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  • arsi
    Member Since: 08 Jun 2016
    Location: Tampere
    Posts: 41
    Finland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Aintree Green

    Battery compartment trim panels

    How are you supposed to get the battery/jack compartment panels back on?

    I have tried to press, push, hit and may other ways to get them to stay on after I took them off.
    In the battery panel there are two plastic plugs that is supposed to hold the panel from top. Bottom is just stuck into a slot in the floor. I hope that the plugs are not those dispensable ones that you throw away after taking apart.

    To manage to get the jack out you need to loosen the top part of the fixed panel so that afterwards you are not able to put it back permanently anymore and getting the cover trim to stay is impossible.

    Behind and close to battery/jack compartment are also a lot of loose and/or unsupported plastic parts and parts of trim panels and cushions that seems to be only half way designed and just placed there to fill empty space. I do not feel that they are long-lived if you need to open the panels regularly.

    Do I need to go to dealer to put the panels back? There must be a better solution.

    Here is an image of the compartment with panels and jack off.


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    And there is a loose connector behind the jack, circled in the image below. Anyone have an idea what it is to be connected?

    Here you also see a grey square plastic foam that was stuck below the floor panel. It has a LR code on it so it must be designed for the purpose and very expensive if you need it as a spare.


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    11th Oct 2017 7:45 pm
  • RotherhamPete
    Member Since: 01 Apr 2017
    Location: Rotherham
    Posts: 16
    United Kingdom 

    If I recall there is a sliding catch on the side which you have to move into place once the panel has been put into position. You need to reach behind the top of the panel to slide the catch.
    11th Oct 2017 7:49 pm
  • PeterT
    Member Since: 01 Apr 2017
    Location: Cambridgeshire
    Posts: 3
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Sd4 (240) HSE Corris Grey

    Yes, that is absolutely correct. It is very fiddly to do but requires no force - line the slots up and slide the catch along.
    As to the spare plug, the car is littered with them for all the available extra options. They are normally secured and not flopping about though?
    11th Oct 2017 9:37 pm
  • arsi
    Member Since: 08 Jun 2016
    Location: Tampere
    Posts: 41
    Finland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Aintree Green

    Thank you,

    There indeed is a sliding mechanism. Upon closer inspection the slider just fell of. It is not held on by anything, or so it seems. Here is a picture of the slider:


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    Managed to put it back after couple of trials:


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    Now that I knew the mechanism, it was easy to put the trim panel back.
    Do they have somekind of tool in factory and service for the slider to move it as there is no room for an adult hand to slide it.
    12th Oct 2017 4:39 pm
  • Landieman
    Member Since: 09 Jan 2017
    Location: London
    Posts: 17
    United Kingdom 

    Yes there is a slider in the 'vent' you can move with a screwdriver etc. It's all in the manual.
    12th Oct 2017 11:29 pm
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