Day one of the hunt

**Roverlord off road spares** · 19th August 2016, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by ozscott

Hi Mario. Nice looking machine and congratulations! I just saw this thread and read it but the sales link has now expired... Can you post up some more photos and it's history? Cheers

the Vehicle had 2 owners, it has been serviced every 10,00kms by Land Rover dealers ships and then later by independent Land Rover shops up to the 160k log book, I will do the next scheduled service.
The previous owner had spent $10k on it looikng t the receipts for work done. that included fitting a new turbo $3000 for part, had the drain hose unblocked, failure was due to blocked crank case breather filter.
He paid a whopping $3000 of labour for that work with the service!.
If only he had a RAVE CD.
Then the rest was on suspension, air bags done and rear suspension parts.

The only niggles that I have to fix is, which is ok as the car is 13 years old 1.
is the Drivers seat Valance is cracked/split. I could probably remove it repair it and make a fiber glass clone? then it will last forever, or just buy another one in. Apparently these are common to break as people slide their bums off the seat without their feet touching the ground first.

2. The sun glasses holder on the roof console doesn't stay shut. I'll have to pull it off, it'll probably be a part on the cam has broken or slipped out of position, More aesthetics problem, if your anal like me.

3. The Sun roof blind is stuck? in the open position, doesn't really worry me but it would be nice to have that operational.

some pics.
Rangie11.jpg

rangie9.jpg

Rangie8.jpg

**Roverlord off road spares** · 19th August 2016, 08:48 AM

more pics
Rangie7.jpg

rangie6.jpg

Rangie5.jpg

rangie 3.jpg

rangie2.jpg

**Roverlord off road spares** · 19th August 2016, 09:43 AM

Had a good look around the engine bay yesterday to familiarise myself for future servicing.

I'm Amazed on how much room there is to swing spanners.

The oil filter, looking up smiling at you and not hidden like the TD5

.What no injector loom bathed in oil like a TD5

Now if these 3litre engines could be transplanted to a D2

Looking at some vids amazed how easy it is to take the dash apart and un clip trim. May be they did it to save time for the techinicans for repetitive component replacement, I hope they didn't do it for the reason.

**Blade74** · 19th August 2016, 07:17 PM

Looks really good Mario. Great colours too.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 19th August 2016, 07:35 PM

I gotta ask,,

whats the keyhole shaped indent under the passenger side dash vent? (nice colour timber by the way

)

**Roverlord off road spares** · 19th August 2016, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I gotta ask,,

whats the keyhole shaped indent under the passenger side dash vent? (nice colour timber by the way

)

Pedro that's the passengers fold out cup holder, that's O.E.M

But I have already modified mine. If my fishing bubby smokes in my vehilce and he had a can of drink and pulls it, it opens up the sunroof and an exocet missile launches under his bum and ejects him out through the roof.

**Homestar** · 19th August 2016, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I gotta ask,,

whats the keyhole shaped indent under the passenger side dash vent? (nice colour timber by the way

)

Yeah, cup holder - there's a really cool one that you can see folded away at the bottom RH side of the pic. You push it to unlatch it and it opens forward and down. Someone did a great job there.

**Roverlord off road spares** · 19th August 2016, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yeah, cup holder - there's a really cool one that you can see folded away at the bottom RH side of the pic. You push it to unlatch it and it opens forward and down. Someone did a great job there.

console cup holder

consol cup holder.jpg

Passenger dash cup holder

passenger cup holder.jpg

**Roverlord off road spares** · 23rd August 2016, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

console cup holder

consol cup holder.jpg

Passenger dash cup holder

passenger cup holder.jpg

Here you go Pedro, IMG_20160823_122159.jpg here is mine in action. Iy is tightly holding a skinny 200 mil coke can, so for all those sugar hit drinkers, it will safely hold a V or Redbull can also as well as the standard size cans.

**DoubleChevron** · 23rd August 2016, 01:47 PM

So ..... Can you buy one of these things with a proper (ie: manual ) gearbox ? ... sounds interesting

seeya
Shane L.

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