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wot,s this thing
Range Rover Blues:
Bob, 2 things. You don't need to take the glass out to change the runner, but what I'd do is widen it a bit with a screwdriver so it will go over the glass and the rubber, then crimp it in 3 or 4 places with strong plyers like water pump plyers, that will be enough to hold it.
120kg in your boot, plus a gas tank, be carefull you don't overload it, you only have about 500kg payload to play with.
Range Rover Ron:
Hello MCer's,
Getting back to the base box,
what would happen, soundwise, if I took out the base box to free up the extra space???
Would there be anything really noticeable to the sounds?
Would the music still work, would postman pat still sound the same?
Can you really hear the box when sitting in the front?
Has anyone ripped theirs out?
Hmmmmm....
cheers,
Range Rover Blues:
We've got 2 soft dashs and yes the box makes a differnece. It has it's own amp on top, so try pulling the fuse out of it and see.
Depending what spec you have the amp for the 4 corners (it's a 9 speaker system) will be behind the glovebox on a softie and on top of the subwoofer on a hard dash. Most hard dash don't have one other than the head unit but the sub always has it's own.
To make matters more confucing later subwoofers were 2 channel and without the correct head unit they are a PITS to wire up properly, which is why one currently doesn't have the sub connected.
My LSE has a 4 channel bridgeable amp in the boot, wiring that up was a pain, but with a low-pass filter it can also drive the sub, that way it's always in synch with the stereo. Sounds excellent, Amp was £50 in Maplins.
Range Rover Ron:
Hello blue,
My CD/radio is nackered and I'm going to fit a new Clarion ASAP, by the sound of what you say,
I might as well rip the whole lot out and feed new stereo through the four main speakers.
My main toy is a 300 Tdi sotf dash, The donor is a 3.9 V8 hard dash.
I bought the V8 to break and use bits for the 300 Tdi but the V8 is in such great condition (better then my 300 Tdi) that it would be a shame to break it.
I was thinking of whipping out the full leather interior and fitting it into the Tdi but it looks like a lot of electrical work.
My plan B is to get a none electric set of front leather seats.
I've got the V8 on Ebay at the moment as I've not got the space to keep both.
About two days to go now and it's at £250!
Cheers,
Ron.
Range Rover Blues:
Ron you'll find (like I keep doing) that so many bits are different between even late hard dash and soft dash, it's a bit of a PITA.
If you rip out the stereo and go aftermatket then you'll find the sub a bit difficult to get working unless the head unit has an output for one, I found that connecting the input to the sub amp into the rear speaker wires not only made it too loud but caused me other problems too. For some reason the 2 channel sub can't just be connected to the 2 rear channels either, it cancels itself out.
Seats, I fitted electric leather to Blue, it's not that hard but starting with memory seats is not the way to go. If you have an ECU for them that works then that's great (want to sell it ;)) but they are unreliable.
Half of it does the mirrors, you just don't want to go there at all :-. and other than the memory function, which is over rated, I'd just wire them up as electric.
All they need is 2 live feeds to each seat and one earth, each live feed needs at least a 20 amp fuse. Then you need 2 switches in good condition and if you are removing the memory then either the wiring loom out of a non-memeory seat or a bit of a re-wire.
It's worth doing though, I find the leather more comfortable, the mechanism is stronger and more reliable and you've probably got heated seats too, all they need is a 10 amp supply and instant warm bum :dance:
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