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If i remember right most landrover dealers can price you oe parts or britpart most sell both. I have to say before i'm lynched!!! in my personal opinion Some Britpart stuff is good i use a mixture of genuine, britpart and allmakes stuff on my road car and my safari racer, have only ever had a cpl of problems with Britpart and wouldn't hesitate in buying 90% of there stuff

Some mean detective work, has anyone rung the Police?

You can claim upto 40p a mile before you have to pay tax on it. anything over 40p is taxable

I dunno i've been in a car with Chris i understand why Jason always wants to get out!

I have a piece of Brass the same size as the key, when i repair these i put the brass where the key should be and then mig it up and grind it back carefully

Cheers that makes sense thanks for your imput!! Rob

My 2001 y reg p38 is a bit rattly sounds like from the top end? any one any ideas? it;s a bit mettalicy the alternator bearings are a bit rumbly as well which i think makes it sound worse!

Alot of comp safari motors have been done like this before the days of reverse rotation transfer box's were about from the like of Trevor Milner or Rakeway, my early Simmbugghini has flipped axles

Definately ouch! looks like Pete has his work cut out this time! Well i've finally fixed the racer now so just have to send the paper work off for my licence and purchase a fireproof crash helmet! So if alls well and i haven't sold it i'll be at Hogmoor!! finally

Rumour has it that Pete's car is not to well? Hope he and his co driver were ok?

I wouldn't even buy a carrier bag from devon 4x4, they buy it all from elsewhere and just put a bit on top

terra firma kit is excellent in my experiance! Much better than the cheap and nasty pro comps that spill there guts at the slightest look at a bump in a road let alone a big rut!

Rangerover and discovery windscreens are all the same, the aperture is the same for all, so any screen will fit

Cat d is uneconomical Cat c is same but would need a vic check cat b is break cat a is destroy Recently seen alot of cat b's that should have been broken up, but had been repaired badly and put back on the road, insurance company knew nothing about it, one vehicle had been on the road 2 years

Was disappointing to drive from Kent up to this, to be honest i'd have been disappointed to have driven from stafford! There wasn't anything there i couldn't have bought cheaper anywhere else and really not that much to look at, Most interesting for me was Simtek, and the British cross country stand

For £16 They are a absoulute bargain! i've enought to do with out wasting my life messing about with 2 spanners! The 3/8th one is perfect tool for the job on either battery or windy 3/8th gun makes a naff job simple

Is the Cinq pillers site still open?? I last went there in 2006 or 2007 i think as it was supposed to be closing!??

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had no experiance with those actual panels But have been repairing French cars with them on for years I think there a excellent idea

£400-£600 jeez thats cheap for a repaint! Can't be a very good one it would cost £200 in paint and materials!

Use Upol Easy No1 Filler And also don't forget to Etch prime before you apply 2 pack primer otherwise it won't stick!

terra firma

To be fair i'd have thought a AA man would have trouble trying to undo a loose wheel!

If you have the choice of a garage charging a varying labour rate between £45 a hour ranging compleatly through to main dealers charging upto £120 a hour Where would you go? Most main dealers work using apprentices doing servicing all why still getting upto £120 a hour for someone there paying £4 a hour They work on bonus schemes encouring speed because A. the customer can't for a second live without there car for more than 20 seconds! and B. there trying to make money in a extremly cut throat weld of the motor trade! I'm not making excuses for believed bad workmanship but people who don't understand the job and whats involved because they do a bit of diy servicing would find it very hard to run a garage. Factory times are ridiculous and mostly complealty undoable on most occasions. A range rover tdv8 sport has to have the body removed from the chassis to change the turbo Land rover say you can do this in a very short time if i remember correctly. The target time is compleatly stupid and can't be done unless like land rover when they calculated the time they had a brand new vehicle every tool to hand the parts there etc etc etc. Try doing that on a 6 month old car! I don't work in a mechanical workshop but i run a "Repair workshop" Where we do a estimate for body repair for a insurance company, you look at a job and work out say it will take 20 hours at £35 a hour, A insurance engineer turns up taps a few buttons on his computer and says that Thatcham times you only get 9.4 hours to do the job and they can only pay you £28 a hour, You can argue the toss and maybe get a cpl more hours or another £1 a hour but you then decide if you want to do the job and work and pay the bills or say no because another garage will do it for that price. The customer has no understanding of this procedure and still expects a FREE courtesy car which is paid for by the garage (which come out of the profit if any of the job) and they also want the car back to pristine condition in 30 seconds time without any problems. I rang a plumber 6 weeks ago to do my heating as its broken and they still don't turn up now if i was fixing his van and wanted it more than 2 hours i would be causing him a pain! The motor trade is cut throat and people don't really understand it! Rant over

Good pictures Dave, Funny though it doesn't look as wet as what it was though!