Member Since: 07 Jan 2006
Location: North Wales
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New exhaust gaurds on 06 model?
Looking at the underneath of a 06 model D3 in the dealer, and it only had a a thin super saver!
but it had larger guards around the exhaust, which seam to cover it more.
Are these better? should they be fitted instead?
What other changes have happened?
These guards protruded below the standard spare wheel before (untill your wore them away off-roading) so with a space saver tyre these guards would look huge.
If they were made from a heat resistant plastic which had some flexibility that would have been better than making them out of fibreglass.
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7th Feb 2006 10:28 am
bashir
Member Since: 04 Jan 2005
Location: Huon Valley, Tasmania
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Re: New exhaust gaurds on 06 model?
Mercedes Benz Australia got hit hard by the media and consumers when their new ML class came out with a space saver spare. MB then brought in full size spares to replace the ones already sold and new models were replaced before the sale was completed.
I would really be suprised if LR used the space saver spare, especially being a genuine 4WD. To be out in the middle of nowhere (or even on the highway) and cop a flat ...... I'd hate to have a space saver then !2009 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE
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7th Feb 2006 10:54 am
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
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I can see your point out in Oz - in the UK, seeing as we're so densely squodged together on our little island we're probably never that far from an LR dealer or a Kwik Fit so it's not so much of an issue for us. Having said that, if I hadn't spent every last cent I had to get one of these beasties, I might have paid the little bit extra for a full sized spareSteve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
When they say space saver don't think of it as one of those silly looking thin things painted orange, it's not far off full size.
More of another cost cutting exersize not giving you a 5th alloy.
7th Feb 2006 5:59 pm
SN
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Phew - I did have visions of struggling home with one of those orangy things on after a puncture... Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
7th Feb 2006 6:54 pm
GLY 2N
Member Since: 07 Jan 2006
Location: North Wales
Posts: 40
If they are still fibreglass there will be more to grind away
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8th Feb 2006 10:15 am
GLY 2N
Member Since: 07 Jan 2006
Location: North Wales
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they looked like plastica, more curved shape.
8th Feb 2006 10:32 am
aitchy
Member Since: 27 Sep 2005
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 130
GLY 2N wrote:
they looked like plastica, more curved shape.
if you reverse in Tesco's car park the first thing you hit despite PDC is a high kerb which missess the spare wheel, bends these plastic guards and dents the exhaust pipe.....so what are they for? TDV6 HSE Buckingham Blue and still smiling
8th Feb 2006 10:37 am
SN
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aitchy wrote:
GLY 2N wrote:
they looked like plastica, more curved shape.
if you reverse in Tesco's car park the first thing you hit despite PDC is a high kerb which missess the spare wheel, bends these plastic guards and dents the exhaust pipe.....so what are they for?
The moral of the story is to never keep going until the wheels hit something - always stop when you think the end of the car is far enogh in - both forwards and reverse - I've seen too many cars with the front skirt scraped against a high kerb...Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
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