues... Balls... 
First thing that springs to your mind, what is it? I bet it is light switch or High/Low lever like I did. Well you'd be wrong... very very wrong and here's the irony about the situation. It wasn't the fragile Land Rover light switch that gave up the ghost, but the Red Bison auxiliary headlight loom that I installed to protect the fragile Land Rover light switch...
Yup, full on corrosion of the relay terminals followed by high resistance followed by melty melty relay block. Not Red Bisons fault, I should have wrapped the relays to protect them and I should have greased the contacts to prevent the corrosion.  Click image to enlarge |
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24th Oct 2023 2:47pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2109 
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Well I never…
Glad no harm came to you of others as could have been the case. Relatively quick/easy fix 👍 |
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24th Oct 2023 3:20pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Yeah it could have been an interesting morning trying to explain that they just turned off on their own. The fix was to remove the Red Bison loom and return back to the standard setup. I will find a better more weather resistant relay option, perhaps something like this;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154268972280?va...C0QAvD_BwE |
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24th Oct 2023 3:42pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17520 
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Not long after I bought my Disco2 (brand new) I was powering up Zig Zag Hill near Shaftesbury in the middle of a dark night, enjoying the exhilaration of the just-run-in TD5. As I approached the penultimate hairpin and was in the process of double-declutching down a gear to power round the hairpin, all the lights went out. Everything became literally as balck as night, I couldn't even see where the end of the bonnet was, let alone where the bend was.
(Many will know Zig Zag Hill, but for those who don't, it is a steep hill which zig-zags its way up the escarpment under a dense canopy of trees, and failing to negotiate any of the hairpins is more likely than not to result in quite a sustained roll-over down the hill (unless a tree arrests your fall)). It was a decidedly adrenaline-rich moment! Fortunately turning the light switch off then on again restored illumination milliseconds before it became too late and the bend was negotiated successfully. In the subsequent 22 years I have owned the vehicle it has never done this trick with the lights again, and I still don't know why it happened. It was almost a Stephen King moment. |
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25th Oct 2023 11:05am |
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| kenzle8a Member Since: 12 Feb 2020 Location: None Posts: 1074 
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I had the ceramic Landrigziger loom on mine. It was pretty well put togther. |
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26th Oct 2023 1:19pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10844 
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Glad you found this in time and i know zig-zag hill well, many a happy time going up and down it
 Clayton.
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper. |
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26th Oct 2023 7:53pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17520
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Yes, Zig-Zag hill's a great road especially going up at night when the absence of oncoming lights let you use more road, but not a good place to be plunged into pitch blackness!
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26th Oct 2023 9:44pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5877  
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Living as I do in a part of the world with many steep hills and many hairpins, I've seen a number of vehicles 'exit' the road in one way or another. Whilst driving to Morzine one day I saw a small hatchback hurtle past me, the driver doing his best impression of Sebastien Ogier/Loeb (you choose your favourite Sebastien). On returning a couple of hours later, and a little beyond where we'd passed each other, I came across skid marks, damaged trees/foliage and a mangled fence. Also a police car. I continued driving, went around the hairpin, to come across more police, fire trucks, and a small hatchback that was lying on its completely flattened roof in the middle of the road, having rolled down the hill and not been stopped by any of the trees. No idea on how the occupants were. Monsieur Le Grenadier I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list..... 2011 Puma 110DC - Corris Grey |
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27th Oct 2023 6:38am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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New exhaust yesterday
Well actually not a new exhaust, a new to me exhaust.
Gone is the rowdy Griffin (single centre bullet) exhaust and in goes the Alive (centre and end) cat back system. Silence is golden  Sad to hear the growl has gone, but no more drone or buttock vibrations (the bad sort)
Lovely deep exhaust note, but subtle. The dogs are very very pleased... Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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1st Nov 2023 12:16pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Engage stealth mode... Yup, the old girl is incredibly quiet now, it is utterly blissful and the dogs are much calmer driving about.
Some interesting observations though, well they are to me anyway. I suspect a lot of this is back pressure related with a dash of fuelling. 1) Acceleration is much smoother, less immediate perhaps, but not dramatically different. Less urgent and rowdy for certain. 2) The cruising speed drone has completely gone. 3) The 56-60mph vibration (which I thought was the usual propshaft UJ issue) has vanished. 4) EGTs have decreased. 5) Improved MPG. 6) Engine braking has vastly improved and in Low it provides significant control. That last one is interesting because for me the slow off road downhill control whilst crawling is critical. It is something that is never talked about when discussing performance exhausts. Increasing the flow does improve acceleration but at a cost to off road ability. What has also been said is that increasing flow of exhaust gasses decreases EGT's, well yes and no. Across the board the EGTs have decreased by as much as 70 degrees, they do when pushed reach the same high level but much slower and they decrease quicker too. I expect that this is fuelling related, less in less heat out and it might be supported by the improvement in MPG. Interesting developments for sure. The Alive system isn't as quiet as the standard system and it does have a lovely bass note without the all the ASBO of the Griffin system it replaced. I was only interested in the noise level, but it seems this exhaust comes with additional and welcomed benefits as well. |
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4th Nov 2023 2:20pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2109
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All ‘sounds’ good Geobloke - another job well done with unexpected benefits 👍
It’ll be like you have a new Defender I’m sure - a totally different driving experience. |
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4th Nov 2023 2:25pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Honestly Screbble it really is a completely different animal. Blown away by the difference.
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4th Nov 2023 2:27pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Well, I think Miffy's alternator has given up the ghost, or is close to ascending to the astral plain anyway. The charge coming from it is fluctuating wildly between 12.5 and 13.9v pretty much all the time.
It has done exceptionally well since leaving the factory and I entirely suspect that it has worked its way through a substantial amount of detritus ingested whilst off-roading and not to mention the kilos of road salt
Uughhhh old Land Rovers |
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7th Nov 2023 10:56am |
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