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A-frame with Landrover driving lamps and damaged mud flap !

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biggless

Member Since: 19 Oct 2007
Location: Durham
Posts: 37

2005 Discovery 3 4.4 V8 HSE Auto Zambezi Silver

A-frame with Landrover driving lamps and damaged mud flap !

Following my post back in October I finally managed to find a set of driving lamps at the Ripon LR dealer. I had them fitted a few weeks back and here's the result. The car is fairly mucky after a weekend in a very wet rural Ireland ! As mentioned by some folks these lamps don't improve much on the headlamps. A slight improvement is most noticeable when driving on country lanes with no street lamps.

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Whilst in Ireland I also cracked one of the front mud flaps. Not from serious off roading, I just went up on a verge in a narrow lane ! I'd like to meet the idiot in LR design dept. who thinks that this type of mud flap makes sense! There's no way I'll buy a new one until it falls off !

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15th Dec 2007 3:11 pm

wiggs

Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
Posts: 14368

2015 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 HSE Auto Fuji White

Ditch the

mud flaps and make your own

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Much more flexible

G4 Gone ...but not forgotten

15th Dec 2007 5:52 pm

Tim in Scotland

Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: All at sea
Posts: 496

Halfrauds now stock the Sparco version of Wiggs mudflaps, just cut them to size and secure them - IIRC Â£14 a pair
for the opaque ones favoured by boy rallyracers but they are also sold in black plastic too.

Edit - have just googled sparco mudflaps and the choice of design and colour is bewildering and prices from Â£11 to Â£20................... but sorry for misleading you - any colour so long as you don't want BLACK!
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=sparco+...a&um=1 Now a disillusioned new Land Rover buyer and have jumped ship to something less expensive and more reliable that hugs trees.... now driving a Mini Countryman PHEV as well as my trusty and brilliant 1996 Epsom Green Defender90 Tdi300

15th Dec 2007 6:02 pm

biggless

Member Since: 19 Oct 2007
Location: Durham
Posts: 37

I like the Sparco mud flaps

but I think I would like black !

What do you think about fitting mud flaps for a Defender, would they be big enough? I may drop round my dealer tomorrow and have a look.

15th Dec 2007 6:18 pm

Tim in Scotland

Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: All at sea
Posts: 496

Defender mud flaps are HUGE, and expensive if bought from dealers. I replaced the set on my Def90 about 3 times after reversing over them offroad or just tearing them off, I even had tie ups for them for offroad but they still suffered................... now I put up with a Niagara Falls of spray out the back in wet weather and have given up buying replacements. Defender flaps are also made to shape and you could probably get 2 Disco3 flaps out of 1 Def rear flap! Now a disillusioned new Land Rover buyer and have jumped ship to something less expensive and more reliable that hugs trees.... now driving a Mini Countryman PHEV as well as my trusty and brilliant 1996 Epsom Green Defender90 Tdi300

15th Dec 2007 6:29 pm

wiggs

Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
Posts: 14368

Biggless ..look here

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post212768.html#212768

G4 Gone ...but not forgotten

15th Dec 2007 6:40 pm

DG
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Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934

....and if you make them out of black astroturf matting...they make your motor 'spray' free

21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021

15th Dec 2007 6:41 pm

biggless

Member Since: 19 Oct 2007
Location: Durham
Posts: 37

Wiggs, thanks. The D1 flaps look the best

I guess they are still available from LR dealers ?

15th Dec 2007 7:46 pm

Tim in Scotland

Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: All at sea
Posts: 496

Try some of the aftermarket LR specialists like Paddocks or Craddocks - or the site sponsors Now a disillusioned new Land Rover buyer and have jumped ship to something less expensive and more reliable that hugs trees.... now driving a Mini Countryman PHEV as well as my trusty and brilliant 1996 Epsom Green Defender90 Tdi300

15th Dec 2007 8:05 pm

philhunt

Member Since: 16 Sep 2007
Location: MI5 not 9 to 5
Posts: 1761

2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Zambezi Silver

LR Lamps

ISTR reading elsewhere on the Forum that the reflector on these lamps is designed to produce more of a floodlight than a spot pattern but stand to be corrected by those more technical than me.

I replaced the standard H1s in mine with Osram Nightbreaker H1s which, whilst still only 55 watt, produce up to 90% more light than standards. Polish EBlag sellers offer the best prices for these.

15th Dec 2007 8:19 pm

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