landrover Defender 110 utility
Discussion
It started last year, a friend of mine suggested we take part in the PureRally London to Barcelona rally, which essentially is Road rally much the same as gumball and other similar style Road rally events. Initially I was going to take my 911 turbo, but I ended up selling it and frankly it probably wasn't going to get three adults down to Barcelona, followed by a week in the south of France so,back to the drawing board.... I bought a beautiful 90 tdci, but it just wasn't quite me and I sold it shortly after spending a fortune on it....
Along came a 2010 110 usw, Perfect, but totally standard. Alot people have no idea how much the new defenders have evolved, so it's taken a while to educate the non believers, alot have been converted!
The day I picked it up, I fitted the urban truck grill set and that was how it remained for 6months.
Then our busy period at work happened and all plans went on hold until now.
As advertised:
The grill fitted:
Then urban truck had a sale on and I bought a new bumper as mine was rusted out and bent, also fitted a nudge bar:
A few weeks ago I thought I'd better get on with the build as the rally date drew ever closer. So my first priority was sorting the interior. It was clean but bog standard cloth with the cream\grey headliner.
It was at this point I started speaking to Phil Bahfir at oem landrover www.oemlandrover.co.uk he was incredibly helpful, not interested in pushing anything on you and was incredibly patient whilst I dithered and changed my mind. Eventually I went with premium seats in lunar as well as matching rear seat. This was bought as the conversion so I had to convert them myself. I also got a matching cubby and black headliner and visors. It's all OE so the quality is perfect.
Very happy and also very comfortable!
The rear seat was next and it's a lot more involved, but still pretty straightforward. By this point my hands were struggling with all the pulling and manipulating of the covers...
I had a full headliner and essentially an upholstery shop in my living room, halfway through the rear seat after lots of swearing and exhaustion, my dog came to investigate, he looks as confused as my better half was at this point
At the same time, I also placed an order with Colin, at http://www.deadening.co.uk/ who sorted me out a comprehensive kit for the 110 using Silent Coat. I've used it before and it's just as good as dynamat in my opinion but a considerable amount cheaper! So one morning at 4am after a 10hr shift at work, without any sleep we started laying the tiles and installed the headlining. 17hrs, flat out later we accomplished this:
Along came a 2010 110 usw, Perfect, but totally standard. Alot people have no idea how much the new defenders have evolved, so it's taken a while to educate the non believers, alot have been converted!
The day I picked it up, I fitted the urban truck grill set and that was how it remained for 6months.
Then our busy period at work happened and all plans went on hold until now.
As advertised:
The grill fitted:
Then urban truck had a sale on and I bought a new bumper as mine was rusted out and bent, also fitted a nudge bar:
A few weeks ago I thought I'd better get on with the build as the rally date drew ever closer. So my first priority was sorting the interior. It was clean but bog standard cloth with the cream\grey headliner.
It was at this point I started speaking to Phil Bahfir at oem landrover www.oemlandrover.co.uk he was incredibly helpful, not interested in pushing anything on you and was incredibly patient whilst I dithered and changed my mind. Eventually I went with premium seats in lunar as well as matching rear seat. This was bought as the conversion so I had to convert them myself. I also got a matching cubby and black headliner and visors. It's all OE so the quality is perfect.
Very happy and also very comfortable!
The rear seat was next and it's a lot more involved, but still pretty straightforward. By this point my hands were struggling with all the pulling and manipulating of the covers...
I had a full headliner and essentially an upholstery shop in my living room, halfway through the rear seat after lots of swearing and exhaustion, my dog came to investigate, he looks as confused as my better half was at this point
At the same time, I also placed an order with Colin, at http://www.deadening.co.uk/ who sorted me out a comprehensive kit for the 110 using Silent Coat. I've used it before and it's just as good as dynamat in my opinion but a considerable amount cheaper! So one morning at 4am after a 10hr shift at work, without any sleep we started laying the tiles and installed the headlining. 17hrs, flat out later we accomplished this:
There was matting to go ontop still on the floor and utility sides as well as the under bonnet stuff. This required cutting to fit, so I made a kit myself
The fit was perfect thankfully and I started reinstalling everything. No finished pictures yet as I'm waiting for my recovered rear side trims to turn up today!
I'd been searching, forever for a set of 18's, I had kind of decided on a set of Silverline mantas, until two days before I was going to purchase them a set of 5 bowlers with BF AT came up at a fair price.. Saving a much needed £600, which went on a roof rack... But more about that in a minute...
I wanted a patriot rack from the start. I had one years ago on my first 90 td5 and it was seriously well made. My budget was going to let me stretch to a flatdog, at a discounted price and I was happy with that, however as if by magic literally within 3 days of the wheels I had this from Pete Bell.... Now I was on a roll
One patriot roof rack
I've not fitted it yet as I'm considering powder coating it to match the paintwork.
The fit was perfect thankfully and I started reinstalling everything. No finished pictures yet as I'm waiting for my recovered rear side trims to turn up today!
I'd been searching, forever for a set of 18's, I had kind of decided on a set of Silverline mantas, until two days before I was going to purchase them a set of 5 bowlers with BF AT came up at a fair price.. Saving a much needed £600, which went on a roof rack... But more about that in a minute...
I wanted a patriot rack from the start. I had one years ago on my first 90 td5 and it was seriously well made. My budget was going to let me stretch to a flatdog, at a discounted price and I was happy with that, however as if by magic literally within 3 days of the wheels I had this from Pete Bell.... Now I was on a roll
One patriot roof rack
I've not fitted it yet as I'm considering powder coating it to match the paintwork.
Having had a few issues surfacing around the drive train it was now onto making it reliable. I spoke to Ben at Truckfix http://www.truckfixclutches.com/ and a new ceramic clutch was bought, these guys are brilliant and their products are great quality!
Next up, I spoke to a few people about tuning, I thought I'd made my mind up until I spoke to Kerem at JE engineering http://jemotorworks.co.uk/ after a few conversations I opted for the tune+ package which includes nee intercooler, filter and remap, this is happening this coming week so no pictures just yet.
Also on the cards in the next week, will be an ashcroft atb and an ashcroft upgraded output shaft.
I've also just fitted a new plate
More updates very soon including the double din install.
Next up, I spoke to a few people about tuning, I thought I'd made my mind up until I spoke to Kerem at JE engineering http://jemotorworks.co.uk/ after a few conversations I opted for the tune+ package which includes nee intercooler, filter and remap, this is happening this coming week so no pictures just yet.
Also on the cards in the next week, will be an ashcroft atb and an ashcroft upgraded output shaft.
I've also just fitted a new plate
More updates very soon including the double din install.
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