I have been making biodiesel for about five years now with thousands of miles covered in various cars but I did run for about a year on veg oil first. I would say that as the TDi’s are direct injection you should not go more than about 75% veg oil even in the summer as direct injection engines...

After a long night time trip in my 200tdi I decided something had to be done about the lights because I was having to concentrate so hard to see anything I was knackered by the time I got to my destination. I tried a supposedly 100% brighter bulb and although it defiantly was brighter I would...

Just found this but cant get to the route website http://www.longrangeautomotive.com.au/products/browse/index2.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.pdf_output&showpage=shop.browse&pop=1&output=pdf&product_id=0&category_id=15&pop=1

Has anyone fitted or even seen any auxiliary fuel tanks on a Discovery 200/300tdi? I know the tank is a fair size but I make biodiesel, am planning some long trips in the summer and wont have that much room in the back for extra fuel as there will be five in the car plus our bags I would...

I’ll take it for £350 Matt, can you let me when you would be available for me to collect it as I will have to get hold of a trailer? Cheers

in domestic wiring yes but in a car i dought it. 10A cable and 25A fuse is a long way apart and blade fuses are ****e

no you have misunderstood me, i agree with you here.

You are probably right about the td5 turbo, I just thought I read it somewhere. Yes a bigger turbo will have more lag but if it’s only a little bit bigger only a little bit more lag. My disco is a 200tdi which has the turbo bolted to the manifold so just the exhaust side to fabricate if...

My palls disco is a 3.5V8i auto so not that far to go, I would need a bottle of nitroglycerine to get near the bhp of the 4.2.

that's just running loads nothing to do with fault conditions which is what your fuse is for. Power factor only rears its head with inductive loads in ac circuits so no concern in a car and not much concern in the home either as most inductive loads are fairly small. As long as your...

PFC's have naff all to do with it. i hope you are not an electrician, I am and have been an auto electrician as well and a plant engineer, avionics engineer and an authorizing engineer for electrical installations. house and industrial wiring has a whole load of calculations to be done to...

One of the reasons I would like a bit more power in mine is that I will be towing a trailer with a car on it and at times its will be another discovery so a bit more power will come in handy. I would also like to take it in the mud now and again and there are plenty of people who buy V8's for...

A 20A fuse will not blow before 10A cable melts! 20A is the current the fuse can carry indefinitely under all conditions including high tempretures. An automotive fuse will carry two or three times its rated load for tens of minutes if not an hour and will carry 10 times its rated load for a...

The purpose of the fuse is to protect the wiring not what's at the end of it so if you only have one 25A fuse you need to use 25A+ cable for everything after the fuse except for the relay coil feeds. If you use smaller cable to each lamp and get a short the cable will melt before the fuse blows...

I have found a rear quarter panel on eBay which would do to replace my rather dented one but its in Leeds and I am in Fife Scotland. If anyone could pick it up for me and bring it to Scotland if you are going that way I would appreciate it, and I can stick 25L of biodiesel in your tank or give...

There is one similar on eBay at the moment, its a bit cheaper but not what I’m looking for. They say 50% more surface area than standard which is an improvement and fine if you don’t intend doing any more than a slight increase in fueling but I think I can do better for less. Land Rover...

Would you say no to another 30 or more bhp for under £150 without reducing reliability? I intend doing a bit of tuning but I want to upgrade the intercooler first. You can tweek the pump and up the boost but without improving the intercooler the exhaust gas temperature will go threw the roof...

Has anyone fitted one of the intercooler kits from eBay on a 200 or 300tdi? I have been looking at a cheap way to upgrade the intercooler as the discovery specific ones at £400+ are out of my price range and have used one before on a Mazda RX7 but it had a much wider space to fit it in. from my...

I'm looking for a drivers side rear quarter and rear pillar for my 5 door 1994 200tdi disco. I believe there was a change early 1996 so anything 1995 or older should fit. I am in Dunfermline Fife but can travel an hour or two of needed so Glasgow, Edinburgh, under or anywhere in-between is...

You can get the familiar bearing noise without having much play at all but although it is a sign they are on there way out it won't fail an mot. If you have to much play or any grinding or crunching noises when you spin the wheels that would fail an mot. It's quite hard on a disco to feel where...