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Booked in to have the engine swapped for another second hand of similar mileage by bespoke off road on the 26th of May...

Called the dealer I bought it off and he told me to call the warranty company, they said put it in a garage for a report. Garage found a crack in the engine! Dealer said this will be sorted, possibility another engine, or part rebuild the current engine, which seems unlikely... All sounds like...

I won't, I would only do this of I had to use it, but I don't. I've emailed the dealer and will see if he will do anything and it will go into a garage for investigation at some point and I'll take it from there. I agree about a well maintained vehicle, it will be well maintained by me once I'm...

Ah you refer to ? http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/showthread.php?p=1871850

I have emailed the dealer I bought it off and will see what his response is, might get a local garage to have a look so I can be certain on what I am dealing with, might be worth a diagnostic fee to see what problems I have from an expert, only had the vehicle 4 weeks and shouldn't have any...

The engine had an oil leak and I was assured this had been rectified, the engine was clean when I picked it up, now it looks like that, could that be coolant? There is no bubbles in the coolant when running, but I only had it running for a short time, so it didn't get hot...

By core plug, you mean the coolant drain plug?

I'll try to find that plug, but the light is failing tonight so might need to do that tomorrow, I'll look it up in the Haynes manual. Would be good if it is that simple?

Exhaust fumes are clean, not noticed anything anyway, might need a closer check. Oil looks OK on dipstick and on cap/in engine... It has 96k on the clock...

Hard compound I meant and brittle, stones would take chunks out of the tread.

Oh I know to be cautious when removing the cap, I have a lot of experience with cars but never had a head gasket problem or a land Rover... Not suggested that it has been sitting around but the tyres suggested it has, had compound and one had cracks, have changed them...

It is brown, that is what it's wrong. I assume if there are bubbles coming up through the coolant then this points to the head gasket?

No sign off coolant leaking. Good point about the expansion tank being pressurised, I've only removed the cap whilst it is cold. I will check for bubbles whilst it is running and try removing the cap straight after it has been running, thanks.

I have had my Land Rover Defender about 4 weeks and have started to realise it is using a lot of coolant. I have done about 550 miles and have had to put 2 kettles worth of water in it so far. It's obvious by the colour of the coolant that it is mainly water, so I haven't bothered topping it up...

Called the technical help line who answered straight away and quickly answered the question, it should be a 20A! So their instructions are wrong!

I now notice that in the diagrams the fuse is rated higher? 12V-25A, the text instructions state 10A...

I used the positive activated type (Fig. A) part of the instructions.