Thread: Got It - At Last!

Congrats on the purchase. I've found you need to keep some weight on the spare winch when winding it up unloaded. Difficult to do by yourself, so I wind it a few turns, get under the car and pull it down, then wind a few more turns, and so on.

Thanks for the picture - I recently bought an 09 in silver & was wondering what the bullbar would look like.

Mines a TDV6 SE with rear diff lock.

Regards

Chuck

We had the same problem with the handbrake on corrugations near Alice Springs, haven't made it happen again, I suspect that the electric handbrake loosens up over the corrugations and a sensor detects that it has lost tension.
The spare tyre winch will be a warranty job I had mine replaced as well. Always keep a weight on it when winding it in or out.

Regards,
Tote

Thanks all.
Chuck
Several people have commented on how good the ARB bar looks. Even the salesman ( a real Landophile) said he hated the idea of the front bumper coming off but that the silver ARB bar looked almost as good.
1 big advantage is you don't have to take off the plastic plate to get at the front recovery point, it is exposed & solidly connected to the bottom of the bar. Hard to see as every thing under there is painted black.

I have learnt my lesson re the spare tyre winch. I wound it up because I threw the flat in the trailer & didn't want the winch cable banging around under the car. The winch mechanism seems to have a cover held on by 4 nuts/bolts, I hope if I take this off I can untwist/wind the cable & put the spare back. I don't want to tow the trailer just to go up to Hell's Gate.

The Park Brake light thing happened the second time over heavy corrugations, the first time I did not notice but I think there was corrugations as well. After the second time I deliberately drove the worst part of the corrugations to try to make it happen again but it wouldn't, maybe adjusted it's self?
Love the sound putting on the park brake makes that you can hear if the door is open.

BTW What is with the release of air pressure shortly after you pull up sometimes? Sounds like a truck.

Much better car than the Pathfinder - I reckon it is worth every cent of the extra money in comfort, space, practicality, performance & aesthetics. Some of the options are a bit over the top though.

I have extended the original rear mudflaps to stop stones pinging off the trailer into the back of the car. This looks a bit ugly & amateurish, does anyone make longer rear mudflaps for the 09 model? I believe the 09 has slightly different mudflaps due to the colour matched mudguard flares.

Thanks
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by jonesfam

I have extended the original rear mudflaps to stop stones pinging off the trailer into the back of the car. This looks a bit ugly & amateurish, does anyone make longer rear mudflaps for the 09 model? I believe the 09 has slightly different mudflaps due to the colour matched mudguard flares.

Best to make a stone deflector for the trailer so that stones are deflected down and out the side.

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Thanks all.
BTW What is with the release of air pressure shortly after you pull up sometimes? Sounds like a truck.

That is the car levelling itself, sometimes it will do it whilst you are waiting at the lights on a slight incline. A little spooky at first.

On your little spare wheel winch problem:
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic2632.html
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic15894.html
Might help.

AP.

The winch cable gets jammed inside the housing when there's no tension on it. It's a simple job to remove it but it is rivetted together (the 2005 MY were anyway).
You can drill/grind off the rivets & pull it apart to refit the cable properly but try pulling it out by hand to start with.

One big problem is that the winch does not have a 'stop' so if you wind it down too much, the cable will extend all the way out then start to wind back in the reverse direction, then jams because the cable runs in tracks on the winch drum.

Oh, and congratulations on the new Disco .

The ARB bar looks great on the D3's.....wish they looked that good on the D2a