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Hi again!
What are the average/approx lifetimes of the injection pump and turbocharger on the TDi engines?
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The postcode that the vehicle is insured at will have a massive effect on the quotation. One place can be up to a grand more expensive to insure the same vehicle as it is at another location, all because of the statistical risk on the given postcode.
City outskirts and such will pay some of the highest premiums, while out in the middle of nowhere will be some of the lowest.
As for what motors work out the cheapest, utility models (i.e. Series, 90/110 etc) come out as the least expensive. Discoveries and Range Rovers come out as the most expensive.
You might find this topic an interesting read.
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A leaking carb or inlet manifold could cause this problem.
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All that pointless corporate rebranding nonsense costs money
Might be because it's fun to hear a certain "ethnic minority" try to say Norwich Union. Sometimes comes out like Norweee Yewnon.
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I'd love to get a go in one!
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The noise up front could be generated by a failing propshaft UJ or associated diff/transferbox bearings.
As for the lack of drive when the front hubs are disengaged, if you have a Discovery transferbox (LT230) then you will not get drive when the front hubs are disengaged. The LT230 incorporates its own differential. This means all the power goes to the location of least resistance, in this case it is the front diff when the hubs are disengaged. If you engaged differential lock on the transferbox, you will find it will drive with the front hubs disengaged.
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I've been getting some quotations today for the 2A 88. It appears that insurance rates have increased considerably in the past twelve months.
A year ago I got quotations of the following from these two companies:
NFU: £1,400 fully comprehensive,
NFU: £1,100 third party fire and theft,
Footman James: £1,200 fully comprehensive,
Footman James: £670 third party fire and theft.
Nearly twelve months on, these are the quotes I got from them this time:
NFU: £1,900 fully comprehensive,
NFU: £1,400 third party fire and theft,
Footman James: £1,600 fully comprehensive
Footman James: £830 third party fire and theft.
These are just a couple of examples of the increase in insurance premiums I'm faced with. What baffles me is that, I am a year older and have another year's driving experience, and I have had no claims/incidents nor are there any DVLA conditions on my licence. I also have Pass Plus, and I'm coming up to 20 years of age, yet the rates are going up!
I am aware that my postcode is listed as one of the highest risk postcodes in the UK, but it has been like that since before I started driving three years ago. So why are my premiums going through the roof? At a guess, is it a possibility that the insurance rates are interlinked with the banks and the country's complete collapse of its financial system?
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The safety requirement is there for a very good reason, it's too easy to lean in through the window and start the engine up, if you've left it in drive or reverse it will then set off on it's own.
But wouldn't that be no different to just leaving a manual in gear anyway? Similar hazard as those running manual gearboxes surely?
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and what is with the kick down on the autos?? just makes it feel like the clutch is slipping and you could have a brew and a kitkat before it goes any faster!!
A properly adjusted kickdown should make something relatively nippy compared to normal driving. It seems a lot of autos have not had their kickdown adjusted since leaving the dealership... so some take an age to kickdown while others are instantaneous. Having a powerful engine tends to help too.
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The corrosion on the body mount doesn't worry me an awful lot, relatively straight forwards to repair. What does bother me are those big gaping holes in the chassis rail, under where the driver's floor panel should be. That is some serious rot!
I'd seriously want to check the rest of the chassis.
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They can and do rot away, particularly the support braces on the rear axle (optional for front, as used by MOD).
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What I think Tata did was blackmail the Government into the pay out. i.e. if the Gov refused to pay out, Tata would put lots of people out of work by not putting any money into the company during this troubling times.
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People don't recommend 235/85R16 as it's just outside the recommended maximum width of the tyre for 5.5 inch rims. However, neither myself or friends have had any problems with running 235/85R16 on standard 5.5 inch rims.
I'd guess that problems would only really occur if you ran the tyres at very low pressures.
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Might have a different position for the drain hole or something too? But as said, they're otherwise the same.
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Shape of the tyre should be correct. What does happen with crossplies is that they follow the ruts in the road far more than radial tyres do. Check that they've not been pumped up beyond what they should be, mine were at 40psi when I had my last set of Deestones fitted when they should be 25-30psi for normal running.
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Mixture maybe?
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I would say to go over the entire chassis very carefully. Chances are it'll have corroded elsewhere too.
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Hi Kiwi. The reason why I don't put something together myself is for the same reason as yourself, I don't know enough or understand the legal system well enough. But if someone like myself (with limited understanding of the legal system) can see flaws, what will someone who is an expert (e.g. politician, solicitor etc.) see?
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But tonko, we pay something called Road Tax which should cover the lanes. But as you will notice, very little actually even gets used on the heavily used and abused tarmac roads. The majority of the taxation goes into other (often pointless) projects...
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This is the first I have heard about the Vacuum on the Distributor, What does it do? How do I test its working?
It advances and retards the timing depending on the engine speed. The vacuum is taken from the inlet on the plenum chamber. There will be a small pipe that goes from the distributor to the top on the right hand side of the plenum chamber, you want to remove this. With the distributor cap off, you want to suck on the end of the pipe. The distributor should then rotate its internal base plate.
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How many miles has it got on the clock?
Units that are around the 100,000 mile region will be wearing their camshaft lobes. There are exceptions to this, as so much depends on how it has been maintained and whether or not it spent more time up to temperature than warming up. (i.e. one used as a company car going up and down the motorway will have less wear for the same mileage as one going to and from the shops).
See RPi's page for more.
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Or... you could go and get a classic Land Rover and pay nill road tax.
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Didn't NA built vehicles have a different ratio transfer box fitted to them compared to the TD and TDi vehicles?
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I don't know. Sorry.
Average lifetimes
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So that would put a lot of the 200TDi units into being due for injector pump work wouldn't it?
As for the 250,000 miles for the turbocharger, an awful lot must be swallowing unhealthy bits given the amount that appear to fail long before that magic number.