I spent this afternoon cutting and fitting the rear matting for the tub. It’s manufactured bt Wright Off Road, and matches the front mat in materials and colour, the main difference being that the rear mat has a chequer-plate effect instead of leather grain, and it comes in 8’x4′ sheets instead of having a moulded […]
Fitting Defender Front Seatbelts to 109s
Another occasional question that has become more frequent due to the new child seat/restraint legislation is how to fit seatbelts to the front of SII/SIII 109s. In some cases, this is as a replacement for the old inferior static line belts, but it also applies to earlier SIIs where belts were never fitted. The complete […]
Fitting Forward Facing Rear Seats & Belts
This seems to be a very topical issue at the moment, given the European regulations changing this month, outlawing the use of sideways facing seatbelts for children under 12 years/135cm height and bringing in other new requirements for children’s seating. There are a lot of discussions on the Land Rover forums about this, so here’s […]
Rear Seating and Seatbelts
I have done a little more work on the seating and seatbelts. The second and third row belts are fitted, except for the buckle stalks. The third row’s stalks will be bolted to the brackets in the middle of the rear doorway. The second row has rigid bar stalks (hanging near the shoulder anchor in […]
September Update
I haven’t been doing a great deal recently. I have finished polishing all of the body work except the bonnet, bulkhead vents flaps and rear door, and have fitted all the plastic Defender wheelarches except for the front left. That one is waiting for the under wing mudshield to be cut to fit around the […]
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