Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: SW London
Posts: 717
Braehead wrote:
Fitted a traval boot mat and some proper OCD valve caps!
Just make sure that you've put some vaseline or equivalent on the threads. I know of one site sponsor who is all too frequently changing valves when these things corrode on. Ally cap vs. steel valve thread.
3rd Dec 2016 7:51 pm
driverbus70
Member Since: 23 Apr 2014
Location: Fife
Posts: 77
Best to keep an eye on your new tyre valve caps. One of mine "bonded" onto the valve stem. Then snapped the valve stem o when I tried to remove the cap with a small socket & wratchet. Result flat tyre & a trip to my local tyre repair shop. Fitter said " Yes I get a lot of this problem. "! He said "that the alloy in the cap reacts with the metal in the tyre valve then the two can't be separated" So he managed to remove the remaining 3 caps & replaced them with black plastic caps. So keep aye on yours remove & clean lubricate them regularly . I only missed a couple of months of removing them to check pressures but the deed was done! Cheers
3rd Dec 2016 7:58 pm
Braehead
Member Since: 01 Oct 2016
Location: Fife
Posts: 217
Good tips - thanks
3rd Dec 2016 8:01 pm
Sea Raider
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Location: None
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Stuck my Disco3.co.uk sticker onto the rear screen
Member Since: 12 Feb 2013
Location: Fife
Posts: 6528
Bought it a RLD sump guard
Now to fit it after a lick of paint
D3 57 xs Stornaway grey
D2 02 commercial silver gone but a great servant and won't be forgotten
Iid Bluetooth
3rd Dec 2016 11:22 pm
fisherman
Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
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Posted elsewhere on the forum but hey, I love it! Edit: New wheels
I fitted a heated steering wheel but had a bit of a problem getting it working reliably. A couple of days of alcohol later and I'm ready to take it on again man to wheel.FFRR 2017 4.4SDV8 Autobiography. Cost so much I must be mad!
D4 HSE 2012 Like a second wife, more expensive but goes better! I almost cried this time!
D3 HSE 2006 (Almost 8 years together, true love)
Land Cruiser VX 1994 11 years together, wife cried when I p/ex'd for my D3
4th Dec 2016 11:02 am
hilly10
Member Since: 29 Sep 2016
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 325
A pic of the new plate
17 Golf GT TDI Tornado Red
BMW 5 Series Touring
New Toy 1974 TR6 Memosa Yellow
4th Dec 2016 1:43 pm
fisherman
Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
Posts: 1789
I love that blue!FFRR 2017 4.4SDV8 Autobiography. Cost so much I must be mad!
D4 HSE 2012 Like a second wife, more expensive but goes better! I almost cried this time!
D3 HSE 2006 (Almost 8 years together, true love)
Land Cruiser VX 1994 11 years together, wife cried when I p/ex'd for my D3
4th Dec 2016 1:56 pm
RutlandBoy
Member Since: 23 Oct 2016
Location: Northants
Posts: 93
This afternoon I fitted the charger socket in the front grill to allow the MXS 5.0 to work without the bonnet up to ensure that SWMBO doesn't get into it and it wont start !!
Also (Thanks to the cable from this site and the advice therein ) reset the faults on the FBH, tested it and succeed in getting it to fire up properly
Hopefully it will stay like that but feel equipped at least to diagnose it now !
Next step is to get a remote and install it - perhaps next weekend ! just got to decide which one of the many options will work best for us
4th Dec 2016 5:18 pm
Braehead
Member Since: 01 Oct 2016
Location: Fife
Posts: 217
Removed the new valve caps after the comments on here - better safe than sorry!
4th Dec 2016 9:21 pm
Azzybee
Member Since: 04 Jul 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 287
Removed my chrome wing mirrors skin cover that came with the car when purchased and stuck on a pair of full fit colour coded covers I bought from lrparts.net (decent price and fast delivery).
Prefer the look now to the chromes that was on it.
Discovery 3 HSE 2007
6th Dec 2016 10:57 am
professorpool
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Woking
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Fitted a Kenwood Head unit, which includes sat nav etc and replaced the satnav screen with an ipad mini (for OS map use and music control).
Pics to follow!D3 07 SE - still going strong
D3 07 HSE - gone to car heaven
FL1 - gone to Romania
D3 05 HSE - gone to a divorce diet
D1 V8 manual - gone but not forgotten
RR Classic - gone to car heaven
Jeeps, Lexus, X-trails... Too many to name..
9th Dec 2016 1:38 pm
Azzybee
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Location: UK
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Professorpool any chance you could post a photo out of how you fitted your iPad mini?Discovery 3 HSE 2007
9th Dec 2016 8:50 pm
professorpool
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D3 07 SE - still going strong
D3 07 HSE - gone to car heaven
FL1 - gone to Romania
D3 05 HSE - gone to a divorce diet
D1 V8 manual - gone but not forgotten
RR Classic - gone to car heaven
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to ensure that SWMBO doesn't get into it and it wont start !!
