I'm happy for my photos to be used on the site.
I'll give that one a go then!
I almost forgot another bit of the show that was pretty good.
There was a race prepped Discovery 2 there, with a 4.6 engine fitted that was used for rally racing. I think the company running it was Torque Performance or something like that.
The owner fired up and gave it some revs as we walked past it.
My girlfriend stopped in her tracks and just stared it and after a while she said "I get it now....you and engine sounds...I know what you like about them. Can we make ours sound like that??"
Well, yes...we can....but I don't think we have the money it would take!
The RTV trials are supposed to be designed to be entirely non-damaging and run by completely standard cars. The courses occasionally get close to low lying trees etc but they tend to be cut back to avoid catching the cars. If there are bits of tree that concern you you can point them out and have them cut down.
A couple of months ago someone was laying out a course in their Disco 2 and got worried towards the end that it was too difficult for the Range Rover, as he could only just manage it in his Discovery. So I let him take the P38 out to test it and he ended up making the course more difficult as it was too easy. Turns out the P38 has a much better turning circle than the Disco 2.
I should probably avoid letting the non-believers try the car out - it's too much fun surprising them by doing things well!
We do RTV trials with our local Land Rover club so it gets muddy fairly often :)
There's a couple of other members that also use P38's and they frequently show up a good few of the Defenders.
They're a lot more experienced than I am - at the last event one of them turned up on road tyres and was able to match my results. Tyres aren't everything!
These are massively capable vehicles regardless of the tyres fitted and I really don't understand why they're so poorly regarded by the rest of the off roading community. The RRC is highly regarded and even the L322 has some off the shelf off parts available but there's almost nothing for the poor old P38 :(
There is a nice new snorkel from Terrafirma that I'm trying to get permission to fit :P
I didn't get new fob batteries in the end. I got a 2p coin and tried to remove the battery cover but it wasn't budging and just started to get chewed up, so I left it. I'll order a new back cover and change the batteries when that arrives.
Yeah, the led does light up
I'll go buy a fresh battery for the fob tomorrow, start simple as you suggested over on the other forum
We were disappointed by the lack of P38 stuff at the show too.
We did see one of the rubber bumper/bull bars for sale that interested us but I didn't want to buy it from Avenger 4x4. He tried to tell me my car was basically written off and needed a new engine when all it really needed was a simple gasket changing. I don't really like people that "know" things without actually looking at them....
Other than that, very slim pickings. We were on the look out for a radiator, boot mat, some door handles and some off road protection. To be honest, I really didn't expect to find any of the last one so wasn't too disappointed with that but the lack any anything else was a little annoying. We really are the forgotten Land Rover in this country!
Was enjoyable to walk around, would have been more so if it had been warmer yesterday.
We did the off course today and that was good fun. Got to the end of the course with two hills to go up. One designated hard, the other designated easy. Opted for the "hard" route to be met with some skepticism. The car strolled straight up, no problem. The marshals at the top of the hill full of surprise and calling out "Nicely done!".
Parked up and walked back to watch the final hill and saw every one after us opting for the easy route - including some lifted/modified Defenders.
Felt good watching them pansy out of the harder stuff :P
You guys have reminded me that I really should look in to why my remote locking no longer works after having the BECM unlocked following its trip to Marty to be unlocked earlier in the year.
The article is a few years old and I don't know how much the Android system has changed in that time. Hopefully it can at least point you in the right direction.
Sorry for all the questions - this audio system is all new to me!
My last one had the bog standard system and I did nothing with it, besides connect a 3.5mm jack adapter to the CD changer port.
This one has the little tweeters up by the mirrors, would the door amps power these too or would they just do the drivers in the doors themselves? I'm coming around to this DSP replacement idea but I think it will ultimately be decided the lady of the house and the more info I have the more likely it will be that I can convince her it's worthwhile :P
What kind of price do working DSP amps fetch? I've tried to find one on eBay but all I seem to find is the one from the L322 - are they the same?
I think it sounds like a much bigger job than it is to me as I'm not used to doing electronics work.
It sounds similar to what I tried to do a couple of years ago.My other car is a Focus ST170 with the factory fit sub and amp, the Audiophile system.
I wanted to connect my Parrot kit to the amp but it didn't work in the same way as aftermarket kits. There was a thread on a Focus forum detailing how to make some kind of box of tricks involving stripboard and resistors to connect an aftermarket head unit to the Ford amp. I tried that but never got it working - all I got was a horrible series of pops and bangs form the sub and disconnected it.
For the P38 door amps, are they all the same or were there standard ones and uprated/Harman Kardon ones?
You're right, that does sound like a lot of work!
What's actually involved in your DSP replacement system?
Running it through the standard head unit doesn't appeal all that much - I was planning on taking that out and filling the space with a single DIN CB radio unit for off road trips.
I was hoping for a fairly straight forward plug and play option.
I've been poking around online this afternoon and found this.
If I'm reading it right, my system is in their section 2 and if I set the volume to max using the standard head unit and connect the new one using this adapter it should work.
Can you see any reason this wouldn't work?
I'm not sure which ones you got in the end but I'm tempted to give these ones a go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjaFIlUxlCM
http://www.powerfuluk.com/vehicles/range-rover-full-size/p38/exterior-accessories/h4-led-4000-lm-headlight-bulbs-range-rover-p38-white-pair.html
They have some adjustability to correct the beam pattern. They are £69.99 so a bit more expensive than the ones you got - although they're probably the same ones.
Do you have a link to the ones you got?
Marty,
I read through you posts on the other forum about pulling the eBay special Android unit apart to make it fit and wanted to do the same in mine.
You mentioned that your car was missing the DSP amp though.
My car is a 2001/51-plate Vogue and has the factory fitted sat nav and Harman Kardon audio.
Would it be pretty simple to hook this all up would it take a lot of wiring work?
We're going to the show on the Saturday and are doing the off road course on the Sunday. They do allow spectators but we might already have some - just waiting to hear from a couple of guys at work.
I am, ordered our tickets earlier today. Got a ticket for the off road course too.