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Gwily

Member Since: 02 Oct 2011
Location: Cape Town
Posts: 13

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Alpine White

Central Fixed Air Vents

I searched this site and surprisingly could not find any solution or even a mention of the central fixed air vents on a Puma.
I have A/C fitted on mine and when it blows it freezes your left arm (or right if you are the passenger) and there is no adjustment for them.
You can obviously adjust the round vents and they are not a problem, but does anyone know of a solution for adjusting these?
Obviously i could drape some material over them, I even considered duck tape but that would just look ugly

But I am looking for something that possibly clips over them and that can then be adjusted? Defender 110 "Huberta"

26th Nov 2012 10:47am

Naks

Member Since: 27 Jan 2009
Location: Stellenbosch, ZA
Posts: 2599

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Alpine White

Re: Central Fixed Air Vents

Gwily wrote:
I searched this site and surprisingly could not find any solution or even a mention of the central fixed air vents on a Puma. I have A/C fitted on mine and when it blows it freezes your left arm (or right if you are the passenger) and there is no adjustment for them

Yeah, on a long trip it does freeze your arm. But I am used to it now

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26th Nov 2012 11:01am

Go Beyond

Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: Headcorn, Kent
Posts: 6676

You could blank them off internally quite easily and just rely on the round ones as a suggestion

26th Nov 2012 11:04am

Naks

Member Since: 27 Jan 2009
Location: Stellenbosch, ZA
Posts: 2599

Go Beyond wrote:
You could blank them off internally quite easily and just rely on the round ones as a suggestion

Wouldn't that lead to condensation accumulating inside the dash and possibly leak onto wires/stuff and cause a short? --
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26th Nov 2012 11:14am

lrmaniac

Member Since: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 762

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Keswick Green

Now that would be a nice mod...
Nice challenge to the sponsors and inventers out there! Those of you who have made dash mods, could try and get a solution/fix for that ?

If someone could get an OEM look a like fix I'd buy! Regards
Joao

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26th Nov 2012 11:39am

AlpenAndes

Member Since: 20 May 2011
Location: Currently Chile
Posts: 128

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Belize Green

I just used some tape to close the vents behind the dash and nothing is blowing, nothing is leaking. Of course someone may also invent a cap to close it nicely, but who gets a look at it?

26th Nov 2012 5:02pm

Gwily

Member Since: 02 Oct 2011
Location: Cape Town
Posts: 13

Yeah I could easily close it, I guess I was hoping for a more sophisticated solution that somebody had already invented.
I am just surprised that none of the guys that make 1001 things to modify Defenders have not made anything for this one yet

Defender 110 "Huberta"

26th Nov 2012 5:15pm

lrmaniac

Member Since: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 762

Closing the vents it's not an option for me... It freezes my shoulder in the summer but I believe the vents are needed...the round ones only are not enough in my opinion... Regards
Joao

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26th Nov 2012 5:17pm

ericvv

Member Since: 02 Jun 2011
Location: Near the Jet d'Eau
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2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

Agree it blows straight at my right arm (but then we here do drive on the right side of the road

, but my experience is with the fan on 1, and with the two controllable vents also open and blowing sideways upward, the flow from those center vents gets bearable. Don't think there is much more that can be done to this.
I am not really bothered, because I very rarely use the airco even in summer, most of the time I use the "Mexican airco" that comes standard with the Defender.

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26th Nov 2012 6:08pm

MK

Member Since: 28 Aug 2008
Location: Santiago
Posts: 2266

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Chawton White

Those are there for the rear passengers. Puma 110" SW

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26th Nov 2012 9:28pm

Gwily

Member Since: 02 Oct 2011
Location: Cape Town
Posts: 13

MK wrote:
Those are there for the rear passengers.

Which would be fine if it just blew on them!
But as previously mentioned it needs all the vents to adequatly cool down the vehicle, especially when the outside temps start to soar!

Come on clever engineering companies, If you build it they will come

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27th Nov 2012 12:47pm

Go Beyond

Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: Headcorn, Kent
Posts: 6676

I'm the only one in the UK to reply to this so we obviously don't have a problem 'cooling' in this country !

27th Nov 2012 12:50pm

lrmaniac

Member Since: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 762

Go Beyond wrote:
I'm the only one in the UK to reply to this so we obviously don't have a problem 'cooling' in this country !

yep!

Regards
Joao

'10 Land Rover Defender 110 CC
'08 BMW F800GS
'64 SIIA Forward Control
'69 SIIA 109 ZA CKD
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27th Nov 2012 2:46pm

T5bnc

Member Since: 13 Sep 2012
Location: S.Wales
Posts: 40

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

To be honest when both arms start to freeze i change the setting to face only and point the thing into the back somewhere!

27th Nov 2012 3:47pm

keith

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 2164

Air con has never been required in a defender since 1947 what with the front air vents and the 5000 holes that came as standard . The biggest mistake LR made was to remove the iconic front vents and then have the cheek to inprint them to make it look as though they still existed , and all for a new dash look ? Personally i hate those 2 big frogs eyes air vents sticking up into the air dooing hee haw

all and im about to put nice back lit guages in their place .

27th Nov 2012 10:22pm

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