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The door trim is held in place by push-in clips so you can't get the whole thing off with the door shut, but it is possible to release the top and spray stuff in in the general direction of the latch mechanism which may help. As per @tottot's...

Yes, this can happen for various reasons. On the driver's side I had this problem - the door latch wouldn't work, or if it did, it would stick in the shut position. The culprit turned out to be not the latch itself but the plastic housing that...

I had a session on the handbrake this morning. It's been getting less effective lately and as I suspected, oil has been getting inside from the transfer box. I'd got a new kit of shoes and springs so I put those on, and a new cable. I got a new...

I fitted one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313276778283 Seems nicely made. Cheaper models are available, of course. If it's the TD5 you're buying for, it's a 16mm thread you want. I can't vouch for other species of Land Rover as I don't...

Just done an oil and filter change this morning. Now I've got such a high mileage engine I don't work out the service intervals by doing sums in my head. I do this in the spring and the autumn instead, so it happens about every six months. I've...

I know it's a controversial opinion on here, but I quite like the LOF clutch for the TD5. The friction plate is all one piece which is good. I've had problems with the centre boss coming loose on makes where it's separarte, and just staked or...

Don't forget the bolt between the R380 and the front nose cone of the transfer box. It's easy to miss because it's hidden.

Well, I don't know - I've had cars where the previous owner has powered accessories by stuffing the stripped ends of the wire between the positive battery terminal and the clamp, so anything's possible. There is a fuse bay specifically for the...

Oil can accumulate on the base of the transfer box from a variety of places. The O ring seals on the intermediate shaft of the transfer box can leak, there's a seal where the output shaft of the main gearbox exits the primary box, and another...

The clutch master cylinders do vary a bit from one to the other, and from batch to batch. I had one once where the thread was poorly formed and the nuts were always extremely stiff which made adjustment difficult. Interestingly, when buying them...

By the time they got to the TD5 they went back to a very chunky cast jobbie with replaceable inserts where the centre pivot and the slave cylinder pushrod go. I've had clutch problems but never the clutch fork.

That oil around the air intake pipe could well be diesel leaking out of the fuel pressure regulator which is just above. Mine has been known to do this. It's doing so at the moment, but not quite badly enough to merit a new one. The existing one...

As well as injectors, there can be intermittent faults with the ECU. I had one that would start the car only when it felt like it. Eventually this deteriorated to being functional only around 1 time in 10. Mine also has been known to cut out...

Well, it's a good ideda to do the slave and master when you do the clutch anyway, so at least you've got those all ready to go. Sometimes when I've changed clutches, the 'fingers' on the clutch mechanism look very worn, where the release bearing...

I've had a few things that made squeaky noises. One was hard to solve as it was coming from the front and didn't seem to correspond to anything I could see from looking at things, wobbling things and rotating them by hand. It carried on whether...

The bolts and bushes typically need a lot of force to move them - a lot more than you'd usually need for Alfa Romeo maintenance, anyway. I've got a hydraulic press with a dial on it and it is not unusual to see 10 or 15 tons needed to shift...

I'm sure the organisers did say that. My experience is much more like your daughter's. It's lovely when the wind drops a bit and the sun comes out, but equally you have to be ready for the wind-blown rain driving its way through the seams of...

That sounds very like the weather on Anglesey to me. It's a bit bracing at times. You don't even have to wait for the winter either - you can get incidents like that in the summer too. I used to live there in the early 1980s, mostly leaning over...

Just had an email from my insurer about my renewal - it's due early next month. I was quite pleased to see that it's £311, for a 2006 TD5 model for 12,000 miles a year. That's good for the current climate. The company has a silly name - 'Quote Me...

Just looking at ECUs for sale on Ebay over the years, there are some that have been cleaned up and garnished with the supplier's stickers (and maybe with a pre-installed remap) which are more expensive, and others which are all dirty and appear...

The fact that it'll move in difflock suggests an axle problem rather than a gearbox or clutch problem. Yes, as above, splines can strip, and also halfshafts can break. Put it in neutral and have a look underneath and see if either of the...

Is that claimed bhp at the flywheel, or at the wheels? A difference of around 16% (which is what yours amounts to) between the two wouldn't be unusual.

I had something similar at the start of last year. The ECU has permanent lives and ignition switched lives. If one or other are disabled some of the functions work (such as the starter motor) but not others (warning lights, some ofthe gauges...

We've got semi-pet squirrels too @Hippo. Xylia spends a fortune on nuts now. The squirrels seem to spend a good deal of time begging. Ours prefer walnuts and will ignore lesser offerings like peanuts and Brazils now they know they can get walnuts...

I've had this situation with loved ones too - operations getting postponed, sometimes at the last minute. In a sense, once they're actually in theatre, it's somethign of a relief. Then they're in the recovery suite, and the process of being an...

That's funny, there seems to be plenty of MTF 94 advertised for sale here in the UK, so it doesn't look like it's gone out of fashion just yet. Interestingly, whilst the old Difflock Evo overpriced transmission fluid seems to have diaappeared...

If they're rivnuts (or some other sort of self-expanding captive nut) once you've ground the outer flange off, you should be able to push them through so they fall down inside the chassis and then you can put new ones in. I should know, becuase...

Beware of stud or bolt extractors - they can snap off when force is applied, and as they're made of harder metal than one's drills this can be difficult to deal with. If you can get a hole drilled reasonably centrally, it might be easier to get a...

Don't forget, that warning light also serves as a brake fluid level warning for the master cylinder reservoir. I've had that problem when one of the wires going to the master cylinder cap broke off. So it's worth checking that the master...

Those pansies look more like polyanthus. Their unconventional home has clearly brought on an identity crisis.