Recent content by AlanWJDonald

Thanks for that. I'll look into it.

It works with the diff lock on Wh-hoo but a mate is saying not to drive on that at all. Not even across town.

It doesn't drive no matter what I do with the 4 wheel drive/high/low etc. I have no idea what bit is broken only that it is broken. The bloke pointed to something underneath the engine near the front axle that I didn't really see for myself. Thanks for the prices. Is that just parts?

I was driving on the motorway in the 1993 Disco I have had for a week and there was a loud bang followed by no power to the wheels. I managed to freewheel to the side of the road and have been towed home but there was nothing there in any gear for either gear box. Nothing. Had it a week...

You were right elbow grease and leverage were enough to get the wing off enough to get my arm in. I fitted the new aerial simply because I'd paid for it already but when it inevitably breaks I will replace it with a wire as suggested. I'll bicarb the back of it fully during the week and...

Cool. I'll give it a go. Failed to find a TDi manual so far, lots of TD5s. I'll try again tomorrow. Will think more about the central locking and 12V socket again tomorrow too I think. Bed now. Thanks all.

Rave manual. OK will do. What do you have at the end of the cable? Bare wire straight in and hope or have you attached it in some way?

Cheers. I think we've got a big bucket of it somewhere for a time when we only had 1 or 2 kids and vaguely believed a tidy and clean house was something possible rather than a stupid dream and heartbreaking aspiration that will never be achieved and thus will drag you down depressively forever.

Fair dos. I think next pay day a Haynes might be in order. Cable makes sense but i was just aiming to do a straight swap over for now to try and get radio 4 for the whole of my journey to work not just in the two towns. If I have to pull the whole thing apart to change this one I might as well...

How would this work? Scrubbing it in and then hoovering off?

Aerial. I've bought exactly the same one as was fitted. I'm trying to just replace the aerial without having to replace the whole unit and I was hoping I could just undo the nut on top, slide the new aerial in and add the new nut but it just twists. I guess the screw is turning too. I can't...

I hadn't thought about the size of the fuse physically. It clips in properly and doesn't feel loose. Where would I get a thicker fuse?

Chippenham, Wiltshire. I will be hopefully getting waste oil from a friend at some point soon but for the mo its supermarket stuff which means a saving of at least £25 on a tank of fuel, sometimes more.

Cool

£970 all I could afford. Sorry.