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disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Tonga Green

The Grills I have are just the genuine standard style grills. If you are interested in 1, let me know and feel free to make an offer. I will be advertising one later in the week.

6th Mar 2016 4:33 am

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

This weekend, I popped to Tesco on the way home and took advantage of there ground floor sheltered car park, We tried to fit the brackets to the a-bar, however 1 spot light bracket went on with ease, the drivers side has been a pig! We actually gave up, one of the bolts on the car was a round headed bolt with a torx hole in it, and it

rounded off! So gave up for now until I have worked out a solution.

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I hadn't really paid attention to the condition of the lights, TYPICAL ME lol, not complaining about the lights at all, but decided in my opinion that at least 1 needed light restoration and a deep clean, I could see inside the light had a water line on the glass, and it looked like the chrome reflector was peeling off. Luckily it turned out to just be stubborn mould. I took 1 spotlight totally apart, but came across a problem. While I was taking it apart, I had to remove the round gasket which has a lip on it to wedge between the glass and the outer plastic casing. However it was soo badly perished, that it came off in lots of pieces. I managed to get a lot of it back in for now. But need to find out where to get this from.

The light IMO looks fantastic in comparison to what it did.

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I will be going at this again on Sunday when I drag my backside out of bed around mid day

I made some progress after going back a few steps with the headlight DRL modification too. I destroyed lots more of the screws that came with the DRL's trying to attach the clips, to no avail.

So I after lots of thinking, I decided to go from 2mm screws and using 1.5mm drill bits to pre make the holes to reduce the pressure on the screws as they go in as they round off way to

easy.
I have now drilled 3mm holes into the clips, and Sunday afternoon I will be drilling 2.5mm holes into the lights where the screws are going to hold the clips on. And hopefully if my other half is up for it, I will be popping to Toolstation to buy a pack of 200 3mmx13mm screws for 50p. And will at least try and finish 1 head light and maybe even get it back together. But I will not be able to get the other headlight done until I get the replacement clips and screws delivered from hong kong.

I am now heading to bed as I am exhausted and suffering from man flu

6th Mar 2016 4:48 am

pgsl

Member Since: 26 Sep 2015
Location: king's lynn
Posts: 105

2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Auto Java Black

I will leave the grill as i'm after the newer style in java black.

6th Mar 2016 9:25 am

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

I am finally making progess with the headlight mod

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6th Mar 2016 5:35 pm

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

DRL's are now mounted and the internal fascias are now mounted to the lenses. But because I had much more urgent things to do, I had to leave the mod at this stage for now. Hopefully I will be able to finish them later in the week and maybe even have them fitted at the weekend. The next stage will be to wire on the DRL Relays and piggy back the indicator wire, I am not sure weather to leave the indicator bulb in or not as the indicator bulb will technically be not needed anymore. I will leave the sidelight LED bulbs in though and plan on wiring the DRL relay to either dim or switch off the DRL when they are turned on. Or will wire it to the headlights as I don't want to blind people with them at night lol.

I will need to drill a hole in to the main headlight casing too to run the DRL wire to a plug that I am going to cable tie to the main headlight plugs which will be the loom that runs to the battery. Both DRL relays have inline fuses so I don't need to put them onto the fuse box.

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6th Mar 2016 10:22 pm

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

More progress on the headlights modding. I was feeling in a good mood and not able to sleep, so I decided to get the wiring finished on the headlights internal looms. All I need to do now is seal the 2 little holes I drilled in the casing of the headlights and put the lights back together, then wire the DRL on. But wiring the DRL on will be the very last thing I do. The indicator will work as soon as the lights are plugged in

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8th Mar 2016 5:20 am

Moo
D3 Decade

Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14284

2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 S Manual Zambezi Silver

It seems like a lot of work. I hope you get the result you're looking for. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)

Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)

Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)

No longer the Old Buses original owner

231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control

8th Mar 2016 8:41 am

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

It is a lot of work, but it is worth it. And the lights will be back together Wednesday. Although I may have to take the lenses apart again briefly as there is dust where I can't get a cloth to lol

9th Mar 2016 12:49 am

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

After another day of hell, I actually managed to get the lights all back together.

Only got 3 more jobs left to do to totally finish them,

Seal the 2 holes that I drilled.
Fit the bulbs.
Wire on the DRL relay and route the wiring from the car.

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9th Mar 2016 10:48 pm

D16PJM

Member Since: 08 Dec 2015
Location: Sidcup, Kent
Posts: 309

2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Java Black

They look good but will the indicator and side light work with no reflection behind, cant knock your commitment though.

Pete De tango
BAS remap
EGR blank
Colour coded
21" range rover wheels
tinted windows
side steps
3 blink, C.O.D

10th Mar 2016 12:49 am

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

The indicator and sidelight are obsolete with the DRL in place as it is extremely bright. For now I have fitted the other bulbs back in place but will most likely remove them on Saturday. I have purposefully gone for a gloss finish rather than a matt finish to help promote the reflectiveness still. So either should be ok. But plenty of other people have painted the internals black without fitting a DRL like mine and have carried on using standard bulbs without issues. So should be ok. 8)

10th Mar 2016 5:50 am

Moo
D3 Decade

Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14284

Mmmmm.......not convinced. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)

Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)

Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)

No longer the Old Buses original owner

231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control

10th Mar 2016 12:59 pm

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

Finally got both headlights properly finished now. Sealant now put on the new holes to seal the light again. And I have also decided to go for it and get the 2nd spot light apart and done. I considered being lazy with it and just fitting it as is. But glad I did as there was mould after all these years of them being used that there was a lot of mould and crap built up inside. Although this light was a lot harder to get apart.

I have bought High Temp heat sealant. And hope to get them done before I head to bed tonight.

Tomorrow see's the front end taking a dramatic change of my Discovery too.

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11th Mar 2016 11:53 pm

disco-nut

Member Since: 27 Dec 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 951

Spot lights are finished but can't fit them yet, Head lights finished and fitted

Couldn't be happier with the result, I will have to make one more change to the lights though, The indicators do indeed need a resistor.

But I love the finished look.

The front bumper and arches still need to be colour coded to finish that bit off although I am also considering having the nudge bar plasti dipped in silver.

I bought a bolt extractor kit but wasn't successful in getting the bolt out and ran out of time to really have proper go at it. So for now, the spotlights stay off although they are now TOTALLY finished.

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13th Mar 2016 1:11 am

ruben
D3 Decade

Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
Posts: 2417

2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Tonga Green

I congratulate you on the result, I had sincere doubts at first but the result is very professional and the combination with black background focus seems to me even more successful and beautiful than the original design of LR.

sincerely!! Great job !!

lost in translation!
DISCOVERY 3 SE man. TDV6 2006, my true love!
DEFENDER 2 SE D I6 MHEV 2024, other live.

13th Mar 2016 1:22 am