I spent a few hours on wiring this weekend. I separated this:- from this so basically I now have a stand-alone automatic wiring loom that I can integrate into the 1.8 K series loom. Today I went through every wire, found it on the wiring diagrams and labelled them up. I am going to have...

Nooooooooooo ! Land Rover should sell you a replacement one. No need to dismantle your dashboard. Don't you believe me or something?

They can only clone the chip if you've got one. If you lost your last key there's nothing to clone.

and having a replacement key made is going to cost as much for an old Freelander now as it did when they were new. It is a good security system, that's why it's problematic to get round it.

it seems a bit elaborate when it's right next to the air box and they could have just pulled air on its way to the engine through the fuse box. Anyway, I guess I can fit the fit later.

My advice is to talk to a parts dept and not the service people. It shouldn't need a diagnostic session (as far as I know) but there is a possibility that the service people will say that you do, though I suppose that their book process would involve disabling the lost key in case someone...

ah, well mine is getting an automatic ECU, but I didn't know about the fans. It probably doesn't get hot enough in the UK to be an issue

The V6 that I took the auto gearbox and wiring loom from had a brass sensor (I guess temperature) inside the fuse box where the engine ECU lives, but the 1.8 doesn't have one. Anyone know what it's for?

Getting a new key from LR parts dept has got to be cheaper than loosing your no claims bonus, and probably less then most people's excess anyway

Dude, if you want one you have to respond to the IMs that I send you.

First start. It started on the second attempt after swapping two of the wires from the crank sensor to the ECU:- I don't know why YouTube has mirrored the image

are we still ok with Carlube ATF-U ?

no there are other options. The immobiliser unit can be hacked, but you have to remove the dash top to get to it (or change it as you are suggesting). In my opinion the best option is to take your V5 document to a Land Rover parts dept and ask for a new key, including a new transponder. They...

The 2007 V8 Jags are £735 VED per year !

some of the petrol XJs are ULEZ compliant (even Euro 4 for Birmingham etc as well), but, have horrible VED (road tax) rates. The super charged ones are quite sought after, but an X350 3.5L V8 for example, not so much. How do VED rates work with EV conversions?

It's not an X Type. What an insult !

I did manage to reverse engineer enough of the CANbus packets going to the ABS to keep it happy, and Andy Revill modified a Rover 75 ECU for me so that it pretends to be a Freelander ECU. The data is out there (page one of the EV thread), but you would need to create something that sends those...

also, I have no idea how to correctly plumb in the transmission cooler. There's no diagram of the V6 cooling system in the Haynes manual, and I don't really understand how the external thermostat arrangement works. The pipe diameter looks somewhat similar to the hoses that go to the heater...

If I turn the bottom hose the other way around, so the corner nearer to the rad and further from the thermost, and can kind of force it all to fit. The reason for this distortion is that the metal pipe that goes over the top of the gearbox had to be bent up a couple of centimetres. this...

maybe, but I think it's easier just to get some spare hoses and cut them up to move things where I need them.