Recent content by brasso

Oh! Brain remains tiny.

My tiny brain didn’t realise what FBH stood for (tragic, I know) so i looked it up and came across this incredible write-up: https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/fbh-all-you-need-to-know.207143/

Yeah, I found a cheap one for a BMW X5 which looked like it would fit (same connectors on the underside). But didn’t.

I dunno if they still make them. But you can pick the older ones up, brand new and unlocked for less than £20 on eBay.

It’s for a Nokia 6230i. It’s got a colour screen and everything🤣

I’ll look into it, thanks for the pointer🙂

Yeah, it’s way down on the list of jobs. Which keeps getting longer! Whack-a-mole… Thanks for the tip re the breakers👍

Sure:

Hi Tricky. We let the car shut down and the battery was all fine. But I noticed the orange light was still flashing on the head unit way after everything should have gone to sleep. (And it wasn’t a period of time when the timed climate was scheduled to come on; the orange light blinks when the...

Hello. I’m after the snap-in cradle that fits Nokia phones for my ‘07 L332, if anyone’s got one cluttering the place up they’d like to flog?! Part number XVE500021. Many thanks!

I recently had a huge battery drain and it turned out to be the auxiliary heater. I turned off the timed climate and it’s been fine since (*touch wood*). Expensive to replace, those oil burning heaters. And mine’s never worked brilliantly anyway.

Also, she was basically an EV on this trip?!

Drove it to Barcelona! (Technically, that’s what I did in my Range Rover yesterday but I had to have a little lie down after we made it all the way…) It was a bit hesitant to downshift when I put my foot down which is a worry. Hope we make it all the way back! But I spent £2300 on it* before we...

The fronts are both relatively new. Rears were over eight years old though (and an MOT advisory). Cor they were in a right old state.

Two new rear tyres. Has solved the dum-dum-dum-dum-dum vibration at low speeds. Has not solved my bank account 💸