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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4680  
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Just noticed this a little while ago. Open your front doors and look at the light switch built into the doorframe. Beside this is the doorframe rubber. Look closely at this. On my 2008 Puma the metal plate on the door that pushes the light switch in is wearing the rubber. My passenger side is most affected. So much so that the metal skeleton within the door rubber is exposed and worn. The only thing to do will be replace the rubber in the future.
The cause of this is the width of the metal plate on the door that pushes in the light cancelling switch. The solution would appear to be the following. If you are happy with the position of your door/doors, mark on the plate where it stikes the plunger light cancelling switch. Open the door wide and remove the door stay clevis pin and push out the bolt. Open the door to it's full extent and cut off the excess width of the striker plate. Sounds drastic but it is the only way to stop this plate wearing your door rubber. I've put some heavy duty "Gorilla tape" on my door rubber as a short term solution. The rear passenger door rubbers are fine as the switch is sited further in from the rubber. The switch on the front doors is very close to the rubbers. I suppose it will depend on how much use your doors get. As the 2008 Puma is our family car the doors get a lot of use. If your vehicle is more recent maybe this would be a good preventative measure. Must check the 2011 Puma tomorrow. This could be just a one off on my vehicle but knowing Land Rover it is probably a standard fit free optional extra. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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19th Feb 2013 7:45pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471  
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Once you've removed the clevis pin from the door stay just make sure the door doesn't swing right back as it will clobber the bulkhead A post - if it does this hard enough it will crease the post and can neatly fold the leading edge of the door itself. Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades. Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW. [Insert something impressive here such as extensive list of previous Land Rovers or examples of your prestigeous and expensive items, trinkets, houses, bikes, vehicles etc] http://forums.lr4x4.com I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic. |
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19th Feb 2013 7:56pm |
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