Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by John_D2

Did u catch it before it landed on the ground?

no. in fact once it hit the ground it rolled away and i havnt found it yet.

Drove to Geelong to drop off the Freelander for a B service and diagnosis for the transmission whine. I whined louder when I got told the cost!!

I also spayed contact cleaner on the infamous driver's side abs connector. I pulled it apart first of course.

Oil change and filter. Replaced LED parking bulb and glued bulb holder into headlight with black Marine Fixseal. Good gear that. Just needs a blade to slice through but LED' s last so long it's not a hassle. Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

.... Just needs a blade to slice through but LED' s last so long it's not a hassle. Cheers

Yes and no!
I've change 99.9% of my lights now to LED(have to leave just the high mount incandescent for the cruise control to work).

So far, had two failures with the LEDs
1. park light. T10 type with the 5 led chips(4 at 90° to each other, 1 on top) one of the LED chips was blinking. Drove me nuts, even with the fairly bright LED headlights going.
On the top cross tube on the bullbar(LHS) I could see a 'flickering' reflection, even with all lights on. could have blacked out the flickering chip and relied on the remaining 4 chips, but they cost nothing nowadays .. easy change.
2. was one of the fairly expensive 'ultrabright' BA15S type LED globe I used for the reverse globes. LHS one stopped working. RHS fine. replaced with a slightly less bright one(D1 rear lights are a bit of a PITA to get too.) Tested the 'supposedly' dead LED globe on a battery with two jump wires, glowed fine!(blindingly in fact!) too much of a PITA to refit .. keep as spare.
So, it is conceivable that they can 'last so long' .... they're still prone to failing early too.

For sure. The one I replaced was blinking but at $1 a throw for those little wedges all good. The rest have been in there for a few years now and handled the corrugations of the far north very well.

I.had some submersible Narva lights on my boat trailer that I had to get replaced because 2 of the 4 brake light LED's on one light decided to go out to lunch. Expensive lights too. I actually prefer Submersalite with poly lenses and incandescent bayonet bulbs. Magic. Last forever and easy to change bulb when required without having to pull out a whole light and, in the case of the Narvas, the loom too (one piece)...

Cheers

I had a small overheating issue and bled the cooling sytem and this fixed it, However when i put the expansion tank back i unknowingly broke one of the wireing connectors and crapped myself when the low coolant alarm went off when i started the truck.
All fixed nowvand good to got

Originally Posted by singlecell

That looks pretty good. Got a photo of the bonnet in the sun?
I need to fix my bonnet also and this might be better than the Matt Black I was thinking.

Yep sure mate. I’ll take some tomorrow morning and get back to you. There’s heaps of stuff on YouTube about the Raptor liner. It’s dead easy to use and cheaper than a respray.

Originally Posted by iPom

Yep sure mate. I’ll take some tomorrow morning and get back to you. There’s heaps of stuff on YouTube about the Raptor liner. It’s dead easy to use and cheaper than a respray.

Well I looked on youtube, and now I want to paint the entire car in it....