geoffbeaumont

Don't think any of us will be telling you we told you so over that one...CO is one thing. Exhaust fumes interacting with meds isn't one that would have occurred to me 😲 Glad you're okay! How thick do the fumes have to be? Sounds like a city street could be pretty dangerous...

If it's got a good strong spark it'll be fine - if the spark is weak you'll have problems on propane long before it's an issue on petrol. When I had a duel fuel range rover classic I ended up upgrading from the standard coil and dizzy to EDIS distributorless ignition, which massively improved running. I ran standard plugs, thorough, and once on EDIS I was able to run greater than standard gaps (I had to run smaller gaps on the original ignition). So - it's going to put your generators ignition to the test, but if that is already good it should be just fine as it is. The fumes running on propane will be much less unpleasant, but don't assume they aren't toxic. If you can't guarantee keeping them out of you workshop, it's time to install carbon monoxide alarms. At least with petrol exhaust you can tell you're breathing it...

There're long running issues with iOS image uploads, as when iOS converts the image to a JPG to upload it, it strips out the meta-data that records which way the phone was held when the photo was taken, so they can't be automatically rotated. Don't know if anyone has ever added a button to Invision Community to allow easy manual fixing - doesn't look like Invision have every been inclined to, and this issue has been running for years.

Unless a previous owner figured they could sell it for more if they stuck decals from a known manufacturer on it...

I, at least, wasn't knocking the pickups. They can't get some of the places a Defender or, presumably, a Grenadier can get - but they'll get to a lot of places an ordinary van won't and they're quite capable of filling many of the roles done by Defenders in the past. As well as others Defenders were never good for.

Depends where the vehicle has to be able to get to.

It's kind of hard to see what else they'd use from what's available on the UK market.

According to the article the armour was added later.

Where solar panels are concerned I've read (but can't remember where) that the main issues are not so much lack of will to recycle as the need to develop the (expensive) technology to do it coupled with low supply of materials as not many (in the grand scheme of things) solar panels are life expired yet. But the companies investing in this field are expecting big returns as larger numbers of panels need to be changed out. I'd imagine the same would apply to EV batteries.

Rear doors on the police ones are different to both the standard and LSE. Hard to say without taking a tape measure to them, but they look like they're same length as standard coming to a wheel arch in LSE position (or maybe two inches further back - I for one aren't going to claim I could tell the difference from photos). So definitely not standard LSE shells.

They just look like regular LSEs. I did wonder if they might have been put on a 110 chassis to handle the extra weight of the armour, but I don't think the 110 chassis is any stronger? Plus if the article is correct they weren't originally armoured.

That's the thing - you need to compare the whole system. The motor may be much smaller and lighter, but a good deal of that advantage, probably all of it*, disappears when you include the power storage for both. That's not disagreeing that EV has some definite advantages. * Definitely all of it if you have identical range.

Likewise - although mine was Ardennes green apart from the bonnet (you could only tell in really good light - and then if you were looking for it).

Other way round, surely?

Without hunting very hard - so there may be far more impressive figures out there - but that's a blown and presumably tuned Godzilla, generating around the same ballpark as a similarly breathed on 3l: https://www.motor1.com/news/652361/twin-turbo-godzilla-v8-dyno/#:~:text=It is not a stock,and several other hardware improvements. Obviously, how it's delivered is likely to be somewhat different, but a hybrid would probably offer that flexibility without such eye watering fuel consumption (Audi RS6 Avant mild hybrid has more torque from the factory, for example).

"Bloody hell mate, what's this made out of? Ooff!"

DPD are highly dependant on the local drivers. We had loads of trouble with deliveries by them (mostly claims we weren't in for deliveries when we were and the parcel had instructions saying it could be left anyway). Turned out they were short of drivers round here and sending drivers out from Liverpool - they were incapable of finding anywhere if satnav didn't take them straight to the door, and it's a rural area where it usually dumps you in the middle of the postcode. They'd just give up and record it as householder not in. These days DPD are very reliable round here.

Not familiar with this particular one, but with removable type balls you often have to loop around the tow ball neck. There's nothing else available on my car to attach to. Far from ideal.

True - but it is a quality issue (and not specifically a Chinese one either).

Talking of Chinese electric cars... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67005620 Obviously, nothing yet on what actually went wrong.

Looks like the result of a misalliance between a new Defender and pretty much any large American SUV... Range on electric only sounds mediocre, but total range (1000km) with only 75l of fuel and a full electric charge is pretty impressive for something that big. I can see the logic to opening the sunroof as an escape route in emergency float mode, but I'm just picturing someone going a bit deep in flood water (and accompanying torrential rain) as they state it's meant for... Hope the inevitable camera phone is deployed at the time... 😁

Now that's definitely a tad classier than your normal caravan shower room...

Depends on the area. Used Freecycle in Birmingham and use Freegle up here in Lancashire, both to donate and request items, works well. Gave up with Freecycle in Somerset, people would request items and then never turn up to collect them - I only ever had one person actually turn up... We were on a busy road there, though, and putting things in the front garden with a help yourself sign generally worked.

The inertia switch is under the driver's seat in a range rover - but it's anyone's guess where (or even if) it is on your truck. I'd be very surprised if you'd trigger it just by violent manoeuvring, though, unless it's flapping around somewhere not properly mounted.

Oh, yes... Got to clear out the shed (hopefully soon) so I can pull it down and rebuild it. Most of the contents are going to have to go in the garage, which is already full of things that should be in the shed, so that'll make it hard to get at everything I need to do the work. At some point I've got to do it the other way round to rebuild the garage, and that'll be even worse 😒