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<\/a><\/p>\nI fitted the Hella spotlights that where on the front onto the bullbar. At the end of the day they are still $100 spotties that are nearly 10 years old, but using the All Weather globes from Narva seems to give them a pretty damn good spread at night – and this works for me. There is better on the market, but I figure it’s another way to spend some serious money.<\/p>\n
The headlights have been changed over for Halogen. This has made a dramatic improvement (when not muddy) over the original – and it’s something I recommend to anyone who owns a Defender. Again I am running the All Weather globes from Narva. I would also recommend these globes to anyone. Whilst they aren’t the most powerful (65watts) they are bloody brilliant in the rain, fog, snow – generally everytime it isn’t fine weather. Never regretted using them.<\/p>\n
The safari snorkel got fitted by Macquarie 4×4 – the only company I have ever let do mechanical work to the old girl. I must admit a case a lacking some balls with this job, as all I could imagine was me with electric tools and cutting in the wrong spot! ops: They did a brilliant job though.<\/p>\n
The roof console was supplied by Macquarie 4×4 at the same time. As the console is for the later TD5 it is a very tight squeeze to make it fit – but it did with some perserverence. This has been one of the best damn improvements to the vehicle so far. If for nothing but the interior lights, the front I can now see what I’m after, and the rear lights the cargo area up brilliantly – the Defender was moving into the 19th century slowly!<\/p>\n The original radio was a PITA, so I ditched it for an old Alpine system I had in the shed. It is a radio cassette player, with a big 3 CD stacker (which I fitted to the roof console). This radio system worked up until 3 months ago, when the stacker decided to crap itself. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve now got a new MP3 player to put into it, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leaving it until I upgrade the electronics in the old girl \u00e2\u20ac\u201c do it all at once I figure. At the same time I fitted some Jaycar speakers to the front \u00e2\u20ac\u201c however I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the space in the passenger side to mount it properly. I got around this by using longer screws and some fuel hose to act as a spacer. Funniest thing is it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t moved once!!!<\/p>\n The rear was taken care of with some outdoor speakers. Designed for the house, they do quite a fine job of things in the Landy.<\/p>\n A \u00c2\u00bd din GME UHF radio was fitted to the roof console. Not long after I fitted \u00c2\u00bd din AM CB from GME as well. This was supplied to me by an Overlander forum member at a very reasonable cost as well. There aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many people using AM now days, but when you get a trip where everyone has one it makes a big difference. Everyone and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dog now days uses UHF and it can get damn infuriating at times. I do want to get the proper front mount for the radio, but that will wait until I get around to it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moving anywhere, it just looks a little tacky. I fitted extension speakers to both radio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. A combination of my deafness and the road noise from the Landy made it hard to hear \u00e2\u20ac\u201c don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have them problems now.<\/p>\n [\/QUOTE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok update time – and it’s been a little while. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve now got well over 500k on the old girl, and pretty much it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going pretty damn well other than old age. The Landy got a genuine winch bullbar fitted … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n