{"id":3430,"date":"2013-04-01T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/?page_id=3430"},"modified":"2013-04-01T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T11:14:22","slug":"update-29-apr-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/?page_id=3430","title":{"rendered":"Update 29 – Apr 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow – it’s been 13 months since I last looked at this!!! Well the old girl has done a LOT since then, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll let the pics do the talking:<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the reason I jumped on to update this page is because I finally got some work done to the old girl. Not much and it was really only done because I had too. You see I’ve had this kit sitting in the shed now for quite a long time (read over 12 months).<\/p>\n

Driving to work the other morning I lost all headlights. Yeah, yeah – it’s a Landrover and I should’ve known better. Anyway I thought I better fix it before work in the morning.<\/p>\n

For those that aren’t aware, Landrover in their infinite wisdom wired up a headlight circuit so all the amps go through the switch itself. Now the original switch went on me back in 04 when I rigged up a couple of spotlight switches to get me home. 9 years later one of those switches failed (lol). Got me home alright!<\/p>\n

The kit I used was from Drivesafe, a forum member on AULRO (www.traxide.com.au). Great bit of kit which fixes the original problem by actually using a relay (funny that!). The kit was easy to fit, although I needed to lenthen a few of the wires – a very easy thing to do.<\/p>\n

I fitted the relay in the battery compartment, as I’m not to keen to have anything electrical in the engine bay – knowing what I do to the poor bugger!<\/p>\n

The offending item:
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Actually the proper connector, instead of 3 terminals……
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Relay fitted, although it’s starting to get messy – may have to tidy it up soon!
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Proper switch!
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Low beam
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High beam
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Hard to show what an improvement this has made, but damn it’s good. I’m still running Narva all-weather 55\/60W globes, so they aren’t anything fancy. All I can say is I should’ve done this upgrade years ago!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow – it’s been 13 months since I last looked at this!!! Well the old girl has done a LOT since then, that’s for sure. I think I’ll let the pics do the talking: Anyway, the reason I jumped on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2539,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3430\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}