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Not a single engineer I’ve ever worked with has given a sausage about the manuals for their products… Manuals are a place to put critical safety info so you don’t get sued. I wouldn’t ever go much beyond that - have had rubbish products with superb manuals and vice versa

Did exactly that on my old tin shed, condensation was horrendous so took roof off, had some left over roofing membrane from doing the house so put that on, then put roof back on, jobs a good un

For sure, we’ve always done one big car, one little, which is why we’ve only gone electric on the wife’s car (the little one) so far. 4 year contract hire with the mileage we needed, doing leccy hatchback vs petrol one there was pretty much no difference in the monthly payments. However, and I guess same as you, there isn’t yet the feature set that we want for our big car on affordable electric, hence as per my earlier post I bought a Volvo estate, as the only conventional car I actually liked and wanted was the Grenadier, which wasn’t available at the time. By the time I replace the Volvo, maybe 3 or 4 years, I’d expect there to be something electric and affordable that fits the bill (Rivian perhaps?), so I’ll never end up buying a grenadier as it has taken too long to come to market - which was the point I was trying to make, I wanted a Grenadier, was planning on buying one, but now due to delays etc and world situation changing, struggle to see a situation where I would, so for me, the Grenadier ship has probably sailed - this is the "are you buying a Grenadier" thread after all - not the "Leccy cars aren't there yet" thread

Not wanting to derail the thread too much, wife has a leccy Renault, and being the nerd I am, I’ve tracked the numbers, and for us it works out the equivalent of paying ~5p a litre for petrol and that’s without having a special tariff / smart meter installed. We’ve seen a noticeable increase in money still in our pockets at the end of the month and she’s only doing a few hundred miles a week. Our 32A home charge unit was installed fine on our looped 66A home supply - about 8 hours for a full charge to get 230mile range. Odd time it’s got a bit close on range, a 25 minute charge at the servo gets another 30-40 miles, and Tesla’s infrastructure is much better than the generic stuff we use. Tesla’s own manual says it’s only 32A charge for a home charge point (https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/support/charging/Gen_3_Wall_Connector_Manual_UK.pdf) so not sure where you’re getting your numbers from - might be worth a double check? Anyhoo, back on topic to Grenadier, I really wish they had got on with it a bit sooner, as there really isn’t going to be a stage where I can justify one in the foreseeable future - at the end of the day the electric use case works well for us, a few more years of range development and infrastructure and we will complete the switchover

I really wanted one since the project kicked off but it’s still not available and I have a family now and started a new job with a long commute, so I bought a Volvo estate to tide me over until the Rivian ‘leccy 4x4s come to the UK The Grenadier has taken too long to come to market and missed the post Defender opportunity IMO - and by being designed as IC first will be outperformed by the leccy rivals in a few years Tesla were the best selling new car in the UK last month for a reason…

Another vote for the Leyland trade - coverage area was pretty accurate in my experience

Appearance is very subjective, if you've spent £kk on a Range Rover, and you want to change the styling to better suit your taste then that's up to you. McGovern wanting people to only do approved LR SVO specials is basically saying LR are the arbiter of taste and what is acceptable... Once you start that attitude, where does it stop? I mean, how dare I fit a Patriot roof rack to my Defender, I should have fitted the LR SVO one... Steel modulars, the horror... And as for my respray which wasn't from the approved LR colour palette... Someone needs to remind McGovern his job is to design cars that are attractive enough and have the features and options people want in order to buy them. What they do with them after that is none of his business...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/land-rover-design-director-vows-put-third-party-tuners-out-business "It’s easy to take a product that’s already been created and put a little spoiler on it or whatever, but I’d like to see them design their own car. We see them taking our property and making a bit more profit." The "we know best" attitude from McGovern is getting ridiculous...

I'm waiting for someone to do a 2.8TGV into a Series 109, so I can slavishly then copy it - haven't got the courage to jump in myself and do it yet. I do however have a soon to be scrapped BMW E39 with a 192 hp 2.5L M54 petrol sat in it, 160k miles on it - and would be absolutely bonkers, but seriously tempted

Sorting out some rough edges on my SIII 109, managed to keep the battery in the original location on the 200Tdi conversion, but got a bit of a lashed up K&N style air filter set up going on which I don't like. Anyone done the external air filter routine before? Thinking of wanging it on top of the wing as it will make a future snorkel style arrangement simples as well. Good / bad idea?

We used to have a howling moon rooftent. Bought second hand after it had already had 2 years of fairly heavy use and sold on 6 or 7 years later. Every year it would get its "service", all canvas sprayed with fabsil and seam sealer worked into all the seams. That survived some big old storms, force 6/7, trees coming down, torrential rain etc and we were completely dry with never a hit of a leak, so the fabsil and seam seal route gets my vote.

Ha ha! Brilliant!

Hi all, Slowly getting to grips with the few niggles on my Tdi S3 109. My exhaust downpipe decided last week it no longer wished to be attached to the exhaust manifold and forcibly parted company with the bracket that was holding it on. Previous exhaust was a cut and shut job, and I have no welding facilities to make a repair. In need of a quick solution to get back on the road - I ordered the complete kit from Steve Parker. 3 fits and removals later and a total of 9 hours working in the cold and dark later I have conclusively proved that it doesn't fit - clashing with the chassis at several points. I can drive the 109, but it vibrates like crazy makes a hell of a racket and leaks at some points as the flanges aren't lining up properly (I think due to the downpipe being too short / having too tight a bend on it). Looking around the internet it appears I'm not the first to have this issue! So, while I'm raising the issue with them - I've decided to go the whole hog and get a custom stainless exhaust so I can forget about the whole thing for the next few years! However google is proving unhelpful - so does anyone know or can anyone recommend somewhere? Cheers

Best bet is some sort of vinyl reinforced patching compound, brands such as Quikcrete I think.

Lovely - cheers. Think the rotation was what confused me, along with the diagram only showing one of the wheel cylinders...