geoffbeaumont

Lumens are way more useful when buying LED lights anyway - as far as I'm aware there's no legislation governing how "equivalent wattage" is calculated, it's up to the manufacturers. So there can be quite significant differences in the light levels from two bulbs or fittings that claim the same equivalence. Whereas lumens is an actual measure of those light levels.

Hey, I have all the best ideas... 😳

Does anyone think Sid needs a figurehead...?

These ones were work trucks - but in use on very poor roads and tracks in Azerbaijan.

My father did some testing somewhere around the same time following a number of accidents in their fleet involving Mitsubishi pickups on double bends. They thought it was excessive speed until one of their own team rolled one at what he swore was a very slow speed. They set up a course in one of their yards, and started out at what they expected to be well below a dangerous speed - 20mph or so, I think. Dad was driving, and just managed to pull it out of the roll. They abandoned working up to higher speeds... The fix for them turned out to be filling the tool boxes they had mounted under the back with concrete which improved the weight distribution. I believe Mitsubishi moved the rear axle or something on the subsequent version which massively improved it.

So yeah, not going to be a budget option. Looks nice though.

Though that does sound like a lot of fun...

Probably not an appealing fallback if you're competing rather than just self recovering.

Shame most of those wheels wouldn't actually fit over the brakes!

Our neighbours have taken to putting axle stands under their camper chassis because they hated the way it bounced around compared to the caravan it replaced. Would leveling it with the high lifts be safe? I'd be worried about it falling off the downhill one, think I'd rather level it with ramps and then just use the jacks to stop it bouncing on the suspension.

It's not pretty... But unlike some of the creations on this thread it looks fairly practical. Assuming it's not intended for use anywhere that lacks plenty of space...

To my mind, if you're planning to fit new doors anyway, that's virtually a no brainer.

Thick with adverts also applies to the Facebook group...

That should be "refer back to". Prefictive text did it's finest, and the forum is insisting there's no content to save if I try to edit...

This. Forums have two big advantages - they're good if you want to attract a large group of people who don't already know each other, and it's easy to keep conversations separated into threads and regret y back to them months (or years) later. Doesn't sound like the first of those would apply in your case? So is the threading worth the hassle of running a forum to you, or do you just need somewhere to chat, in which case a WhatsApp group chat is probably the way forward. A private Facebook group offers a middle ground (sort of threads, but a PITA to find anything even slightly older - and you'll start seeing lots of ads for anything discussed in there, just in case you didn't already work out everything you do is monitored and used to sell to you...). Personally I loathe Facebook, but plenty of people seem to love it.

I've never driven one, but used to have a friend who's girlfriend drove one. He reckoned you went nowhere fast in it, but you always had a lot of fun getting there.

There's clearly quite a lot of love on this thread for traditional ranges. Which I suppose makes a certain amount of sense of you have a source of free fuel for them. They aren't the most efficient things, though, especially if you don't have an alternative means of cooking if you don't need heating. We had an Aga in the house when we moved in, with no other cooker. I quite liked the idea initially but rapidly went off it. Ours was gas fuelled, so no messing around stoking, but even three years ago it was ferociously expensive to run - burned it's way through about £300 of gas a month, all year round. Made the middle of the house unbearably hot, even before we sorted the insulation, and we couldn't find anywhere we could put the central heating thermostat that wouldn't be either near permanently on or leaving the extremities of the building freezing. Turn it down enough to get the house comfortable (at least in cold weather) and you couldn't cook on it... Horrible to cook on, too - all the Aga cooking techniques are about working round it's limitations. It was a huge improvement when we ripped it out and replaced it with a modern cooker!

Pretty much our situation, too. I work from home and both kids are home educated, so there's someone in most of the time. House is a mess of extensions on a small 30s bungalow. We've just renovated it so it's now pretty much as well insulated as it can be. We're rural, but on mains gas for heating, hot water and the cooker hobs. We've a log burner in the living room, but it only currently gets used in the middle of winter, and then mainly for atmosphere (that may change depending on gas prices...) as it gets a bit too hot. No source of free firewood anyway. We keep the heating at about 18oC in the winter during the evening - dropped to 16oC during the days my wife isn't also working from home, summer it's turned off (and the door usually left open for the dogs). Plenty of heat from computers in the office anyway, plus it's above the kitchen and open to it so always excessively warm anyway. Personally I'll happily work in low temperatures. We've enough land for ground source, but it would need to enter the house on the opposite side from where the pipework would be laid, either circling the house under driveways or tunneled under it. Dread to think what that would cost. Air source would be much easier, but would be noisy in our bedroom and probably also the office. Either way not sure where we could put a water cylinder - the pump would take up the cupboard that contains the combi boiler. Solar is worth looking at - we've some south facing roof on the garage, but the building needs replacing first. We've got a decent area of it over the living room too, but that would probably not go down well with the neighbours who would get a lovely close up view of it from their patio. That roof is already a bit contentious as the bottom end of it was built illegally (well before current ownership of either house) and violates the boundary. Wonder if the nearly horizontal roof on the dormers would be usable...?

Have had smart meters in two houses now. Mildly interesting when we first got one, seeing the usage shoot up when you boiled the kettle. Then realised that none of our usage that made a noticeable difference was really discretionary (okay, we could only drink water - but we weren't really wasting significant amounts). And that's with me working from home. Chucked it in a drawer and never looked at it again.

Having just had a poke around over of the pre-production Grenadiers at Westmoreland County Show, I can confirm that it wears battle scars well, much like a Defender. Okay, it didn't have any major ones and it had obviously been thoroughly cleaned up and polished, but there were a few bits and pieces of minor damage/missing trim around it - and they frankly weren't really noticeable until I looked closely. They weren't letting anyone inside it (apparently because of all the bare wires - though I wonder if it was more to keep people away from the plasticy prototype interior), but I was impressed from the outside. I'm not a prospective customer, sadly - but it is the only modern car I've looked at and thought if I had the money I genuinely would buy one.

Except that lighting is owned by Apple and no-one else can use it, whereas USB are standardised connectors explicitly intended to ensure interoperability. Apple's switch to lightning was a deliberate move away from standardisation (albeit the variety of older mini/micro USB standards made a bit of a mess) to a proprietary connector.

I'm quite sure there isn't! Ignoring smoothness (the M51 wins that by a country mile), I'd say most of the difference is in where in their rev range the two engines perform best. The M51 has more at the top end - it feels quicker at higher road speeds, whereas the 300TDi is far more flexible at low revs. How much objective difference there actually is is another matter...

Epic turbo lag though - a 300TDi is much more drivable at low speeds, even if the M51 is smoother and more powerful once it gets spooled up.

Assuming the OP means a facelifted Discovery 1 rather than a Discovery 2 (which I assume he does - I'm not aware of the Discovery 2 ever being fitted with the 300Tdi - unless it was a ROW spec?).

Ah, that's what it means! Same options in the UK. My parents camper has a wet shower, our caravan a dry one. Pro of the wet is it's much more compact (their entire bathroom area is about a third the size of ours). We've never actually used our shower, but it's a very useful wet storage area! Yep, I like the idea of a demountable camper, but anything that's a decent size needs a base vehicle that's just unusably big in the UK. The usual solution here is towing a small car behind a camper (or, of course, using a tow car and caravan). But neither of those leaves you capacity for trailering the D100. Plus I doubt many caravans would survive long on gravel roads 😆