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In August I finally had my 10 year old 110 EGR deleted, Alive remapped and Dinitrol treated. The remap has in general made the 110 much better to drive, with vastly improved drivability and performance with little noticeable difference to fuel economy. However over the last few weeks theTD5...

Driving around in the old 300TDi D1 these past few days I just noticed that when I pull quickly left e.g.exiting side road, the temperature gauge drops to 0, then as the vehicle straightens out rapidly ascends to the middle of the gauge again. There is also a slight dipping and then it pops...

Hi All Got a Disco 300 TDi with R380. The wife drove home and said that she was having to lift the clutch pedal up with her toe! As expected the reservoir was empty. Whilst unsuccesfully trying to bleed the clutch I noticed a strange behaviour from the pedal. If you half depress the pedal then...

Hi All I recently have found that when I release the handbrake the lever does not pull down fully leaving the warning light illuminated until I physicaly push the lever down the last two inches. It flops around with no resistance over that height. It is possibe that the shoes are nearly worn...

Hi chaps, the time has come to replace the rear brakes on swambos D1 300TDi. It is a 1994 "M" reg. The disks are badly scored and showing poor surface area contact akin with poorly calipers in need of replacement / refurbishment. My plan is to replace the disks, calipers and pads all in one...

Well, as mentioned in my other threads swambo spotted an old 88 tother day when we went to a friends 40th. It was his old motor that had been abandoned at his Scout hut after some serious tin worm around the fuel tank outrigger Anyway, Stutab helped me to collect it today. The engine actually...

Though I would start a thread of my non 80” specific machinations Today I 'arve mostly been dismantling a winch! Many years ago, possibly even the last ever Langley Farm, my brother and I ended up trashing his Discovery. At the beginning of the weekend I arrived in Yorkshire as usual...

Help ! My 300 Tdi Disco has developed a fuse blowing short circuit on the N/S. It has tail lights/indicators both in the bumper and rear light cluster. At the weekend I did each of the following steps individually then put a new fuse in, then switched the side lights on ...

Hi All How do you remove the centre console switch panel in a late Td5 Defender? I can get the Stereo out but for the life of me cannot see any fixings to get the whole panel out. I want to get in there to wire up my heated mirrors having fed the cables through the dash from eitherside so...

Quick question to all you trialers out there with parabolics In a discussion last night somone mentioned that 2 leaf parabolics are technically not allowed by ALRC rules for trialling, they must be 3 leaf as that was the minimum fitted by Santana. Do any of you trial on 2 leafs? Having...

Just came accross this splendid link, posted on OLLR Thought I would share it with yall Nauru a land of Land Rovers - Australia Network News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The series 1 88" is the best bit.

Hi all. Last chance, I have a good condition roof lining for a Disc0 200tdi with twin sunroofs. There is no sag in any of the cloth, just needs a bit of a clean then ready to fit. If noone wants it then it will be chopped up and tipped at the weekend. free to take away.

Can anyone supply the rough dimensions for a spare wheel well? I need to replace my S1 well, alternatively if anyone has one for an S1 or s2/3 lwb knocking around I would be interested.

Hi, has anyone tried the Torque app with associated bluetooth dongle on their TD5s ? Torque — OBD2 Performance and Diagnostics for your Vehicle Just seen a thread about it on another forum and was intruiged to know more. Apparently you need to purchase a BT dongle that plugs into the...

Just spotted a very tidy 109" Safari in Dark Blue toady in Leighton Buzzard. Hello if that was you

Hi Chaps, Just though those of you of a pre 1960 motoring disposition may be interested as you may not have come up for renewal yet. My Road Fund License renewal came through the post this month for my 1952 80". When I tried to tax it on-line the site informed me that I could not proceed as...

Yes I know that this may have been coverred on other mpg threads, but from my TD5 110 it is a Red letter day 402 miles from 65l averaging a whopping 28.14mpg This is by far the best ever in the last 14,433 miles since I started logging my fuel cunsuption 505 days ago :bow:

Excitement in the office today, my new Series 1 fuel sender arrived. I think it must have shrunk in transit ! :eek:

Just found this amusing ditty on the BBC news site, apologies if already posted BBC News - Land Rover crashes into Chelmsford Parkway underpass

I am looking for a drop plate to fit a towball to my series 1 The chassis has 4 equal spaced and sized bolts through it, currently I have a plant pin hitch I would like to replace. I don't think I need the traditional under crossmember bit