Recent content by Mike7777777

Thanks for the detailed reply Ratae, I've had a measure and ordered up a variety of clamps (from Halfords), also some M8 studding to make bespoke clamps if needed. There is a fixing kit available for the "Y" to middle section (including olive), bolts are FB108141L, olive is NTC1030.

Thanks for the helpful replies, and the other replies! :)

Hi All Centre box has had it; "Y" section, centre box and rear box purchased, also olive and fixings for "Y" to centre box joint. Need a fixing kit c/w clamps, can't find one on online, suggestions/recommendations please. Existing will probably be OK to reuse, but I would prefer to have all new.

Thanks Hippo, the saving money bit is important to me, but an estate car doesn't give me the elevated seating position and many don't have four wheel drive.

Thanks for the replies, a P38 as a daily driver for my annual mileage is probably a bit of stretch, back to looking at Freelanders.

It is, probably more realistic than a P38 with all the (potential) problems.

Hi all, I drive approx 40k miles per annum, 90% m/way and dual carriageway, very little urban use, comfort, reliability and elevated driving position. Occasional use of 4WD but nothing too ambitious (roads with some snow, muddy fields used as car parks). I have recently bought a Santa Fe, it...

To bring this up to date, I bought a Santa Fe diesel, 40mpg, elevated seating position, good size load area, but the ride quality on our broken roads is dismal, so it might be going. I keep looking on ebay at P38 diesels with a manual gearboxes. I'll start another thread,

Sliding sunroof is a useful addition on UK cars, but rarely available

£2k was a bit tongue in cheek, although £2k is my budget for P38 Rangie with a diesel engine and manual gearbox as a daily driver, leaving money in the kitty for fettling. However, the diesel P38 doesn't appear to be much more economical than a petrol P38 and 120k miles in 3 years without major...

£2k but can stretch to £8k(ish). My current daily driver was <£1k and is still going well 80k miles later, so this is going to hurt a bit.

My 30 year old Range Rover is an auto (4 speed ZF), OK round town but it does seem to kill the performance until the torque converter locks up (performance being relative!). On the other hand, the autobox means one less thing to consider when softroading through the mud.

Hi All As a bonus, Freelander 2s are apparently available with twin sunroofs, are the sunroofs tilt only or tilt and slide?

Thanks. I run most of my daily cars up to about 200k miles, in my experience autoboxes frequently fail expensively before that mileage, also mpg is generally poorer with an auto (although mpg for newer 9 speed autos matches manuals) , but most importantly I WANT TO BE IN CONTROL OF MY GEAR...

Ta, unfortunately I have a Luddite's deep mistrust of autos, and the SD4 engine doesn't appear to be available as a manual.