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JOW240725



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United Kingdom 2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Orkney Grey
Great pics! Thank you.

Saw pics yesterday of the new '90' with steel wheels fitted! Thumbs Up James
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Post #784076 30th Jul 2019 5:27pm
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macfrank



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Germany 2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 SW Keswick Green
Re: New defender today
993porky wrote:


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Do you have to crawl over speed bumps or does it have an "urban mode" automatically adjusting chassis height...? Rolling Eyes
Post #784086 30th Jul 2019 5:53pm
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diesel_jim



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United Kingdom 2006 Defender 110 Td5 SW Epsom Green
993porky wrote:
had duck tape all over it keeping bits on covering the real thing Thumbs Up



Or maybe just normal build quality, and the duct tape is holding the thing togther! Laughing
Post #784089 30th Jul 2019 6:10pm
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RDR



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Re: New defender today
macfrank wrote:
993porky wrote:


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Do you have to crawl over speed bumps or does it have an "urban mode" automatically adjusting chassis height...? Rolling Eyes


Looks like its at access height, if its like the disco you do not have to do anything for speed bumps you don't feel them or need to slow down. 110 MY23.5 X Dynamic HSE
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Post #784107 30th Jul 2019 7:25pm
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993porky



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United Kingdom 2002 Defender 90 Td5 HT Baltic Blue

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Post #784133 30th Jul 2019 9:29pm
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Tim in Scotland



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SJM2018 wrote:
Not much tread left on those tyres


They look even more road biased than the 22” M&S pattern tyres that were on my last RRS! The 22” Conti’s on the RRS were quite good on greenlane type runs but the ediff had to work hard with them in mud and on wet grass, we never came to a wheelspinning halt but I was worried at times off-road on them that we might have found their grip limit, especially as L494 doesn’t have the full on recovery points built on like L320 RRS and Disco3 and 4, just a single useless cast screw in towing eye that certainly didn’t look strong enough to do proper recoveries. Maybe i’m Just to used to seeing AT and MT type treads on Defenders and older RRS’s that go off-road (and yes there are quite a few RRS owner who off-road their cars) Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
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Post #784202 31st Jul 2019 12:49pm
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Slideywindows



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Re: New defender today
This is the bit I like:

993porky wrote:
expect them to look nothing like the camouflage ones

Post #784295 31st Jul 2019 10:19pm
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JPE



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United Kingdom 2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Firenze Red
What camouflage ones, I can't see anything?
Post #784308 31st Jul 2019 10:52pm
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Mini Landie



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United Kingdom 2003 Defender 90 Td5 HT Belize Green
Badum tssh.
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blackrangie



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Laughing
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Procta



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I recon that's just a disco 5 been reworked, The defender as we know it died back in 2016. This one has a lot to live up to, and can it be modified etc like ours? I cannot see that happening either! Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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AndrewS



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United Kingdom 2013 Defender 130 Puma 2.2 SW Rimini Red
Of cause it is, its built on the same platform as the D5, RRS and FFRR. 130's have feeling's as well you know Smile
Post #785131 5th Aug 2019 10:57pm
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blackrangie



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Apparently not, first to use MLA

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industr...-two-years
Post #785141 6th Aug 2019 12:41am
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DSC-off



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United Kingdom 2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Aintree Green
There may be a 'new' MLA platform, but how much of it is carried over from the Disco 5?
Compare this photo below of a 2017 Disco 5 HSE to the spy shots above.
The cast aluminium suspension arm looks remarkably similar. The subframe, what we can see of it, also appears to be the same pressed steel/fabricated item. The anti roll bar has the same routing (just above the suspension arm mount).


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The evidence leads me to think MLA is a new flexible 'floor pan' to mount the old running gear for combustion engines and new/future drive trains for battery and hybrid systems. Not a completely new vehicle.
The factory in Slovakia is building Discovery and Defender, so it must be configured to build very similar vehicles.
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Zed



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The factory in Slovakia is building Discovery and Defender, so it must be configured to build very similar vehicles.


Pretty sure I have read that is indeed the case.
Post #785290 6th Aug 2019 9:02pm
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