geoffbeaumont

No lead... but same symptoms as I had with my M51 P38. New head didn't fix it and due to lack of time and funds (and matching orders from my wife) I sold it spares and repairs for a significant loss, without getting to the bottom of the issue. Had planned to just replace the engine but was let down by the breakers I'd sourced one from, hence the new head.

Ah, but not with the required noise, leaks, draughts and lack of elbow room The new defender is definitely more of a direct replacement for an older range rover than an old defender. For this sort of use, that's not a bad thing!

Roller doors are available with or without insulation - non-insulated are cheaper, not surprisingly. Looking at the amount of headroom you've got inside above the door aperture you should have plenty of space for a roller. With a sectional, can you bring it up to ceiling height, or does it have to run back horizontally from around the top of the aperture (which is the standard way of doing it)? If the latter, you'll lose a fair bit of headroom inside when it's open. Anyone know? Sectional doors are much quieter than rollers (which rattle opening and shutting) - but if you're planning to work on your truck in there that's probably of no consequence! They're not that noisy, but if it's say right under a bedroom window and you want to minimise noise when arriving home late at night it could be worth considering.

I didn't like the D3 when it came out, but it grew on me. I know they improved a lot of things on the D4, but I still think the D3 is the better looking version.

Even that doesn't come without an environmental impact - network infrastructure and electricity for data centres. Though I would imagine it's a great deal less than the impact of commuting (by any means other than Shank's pony). Hydrogen fuel cells are pretty good at point of consumption, but generating the hydrogen is currently both uneconomical and environmentally horrendous. Though there's interesting research going on in the area. And it still doesn't deal with the problem of road building/maintenance and congestion. Fundamentally, the whole way we currently operate as a society isn't sustainable.

They'll do it if they reckon they can sell it on. Neighbour's husband was a retired machinist, had his garage kitted out as a proper machine shop. It was cleared out one night - through the window... (it was on the side away from the house - they removed the window and lifted everything out there where they couldn't be seen). That was about forty years ago though. Don't know if modern thieves can be bothered if they can't get a Hiab to it.

For the sake of anyone with the same issue who stumbles across this - the issue was a failed lock control module in the driver's door.

I think @Arjan was more concerned about what the seller was going to charge to ship it as far as him!

I like wood trim in the right car - though I'm not sure that's a defender... It has to be good quality and well finished though, or it just looks seriously tacky. I'd say @monkie is on the money - a couple of years and that'll be a mould stained mess, unless the truck is a fair weather garage queen.

Guessing this is going to be one for a Vauxhall forum, but in case anyone on here has any ideas... The locks on my Zafira C (Tourer) went on the blink yesterday. That doesn't seem to be uncommon, usually down to broken wires, but the symptoms don't appear to add up. I can unlock the drivers door with fob or key, but the passenger doors remain deadlocked. So far that fits with a broken or shorted wire. However, everything I've read expects the tailgate and fuel filler to also remain locked as they're further out on the same loom - and they are both unlocking. Also, the lock buttons on the passenger doors are popping up. If it was one door I'd go with a mechanical failure, but all three at the same time points to an electrical fault somewhere central. Apparently there's a drain from the HVAC that can perish and leak on the BECM causing weird electrical issues including with the locks - but I can't see how you'd get quite this behaviour. There's also a wire in the drivers door which can short to ground causing the system to fail to sense that the drivers door is unlocked and not unlock the other doors - not sure if that's only if you have the central locking set to only open the drivers door on first press and the others on a second (I don't - it's set to open all), but I think if it was that the boot and fuel flap should stay locked too?

I'm bitterly disappointed by this thread. I was expecting to hear tales of hair raising high speed shenanigans in a totally unsuitable vehicle 😁

Have Land Rovers (and their dealer service) actually got objectively worse, or is it more a case of them being left behind by much of the rest of the industry? A few decades ago, all cars were unreliable - these days most of them are pretty trouble free with only basic maintenance, despite increasing technology levels on even budget cars. Buyers expect their car to just work, even if it's a budget brand. Actually, maybe especially if it's a budget brand - the likes of Kia really threw down the gauntlet to the western manufacturers.

How much has that taken off your load capacity?😆

I can't imagine it has much axle travel, so it's not going to be tackling anything that would actually require those tires.

I can't imagine it's actually any good at, well...anything...but looks wise I actually really like that!

Um, stealing copyright content from behind the paywalls of companies with the funds to sue over it* is not good for the forums' health... * - not that you should do it to anyone who doesn't have the funds to sue either. Just that the forum is unlikely to suffer more than a request to take it down.

That would surely only cover the car itself?

If the clearance under the motors is adequate, that could be a very interesting solution to chuck under a RRC or Defender...

Not vehicle related, but I remember a good few years ago someone was caught stealing avgas from Aberdeen airport to run his central heating on. He was caught due to part of his house not being there any more...

Yep, wood tools can be just as nasty - our builder had a mishap with his spindle moulder last year. It kicked - probably caught a knot or something - and pulled his hand in. Cost him a couple of fingers and a month of work. Angle grinders are probably my least favourite tool - they're incredibly useful, but...nasty dangerous things. A few years back a neighbour was helping me break an old RRC. He stopped cutting and swung the grinder down by his leg without waiting for it to stop. I yelled and he reacted enough it only took a nick out of his boiler suit - right over his femoral artery. Not really grinder specific, any hand-held spinning tool has that risk - but most are bettered guarded and held in ways that don't make it so easy to do stupid things with them. Didn't someone post a photo on here of a bit of grinding disk embedded in their googles?

More emissions targets, and to a lesser extent buyers comparing potential purchases on official fuel consumption figures. The vehicle has to be frugal within the limits of the testing regime, even if that compromises consumption outside that envelope. And the demand for high performance means they have to work hard once taken outside it. It's particularly obvious with the tiny heavily boosted engines, but even big engines are affected.

Took a bit of digging to find one that wasn't Photobucket or Imageshack and long gone, but here you go:

That looks fun... I'd be tempted if I had anywhere to put it.

For goodness sake don't get that muddy!

Try getting a RRC through modern crash tests... Most of the additional bulk of modern cars is protecting you in an accident.