Thread: Rear wheel carrier

Originally Posted by OffTrack

That would explain the D1 V8. You must have some lucid moments or you wouldn't own a D3

Well, the price I got the D3 for, I'd have had to have been on drugs to not buy it!

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

What colour are the original clips?
It could have been mine were already replaced.
But I like to think I'm special

Red, and you probably had a decent clip removal tool.

That went somewhere different.

As did I this afternoon. While in Townsville, I dropped in to Land Rover Only, run by Tim, in north Townsville. Now that's an impressive yard full of Land Rovers.

Originally Posted by Franz

Red, and you probably had a decent clip removal tool.

Flat bladed screwdriver and a pair of scissors

D1's and D2's have different stud patterns, they are NOT THE SAME

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Flat bladed screwdriver and a pair of scissors

Blimming hell! some people are born lucky! or is that "ignorance is bliss"? or maybe "Fools rush in"?

Easy. Use a large flat bladed screw driver, while using the rave diagram, to pull the start of the trim panel back. Then with the scissor blades slightly open (so they sit on either side of the clip) lever the clip out using the scissor blades gently, one ridge at a time.
All this from me, and I'm heavy handed at the best of times
I had three broken clips in a row above the exterior door handle, which I found when I first started so I thought I'd broken them.

Okay, so 2/10 on my part for Thinking Skills, I didn't ask the tyre shop to check whether the wheel nuts on the road wheels were put on with the impact wrench.

Went to replace the front brake pads, as per recommendation by my mate, and can only get 3 of the wheel nuts to shift on the front right wheel. That includes standing on the brace, and standing on the end of the brace plus short extension. All that did was bend the bloody brace. And destroy the stainless steel cap on one of the wheel nuts, now showing a buggered wheel nut underneath. I can't even get enough of a grip on that to move it with a breaker bar.



And again

Haven't tried any other wheels, but I suspect I'm going to be a not-very-happy shouty customer come Monday morning.