Fitting the Ring LED bumper and Wipac headlamps with LED bulbs to the Defender 90
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If you wipe the halogen bulb with panel wipe or thinners before reusing it will remove the grease from your fingers and it will be fine. Keep up the good work Mike.
Mike only you can make fitting lights to a land rover interesting, ha ha. great job.
Hi Mike. I use discarded 200 Tdi cylinder head bolts to fasten the front bumper on with. They look really well as they have a collared head, and of course they are very strong. I cant remember which bolt,s they are, as you know there are three different lengths, but if you compare them with the old bumper bolts they are a perfect match.Give the bulb a wipe with a soft cloth or similar that has methylated spirit on it and the bulb will be as good as new. I wish that a wipe down with a rag would put me right Mike (lol) Best wishes, from Yorkshire Rob.
In the UK daylight running lights are supposed to extinguish when headlights are switched on.
My D2 DTRL's only come on when I shift into drive - they have this dim dip system which I have to figure out
DTRL are mandatory here, but not a 'fineable' offence if not working - so nobody fixes them!
when replaced with some Jeep aftermarket LED chinese things, I had to first cut away the plastic housing unit (it was all one piece like your steel bits) and use it as a ring as you've got.
then I used some old pie plates to make new clips. Only had 2 of 6 that was needed.
Dremel was very handy.
further explanation. I took the OLD housing (the big cup thing you took out) and took a dremel to it make it into a ring.
Then I sanded and spray painted with rustoleum the corroded chrome outer housing
Using chopped up and bent pieces of pie plate, I fashioned new clips to hold the headlamp to the ring.
And that's all it took to get the new chinese amazon $120 130watt headlamps in. blinding my neighbors at half the wattage.
Mike the auto switching relay is to reduce the drl light output at night and is a legal requirement in the UK, you can also get them to dim the drl when you use the indicators to make it more obvious when you are turning, you may have different laws in Quebec but it may be worth a quick check.
Keep up the good work
Mike
Can you do a night time video showing what the view from the drivers seat is with the new lights on
Thank you
Will put it on my to do list!
Mike
My old boss had that on his very expensive custom defender td5. Both lamps fell out due to corrosion of fittings. Not acceptable for what it cost! We are in the west Midlands though, the home of land rover bodgery... :)
Hi Mike what make and model led bulb are you using cheers 👍🏻🥃
Hi Mike,
Very interesting video. Not related however I currently have a problem with the brake warning light coming on intermitantly on my 1998 300tdi defender the master cylinder reservoir is full, about to go fault finding but you may say oh that's the flying widget or something maybe a little video 🤓
Remove the wires and tie them out of the way firmly - if the light does not come back on, then it is the float switch - if the light is still on it could be the wiring or the shuttle valve if fitted
Thanks Mike! Will do, very kind to answer.
From rainy Cornwall
Many thanks
Pete
I always try to answer!
Hey Mike. Really enjoy your videos. Just a word about the LED globes you used there. Totally useless design compared to a quality LED headlight design. The LED chips you used have no shielding, and lose some efficiency in light output, and produce glare onto oncoming traffic. Do a search for Philips Ultinon H4 LED. Don't mind the price tho, probably more than the car itself! But carefully study the design of the bulb. Proper H4 specs, so that the mirror bowl and the light's lens do what they're designed to do. Note the shielded LED chip design of those Philips. You can get cheaper similarly designed LEDs(H4 and other globe types), that work equally well. Reason I got Philips is the heatsink assembly, and that it fits on the D1, which has limited space behind the actual headlight. mainly it allows the use of the rubber boot!
Hope that helps.
I have been using the same system of 6 years and not had an issue - I have the same in my personal vehicles
That is turning into a very nice Defender, what is the colorcode or name for that green color of the car?
I have a feeling the code is 369 Eastnor/Eskdale green
Britannica Restorations Ltd thanks, like your video’s!
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Henkjan !
Hi mike love the videos. Would you be able to do a video how install bench seats and the lap belts in a defender 90 cheers
Did you not fit plastic back bowls because of heat dissipation requirements of the control gear, think they are about the same price as the plastic rings you used, I had those rings on my '96 Defender, but changed to the plastic bowls when I did my headlight change, they keep the water/dust/crud out. Was using the Chinese sealed headlights, which you referred to, and I do agree with what you say, but by god they are the dogs whatsits for seeing where you are going?
Again hit and miss parts - sometimes they come with full bowls but nothing to bother about for heat dissipation
I have a quick question Stephen - this video is unlisted - how did you access it?Not complaining but curious to knowMike
@@BritannicaRestorations Blimey Mike, now you're asking! I will try to replicate and then let you know Cheers Steve
Funny eh?
CZcams is a law unto itself!
If you look at the video is states unlisted just under the title
They have strange settings for comments too - they are many times I do not see comments, so I cannot reply!
Mike
@@BritannicaRestorations Ok Mike, go into defender 90 projects it's number 36? Regards Steve
How odd!
Mike
Don't like the look of those LED bulbs.
If you want LED bulbs, look for ones that have the LEDs mounted to the thinnest possible PCB.
To work with a reflector designed for normal bulbs, the LED needs to try and copy the effect of a single filament, right in the middle of the bulb.
LEDs mounted to a thin surface will give you a decent beam pattern. Those chunky LEDs will produce an unfocussed beam.
I have had the same type in my 130 for 5 years in all sorts of weather - very reliable, good light, but LED are not good in snowy conditions - not enough heat to melt snow off the lens so I always use regular bulbs on the back of my vehicles
If you have followed a HGV in a storm you will know - you can hardly see the back of them
@@BritannicaRestorations Hmmm, i dunno.
Maybe Defender reflectors aren't terribly well designed so they don't do a very good job of focusing the light... which'd mean the design of the LED bulb isn't as important?
In my 2004 Disco 2 the difference was really obvious.
With a chunky bulb, I'd just get a bright "blob" of light.
With the thin bulbs, I get a proper "slope & flat" with the brightest area in the bottom half.
Maybe worth some further investigation?
Get hold of some different LR headlights and see if you can blag some different LED bulbs to test and see how they do in the different headlights?
I promise you, the thin LEDs *should* produce a more focused beam pattern than the chunky ones.