Id drive the series youve got currently every day for 6 months and see if you still want to daily drive one. Having lived and relied on old crap as my only transportation, you almost certainly will get fed up with it. Youll want something that doesnt let rainwater in like a colander, youll want...

Its simple, if youve got a logbook, vin plate, numberplates, etc, and a land rover that matches that logbook, even if everything steel has dissolved, you can buy a new chassis, bulkhead, etc and voila, all is well. If you havnt got anything with a vin number or numberplate, i.e, youve got a pile...

Well, I suppose I could have waited a year, paid the exam board myself, and re-sat them. The norm is to do another year in school/collage. The point that the exams could have been cancelled again still stands though, so it wasnt really a valid plan at the time, not that it had even crossed my...

Yep, my thoughts exactly. Honestly unsure. Ive absolutely no use for them, but theyre not really in the way, nor are they costing me anything to have just sit there. On the other hand, I've no burning need for the cash immediately, although finding a way to spend it is never difficult, and Im...

Because Id have had to re-apply for the apprenticeship, with zero guarantee Id get it the second time around. Also, there was no guarantee of a propper exam the next year, so it could easilly have been an absolute waste. Furthermore, most of my mates were off to uni, and I couldnt wait to be...

Interesting, how did you do that without a degree? Forgive my ignorance, is it a modern-day re-labeling of something else (Like plumbers are now sometimes called heating engineers, etc)

Pretty sure I made you an offer similar to that, I said you could have the auto for free if you fixed the manual one.

Out of interest, which career did that work for you in? Thats one benefit op open uni, its much much cheaper, its "only" £2610 a year. I helped many of my friends with their study, I also worked as a teachin assistant. Sure I suck at fixing unfixable broken land rovers, that doesnt mean I'm...

Sorry, I forgot the part where Im somehow supposed to be worth less than anyone else? Sure, Im no better than anyone else, but its called minimum wage for a reason, and its been a thing for about a decade before I was born, and its there for a reason. More than half the people who leave school...

Pretty sure theycan find out anyway, since its all done through my NI number? Also I do need to be able to do the lectures etc, even though its unlikely to clash with normal working hours, I cant do late night shifts reliably.

National minimum wage is £11.44/hr Ahh yes, starting a new job, continuing with my degree, and going to the gym more days a week than there are days in a week is exactly what quitters do. Thats tough, hope youre doing okay, may they rest in peace. Thats not what the people at the jobcenter...

Im not too keen on over-sharing on a public forum, but Ive finally managed to get a part time, dead end job, after months of searching. Im living with my parents, so my living expenses are minimal, but any chance of moving out is a pipe-dream for when my mates finnish uni, because house sharing...

Thats probably exactly the sort of reason nobody has been able to fix it...

Thanks - but thats the problem, Im not too sure what I want. I know what I like doing, I like spending time with my mates, I like offroading and driving quickly, I like sparring, and all the other things the lower cortex desires. But none of those things are things I can do for a living, theyre...

Well, its getting on for 2 years since it last drove, and its a year since its MoT ran out. It didnt have any advisories for rust, so if it does need any welding, itll only be minor, but then I cant weld, so thats more money Id have to pour down it. Compression is actually not that relevant, the...

Okay - lets not be unreasonable, the disco needs more than "basic checks" - its had "basic checks" at 2 garages, and its had my mate and I at uni try and fix it, and now its time to do compression tests. Fiddling with a fuel pump involves turning a few bolts/screws to adjust the fuelling, idle...

Alright, Ive come to terms that if I dont have a look at them this weekend, Im not going to fix them, Im just too busy with other stuff. Ive been offered £500 each from a breaker, which Ill probably take. I know this is a land rover forum, but what do you lot make of the Daihatsu Fourtrak? Ive...

Yes, that might be helpful... North Wales, but willing to move if a very good opportunity were to be offered. Yes, exactly. And Im almost certainly worse at it than you! I used to blame it on a lack of tools (i.e. not having the snazy electric impact guns etc etc) but really the only tool...

You can have a Rover V8 rebuilt to any specification you like. They were installed in TVRs with displacements of 5.0L and well over 300hp (I dont remember the numbers exactly). The standard carby 3.5 came as mild as 135hp, and 155 with EFI, or 190hp in TVR 350i flavour. The 3.9 made 275hp in the...

So - a few of me may have seen my previous threads/posts - Ill be the first to admit that Im not a great at fixing cars, particularly when things go wrong (e.g. rusty nuts, other peoples questionable electrical repairs, etc). Im not too bad when it comes to the theory, but then almost anyone can...