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Badger110

Member Since: 06 Feb 2018
Location: South hams
Posts: 1039

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Buckingham Blue

I had mine stripped back and it didn't look like that

12th Feb 2020 7:02pm

lonewolf

Member Since: 23 Oct 2013
Location: North East England
Posts: 210

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 CSW Zambezi Silver

Makes me laugh when mags like Land Rover Monthly go on about the ‘skilled workers’ on the lines at Land Rover.......did they employ a team of apes to fabricate Defenders? From personal experience and from what I’ve read on forums I think they must just have worked on Friday afternoons and not the rest of the week. It’s disgusting to think that the premise must have been ‘its out of sight so no one will notice the bodge’.
Saying that, years ago a cousin of mine worked in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. They were converting lh drive cars to rh drive for the uk market. The handbrake had to be moved to suit rh drive so they were cutting out the tunnel, swapping the pieces and welding up. Same for the pedal cut outs. Everything was disguised using mastic (the sh*t gun as my cousin called it) then painted over and carpeted. So maybe bodges aren’t confined to Land Rover only.

21st Feb 2020 6:14pm

Mike c

Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Maldon, Essex
Posts: 934

Very much a Friday afternoon finish

I bet there are lots of bodges that go on with all manufacturers that are never discovered.

21st Feb 2020 6:30pm

ickle

Member Since: 22 Jul 2010
Location: South Vendee
Posts: 1851

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Alpine White

These days there should be very little bodged, we forget that the 'manufacturers' actually manufacture very little if nothing, they assemble parts from other manufacturers to create a vehicle, chassis and axle cases GKN, engine Ford, gearbox Getrag, lights Lucas etc.

Don 't know which brand of muppets did the bulkheads though.........

21st Feb 2020 6:40pm

Mike c

Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Maldon, Essex
Posts: 934

I accept the now old Defender was inperfect and virtually hand built which to me is part of the appeal, however that is bad on a structural part that should be of a reasonably consistent standard.

I wonder who made the bulkhead at that time?

21st Feb 2020 6:44pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Keswick Green

Hey, posted a few times on other threads, but if this was mine, I'd post a photo up on one or more of twitter feeds of JLR senior management without any derogatory language and see if a little positive energy couldn't flow back.

21st Feb 2020 6:45pm

Blue

Member Since: 13 Aug 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 44

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Cairns Blue

Mike c wrote:
I wonder who made the bulkhead at that time?

Will @ LR Workshop posted a video which included the manufacturing of bulkheads which was quite interesting; footage from about 8:50 onwards -

Enjoying the video series Nige!

22nd Feb 2020 7:07pm

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