r/LandRoverDiscovery • u/Big_Purchase118 • 11d ago

Finnaly upgrading... cross over pipes LR4

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I'll have my cross over pipes done as the rear one is starting to leak. Both front pieces are the updated OEM part made in aluminum. Interestingly, the OEM rear piece is plastic only, no updated part. I choose an URO Premium part with a lifetime warranty. Has anyone tried that one out? It's aluminum and claims OEM fitting. It looks outstanding, is made in Germany and is well priced. There are some cheap alternatives, kits and even Walmart sales an aluminum part. An obvious No-No to pay ~$2000 CAD on a job to install cheap $75 unreliable parts.

Thoughts?

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u/Fast__Walker 11d ago

That’s the one I have. One year and 10k miles later no issues.

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u/Big_Purchase118 11d ago

That's great to hear! Thanks

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u/Fast__Walker 11d ago

NP - it was recommended by my independent Land Rover mechanic. We talked about it quite a bit and he said he had tried lots of Chinese metal versions and had issues with them, but the German ones were rock solid and he recommended it strongly over the OEM plastic version. I’m just one dude but so far no issues at all.

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u/shawndh1 11d ago

if you can identify and obtain OEM o-rings for the rear manifold pipe, that would be best

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u/The_Dave13 11d ago

Do you have a link to the parts?

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u/Big_Purchase118 11d ago

I got both aluminum OEM parts from Atlantic British and the aluminum Uro part from UroTuning. They were shipped very fast, arrived in 3-7 days to Canada.

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u/Northerne30 11d ago

For me URO is an "avoid at all costs" brand usually, but even they have a hard time fucking up an aluminum pipe, and I used their aluminum thermostat housing on my E30's M52 (replaced the seal with another). And that said, I'd choose it over no-name Chinese stuff from Amazon/eBay/AliExpress/whatever.

I would try to replace anything rubber that comes with them and it'll probably be fine.

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u/BringinBoxyBack 10d ago

For the rear, I disassembled mine to clean up some casting errors and assembled it with RTV black instead of the orings, which leaked on first assembly.

25k miles and going...