The Land Rover Appreciation Group.

Frank · November 8, 2010

If the lights are brighter then your battery was knackered anyway...........your alternator MAY have been okay....dulling lights on a vehicle usually mean end of battery life....

Battery light was glowing as you drive which is usually a sign of alternator packing in so seeing as the battery was managing to start her up I had figured on alternator. Anyway. Damage was done. Damage was fixed. I'm just gonna periodically replace every single part until they are all new haha.

Chris Sheppard · November 8, 2010

do the points system not come into effect on this?

i'm 99% surethe chassis is a major part of the points and can't be done without the original but I think a lot comes down to the IVA tester and how they interpret it - Any modifications to a chassis (other than a repair) is now, as I understand it, classed as a radical modification (though you can bolt stuff on) and the chassis can be swapped for a new one of the same specification/design as the original - so for instance you couldn't rechassis a 110 with a new chassis which had a winch rear crossmember as it wouldn't be the same as the original. you can't do a 90 -100inch (a-la-hybrid) So in this case how can a 110 chassis be the smae as a 130.

Whether anyone would actually notice or not is a different matter but for the amoutn of £ involved and the risk of it invalidating the insurance (I agree it's alll a stupid rule) I'd still want to be 100% sure if it was me.

Edited November 8, 2010 by Chris Sheppard

treefrog · May 13, 2011

treefrog · May 13, 2011

the high cap is now for sale see classifeds

tommer9 · May 13, 2011

i'm 99% surethe chassis is a major part of the points and can't be done without the original but I think a lot comes down to the IVA tester and how they interpret it - Any modifications to a chassis (other than a repair) is now, as I understand it, classed as a radical modification (though you can bolt stuff on) and the chassis can be swapped for a new one of the same specification/design as the original - so for instance you couldn't rechassis a 110 with a new chassis which had a winch rear crossmember as it wouldn't be the same as the original. you can't do a 90 -100inch (a-la-hybrid) So in this case how can a 110 chassis be the smae as a 130.

Whether anyone would actually notice or not is a different matter but for the amoutn of £ involved and the risk of it invalidating the insurance (I agree it's alll a stupid rule) I'd still want to be 100% sure if it was me.

Lost track of this thread, but just out of interest, if you buy a 130 it has 110 stamped on the VIN plate ......or at least it certainly used to be the case. :001_smile:

Chris Sheppard · May 13, 2011

Lost track of this thread, but just out of interest, if you buy a 130 it has 110 stamped on the VIN plate ......or at least it certainly used to be the case.

Think it was just the older ones Tom, where they'd roll into LRSV a 110 and come out with a bit welded in the middle as a 130. Not sure exactly when it was tehy started doign the 130 on it's own dedicated chassis but have a feelign it was somewhere around the time the TDi engines were fitted. Mine was a 1997 and the vin tag was all correct and the V5 had it down as defender 130. :001_smile:

tommer9 · May 13, 2011

Think it was just the older ones Tom, where they'd roll into LRSV a 110 and come out with a bit welded in the middle as a 130. Not sure exactly when it was tehy started doign the 130 on it's own dedicated chassis but have a feelign it was somewhere around the time the TDi engines were fitted. Mine was a 1997 and the vin tag was all correct and the V5 had it down as defender 130.

Yeah that skind of what i was thinking about. :thumbup1:

_tc · May 13, 2011

Not much appreciation for my 130 at the moment. Rear diff will be coming out next week for a rebuild! Bloody trucks. Gearbox stopped leaking so I checked the level, transfer box took just over a litre, bugger!

Never mind, she keeps on trucking.

skyhuck · May 13, 2011

the high cap is now for sale see classifeds

Is it petrol or diesel????????

Matthew Arnold · May 13, 2011

Here is a pic of our (my dads and i) Defender 110 CSW when we had just picked it up and after some fun during some roost shooting. Didnt get stuck but very very sideways in many spots. And some pics of our now deceased Discovery 1 up on Salisbur Plain (P.S Only had high range due to transfer box breaking at first lane). It died in spectacular fashion to the CLA Game Fair at Belvoir Castle. One by one the warning lights came on and bang engine blew apart. Lost all oil from sump, radiator blew, battery shorted. No idea what happened but something when bang very quickly. Only doing 70 mph too :confused1: