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Driving home the other night my instruments all failed on me. In the morning I checked the fuses and no.7 had blown as had the 20 amp one under the drivers set. I've changed both the fuses and now the ignition is on without any need for keys. The only way to get it off is to remove the 20 amp...

I did wonder why the police didn't let me or the insurance company know. They do know it's been found as they instructed the recovery company to pick it up. Policing at its best. I did find out that just down from where it was found the farmer had 50 sheep, a trailer, and a quad stolen. Probably...

Two weeks ago my 99 defender td5 Was stolen from outside my house. Over the last few weeks I've been going through the usual Insurance related fun. Then today I had a letter from a recovery company saying they had found my landy and it was at their storage yard. I went over to go and have a look...

After having my second defender stolen in two years i'm now looking at replacing it with a disco 2. I've been reading a lot about what to look for when buying one. The thing I can't seem to work out is the engine. My defender was a 99 td5. At what point did the head cracking get sorted or didn't...

Is it the old classic mini steering wheels that get sold as Landy sport steering wheels on ebay? Should be able to pick one of those up fairly cheap.

Mine wasn't moving. So we put a breaker bar on the butterfly bit of the bar and knocked it by hand until it freed up. I found it very hard to move with mole grips. If your lucky you can do it like that. If not you'll have to take the heat shield off and free it off. You'll need some copper...

I had a similar problem. Every time I used the indicators it would blow the fuses by the gear stick and a variety under the seat. I gave up trying to sort the problem and gave it to an auto electrician. All the town in electrics needed replacing, a few switches needed replacing and he had to do...

I had a similar thing with the heater. It was loosing coolant through the cap on the tank and getting air locks.

After a few phone calls today I'm not closer to getting any new hinges. Spoke to someone at land rover, 27+vat for each hinges and 33+vat for the bolts. Ouch. He then said I'd be better buying bearmach ones as they're better quality. Phoned bearmach and they haven't got any and they've been on...

I want to get my defender td5 remapped and wondered if anyone could recommend someone in sussex to do it. I'm located near Haywards Heath so in the middle of Sussex. Cheers all

The next thing on my never ending list of things to mend on the defender is the door hinges. Both the pins in the lower hinges have broken and the bolts have rusted and rounded. So I'm going to replace all four hinges complete with bolts and nuts. Apart from buying from the dealer can anyone...

I'm looking into getting an anti roll bar kit for my defender. It does mainly road miles and am looking into reducing the body roll. Does anyone have any experience of the Brit part kit and do I require any additional bits to fit to a 110 td5 hi cap? Cheers all

I got my first 110 200tdi for £3250. Never had any problems with it. It was a van back, solid chassis and panels with no sign or repair. Had a nearly new set of general grabber at's on it and the best bit was a new engine from turner engineering with less than 8000 miles on the clock. Ran really...

I do a lot of fencing work and settled in getting a 110 hi cap. It needed to be a defender for the towing weight I had a 300tdi Pickup before and it wasn't as good as a hi cap. I paid 6k for a 2000 td5 with 72k miles and so far it done everything I need it to. I wouldn't put the weight over the...

Looked like fun. The way they were building it up it sounded like they were ploughing through dense jungle. Turned out they were on a tourist type trail. What was the 4x4 they were using, Nissan patrol?

Should have put I've got a 110 td5 hi cap.

Does anyone know if the size of the hi cap back has change at all. I'm looking to buy a load liner for mine and wondered if back has remained the same size and shape through the production.

Search eBay. They don't come up for sale very often unless you got straight to the people who make them. I was looking for a tipping landy but gave up in the end and brought a hi cap but will get it converted at some point when funds allow. I paid 6k for my td5 hi cap and at that time for the...

If you need it for towing most of the jap pickups can't legally tow the weight ou want. I've had a ford ranger (Mazda B2500) was a nice truck but can pull any weight. Anything over 2 ton and it really struggled. I've ended up buying a td5 hi cap, enough room in the back for what I carry and can...

I want the radiator if it will more than likely change my life.