beeftinkler wrote:

In that case, can anyone recommend a company capable of re-mapping a D300 to D350 in South West England?

Silb wrote:

San Marco wrote:

J77 wrote:

San Marco wrote:

I'm really struggling with them, ongoingly erasing their glorious heritage by deleting the iconic Land Rover badge, that somehow turns the Defender to a no-name car from the side-view and pushes the signature graphic now to ultimate pointlessness.

With the massive increase of similar Asian products entering the market, my strategy would be the exact opposite thus to post the iconic and extremely well established Land Rover Badge wherever possible!


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It started on 24MY, they deleted the tailgate badge but fixed it on mine



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Same with me (kind of)…


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I also have the deleted tailgate badge. I got the badge but I'm missing the hight and distance to the edge of the teilgate. Did you find it in a workshop manual or measured it on an existing vehicle?

Short answer: In the end, I sneaked around a dealers car park and measured it
Not quite so short answer: I wanted it as original as possible, so I investigated different things... One of them was Simons "Powerful" after market badge, that I more or less just bought as for the included template. However that only fitted in one direction, when I tried to verify against a real car and even if it did have done better, there's still a lot of uncertainty about how to place an oval in an oval

There might also be differences between the model years - however, my scope was the MY23.

For MY23, I figured out, that the height can be leveled against the DEFENDER sign like this:
The center of the DEFENDER sign is distanced from the bottom of the door the same as the center of the oval (both red dotted lines in pics below). It's not that simple though, for the edge of the door is curved - so better take some measuring points. The distance to the side edge, was some addendum to Simons template that will not help, I guess. But on measuring for yourself, please keep in mind, that the side edge also might be slightly curved.

It's not a complete solution, but hopefully yet a little help!


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Since the launch of the DEFENDER the trims have rapidly gone worse year by year. I bought mine roughly a year ago, and already got annoyed with some things. I’m pretty confident, I would not buy it again under current circumstances, although I really love the car and the brand…

and brand to me means LAND ROVER and not this ridiculous JLR house of brands nonsense - I hope my car will keep the virtual LAND ROVER badge in the HUD and the DEFENDER side view on the dash screen and no stupid software update will kill it.

Maybe JLR needs to learn it from their sales figures, that their current direction does not suit their customers needs in any way.

Emp wrote:

I now have the binding information that the fabric roof can only be ordered up to the SE model and that my HSE will be converted to a panoramic roof accordingly. Sad. It was one of my top 3 options.

It's also a shame that Wade Sensing (I know it's more fun than function) is only available with the Offroad package. I actually wanted to order the car with 22” and without the Offroad package with Rear Dif separately. I already have matching offroad rims and with this variant I would have two sets of tires for everyday use + offroad excursions.

I know you don't need many things and Wade Sensing is also negligible. Nevertheless, you get annoyed when the whole concept suddenly stops working and there are fewer options for more money. I ordered 6-8 weeks ago and haven't yet made a decision on what to do next.