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My shopping list for the Discovery includes the following:

• rubber strap for securing jack and chocks under bonnet
• chocks
• poles for tarpaulin

Okay, the last isn't really Discovery-specific, but will be used to hold a tarp up over the rear door when camping.

Where's the best place(s) to get these items? I tried typing "rubber strap" into a couple of suppliers' searches but got nothing sensible back.

What disco is the strap for? as mine is a Velcro strap and a turn buckle arrangement to hold the wheel chock in place.

Chocks are available from any LR parts supplier even 'ebay' and poles from a camping equipment supplier.. it's all very simples.

'94 300TDi. Sorry, should have said.

I presumed there should be a strap there because that's what the picture in the book says but at the moment there's nothing I can use to secure anything in the engine bay and I'm getting fed up of jamming bottle jack and wood under the driver's seat so they don't fly about the cabin.

I want things secured and out of the way. And preferably proper chocks rather than the fencepost off-cuts I'm carrying at the moment.

Just a 10 min job to secure the jack with the two lengths of Velcro laid around the jacks body and fixed with a screw/nut& bolt/rivet to the inner wing and with a length of hard rubber as a buffer between the jack and the inner wing, the jack sits on a thin rubber mat.. u may find that the relevant brackets etc are still there for both items.

If u want the genuine parts then the strap is BTR8144 and the chock is ANR3052

Many thanks Discopol.

Did a search on the part numbers and found a lovely diagram of what should be there on the Allbrit.de site.

I'll take a look in daylight and see what remains of brackets etc. then order myself the necessary.

I've some rubber matting left over from fitting the back out (you can never have too much rubber matting).