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At least they seem to admit to all the costs, unlike some other programs which ignore labour costs. Wheeler Dealers for instance.

Many thanks.

May I ask the collective what size the thread on a wading plug for the bell housing on a discovery 1 300TDI Auto, please? I thought I had one, but what I have is too small.

I live in France, and in the past I have had parts for our Discovery 1 from the Uk, from Paddocks for one, but recently when I wanted two shock absorbers I found the transport costs had increased greatly. It was cheaper and quicker to have them from a company called "Best of Land", in France. It is the first time I have used them, but it seemed to go well.

The plate is held by two bolts, one larger diameter than the other. The pin screws into the hole vacated by the larger bolt. If you use the other hole to fix a bit of spring plate to bear on the head of the pin, it will push the pin into the whole in the flywheel as you slowly turn the engine.

If I recall correctly the 300TDI on autobox vehicles has a cover plate at the rear of the engine. This is a small plate held by two unequal size boltrs. Remove the plate and fit tool LRT-12-044 into the larger bolt hole to lock the flywheel. This tool is different to the manual gerabox tool

Is it a manual gearbox or an auto? The injector pump on our 1998 TDI auto started making a noise just before the throttle potentiometer failed.

I agree fully with all that has been said. I am glad to be reaching the end of my life rather than just starting, as it seems to me that the future is not at all rosy. But mankind is fundamentally a selfish nasty creature who always wants more than he has. Not surprising really; we are descended, so I am told, from a couple who did not know when they were well off, stole the one thing they were told not to touch, and lied about it.

Interesting that no one seems to have suggested a first generation Discovery, which is just a RRC in working clothes. If you can find a V8 auto, change the seats to RRC ( which fit straight in) they are as nice to drive as a RRC. And very simple to repair.

How would you reduce the compression ratio to suit? Have a steel plate cut to go between the head and the block? With electronic ignition systems taking a signal from some where sparks would not be too difficult, but how would you inject and control the fuel? Perhaps use some thing from the earlier 2.5 petrol engine?. It would be an interesting project, which might provide an engine with the capability for a very long life.

What you appear to be saying is that the idea of making one good vehicle out of two with problems is no longer permitted. Regardless of the unclear legal situation it seems to me that provided the seller sells the chassis without identity, and tells the DVLA the vehicle is scrapped, and the buyer uses the chassis to rebuild an otherwise good D2, keeping that D2's identity, nothing has been done that is morally wrong. I doubt if officialdom would be interested, even if they realised what had been done. So, back to the origianl question, I think the chassis does have value under the above circumstances.

I agree, if looked after they are fine. in the last fifty years i have owned three Land rover vehicles, and had to be recovered once only. My present one, an ex Police Discovery 1, whcih i have had for nine years, has never let me down.

As proven by the Brands chart. Hotpoint and Indesit are part of Whirlpool. Add them together and they go to the top of the list, giving a different chart. Atatistics can say what ever you want them to say.

Is not that part of the issue?. Once upon a time a car maker either made the parts himself, or purchased from an identified source such as Lucas. Now most of the parts they use are made by someone else, who is not always known to the wider world.

I am not defending Britpart or the cheaper end of the supply chain, but was trying to illustrate the situation from the "mass market" point of view. Take some one who likes his Discovery, but is not a Land Rover enthusiast who spends a lot of time on the internet. He looks online, or goes to his local garage, and finds he can pay £300 for a Land Rover part, or £60 for a non Land Rover part. He sees or is told the non Land rover part has a 2 year warranty. What is he going to do?. Is it surprising so many people go Britpart? And what about the garage trade? They can sometimes do parts and labour for around the same as the cost of genuine parts. If there was a reasonable difference in price genuine parts would be defendable, but 500%? Land Rover once said they were going to support the "classic" market for spares, but nothing useful seems to have come of it. I have also suffered with Britpart parts, but I understand why they have come to dominate the market.