I think he mentioned he sells or designs or maintains (or maybe all three) machinery for balancing drive shafts and prop shafts.

If you did inform them you would probably be the only one. 1. You would need to be aware it should be 4WD. 2. You would need to know that to be 4WD it would need to have a propshaft. 3. You would need to know what a propshaft looked like. 4. You would need to know it was missing. The...

From what I've heard from MOT inspectors and used car dealers, the majority of Freelander 1's in the UK do not have the propshaft so it's not a big deal with them any more. The most common reason for it being missing is the previous owner or the dealer didn't want to pay for the maintenance of...

It's a very entertaining channel where two Germans make fun of just about everyone, especially themselves. They started by documenting the maintenance and repairs of their Disco's and now buy broken Disco's to repair. The latest is a Disco 4 with a melted piston caused by neglect and no oil.

Yes mate, that's a good call, I rarely use the channel change buttons for the radio so could try them. The only issue that springs to mind is finding another input on the VCU to use but I'm sure there would be some way to manage it. In the meantime I've spent more time playing with the settings...

Thanks mate, You're right about this but it isn't as easy to implement as I hoped. I took the car out for a drive tonight with 4 passengers and found there are several issues with the brake pedal regen. All the testing I had done was on a small country road where it seemed OK but on a main road...

I considered that and even bought an immersion heater timer as my car only ever draws 3kW, but that doesn't resolve the issue of the car being turned on at the ignition switch right through the night. What I do at the minute is start charging by turning on the ignition after plugging in, then...

This is a post I put on the OI forum and got a couple of pointers what to do. "Hi guys I'm joining this thread because I'm currently trying to figure out a way to automate charging when I plug in the charger cable and at the same time figure out how to start charging at 2am when my electricity...

I mostly start off in 2nd and use it up to 30mph, third up to 50mph and 4th thereafter. But the switch is not the issue, like you said it would be relatively trivial to fit a switch to the clutch pedal and reinstate it. The bigger issue is the coding (programming) of the throttle for lift off...

Thanks mate, that's a wee job for the summer.

You guys are probably right and TBH I had considered reinstating the clutch for this but I don't think it would be worth the effort. I've been playing with the settings and it works great as it is, and you know the old saying? "Keep it simple STUPID" This is especially true where throttle...

I had a master fail when I tried to bleed it after replacing the clutch and heard somewhere it is not uncommon for that to happen so beware. Cheap aftermarket master cylinders can have a low bite point so if possible get an OEM one if you decide to change it.

Nice one! I replaced a clutch in my TD4 a few years ago but when I went to bleed it I got nothing. Turns out it's not uncommon for the master to fail when a new clutch is installed so I fitted a new one and all good again. The only issue I had after was the bite point was on the floor, I put...

I agree that the term is massively over used. AI has been around for years in one form or another. Computers have been playing chess and other strategy games since the ZX80 came out and even earlier so that was a type of AI. But the difference now is it is so much better it's actually useful...

Yes I found the same with all of them. I know a little about programming and I can follow the logic even if I don't fully understand everything but as you say it did all the hard work for me so all I needed to do was tweak it a bit.

It is much better than you would expect. You can use ChatGPT or Claude or a couple of others, but I recently switched browser to Brave because it has adblock built in (Which works great in Youtube BTW) but it turns out the default search engine in Brave gives an AI answer to all searches. The...

Last few days I've been playing with the VCU firmware trying to figure out if it was possible to have regen. It should hopefully help improve the range a bit but even more important it should take some pressure off the brakes. At the moment the brakes are great but probably over worked without...

With the correct glue that can stand hot sun. I had a couple of goes at gluing part of mine but I think the glue was rubbish because the one time we had sun over the summer it fell down again. Any suggestions where to get new cloth as mine could do with being replaced?

Hard to argue with this. :confused: The results are a little 1970's Cadillac looking but better than having the sodding thing drooping onto your head. I should have taken the headlining out of the old car before scrapping it but at that point I didn't realise the issue and I'm too lazy to do it...

If you want it fixed quick and aren't too worried about making it look factory or just need a temporary fix until you sort it properly then have a look at these. https://amzn.to/40IDeCA I used them in my car and the results were....... ahem... 'good enough' I thought I had photos but can't...