If you take something into a garage and its working fine, then it ####s up catastrophically while theyre working on it, surely its their fault and they gotta fix it??!! That being said, I suppose it might be difficult to prove they broke it, if it is HGF it could have been building up a long...

Text receive ld. Im at work til 1am tonight. Not much help im afraid! :( haven't got access to any parts either as local places have closed. If youre still stuck and there's anything I can do and you need me I can make my way down after work.

Minescoming up to about 58k on the clock too, not sure what to do about the VCU coz Im skint innit!? :D Theres some tests you can do on the VCU thread that tell if youre VCU is knackered/on its last legs, personally I reckon weekly checks and as long as its ok no need to replace it, if it aint...

Id like to get a rechargeable one I can just leave in the car charging away happily so never gotta buy batteries or worry about it being flat when I need it, but those tend to be silly expensive.

Yeah I bought one of these I know everyone slags off the cheap chinese stuff, but its really bloody brilliant! Takes 3AAA batteries & bright as anything! Also fits nicely in a bicycle pump holder that Ive used as a mounting point for it in the landy so I aint fumbling around trying to find it...

Always sad to see an old friend around... Been nearly a year since I sold my Astra but Im still heartbroken over her... she was a beauty, and I put so many hours of work, blood, weat and tears into her... and I know the person I sold her to wont treat her anywhere near as good as I did and...

Some spectacular pics there, good job you got out alright, bloody lucky on that one. And doubley lucky that some cock failed to nick it!

My fuel guage is a lying bastard. I run it til the red light comes on, stick £15 (petrol) that gets me quarter of a tank. Ill do about 50 miles and the needle wont move, then Ill park it up, turn it back on and the thing says Im barely above the red line! Then that last 2mm of guage lasts about...

Thats clever that is, using the nail varnish Mine is the Serengetti version that the rear windows are all factory tinted anyway, I think it looks much better than non-tinted. Ive used that stick on tint stuff from Halfrauds before on another car, its as good as you manage to do it :P The...

Looks pretty cool I think, nice to see what can be done with a little time and money to the hippo! :D Just wish I had the money to do that to mine!

Mine uses H4 bulbs. Though I've heard people say the same thing about the sleeves for the H4 kits from HID4U. Dont really wanna splash out on something that might not work properly though!

Thats a shame :( Ill have a look for those phillips ones and see what theyre like then. Seems it depends on who you ask, what exactly you ask and when you ask. The official DfT statement (found here if you fancy a long boring read...

Yeah I had a look at HIDS4U, theyre not too bad, they do a kit for the pre-facelift with H4 bulbs for £85. I wasnt sure if I needed a new projector/headlight assembly or not I refuse to believe it "cant be done", I like the look of HID lights Ive always wanted some and there has to be some way...

'Ello chaps! Im thinking about getting some HID lights for my FL1 (2002/3 pre-facelift) because the stock lamps seem to be a bit crap, got a few questions. Now, I dont know much about HID lights, but from what Ive gathered it seems SOME halogen headlight units can use them, but others cant...

As above, depeneds on cost/benefits, but yes I would be interested :D Im sure there used to be one, but it kinda just dissapeared?

I actually quite like it, I know I shouldnt but I do :P If only the back were a bit longer... Then again if I had that kind of money to spare Id buy a defender anyway...

Nifty :D will be joining as soon as the fb app on my phone stops being ****!

Sounds like one epic adventure! Just try not to get beheaded on youtube! :)

I was thinking of doing an oil change, I havent done one on my hippo yet. I tend to change my oil & filter every 6 months with the car tax. Tax was done a week or two ago so I should get round to doing it. Everyone makes it sound like a total ballache, especially with the under body tray thingy...

Ah yeah didnt think of that, if youre bumping around greenlaning a regular hard drive wont appreciate being bounced around whilst in use... SSDs are prohibitively expensive to use exclusively though, even a small 120GB SSD will set you back best part of £100, and youll fill that up in no time...