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I too was a devoted Volvo driver for nearly 20 years, including a 240 bhp V70 with racing chassis tiptronic gear change and permanent 4WD. I had a nasty experience with an M reg Disco , but have recently bought a 1999 P38 DSE auto, and so far have not regretted it. As I now live in deepest...

What year is your P38 ?

I've found that if my P38 sits out in the sun (which it often does in Tuscany) and the external temperature reading goes above 20C then if the auto setting is on below the external temperature reading, then the book symbol comes on, stays on until the external temperature monitor drops to a...

Went through all this with a Volvo I bought 2nd hand from the biggest Volvo dealer in Birmingham. Picked up by one of 2 traffic police in West Mids at the time with the light meters. Asked him what law I was breaking and he quoted a 1968 statute which says that if the windscreen and front...

Course living on the continent and running a chipped DSE where diesel is still cheaper than petrol, I'm:) :) :) :) :) :) :) all the way to and from the fuel station, and getting about 26mpg average and above 30mpg on the autostrada.

Going back to the original point of the thread, I thought the argument for putting in GATSOs was to reduce accidents and they could only be placed after a certain number of serious/fatal accidents on that stretch of road. Also after they had been in place for a while if the number of accidents...

Working in an Ambulance Trust with now 3 air ambulances operating, the funding of them has been a point of debate for a long time. One point of view is that the helicopter is a very expensive commodity, and bearing in mind the fact that: 1) most don't fly in the hours of darkness 2) their...

My company fit them as standard for all countries that we ship equipment to, when there is any risk of bad fuel quality. With the introduction of things like common rail engines they are even more important. I will be fitting one to my td5 defender before going to africa, the models with...

Whilst having a root around in the documentation supplied with my 1999 P38a auto diesel, I discovered a leaflet for an accessory that I have been aware of but not identified , namely a Racor Turbofilter. Has anyone had any experience with them, as the bumpf claims that they extract water etc...

Keys for early Series Landrovers, were like most cars around that time, only one set of tumblers and if you got a key nicely worn, it would open most locks, as there were only a few combinations. Course when they were designed and run up in the Dales where I was brought up, nobody locked their...

I towed a Swift Challenger twin axle (22 ft body) for many years, started with a Volvo 740 estate but then as we ventured farther afield and acquired more kit moved on to a disco. General principle is you keep the weight of the caravan below 70% of the towing vehicle. Also be careful about...

Maybe its because according to his location details he lives in the Mediterranean

Being the proud owner of a P38 DSE which I bought and run in Italy, I am looking for an update CD for my satnav. The unit in question is a Becker Travel Pro ( a combination CD/Radio/SatNav) circa 1990, where he routeing information is on a CD. I've located a retailer where I can buy one, but...

On the continent were diesel is rightly still cheaper than petrol its rare to see a petrol Range Rover, and if I run short of diesel I've got 30+ olive trees in my garden.

For those of us living outside the UK where diesel is less than 85p/litre there is a big advantage to the DSE. Admittedly the engine sounds more agricultural than most modern diesels, but with a chip the performance is more than adequate and fuel consumption between 35 - 45mpg. Also if we have a...

Remember a good quote from one of the drivers of the 6R4 during a usual cold RAC rally in wales when asked if the cold affected him he said" not with a 6 cylinder lump behind my shoulder" course most of the car was fibreglass. Also noted that pictures of Dodds beast are without a Rolls...

One of the joys of living out in the country near military bases others were squaddies learning to drive in series Landys, or driving along the nice roads the Army had widened to allow Chieftan tanks to be driven by squaddies, when cresting a hill you found yourself looking down the business end.

The Mustang was originally built to a British war Office specification by the Americans, but with its Allison engine was under powered, so as with many of the truly great planes of the second world war it only came into its own when some one stuck a Rolls Royce Merlin into it. Then with the...

If you are still confused about spanner sizes you could try my favourite search engine Dogpile UK Web Search Home Page which is actually a meta search engine and searches other search engines and compiles results of most popular results. they tried to rename it recently but nobody used the new...

Napoleon won on the side of the road to drive on though, didn't he? In Italy we have wonderful phrases for metric measurements such as 125g is an "eto"