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Yes, you are right yours does look better. Did you have to cut/file the holes bigger yourself ?

All vehicle manufacturers have to make spare parts available for ten years after production ceases. So maybe someone thought they might be taking a batch of older engines destined for Caterpillar which is a giant warehouse where all Land Rover dealers order their spare parts from. Including...

The people that have the money to buy a current Range Rover would not be interested in having a spare engine. It's a big lump to hide and has a serial number, and anyway next year their tastes may change so that they want a Volvo 4x4, or Porche Cayenne or something else to try and impress the...

You can forget any ideas about an insurance scam. JLR has it's own insurance company so they will not be making a claim. There's a good chance that the engines will be recovered, as who would want to buy an up to the minute current engine. Any newish car that has an engine beyond repair will...

Yes, but I did feel a little daft when she explained it to me. It's all fitted in my Defender now, just a couple of gauges to fit to complete the upgraid.

Mac.... You'll never guess what the solution was. When I rang Raptor this morning, the nice lady with the lovely Sheffield accent told me that I should not have stripped my instruments out of the dash to fit the Raptor panel. I should have just taken out the 2 screws that hold in the...

Had another try with the switches this morning. Brought them into the house and laid them on a hot radiator for 5 minutes.... success, I was able to wiggle them in by pushing with my finger on the main body of the switch behind the rocker part of the switch. So I was able to put a lot of...

The first few millimeters of the switch body go in the hole then the tabs start to go in when squeezed but when I tried to push the switch in further it felt as if I would damage the front of the switch if I applied much more pressure. Then I thought if I did manage to get it all the way in, I...

More bad news..... About an hour ago I decided to fit the five Carling type rocker switches to the dash top panel and they would not go in the holes that they should fit into. The holes are wide enough, but the space between the top and bottom of the holes won't allow the securing tabs of the...

And mine should have too. Can't understand it, the plate does not look as if it has been sent out half finished; the anodising appears to have been done after the holes were cut. I'm wondering if the laser cutting machine has been somehow knocked out of adjustment. If so, I hope they have not...

I'm in the middle of fitting a new set of Raptor dash, trim and speedo bezel parts to my 90. Just found a problem with the bezel panel... the holes to take the speedo, clock, temperature gauge and fuel gauge are too small to take them and it's more than just slightly too small. The hole for...

Hi diapason, how did it go with the VDO external temperature guage ? I am close to ordering one myself so I was wondering how good they are. They certainly look good and would match most of my guages.

Been trying to come up with a solution for some time to sort out where to stow my Ardcase pedal lock instead of leaving it on the passenger footwell floor. Then I had a brainwave. Opened the back door of my Defender and slid the Ardcase behind the grab handle..... just to see if it would fit...

If the windscreen is from a Series, then so must be the roof. Series windscreens were made up of 2 panes of glass (toughened on early screens, not laminated) separated by a glazing bar. Though I do know from what I saw in a magazine years ago, some company was making one screens for the...

The V5 will show the first registration date.

What about the Vin number on the V5, was it for a 1964 Land Rover ?

That's what I thought you meant, it's what I had to do with mine; though mine was a new chassis that I had made to my spec. When you say there was no visible chassis number, did you look in the right place, and where had you had the new chassis/Vin number stamped ?

What do you mean that your chassis stamp has been signed off by your local garage ?

It's been over ten years since I did the job so I'm not sure exactly what I did, but I remember it was was a metro not a mini. I had no idea that the washer was there so ended up lying on the ground with something on the puller handle to give me more leverage and both feet pushing the other...