Peaklander

Were there any errors shown on the display? Did you measure those volts at the fridge or battery?

Even though it looks like a very nice upgrade, I did gulp at the price - £1,000.

Before you do, just check that the leak really is from the gasket. I had a similar weep but it came from the heater hose spigot outlet at the back of the head but looked as though it was from the head to block joint.

Wow. That’s a development! I have no idea what I would do, except go in person to the dealer and ask again and then refer upwards whilst there with the local ‘boss’.

This is my 300TDi with a couple of traditional spots. I have driven this in temperatures of almost 40C and the engine temperature gauge has never moved. I have a standard viscous fan with cowl and standard radiator.

This one (wifi only) is just 2-3 years old and definitely doesn’t have gps that’s useable. I have a sneeky feeling that it somehow knows where it is occasionally but that might be my paranoia. That’s interesting to hear that your’s can do it without a sim installed.

Does that one have a sim in it then @Retroanaconda, to provide the gps position? I have tried a wifi only one and needed it to be connected with bluetooth to a gps source. That worked ok in the alps at slow speeds but the map couldn't keep up at road speed. Also the older and not so older models won't run many apps.

That happened to one piston in my 300Tdi. I don't know why but it was replaced along with all other piston's rings.

That’s positioned rather like the part in TV’s older series of ‘A Question of Sport’. The teams had to work out, from a small bit of video, ‘What happened next?’.

I agree that it's hard to find the source amongst all that grime. From recent experience, even when everywhere is clean, it can still be hard. I was chasing a leak from my overdrive and it was only present when driving and self-cleaning in the airflow. The oil was deposited nowhere near the leak. Only when talcum powder was used to cover all potential sources, was the actual leak spotted.

I have AP callipers on mine, new in 2015. I didn't paint them and I'm sure they are still shiny. I'll go and have a look later...

Your trip to Georgia is a benchmark @task 😊

It's only possible when you are fully retired. Before that I grabbed a max of two weeks, 10 working days, where two of them were needed as part of the calm down from work and two more getting stressed ready for going back.

Yes and I fitted it a week or so before the trip to the French Alps in late May / June, so that's two big workouts. I feel that it might be a be tiny bit over sensitive but adjusting is a long way down my list.

I paid a total of £348 incl VAT and delivery. £210 for the exchange £114 for the new shaft option £24 carriage The surcharge was (an additional) £120 and was repaid within a few days of me sending the old unit to them. I needed to keep my drop arm and paid Matt Savage some beer money to use his puller!

Of course. It was these people In Birmingham. I had saved the details following a recommendation on here. It was an exchange box and I paid extra for a new worm. Yes it’s been fine www.dasteeringltd.co.uk

I considered one in May this year but decided to get my Adwest rebuilt with a new chromed worm.

We have slept for a total of 12 weeks in our Icarus this year and it has been across about 9,000 miles. It was fitted in 2018 and is still going strong. The inside is a very simple diy installation; not like any of the specialist ones. The box looks good. We use a Thule plastic one, with light and bulky stuff in it. It still makes the roof harder to lift. Some people change the two pairs of longer gas struts for ‘stiffer’ ones, to help this. You can get the specs easily enough. You will have a great time with it. It really is a one up, one down camper and most people on campsites are amazed at the instant bedroom upstairs which leaves the downstairs totally undisturbed at night.

The sockets - well one or two anyway. Enough so that I rarely try now on anything tight. Maybe my 1/4” sockets are a bit rubbish.

Ha. I have tried mine in the same way but the sockets don’t like it!

It's much further back than my ex-Disco 300TDi. What has determined that? The bellhousing maybe - will the gearbox have also moved across to this vehicle? I tend not to look at those sorts of topics but now I'm interested!

That one has / had 'nut busting' torque of 400Nm. Every time I start to look I find myself thinking "must go bigger". Maybe not? I have had little success with my Aldi air wrench but that's probably no benchmark. I would want to be sure of releasing crusty stuff on lower suspension arms or similar. Is 400Nm enough or it that tool far better suited to speeding-up normal jobs? Also @Bowie69 the battery ratchets look long. Are they better suited for above an engine or on a workbench or can they be manouvered?

Would you share the model number please?

Hopefully there are other options too and just to lighten the discussion, who remembers the assurances that "computers will lead to the paper-less office"? That hasn't quite happened, even after the ~40 years since the IBM-PC was released.