The Joy of Upgrading: A Land Rover's New Winch and Bumper

As I stood behind my trusty Land Rover, admiring its newly fitted winch and bumper, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. The winch, which had previously been attached to the back door, now proudly sat on the chassis, taking the weight off that tired old hinge. It was a small but significant upgrade, one that would make all the difference in emergency situations like this.

I remembered the good old days when I'd be driving along, enjoying the scenery, and suddenly find myself stuck in a muddy ditch or snow-covered field. The winch would have to be used to pull me out, and I'd be forced to wait for the perfect moment to test it. But now, with this new winch, I felt confident that I could tackle even the toughest terrain.

The addition of the anti-slip bumper was also a welcome sight. It was made from the same material as tank armor, and I couldn't help but chuckle at the thought of it being used to protect my Land Rover from scratches and dings. It was a small touch, but one that would make all the difference in the long run.

As I looked around, I noticed a line of vehicles parked in front of us, including a tractor and two pickup trucks. I felt a sudden urge to test out the winch, to see if it lived up to its promises. Chris, my friend and fellow Land Rover enthusiast, seemed to sense my excitement, and he nodded encouragingly as I pulled him over.

"I want to use my new Toyo," I said, grinning from ear to ear. "I want to test it out now." Chris laughed and replied, "Okay, let's do it!" We spent the next hour practicing the winch, pulling cars and trucks up hills and testing its limits. It was exhilarating, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride at my new toy.

As we worked, I couldn't help but think back to past experiences with my Land Rover. There was the time I'd set off from my house with my friend Zog in tow, only to get stuck in a ditch. It had been a disaster, and one that I'd never forget. But now, thanks to this new winch, I felt like I could conquer anything.

The experience of using the winch was all too familiar for Chris, who'd previously used his own Land Rover's winch in a similar situation. "I've got gloves," he said, holding up a pair of thick, black mittens. "I love this sort of thing." I smiled and replied, "Yeah, me too."

As we continued to practice the winch, I couldn't help but feel grateful for this upgrade. It was more than just a new gadget – it was a symbol of my commitment to my Land Rover and its ability to tackle even the toughest terrain. And as I looked around at the line of vehicles parked in front of us, I knew that this winch would be put to good use.

The next step was to test out the winch's capabilities in a real-world scenario. We decided to park our cars in front of a muddy field and see how it performed. As we waited, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. This was what it meant to own a Land Rover – to be prepared for anything that came your way.

Finally, the moment arrived. With my foot on the brake and Chris's truck parked safely behind me, I engaged the winch and slowly began to pull my car up the hill. The machine groaned and creaked as it pulled, but it held firm, inching its way up the slope. It was a slow process, but one that gave us time to appreciate the view.

As we continued to practice the winch, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction at our little setup. It may seem like a waste of time, but in reality, it was exactly what we needed. And as I looked around at Chris and my Land Rover, I knew that this was just the beginning of an exciting new chapter in our adventures together.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enRichard Hammond has given us the keys to his land day for 24 hours and we are going to modify it we'll be installing some topnotch kit from the best in the business as well as finishing with some complete tat from the darkest reaches of eBay DIY made in China I love this it's this is important work Chris thank you I'm thrilled Richard has owned this Landy for over 10 years now and has already done the odd bit of fettling through guys like bowler and that went well it has a tendency to tear itself to bits and with that much twist going through it if you're not incredibly delicate with the clutch and the accelerator it'll just chew itself up I'm very strict and never let anybody else drive this because I don't trust anybody to have the mechanical sympathy you need to avoid tearing it to bits now just don't rearend Richard Hammond in his classic i150 Chris I literally Googled Land Rover Defender mods and or 4x4 came up what have you got for us today so today M we've got uh we're going to do a winch bumper winch from Warrior winches he's going to like that he is going to like that we've going to change the headlights for the latest version of headlights from our partners in Germany from light Parts Germany we're going to change the grill kit and we've got our new product from us which is the side steps and we've also got our o wheel carrier and our rear step system to add the vehicle today as well cool well we've got a day slash now kind of an afternoon to get all that done I'm thinking Defender it's all just bolt on bolt off yeah but it is quite old and it probably won't come off straight away as we'll probably find out in a minute with ant okay cool what's what's the first thing we're going to attack the front end first so we're going to take the nudge bar off we're going to get rid that cuz that one work with the winch bumper y we're going to take the bumper off we're going to take the steering guard off we're going to fit our winch bumper our steering guard drop the winch in and the rest of the guys are going to me pull the cable through the chassis to the battery box okay well I like sending Richard pictures of his cars completely dismantled the scare him so the sooner we can do that the better let's CRA there was a lot to be done and the Cog shut at five but I was confident we could pull it off the question I'm asking is how many Rover parts are on this Land Rover it's funny how people say that no one really says Land Rover it almost kind of goes into one doesn't it Land Rover Land Rover maybe closer now that's it was a good question is that actually about being in the back of a Range Rover or Land Rover or have did they genuinely sing about being in the back of a Rover 25 no one sings about being in the back of a Rover 25 well baby hold me closer in the back to you you're over what are they talking about would you rather be in the back of a 25 or a 45 but the size of me 45 yeah yeah but it's a proper granny car that so God knows what You' be doing in the back of there how many times is this Land Rover broken down do you reckon broken actually to be fair it hasn't what this hasn't actually broken down which is surprised considering it's modified and we're now modifying it more yeah that's what's mad about it so the the the slippery slope might be getting slipper here that day is coming getting closer yeah yeah I'm not going to be around for that no but I am I'm blame Cris the front bumper needed to be swapped with an o one to allow the bracket for Richard's new wi to be fitted this has been off recently what has eyes as it been doing to this thing so what's the actual advantage of having your setup to what's on the car now so at the minute that every time you open and close the door the weight of that wheel which is quite heavy put put stress on the hinges the frame of the door and it you'll end up with you'll see appearing around the door lock in the other side so this will actually prevent any further issues for Richard going forward correct yeah but there's there's quite a few variants on the market somewhere you drill a tub whereas ours is you like sort of independent uh single point wheel carrier with Ty roller which actually goes onto the original Bol holes in the chass correct so so all the way it'll be transferred to the sh so if you wanted to do it at home it's easy bolt on it's Bolton wor about your pains you going wor that it literally bolt so it us all the OEM exist really is that's the idea everything we manufacture we always design around the key points make sure it fits in the re yeah cuz not everyone's got a garage where they can bolt Stu on no just little basic hand tools and it'll Bol straight off yeah I like that so it's a special edition step well they've done that then just I don't know normally they finish here that so our works with I thought all of the market except this one is that cuz of these maybe uh these didn't come on it no no no it's this step it's a specialization step so normal a genuine n step would finish here with this it's obviously a specialization one so we'll whip this off put the factory tone Arrangement on so it's TV approved and then we'll put our step on it which works around that we're not interfering with the tone Factory tone system whatsoever stop feeling positive now okay let's go you finished back there Anthony nope no this special edition bowler thing is not good we got to change a lot oh really we got to change the rear step now check that with Richard have we he said we modify it I don't think he knew we would be like red drilling holes and stuff what have a legal legal toe B do we need to sign some sort of waiver that if he wants all of this reversed it's no one's fault and he has to pay for himself I don't think I'd say yes we'll get Sophie the right one up so do it yeah yeah when's he in uh tomor morning not yet I'm not going to be around though it's all going to be a new so you got your number I have got some mods of my own as well or are giving us all this good stuff I have got you're not putting tarton on it are you it I did get it from Amazon okay so it's not tarton I won't reveal it yet but I'll leave you with that £4.99 Amazon most Wich pimples on the market come as one piece mhm but you got a two ton Land Rover you go nudge your tree or which drives into someone else's car or something it'll Bend and fall back and usually the only way to fix is take the whole thing off putting it B by another one with ours although they're not as strong as one piece we construct them in such a way that if you do bend the end you take that off and we'll just send you a new one we another one as a spare part side piece and that way you don't need to take the wind shot you don't need to take the wind try off it's just literally 100 part cool rather than replace the whole thing and take the whole thing apart you thought of that that's quite clever it's some weird Sex Dungeon is it just remember Anthony when this goes wrong you're going to be at the place of work that suffers Richard's wrath so normally what happens with with the with all that weight of that spare wheel wherever it is yeah it'll start to crack the door and you'll see tears here but especially around here because when that's locked latch here all the weight from that wheel which is like 30 K is it's doing that every time you slam the door it Jers so okay obviously our Wheel car it just transfers all the load to the chassis now so we've actually caught this one in time you've caught this one in time and obviously it's fairly new so much older vehicles you'd see sort of stress fract just Cracks around here Cracks around here and you probably see little rust marks where so this will actually save future repairs it saves saves a new whole new door win win saves you a job saves me a job I don't mind doing this but if it saves up saves a job I didn't realize how beefy the wiring was going to be Tim what's the what's the rating on these cables 240 amps continuous at 25° soon that's why Tim's a proud of partner the wiring for the winch needed to be run directly to the battery which is located under the driver's seat unfortunately I drew the short STW oh you ready don't poke him in the eye with it the floor of the smallest Cog is not clean stop jessing the floor the floor has been minging since day one mate yeah at least you're cleaning it right now tram in minging small as Cog minging what are you doing down there me nothing I'm oing right I'm going to remove myself we have about 3 hours left until the smallest clog shuts so we are up against it it was always going to be a rush but these guys are top quality mechanics can't go wrong The Landing was starting to take shape and the rear wheel was reattached Chris had a slightly unorthodox way of demonstrating how strong it is I'm not very coordinated so right Mike so you start your turn around and stand off I haven't done that bolt up yet so before so before stand just stand up straight so before all that weight be on the door let go let go I I don't want it Go Filming Drive let go stand up straight right okay so all that weight is now on the chassis not the door okay leave one hand on the leave one hand on the roof all your weight is on here right yeah gently open it okay look you you look a bit scared mate yeah these hinges aren't going to go no so now all that weight there's no weight on the hinges now so look behind here I'm going to close it okay yeah thanks see I'm a stunt act and you nearly finished yeah so it's as soon as he's finished in the back we're going to Chuck our side steps on yeah that'll take us an hour are they bolt on no worries bolt on no worries and there's no the ones that were already on Richard's cars were already rotted off cuz they weren't covered in our P coating system so we're going to put these on Y and then aan how you doing how you doing for time he looks perect that looks how long have we got 2 and 1 half hours okay it's going to be close I'm not worried you would well it could also be giv that wash I tell you how worry I'm going the camera switch off in a minute we go back to okay cut cut now that anony and Chris are finished at the rear of the vehicle I can now apply the Amazon mod I'm getting some Revenge here you'll see on there it says DIY spoiler made in China cut back to the clip of Richard defacing the driet tra charger Hellcat I'm going to be precise about it that's the center that's straight there you go lovely job you could say I'm actually stepping up the game I'm doing Richard a favor because this is carbon not sure how real it is but looks like the job it's going to go bang up there cleaning products okay I'll at least try to respectfully do this and get it bang in the middle some proper adhesion on one of these things I mean genuinely we must have got the Hellcat you know in Germany I think it was 150 miles there we got it to and that little wing held fast so I'm expecting big things from this this Defender can only do like 80 downhill tell me how many defenders in the real world have functional Arrow actually no I'm going to put it back here bang in the Middle look at that carbon I bear with the mods complete it was time to give the Land Rover a proper wash fortunately the sponsors of today's video liqu Molly sent over some of their new car cleaning range to help get it looking Factory fresh first stop a good ding in their Rim cleaner to help lift any road gribe and breake dust with a little bit of agitation from a brush the contaminants are ready to be washed away next up a quick rinse and wash to remove any mud and kicked on Grime before it was time to tackle the Boost scratches from all the small Lanes around Richard's house fortunately liqu mly scratch remover and applicator made short work of the scuffs bringing back the shine to the landy's paintwork a quick application of their tire shine not forgetting the Spear of course and it was time for the final details a little bit of waterless detailer removed any water marks or dirt missed in the cleaning and it was ready to be handed back to Richard to check out L's brand new cleaning products click the link in the description and fingers crossed Richard loves his refreshed offender so jacking rich I am not in any way unhappy about this happening today you like that I'm quite excited got the goost from IR brought us it's like the thing is to me a Defender is still it's a beautiful thing yeah but then if you Adorn it with a few spark well look at this for example winch look at that winch and the belly tray 1,000 that's that's going to pull a lot that's a lot house okay light bar always nice is that one of those that turns night into day yeah see there is no more night now good I like itrated headlights headlights headlights already updated the headlights and these are even new again even better again there is no KN indicators LED so these are fancy indicators and I notice the side steps side steps I know me and you don't leave it no me and you I struggle to get this also my mother I've occasionally given her a lift in this and I had to take library steps with me no exactly I struggle yes but the other good thing about this is yeah the guys from R designed their own power coting in a university so this is actually harder powder COA than you normally get that's not coming off that's not coming off that's the issue when you normally get them they rust out and then at the back oh this is my bit this is the bit I love this mainly because I fitted it um wheel holder yeah used to be on the back door yeah okay so used to have 30 kg hanging off the back door and if they carry the wheel on the door movement cracks the doors as we can see actually yeah cuz now it's actually on the chassis yeah look at the rear hinge oh my God that's that's the AG so that's where the wheel was hanging back on the door exactly can we put a new hinge on there Chris has sort us like when you Willam right so that now sits on its own separate hanger not separate so the chassis is now taking the weight of that wheel nothing else got a new bumper rear bumper and also anti slip stuff on there is the same they use on tanks that stuff matters that matters that is I'm cuz it's actually we haven't over done it no no no I haven't modified this vehicle visually very much new grills ni look at them yeah pretty it's pretty um I love it mate I'm thrilled to bits great it I feel I've neglected this old thing for a while and now I've given it some love and attention having done that this I know from experience cuz I've done this the second you fix a winch to a Land Rover you're waiting for what I'm waiting for is snow as soon as it's a snowy day I'm on the road pulling them out of ditches but what you're desperate for is an opportunity to use it you want to test it yes what should we do it there's a line of vehicles over there parked just in front of us that I feel the only thing we'll have to do is get Chris in because he knows how to use it Chris I want to use my new Toyo I want to use it now I love it man I'm very very excited we have to we have to Christen it don't we that needs commissioning yeah we could go into a muddy field we could do well he's just we just we just cleaned it EXA EX l or we could just do it here well I you say there's a line of cars coincidentally in the middle of the car there's a tractor your truck and my pickup yeah will it pull those one way to find out it is uphill just I mean it's not an in they're not stuck in mud though so that's true okay right do it um I'm going to get some gloves and I'm going to follow orders take you first y say I was waiting for it he loves REM Rich gloves right you love this sort of thing didn't you may I'm so this yes the last time I fitted a winch to a Land Rover my dear friend Zog whom you know y um set off from my house home and stuck a f 500 in a ditch rang me and I've never been happy it was a day it had gone on yeah and I was just let's go it right um so I've got a disengage clutch disengage clutch disengage clutch I'm going to pull on that red tag and that should pull all the way out get a hold of hookie thing yeah oh look at that I already pretty but don't know why but there's a shackle already there it's just this these and there's also people in them just in case they need to steer whilst I'm if it winches them oh it was entirely coincidental that this was all here um will I put that in that way no it won't quite hit the safety right so then we got to so your need to go and put the ranger in neutral yes are you going to sit in the ranger I'm in the ranger okay I'm going to quickly jump in my truck the tractor yeah right so I got to engage the clutch go it's in y we're just going to try it just blip it on the on the in just to see if we got oh okay okay I probably need to be in there with my foot foot on the brake yeah come around that side are you going to tell in my car what in my car right so your car is being steered this is so it's such a waste of time doing but this is in an emergency situation we might need to do exactly this so I'm going to put my foot on the brake hand brakes on engine on uh engine running and then just safy first we're going to beat twice so they know we're ready uh are you all ready okay here it goes this is utterly pointless I love it so taking the slack slack taken up we may moving but we're not moving forward so they must moving come to us look it is so that is tons and tons and tons of vehicle coming out me uphill I love this it's this is important work Chris thank you I'm thrilledRichard Hammond has given us the keys to his land day for 24 hours and we are going to modify it we'll be installing some topnotch kit from the best in the business as well as finishing with some complete tat from the darkest reaches of eBay DIY made in China I love this it's this is important work Chris thank you I'm thrilled Richard has owned this Landy for over 10 years now and has already done the odd bit of fettling through guys like bowler and that went well it has a tendency to tear itself to bits and with that much twist going through it if you're not incredibly delicate with the clutch and the accelerator it'll just chew itself up I'm very strict and never let anybody else drive this because I don't trust anybody to have the mechanical sympathy you need to avoid tearing it to bits now just don't rearend Richard Hammond in his classic i150 Chris I literally Googled Land Rover Defender mods and or 4x4 came up what have you got for us today so today M we've got uh we're going to do a winch bumper winch from Warrior winches he's going to like that he is going to like that we've going to change the headlights for the latest version of headlights from our partners in Germany from light Parts Germany we're going to change the grill kit and we've got our new product from us which is the side steps and we've also got our o wheel carrier and our rear step system to add the vehicle today as well cool well we've got a day slash now kind of an afternoon to get all that done I'm thinking Defender it's all just bolt on bolt off yeah but it is quite old and it probably won't come off straight away as we'll probably find out in a minute with ant okay cool what's what's the first thing we're going to attack the front end first so we're going to take the nudge bar off we're going to get rid that cuz that one work with the winch bumper y we're going to take the bumper off we're going to take the steering guard off we're going to fit our winch bumper our steering guard drop the winch in and the rest of the guys are going to me pull the cable through the chassis to the battery box okay well I like sending Richard pictures of his cars completely dismantled the scare him so the sooner we can do that the better let's CRA there was a lot to be done and the Cog shut at five but I was confident we could pull it off the question I'm asking is how many Rover parts are on this Land Rover it's funny how people say that no one really says Land Rover it almost kind of goes into one doesn't it Land Rover Land Rover maybe closer now that's it was a good question is that actually about being in the back of a Range Rover or Land Rover or have did they genuinely sing about being in the back of a Rover 25 no one sings about being in the back of a Rover 25 well baby hold me closer in the back to you you're over what are they talking about would you rather be in the back of a 25 or a 45 but the size of me 45 yeah yeah but it's a proper granny car that so God knows what You' be doing in the back of there how many times is this Land Rover broken down do you reckon broken actually to be fair it hasn't what this hasn't actually broken down which is surprised considering it's modified and we're now modifying it more yeah that's what's mad about it so the the the slippery slope might be getting slipper here that day is coming getting closer yeah yeah I'm not going to be around for that no but I am I'm blame Cris the front bumper needed to be swapped with an o one to allow the bracket for Richard's new wi to be fitted this has been off recently what has eyes as it been doing to this thing so what's the actual advantage of having your setup to what's on the car now so at the minute that every time you open and close the door the weight of that wheel which is quite heavy put put stress on the hinges the frame of the door and it you'll end up with you'll see appearing around the door lock in the other side so this will actually prevent any further issues for Richard going forward correct yeah but there's there's quite a few variants on the market somewhere you drill a tub whereas ours is you like sort of independent uh single point wheel carrier with Ty roller which actually goes onto the original Bol holes in the chass correct so so all the way it'll be transferred to the sh so if you wanted to do it at home it's easy bolt on it's Bolton wor about your pains you going wor that it literally bolt so it us all the OEM exist really is that's the idea everything we manufacture we always design around the key points make sure it fits in the re yeah cuz not everyone's got a garage where they can bolt Stu on no just little basic hand tools and it'll Bol straight off yeah I like that so it's a special edition step well they've done that then just I don't know normally they finish here that so our works with I thought all of the market except this one is that cuz of these maybe uh these didn't come on it no no no it's this step it's a specialization step so normal a genuine n step would finish here with this it's obviously a specialization one so we'll whip this off put the factory tone Arrangement on so it's TV approved and then we'll put our step on it which works around that we're not interfering with the tone Factory tone system whatsoever stop feeling positive now okay let's go you finished back there Anthony nope no this special edition bowler thing is not good we got to change a lot oh really we got to change the rear step now check that with Richard have we he said we modify it I don't think he knew we would be like red drilling holes and stuff what have a legal legal toe B do we need to sign some sort of waiver that if he wants all of this reversed it's no one's fault and he has to pay for himself I don't think I'd say yes we'll get Sophie the right one up so do it yeah yeah when's he in uh tomor morning not yet I'm not going to be around though it's all going to be a new so you got your number I have got some mods of my own as well or are giving us all this good stuff I have got you're not putting tarton on it are you it I did get it from Amazon okay so it's not tarton I won't reveal it yet but I'll leave you with that £4.99 Amazon most Wich pimples on the market come as one piece mhm but you got a two ton Land Rover you go nudge your tree or which drives into someone else's car or something it'll Bend and fall back and usually the only way to fix is take the whole thing off putting it B by another one with ours although they're not as strong as one piece we construct them in such a way that if you do bend the end you take that off and we'll just send you a new one we another one as a spare part side piece and that way you don't need to take the wind shot you don't need to take the wind try off it's just literally 100 part cool rather than replace the whole thing and take the whole thing apart you thought of that that's quite clever it's some weird Sex Dungeon is it just remember Anthony when this goes wrong you're going to be at the place of work that suffers Richard's wrath so normally what happens with with the with all that weight of that spare wheel wherever it is yeah it'll start to crack the door and you'll see tears here but especially around here because when that's locked latch here all the weight from that wheel which is like 30 K is it's doing that every time you slam the door it Jers so okay obviously our Wheel car it just transfers all the load to the chassis now so we've actually caught this one in time you've caught this one in time and obviously it's fairly new so much older vehicles you'd see sort of stress fract just Cracks around here Cracks around here and you probably see little rust marks where so this will actually save future repairs it saves saves a new whole new door win win saves you a job saves me a job I don't mind doing this but if it saves up saves a job I didn't realize how beefy the wiring was going to be Tim what's the what's the rating on these cables 240 amps continuous at 25° soon that's why Tim's a proud of partner the wiring for the winch needed to be run directly to the battery which is located under the driver's seat unfortunately I drew the short STW oh you ready don't poke him in the eye with it the floor of the smallest Cog is not clean stop jessing the floor the floor has been minging since day one mate yeah at least you're cleaning it right now tram in minging small as Cog minging what are you doing down there me nothing I'm oing right I'm going to remove myself we have about 3 hours left until the smallest clog shuts so we are up against it it was always going to be a rush but these guys are top quality mechanics can't go wrong The Landing was starting to take shape and the rear wheel was reattached Chris had a slightly unorthodox way of demonstrating how strong it is I'm not very coordinated so right Mike so you start your turn around and stand off I haven't done that bolt up yet so before so before stand just stand up straight so before all that weight be on the door let go let go I I don't want it Go Filming Drive let go stand up straight right okay so all that weight is now on the chassis not the door okay leave one hand on the leave one hand on the roof all your weight is on here right yeah gently open it okay look you you look a bit scared mate yeah these hinges aren't going to go no so now all that weight there's no weight on the hinges now so look behind here I'm going to close it okay yeah thanks see I'm a stunt act and you nearly finished yeah so it's as soon as he's finished in the back we're going to Chuck our side steps on yeah that'll take us an hour are they bolt on no worries bolt on no worries and there's no the ones that were already on Richard's cars were already rotted off cuz they weren't covered in our P coating system so we're going to put these on Y and then aan how you doing how you doing for time he looks perect that looks how long have we got 2 and 1 half hours okay it's going to be close I'm not worried you would well it could also be giv that wash I tell you how worry I'm going the camera switch off in a minute we go back to okay cut cut now that anony and Chris are finished at the rear of the vehicle I can now apply the Amazon mod I'm getting some Revenge here you'll see on there it says DIY spoiler made in China cut back to the clip of Richard defacing the driet tra charger Hellcat I'm going to be precise about it that's the center that's straight there you go lovely job you could say I'm actually stepping up the game I'm doing Richard a favor because this is carbon not sure how real it is but looks like the job it's going to go bang up there cleaning products okay I'll at least try to respectfully do this and get it bang in the middle some proper adhesion on one of these things I mean genuinely we must have got the Hellcat you know in Germany I think it was 150 miles there we got it to and that little wing held fast so I'm expecting big things from this this Defender can only do like 80 downhill tell me how many defenders in the real world have functional Arrow actually no I'm going to put it back here bang in the Middle look at that carbon I bear with the mods complete it was time to give the Land Rover a proper wash fortunately the sponsors of today's video liqu Molly sent over some of their new car cleaning range to help get it looking Factory fresh first stop a good ding in their Rim cleaner to help lift any road gribe and breake dust with a little bit of agitation from a brush the contaminants are ready to be washed away next up a quick rinse and wash to remove any mud and kicked on Grime before it was time to tackle the Boost scratches from all the small Lanes around Richard's house fortunately liqu mly scratch remover and applicator made short work of the scuffs bringing back the shine to the landy's paintwork a quick application of their tire shine not forgetting the Spear of course and it was time for the final details a little bit of waterless detailer removed any water marks or dirt missed in the cleaning and it was ready to be handed back to Richard to check out L's brand new cleaning products click the link in the description and fingers crossed Richard loves his refreshed offender so jacking rich I am not in any way unhappy about this happening today you like that I'm quite excited got the goost from IR brought us it's like the thing is to me a Defender is still it's a beautiful thing yeah but then if you Adorn it with a few spark well look at this for example winch look at that winch and the belly tray 1,000 that's that's going to pull a lot that's a lot house okay light bar always nice is that one of those that turns night into day yeah see there is no more night now good I like itrated headlights headlights headlights already updated the headlights and these are even new again even better again there is no KN indicators LED so these are fancy indicators and I notice the side steps side steps I know me and you don't leave it no me and you I struggle to get this also my mother I've occasionally given her a lift in this and I had to take library steps with me no exactly I struggle yes but the other good thing about this is yeah the guys from R designed their own power coting in a university so this is actually harder powder COA than you normally get that's not coming off that's not coming off that's the issue when you normally get them they rust out and then at the back oh this is my bit this is the bit I love this mainly because I fitted it um wheel holder yeah used to be on the back door yeah okay so used to have 30 kg hanging off the back door and if they carry the wheel on the door movement cracks the doors as we can see actually yeah cuz now it's actually on the chassis yeah look at the rear hinge oh my God that's that's the AG so that's where the wheel was hanging back on the door exactly can we put a new hinge on there Chris has sort us like when you Willam right so that now sits on its own separate hanger not separate so the chassis is now taking the weight of that wheel nothing else got a new bumper rear bumper and also anti slip stuff on there is the same they use on tanks that stuff matters that matters that is I'm cuz it's actually we haven't over done it no no no I haven't modified this vehicle visually very much new grills ni look at them yeah pretty it's pretty um I love it mate I'm thrilled to bits great it I feel I've neglected this old thing for a while and now I've given it some love and attention having done that this I know from experience cuz I've done this the second you fix a winch to a Land Rover you're waiting for what I'm waiting for is snow as soon as it's a snowy day I'm on the road pulling them out of ditches but what you're desperate for is an opportunity to use it you want to test it yes what should we do it there's a line of vehicles over there parked just in front of us that I feel the only thing we'll have to do is get Chris in because he knows how to use it Chris I want to use my new Toyo I want to use it now I love it man I'm very very excited we have to we have to Christen it don't we that needs commissioning yeah we could go into a muddy field we could do well he's just we just we just cleaned it EXA EX l or we could just do it here well I you say there's a line of cars coincidentally in the middle of the car there's a tractor your truck and my pickup yeah will it pull those one way to find out it is uphill just I mean it's not an in they're not stuck in mud though so that's true okay right do it um I'm going to get some gloves and I'm going to follow orders take you first y say I was waiting for it he loves REM Rich gloves right you love this sort of thing didn't you may I'm so this yes the last time I fitted a winch to a Land Rover my dear friend Zog whom you know y um set off from my house home and stuck a f 500 in a ditch rang me and I've never been happy it was a day it had gone on yeah and I was just let's go it right um so I've got a disengage clutch disengage clutch disengage clutch I'm going to pull on that red tag and that should pull all the way out get a hold of hookie thing yeah oh look at that I already pretty but don't know why but there's a shackle already there it's just this these and there's also people in them just in case they need to steer whilst I'm if it winches them oh it was entirely coincidental that this was all here um will I put that in that way no it won't quite hit the safety right so then we got to so your need to go and put the ranger in neutral yes are you going to sit in the ranger I'm in the ranger okay I'm going to quickly jump in my truck the tractor yeah right so I got to engage the clutch go it's in y we're just going to try it just blip it on the on the in just to see if we got oh okay okay I probably need to be in there with my foot foot on the brake yeah come around that side are you going to tell in my car what in my car right so your car is being steered this is so it's such a waste of time doing but this is in an emergency situation we might need to do exactly this so I'm going to put my foot on the brake hand brakes on engine on uh engine running and then just safy first we're going to beat twice so they know we're ready uh are you all ready okay here it goes this is utterly pointless I love it so taking the slack slack taken up we may moving but we're not moving forward so they must moving come to us look it is so that is tons and tons and tons of vehicle coming out me uphill I love this it's this is important work Chris thank you I'm thrilled\n"