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I set the timer to charge on cheaper overnight leccy and when I checked this morning it had worked without burning down the house so a result! 😊 Now I know it works I need to think about reducing the number of Arduino's and tidying things up but...

Well done for getting it sorted. As a matter of interest, can you buy the sockets those chargers plug in to? Might stick 1 on the side of my Freelanders so I can plug a charger in and make it look like its charging. Quite often the charging...

Well done - that’s quite some feat

Thanks mate, I spent weeks procrastinating over this but in the end it was fairly simple to do. DeepSeek did all the heavy lifting for the programming and the Voltage Divider Circuit that senses if the cable was plugged in was also simple in the...

It works 😊 I called into a Tesco in Lisburn Co Antrim today, plugged it in, pressed the charge start button and it started charging straight away👏

So after a couple of weeks procrastinating I finally made time to try and figure out how to make the charger work at a commercial EVSE which the setup above failed to achieve. It works great at home but commercial chargers require a low...

To solve this and any further high pressure fuelling problems that come my way, I have purchased a 6,000 PSI gauge and an adaptor that will fit into the hp pressure sensor hole. This will allow rail monitoring. If low I can also fit the gauge to...

Have you metered out the injector loom? Might be as simple as a broken wire.

OK it's official. Don't think vehicle has had an inlet clean, egr clean, oil change or filter change or air filter since it left LR all shiny new !! Have a look at these. The oil filter just fell apart. Wonder why it was overfuelling a bit...

EV is plan Z. So a way to go !! Thanks for idea 🫢

Hi Andy I'm watching this one with interest but you already know what I think you should do. 😁

Good job I have a litre here already then 😎. It was on the shelf of the garage of where I am renting, peaked my interest and thought I'll buy the stuff for interest. Nice that you all look out for people though!!

You gotta love dealing with the public. 🤣

Had to call the police today to stop 1 of our campers/customers. We've had a customer complaining the brakes on the camper he's rented are really bad. So we tries to book him in to a garage to get them looked at. We managed to get him in to 1...

I have a similar unit on my tractor and have carefully pulled, no snatch, in excess of 3 tonnes. I wouldn’t do that regularly or trust it’s fatigue life but for usual use, I reckon it’s fine on a hippo. Edit: I just checked a number of...

When I retrieved the transmission bits off my K Series parts car, I removed the exhaust. Its no good to me so sat in the garage for years. Eventually had a clear out and listed it on the Kiwi version of eBay. Not the slightest of interest...

I really like that sort of stuff. Cool :cool:

It's way, way stronger than the spindly thing that the previous owner was using to tow their horsebox.

Latest update on the charge control setup. It works! :D I've done lots of testing and so far no major issues so I figured maybe it was time for Mk2 https://store.arduino.cc/products/uno-r4-wifi When I was connecting all the wires to the Arduino...

Absolutely free way to lift suspension. Take all unnecessary components off and up it goes ! Biggest difference was made when the insulation tape was taken off the wiring loom. Have a great DAY 👍 See photos. .

Only if it breaks and causes an accident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Many years ago I remember having tow bars fitted at some guys house. He had a cottage industry making and fitting tow bars at the weekend and I can't imagine...

I've never changed an exhaust in any Freelander and they were all as old as yours. They must have been well made.

Today I found a hill steep enough to test the hill descent and it works! Forwards and backwards.

Another Hippo 🦛 on the way to wherever Hippos go when they leave this earthly realm

Cheap aftermarket master cylinder can cause the bite point to be on the floor making it hard to push in far enough. I had this problem and sorted it by extending the rod that the pedal pushes by a few mm but it was a pain. In my case I replaced...

I work at a scrapyard so we do get a fair share of end of life vehicles but this was the first 3 door Hippo since I’ve been there. Been waiting for one for ages, kept thinking I had to buy a couple of tyres then got lucky. Still got the sports...

I posted on 16/03/25 smugly about replacing my starter motor. What a fool…. Three days later the new one stopped working altogether. So after much cursing, blood sweat and tears put the old one back in. Started first time and continues to work...

Gee, you're up early. I'm addressing the slightly leaky roof this week. I'm changing it from the horrible shallow single pitch, to a nice 35° gable style roof instead. The forcast is for it to be dry this week, so perfect for getting the roof...

Might have got in after a works leaving do......

LOL, you on the sauce at 3:47 this morning? 🤣