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  1. Hiya, wondering if anyone knows the part no. for a 2002 90 station wagon rear trim clips, the small trim surrounding the rear small windows. There are 2 of these clips per side and they friction fit the the bodywork, cannot find them anywhere so if anyone knows the part no. or where to find them it would be fantastic!

    Cheers

    Ash

  2. Fill the system with your coolant mix with the heater set to hot, run the engine, and loosen the screw on the top hose, but not all the way, just enough to let the air out, when no more air is coming from the bleed screw the system is bled, your heater should be kicking out heat by now, sometimes air locks can be quite difficult to bleed but just keep releasing that bleed screw until all is good

  3. hello there, hope this might be of information, i recently borrowed a cheap blue point scanner from my snap-on dealer and tried it on my 2002 td5 defender and got no response from it, which i was expecting as the box said 2004 diesels onwards, so i gave it back to him, tried my mates snap-on scanner (about a grands worth) which required a special translator chip to be plugged in and i got pretty much all the info out of it i could ever need. Basically from what i know, early defenders dont have the normal Generic fault code output that later diesels are required to do for some european law so therefore a more specific scanner is required, i.e a nanocom/hawkeye or a decent scanner with the correct chip installed. I hope this can be of help. Oh and also, different scanners pickup different amounts of information, my mates snap-on one picked up only the engine e.c.u whereas the proper landrover equipment should pickup the engine, the immobiliser and whatever extras you have, be it traction and things like that. The snap-on scanner only showed a few sensors readings though, just the main basic ones, nothing like a full on landy scanner will show.

    Ash

  4. i would just like to point out that my local bridleway is impassable by foot, and thinking about it, i wouldnt even consider driving along it (if it was legally allowed) without having mud terrain tyres fitted. This route is not in regular use by horses but it has been turned into a bog because of its use, by horses, in wet conditions. I dont see a traffic order temporarily halting horses from using this route, even though it is used by walkers a lot. I could guarantee you that if motor vehicles had caused this amount of damage to the route it would have been closed off.

    How typical of countryfile to find the best characters suited at expressing how responsible they are at driving off road. I can just picture John Craven waving his walking stick at my vehicle along a greenlane. I bet his blood pressure goes through the roof seeing a car driving through the countryside.

  5. If your meaning timing chain, then i would change it when it gets noisy, although LR do say that at roughly 200k's you should replace it as a service item. Duplex Chains do last a very long time, you could inspect the slack in the chain just in case its stretched so far that the auto adjuster is at its max setting but i believe you would have running issues if it got that bad.

  6. Ok so i noticed some rust on the bottoms of my door frames today and decided to take the door cards off to investigate further. You guessed it, i found more rust! So they are structually sound still, but looking pretty messy and if i leave them i will be needing new doors eventually. What do you reckon i should do and what are the best products out there to "cure" and prevent rust. Obviously i will need to get rid of as much rust as possible using a wire brush slash similar item. Also whilst i was there i noticed a water collecter and tube assembly that looks like its fallen off the inside of the door, looks like a hopeless piece of kit as it just collects water from the window seal and then lets it drip on the door bottom again. The outer door skins are in excellent condition so i dont really want to replace the frame and transfer the door as that just looks like a MISSION, and im sure that in the process i'll wreck the skins.

    So... What do you know about rust?

    Thankyou!

    Ash

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