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 110 Defender - is Diesel an issue or will it be ok |
dspuk
 18th May 2025 10:41pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 20 · Views: 1208 · Subject: For Balance |
For balance I’ve had zero issues with my 3l 250 Diesel, more than happy with it, love it in fact, and the car and the dealer was excellent, MK Stratstone.
Forums eh. Hard to find a good word. Eas ... |
| Phonecall about flat battery. |
dspuk
17th May 2025 10:10pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 5 · Views: 545 · Subject: Re: Phonecall about flat battery. |
I had voicemail left last night from a woman at "in control secure" at midnight... saying the battery was flat on the Defender.
Yet I get in it this morning and starts up no problem.
I ... |
| Alpine window |
dspuk
17th May 2025 10:05pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 1 · Views: 220 · Subject: Alpine window |
| Not normal. Take it to the dealer and get them to fix it, assuming it’s under warranty still. |
| 110 Defender - is Diesel an issue or will it be ok |
dspuk
17th May 2025 10:04pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 20 · Views: 1208 · Subject: Re: 110 Defender - is Diesel an issue or will it be ok |
Hi all,
Looking at(well the wife is) a 110 Defender. Its going to do trips to school - 5 miles there, 5 miles back, a couple of times a day along with other trips in between. Weekends we tend to g ... |
| Centre Console Side Pockets |
dspuk
16th Apr 2025 11:47am
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 53 · Views: 8373 · Subject: Centre Console Side Pockets |
I’m unable to access the website for some time now. Is it still running? Also, do you know of any other site where I can purchase those side pockets?
Just checked the site - no issues accessing f ... |
| Interior cam |
dspuk
24th Mar 2025 8:18am
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Forum: In Car Electronics (L663) · Replies: 2 · Views: 578 · Subject: Interior cam |
| Most of the BlackVue cameras would do this. You could fit a front and rear and just flip the rear to look in the vehicle when out, or get one of the specialised ones that have an interior cam as well ... |
| Defender reviews/buyers guide on YouTube |
dspuk
20th Mar 2025 2:57pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 5 · Views: 862 · Subject: Defender reviews/buyers guide on YouTube |
Hard to take anyone seriously with a banana yellow Juke in their workshop.
Given that this is the main forum online for the L663 when he says "some owners" just swap it out with one owner ... |
| Centre Console Side Pockets |
dspuk
8th Mar 2025 8:32am
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 53 · Views: 8373 · Subject: Centre Console Side Pockets |
Same for a UK dealer. Dealer margin on spares can be up to 50% so Britcar basically selling them for cost plus 10%. Which is still expensive  |
| Centre Console Side Pockets |
dspuk
7th Mar 2025 8:23pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 53 · Views: 8373 · Subject: Centre Console Side Pockets |
| Back in stock today so ordered. 390 quid inc VAT. Ouch! |
| UK Insurance... DOWN!? |
dspuk
22nd Feb 2025 3:11pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 36 · Views: 4032 · Subject: UK Insurance... DOWN!? |
Not sure about “coming down” as this is the first one I’ve insured but it certainly pays to use a comparison site.
We had our Tiguan and California on an LV multicar at 600 for both, was pre ... |
| Centre Console Side Pockets |
dspuk
14th Feb 2025 10:55pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 53 · Views: 8373 · Subject: Centre Console Side Pockets |
| My recollection from the one video I have seen that showed them was it was a 130 extra rather than spec based, but that may be wrong. |
| Park Assist |
dspuk
21st Jan 2025 4:04pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 18 · Views: 2959 · Subject: Park Assist |
| Same tbh. I had on my Tiguan and Qashqai previous to that. When reversing into a parallel park it usually did a 60 shunt manoeuvre to get in. Ended up always cancelling and doing manually. If someone ... |
| Park Assist |
dspuk
20th Jan 2025 10:59am
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 18 · Views: 2959 · Subject: Park Assist |
is dependant not on a "hardware part" but a combination of installed software, specific combination of sensor modules fitted and the correct bits set in the CCF
Yup - it does sound like ... |
| Park Assist |
dspuk
19th Jan 2025 12:31pm
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 18 · Views: 2959 · Subject: Park Assist |
| Ok. So knowing that the steering unit is not fitted to most vehicles my working theory is that if you have advanced tow assist it means they do fit the steering unit and so you can hack the Pivi softw ... |
| Park Assist |
dspuk
19th Jan 2025 10:11am
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Forum: General & Technical (L663) · Replies: 18 · Views: 2959 · Subject: Park Assist |
360 parking aid is just the external camera viewpoints.
As far as I can tell from literature the towing aid is just the lines, I can’t find anything around it steering for you, but I don’t have ... |
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