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I think I have an electronically injured P38. It's probably been jump-started with reversed terminals or on 24 volts. Currently the central locking doesn't work (other than initially locking the car when I connect the battery). Hence I doubt I can enter the key code. I certainly...

I've been wondering for a while about fitting a bigger intercooler, and the problems with blocking the radiator - at the moment we're hovering between 30 and 40 degrees C here in Morocco, and there are some very long climbs, right up to 3,000 metres altitude. Looking at my 200Tdi, it seems that...

Hi Latest problem is the gearbox getting very difficult, particularly when hot. Drive at 50mph or use decent amounts of throttle and there's massive friction between gears, particularly across the gate. Bashing the lever left and right seems to ease it. Once you are in gear it's fine, no...

Hi My Defender 200tdi chucks out buckets of thick black smoke under acceleration or full load. Back off and it stops. I've fiddled with the fuel screw on the pump before and have ended up with no power, or misfiring, or white smoke... I'm a bit loath to touch the pump again! Especially as...

Hi I have a locally made (ie not very good) snorkle on my 200 tdi Defender. It uses the hole in the wing top, rather than the side, and a long section of hose. I was thinking of connecting it back up, which got me onto looking at the whole air intake system, and how ruddy awful it is. As...

I've finally got the heater working. The control cables were seized, so I've just cut them off. On the heater box there's a thing on low down on the side that opens and closes a door from the heater to the duct - all air on and off. On the top there's another 'thing' that moves a flap inside...

Hi My '92 110 had a problem with a spongy pedal and binding brakes. I changed the master cylinder and swapped axles for the disc brakes on my old Disco 300Tdi. Now I have a solid pedal, almost no stopping power, and all 4 brakes are smoking hot after 20 miles. The front discs are...

I have a '92 Defender 200tdi. I stopped in the middle of no where on a freezing, foogy night at 1am and 6,000 feet up to negotiate a tricky slope. Slipped it into low (the change has always been the smoothest of any LR I've driven) and... Nothing. Pulled it back for High - level feels...

Half way through replacing the leaky steering box on my Dad's '94 Disco tdi. All according to plan so far, 4 bolts on the chassis are tight, steering column is reconnected, but the stabiliser or support bracket or whatever you want to call it is a problem. The bolts don't line up and the bolts...

Hi For complicated reasons I now have a Disco 300Tdi auto fitted with a Mercedes 300D six cylinder diesel. We are having problems balancing the modified torque converter and I need to reduce the gearing, as the Mercedes has identical power but less torque than the old 300Tid and needs to...

I'm registering my 300Tdi in France, and need the details off the chassis plate under the bonnet. According to the manual, I'm supposed to find the Type Approval Number, VIN no., max laden weight, max vehicle and trailer weight, and max front and rear axle loads. Apart from the VIN, everything...

Discovered a nasty cut in one of my 235/70R16 BF Goodrich All Terrains. Out here in, Morocco, the only make available (with an adance order) is Michelin, at over 200 quid. However, you can get 235/75R16. The difference to gearing, speedo reading, etc., is only 3.3%. But - do they fit? I saw...

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My 94 300Tdi has lost all the offside sidelights plus the dash lights. The sidelight fuse is fine. Pulling it looses all the remaining sidelights. Everything else electrical works perfectly. This happened after towing for a day, and I'm wondering if dirt in the trailer electrics somehow shorted...

I have a 1994 Disco 300 Tdi auto. 75mph is 3'500 revs in top. My last manual 200Tdi pulled 3000 revs at 75. This one is correspondingly noisier and thirstier. Autocar's test says the auto is slightly higher geared than the manual, like the Range Rover. Has some bounder replaced the...