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  1. 14th December 2015, 08:28 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by wbowner View Post
    Hi,
    It appears getting a guard for the compressor is good thing to get.

    So I started looking around and have found a couple of different designs

    One from GOE and one from PROSPEED.

    They differ in design a bit.

    In thread
    http://www.aulro.com/afvb/d3-d4-rrs/...sor-guard.html
    It was mentioned the GOE plate opens itself to getting sticks,branches caught in it where the one from PROSPEED has cover at the front which would stop this

    Land Rover Discovery compressor guard : ProSpeed

    What are people's thoughts on this.

    Richard


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    Hi All,

    In deciding whether to buy a compressor guard, I decided to remove the plastic cover just to understand what the compressor set-up looked like and to clean out any excess debris. I was surprised to see there is a metal plate, L shaped which is attached to the chassis and folded under the compressor. It's silver in colour (probably alloy) and about 5mm thick. Appears to be LR's attempt to provide protection to the compressor. I have a MY15 D4.

    Any thoughts as to how much protection this can provide?

    Many thanks
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  2. 14th December 2015, 10:16 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by mfpoli View Post
    I was surprised to see there is a metal plate, L shaped which is attached to the chassis and folded under the compressor. It's silver in colour (probably alloy) and about 5mm thick. Appears to be LR's attempt to provide protection to the compressor. I have a MY15 D4.
    That plate is the compressor mounting bracket, so movement of the plate in an impact event would be undesirable. Also won't help much to protect the air pipes and electrics attached to the compressor. And your acoustic cover would be broken as well by the time the plate acted as a shield. So my view is no real protection offered by the mounting plate to the compressor "system".

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  3. 14th December 2015, 10:59 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    I've got the Prospeed one

    No damage ever happening to that compressor short of destroying the vehicle!
    Hi, I have just fitted the Prospeed compressor guard and its a very well made bit of kit. However, I was just wondering how you go about jacking in this area as the guard seems to use the original jacking point hole as one of its mounting points and covers it. It can therefore, no longer be used as a jacking point at least with the standard jack or a pin jack adaptor.
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  4. 15th December 2015, 12:56 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by LRD414 View Post
    That plate is the compressor mounting bracket, so movement of the plate in an impact event would be undesirable. Also won't help much to protect the air pipes and electrics attached to the compressor. And your acoustic cover would be broken as well by the time the plate acted as a shield. So my view is no real protection offered by the mounting plate to the compressor "system".

    Cheers,
    Scott


    Scott - thank you for your reply. Not sure I would call it a mounting plate as there is no solid connection between compressor and the plate. The compressor has 3 or 4 (can't remember exactly) guiders with springs which insert into holes in the plate so that the compressor can move to some extent independently of any upward impact on the plate. However, despite the semantics, I concur that the plate would provide limited protection as the acoustic cover would be broken by the time it acted as a shield (thus requiring replacement), not to mention the piping and electrics which just hang and are not covered by the shield.
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  5. 15th December 2015, 01:25 PM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by mfpoli View Post
    The compressor has 3 or 4 (can't remember exactly) guiders with springs which insert into holes in the plate so that the compressor can move to some extent independently of any upward impact on the plate.
    Yep these are the anti-vibration mounts for the compressor, which are typically mounted on to a solid frame or foundation (or plate attached to chassis in this case).

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