Thread: Air suspension damaged

Originally Posted by Graeme

... RRV with its compressor inside...

Not in the cabin I presume, but under the bonnet?
Looking under the Discovery, no wonder there are so many aftermarket gizmos to protect this and that.

Originally Posted by Graeme

That's obviously the reason I bought a RRV with its compressor inside - to go offroad!

Nah mate,some people just have too much money
It just happened to be inside
Andrew

Originally Posted by Ian Abbott

Green Oval Experience GOE, do a quality metal compressor protection cover. Regards, Botto

That's interesting - they say it is "..the most essential mod you can make to your vehicle..."
If the compressor housing is that vulnerable, why is it there and unprotected in the first place?
It costs $220 which appears to be expensive for a shaped piece of metal.

Originally Posted by pprass

That's interesting - they say it is "..the most essential mod you can make to your vehicle..."
If the compressor housing is that vulnerable, why is it there and unprotected in the first place?
It costs $220 which appears to be expensive for a shaped piece of metal.

It will be interesting to see how much this stick ends up costing.
Im guessing if this had happened on your trip the $220 investment would have been chicken feed,especially if you were in a remote location.
The GOE cover is on my list,Ive done Gordons course,he makes it pretty plain how vunerable the compressor is.
Andrew

Originally Posted by pprass

Not in the cabin I presume, but under the bonnet?

Under the spare wheel which is also inside - not such a good place for that!

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

...Im guessing if this had happened on your trip the $220 investment would have been chicken feed,especially if you were in a remote location.

That's right Andrew, but that's $220 on top of a whole suite of other mods that "need" to be done. And not knowing what was going to happen and what was going to fail - what do you do? Pick one mod at random, or do the lot? I could have spent thousands of dollars getting the vehicle to a level where it was fairly invulnerable - fitted a bash plate and transmission plate, rock sliders, set of proper AT tyres for the 19" rims etc.
After already spending thousands of dollars on bullbar, long range fuel tank, rear wheel carrier, driving lights, I didn't have much left over to do any of the other work. So in the end I had to rely on the reliability and quality of the vehicle to get me through.
As it turned out the only real problem I had was that I shredded a tyre on the Great Central Rd and it cost me $537 to get a replacement in Alice Springs. That's probably not the fault of LR, but gosh - shouldn't they offer a better tyre option when buying a vehicle?

From the look of that hole I'd say at best the small pressure signal pipe has been torn out or damaged. At worse the actual end cover/ housing is toast.
I reckon you're just unlucky there I've seen many of these vehicles used in pretty average places and even seen a stick pushed uo half through the floor missing the fuel lines and trans wiring harness by mm's!!.

Hurry up and get that cover off...

Jc

Originally Posted by pprass

That's right Andrew, but that's $220 on top of a whole suite of other mods that "need" to be done. And not knowing what was going to happen and what was going to fail - what do you do? Pick one mod at random, or do the lot? I could have spent thousands of dollars getting the vehicle to a level where it was fairly invulnerable - fitted a bash plate and transmission plate, rock sliders, set of proper AT tyres for the 19" rims etc.
After already spending thousands of dollars on bullbar, long range fuel tank, rear wheel carrier, driving lights, I didn't have much left over to do any of the other work. So in the end I had to rely on the reliability and quality of the vehicle to get me through.
As it turned out the only real problem I had was that I shredded a tyre on the Great Central Rd and it cost me $537 to get a replacement in Alice Springs. That's probably not the fault of LR, but gosh - shouldn't they offer a better tyre option when buying a vehicle?

Dont get me wrong,Im with you on this,my original post mentioned we buy these to be soccer mums(or get one)
I rekon we have both done very similar mods for touring I spent everything I sold the D2 for in mods on mine.
Andrew