Thread: Picking up my 110 new Puma tomorrow excited!!!

Originally Posted by cafe latte

...It was raining and there is quite a bit of noise from the rear as there is little sound dead insulation at the back. What do you guys do...

Turn the stereo up!!! (and down again when you stop)

Way to go mate! Found the same as you regards the back pain (lack thereof) and the loving the drive! Will post you a link to what I wrote up on running in shortly

Check this out for a summary of what I did running my defender in. This post is the one year update. Just added a two year update further on in the thread.

New 110 DC in the family...

Ref the seat belt - grab a couple of those cheap wrap around seat belt pads from supercrap etc they stop the buckle from flipping into the window.

Pete

Great to hear you are enjoying it.

For the noise some things I did included putting on front mud flaps, cutting up a foam camping mattress and yoga mat and lying it over the rear areas.

I also got some rhino liner sprayed in the rear wheel arches. Probably should have done the whole rear tray in retrospect. This made a huge difference. I also got rust proofing done and I think it made a minor improvement (might just be a placebo effect as well.

But to be honest you seem to get used to it.

As for the tyres I have cross contacts and they seem to love picking up and throwing out the stones no matter what pressure I try. Again I have just tuned out but every now and then you a loud ones come out of the blue.

Also I have taken a heap of chips out of my driver side tinting. For some reason my belt flies back way faster than the passenger. Took me a while to remember

Glad your enjoying it. You'll get used to the stone noises we hardly notice them now although every now we get a really noisy one which startles us but mainly we don't notice them. Tyre choice makes a difference.

The one thing that still bothers me is the tint film chip is this fixable?
Cheers
Chris

I'd live with it - consider it a trophy rather than a scar - it wont be the last. I have several in that location ...

If you plan to take it off road then bumps and scrapes are a certainty. I'm sure you'll want it to look as good as possible for as long as possible BUT, that first scratch is a right of passage that you just have to get over IMO