Mine used to smoke a bit on kickdown, as you have noticed, you see it more at night....normally fogging the car behind. I've recently stuck two bottles of injector cleaner through the old girl, one tank full after the next and it's not doing it half as much. Of course it could just be a lot of...

Nice choice with the Firestorm alloy, looks like the Stormer but isn't! Those were my first choice but SWMBO steered me towards the Eltex 5 spoke. I'm running my 20"s on 275/45/20 General Grabber UHP tyres. Although the tyre size / speedo is out slightly (71Mph at 70Mph) the 45 pprofile tyre is...

The handbrake acts on the transfer box. If you look under the car you'll see what looks like a rear drum brake with the rear prop shaft attached. The handbrake shoes are in that. The adjustment is carried out by; Release handbrake lever. tightening the brake shoe adjustment bolt to 25Nm(18...

Evening all, I've searched the forum for this problem but it seemed to go largely unanswered. Only one side of the windscreen de-mists on my P38. I've transposed the fuses and relays and the same side of the windscreen still refuses to work. :confused: My next stage in fault finding is the...

Further follow up.... It was the viscous fan coupling that had failed. Fortunately still under warranty I approached a local 4x4 specialist to repair said item. Unfortunately a broken (it's not working) viscous fan coupling isn't broken if it's seized...it's seized!!:mad: This is according to...

Follow up from earlier post. It may be the viscous fan!! Does the viscous fan fail in the ' locked, fan on all the time mode ' ? No! Well that appears to be the problem, the fan is locked and is driven by the engine at engine rpm, hence the strange noise! The car was emulating a light...

Hi, Just carried out an oil and filter change on my 2.5DSE and added a little Slick 50 for good measure!:) I used a 10W40 Semi-synth and a Cooper brand oil filter element. Since the oil change the engine has sounded a little strange, it also seems to need more right foot encouragement to get...

Hi, I'm new to the rangie and having read the standard tyre pressures was suprised to see that the rears are 38psi!! The thing that troubles me is the rear tyre wear I have, the centre portion of the rear tyres are worn to the wear guides! Whilst the remainder of the tyres surfaces have up to...