Following on from the "today-I-bought" post, my wife and I are currently on the ferry from Holyhead to Dublin having collected our Defender 110.
Primarily this will be my wife's car, which maybe seems a bit mad, but she's a farmer's daughter and delusions of country living will hopefully be enough for her to over-look the tractor gearbox and lack of sound-proofing. Having spent the weekend driving 300 miles round Snowdonia National Park I love it. It takes a bit of time to get used to how it likes to be driven, but i definitely get why people love them.
The car is 2011 2.4 Puma engine (last of the 2.4l before they were changed to the 2.2l), and I've yet to figure out the extras but it has half leather, and must have a winter pack (heated seats, heated windscreen, etc). Also has a rear ladder, full rubber mats and side-steps. The only modifications I can see is the addition of a bluetooth kit. Colour I believe is Galway green.
I never bother putting member's cars threads up here, but I've been inspired to stick this up with the aim of keeping it updated not only with both modifications and work carried out on the car, but hopefully also a few of the adventures we have in it as a family.
I've a full list of potential mods planned, but I'll take it one step at at time (thanks to @mcma1 's threads on here and Defender2.net my head is spinning full of ideas!). It had a full once over before I picked it up (new tyres, bushes, etc) but I think I'll drop it down to BLRC for a bit of a health check for the bits I'll have missed. after that the 1st item on the list is a full extensive underseal, so need to figure out where is best to get that sorted (not sure if this is something BLRC do).
Anyway, here's a couple of photos to get me started, I'll get a few proper photo's of the car when I get home.
Primarily this will be my wife's car, which maybe seems a bit mad, but she's a farmer's daughter and delusions of country living will hopefully be enough for her to over-look the tractor gearbox and lack of sound-proofing. Having spent the weekend driving 300 miles round Snowdonia National Park I love it. It takes a bit of time to get used to how it likes to be driven, but i definitely get why people love them.
The car is 2011 2.4 Puma engine (last of the 2.4l before they were changed to the 2.2l), and I've yet to figure out the extras but it has half leather, and must have a winter pack (heated seats, heated windscreen, etc). Also has a rear ladder, full rubber mats and side-steps. The only modifications I can see is the addition of a bluetooth kit. Colour I believe is Galway green.
I never bother putting member's cars threads up here, but I've been inspired to stick this up with the aim of keeping it updated not only with both modifications and work carried out on the car, but hopefully also a few of the adventures we have in it as a family.
I've a full list of potential mods planned, but I'll take it one step at at time (thanks to @mcma1 's threads on here and Defender2.net my head is spinning full of ideas!). It had a full once over before I picked it up (new tyres, bushes, etc) but I think I'll drop it down to BLRC for a bit of a health check for the bits I'll have missed. after that the 1st item on the list is a full extensive underseal, so need to figure out where is best to get that sorted (not sure if this is something BLRC do).
Anyway, here's a couple of photos to get me started, I'll get a few proper photo's of the car when I get home.