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Exmoor Trim Defender Seat
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Exmoor Trim Land Rover Defender Seat Upgrade

How to Refurbish, Upgrade and Fit Exmoor Trim Defender Heated Seats In this post we’ll take you through why we needed to fix our Land Rover Defender seats, which still had the original fabric, we’ll show you how we did the re-trim and give you a review of Exmoor Trims Outlast Seat Covers. When we […]

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Land Rover Defender Upstand Corrosion Repair

Land Rover Defender Corrosion issues I promised to do some posts about our planned trip, which we are due to depart on in 11 days. As of now we have not even booked the channel tunnel crossing or got our international driving permits. We are cutting it fine this year. Every Defender 110 owner knows

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How to Fit a Safari Snorkel to a 300tdi Defender

Thanks to being the lucky recipient of a Safari Snorkel for my Birthday and many Christmases to come, I managed to get a Safari Snorkel fitted to the Landy last week. It was all fairly straight forward and I forgot to take many photos.The most intimidating bit for me was drilling the holes in the

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How to: Defender Split Charge – Version 2

During the trip last year into the Balkan states, we had a slight issue that the split charge contactor started failing to close. At first this was intermittent, then it became permanent in the heat. I was sometimes able to get it to close by tapping the contactor with a fair force. Eventually that did

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Raptor Engineering Dash – How to Install Binnacle (Cowl)

The binnacle on the Defender is the part that surrounds the instruments in front of the driver, it secures to the underside of the dashboard top surface. The binnacle is also known as the instrument cowl. Item 1 In the picture on the left. The binnacle provides a frame to mount the instrument panel and

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How to Test/Check Intercooler for Leaks

FTP8030 Land Rover Defender 300TDI This is how to check and test for intercooler leaks, the simple way. My Defender has had what I think is a typical intercooler leak for quite some time, which leads to some power loss often notable on hills. I attempted to sort it out last summer prior to our

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Split Charge Auxiliary Battery Installation – Version 1

The battery in a Defender is under the passenger seat. It is a large compartment which you can actually fit two batteries in. This is perfect if you want to use there vehicle for winching, camping or over landing. The main driver for fitting a second battery in our vehicle was to run the fridge.

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