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nope, just make sure you get a lemforder one....change the bushes in the arms, its a PIA of a job but sorted with normal tools, bloody knckles and a bit of swearing, see my project build thread for how i did it...

so new sensor came, black top like the old one but was a bit longer, seemed to fit okay but did lose coolant when the old one came out, not a lot, just a jet escaped probably because it was still a bit warm and under pressure. new one had an...

They never fail… it just means you still have some work to do

It reached 110k miles. And I had my insurance renewal through. It has gone up by £14 which isn’t too bad!

I have finally managed to wire up my washer jet! They have never worked since I purchased the 90 and gave up chasing the old wiring so repurposed some redundant rear light wiring and connected the pump to one of the vacant switches. Hey presto...

Last weekend we went camping for the long weekend. Luckily the weather held, for the most part! Friday we went to Goodrich Castle and Puzzlewood, staying at a campsite near Talgarth overnight. Saturday was a visit to a waterfall and a bit of a...

Easy enough to swap along as you can get the old one out You'll loose very little coolant

unfortunately no dice from the gauge when on a run so it looks like a new sender is needed. I assume its easy to fit and i won't lose too much coolant when i swap it over?

finally managed to get time today to poke around. tried to earth the cable to get the gauge to work but it wasn't doing anything so i cut back the sender wire and put on an extension, grounded it to the engine and the temperate gauge goes all the...

Thats a shame they were broken, luckily mine all seem to be good so the bulb swap was easy.

Changed the speedo, gauge and clock bulbs for LED's from Fourby (link below) , easy enough to fit, recommend taking the speedo cable off in order to give more wiggle room. definitely brighter and can't wait to see what they are like at night. got...

great advice from everyone thanks!!, i'll give it a try as soon as the blooming rain stops!!

To test ,earth out wire in engine bay to engine block ,if wiring and gauge are OK gauge will go to top I recently had to fit a new sender to mine

Iirc the sender is just a temperature dependant resistor. I think it works by sinking current from the gauge, through the sender, to ground (negative). There's one wire to the sender as it's grounded through the housing / body, back to the...

Hi there, my temperature gauge on my 110 300Tdi is reading 0 even when warm, only happened in the last few days. i have disconnected the wire from the sender in the thermostat housing and put a multimeter across it from the cable to earth and...

Update! I replaced the MAF and it seems to be working fine. Cheers 🍻

This reads like a travel log from a book. You got the gift Grumpy. :)

I've been on a road trip the past 2 days. We had a campervan in the Christchurch depot that needed to get to the Auckland depot for a hire picking up on Friday. I had a ferry crossing, from South to North Islands, booked for 2:15pm on Wednesday...

I can confirm that no loom for rear wash / wipe exists 🥹 it was almost bone dry on the drive home so didn’t test the theory of not needing it. I’m sure it won’t be long before I get another chance 🤣

update, appears that the earth is okay and its the switch at fault. if i push upwards on the door switch it lights up so obviously either needs a new one or a good contact clean if i can get into it. The interior light comes on with the door...

cheers good sir, i'll check them out tomorrow and give them a good cleanup

The door switch is just held in with a single screw and that screw acts as the earth through a brass ring on the switch and into the steel bulkhead. However being a steel Bulkhead it likes to rust and then stops acting as an earth. You might find...

Mine used to have a rear demist, but for a working vehicle easy to damage so when I broke the door window a plane glass went back. I recon HRH the Queen mum had the answer, she had her 109 fitted with wipers on the rear door, one on the outside...

The power should be a permanent live and it is the earth that is switched either on the door switches or the light switch itself. both I believe earth through the body screws. The door switch screw into the bulkhead is a common earth fault on...

Seems it is the earth , measured it again but using one of the seat mount bolts as the earth and got 12v. also tried the passenger door and the light comes on when set into door position, so good news its not the LED bulb and looks suspiciously...

yes it does, dashcam front and rear. i got it on a deal from Amazon when it was reduced and added a hardwire kit as well so it comes on and goes of with the ignition. i think the wolfbox ones are pretty much the same but , i think and don't quote...

R380 = MTF94 with Lubeguard yellow, as good as it gets IMO. Silky smooth minus temps from start, to barrelling down amotorway in the summer all good.15 years on no complaints,

i had the same quandry but mine is fitted with a wash/wipe and heated window but neither work. so instead i fitted a Jansite rear view camera and screen in place of the rear view mirror and then i can see even better than if the rear screen had...

cheers dude, i'll take a look at the earths. it doesn't come on when the door is opened but the voltage doesn't change either, with the door closed and moving the switch to on i only get 1 volt. the earths seem the likely culprits so i'll clean...

the interior light appears to have failed on my defender, someone has retrofitted an LED bulb by soldering the tails to the original light bulb tabs, however when i measure the voltage across the tabs i only get less than 1V even with the switch...