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Probably fine if a little pricey. Paid £45 at Cobbaton for my matt NATO green paint last year, fresh batch too.

Hi Dan That's what I was wondering. Not far from Island 4x4 and Bearmach in Maidstone at the moment, downside is I'll have to pay VAT up front!

6000 miles since last change but I have a spare so I'll give it a go.

Is the general opinion still that genuine is best with Td5 fuel pumps? £250ish v £80 Mine has got very noisy, continuous high pitch loud whine rather than a purging sound. Anyone found a UK source for just the internal VDO pump A2C59511614?

Result! If it wasn't for a certain LR dealer trying to rip my bro in law off I wouldn't have known about it! When we diagnosed it ourselves I eventually realised the flasher unit was clicking when you armed it so checked RAVE.

Hi Dan, only just realised it was you!

The indicator flash on arm/disarm is fed via a different fuse (fuse 6 in the undersesat fusebox). Found this out after a Land Rover dealer wanted to charge £350 plus labour for a new 10AS to fix the same problem. Told them to poke it where the sun don't shine and after reading the electrical library on RAVE, the problem was a 10p fuse!

Memory Map is the official OS mapping software, £100 for whole of UK at 50k. I'm lucky enough to have loads of 25k as well that came on the previous TB. You can get it on other platforms now, I'm messing with Mapyx Quo V2 at the moment as I've discovered some of my "free" Irish mapping is a bit corrupt where I'm heading next month so I'm considering going legit!. MM is fine but Quo will load far more file types if you are heading elsewhere. On both you have the option for smaller areas which keeps the cost down, I love maps so have to have the whole country! http://www.memory-map.co.uk/ http://www.mapyx.com/

How did it turn out, seems very cheap for a s/h Toughbook. I've just replaced my very battered battered and slow Cf-18b with a much newer grade A Cf-18K from Toughbooks direct on ebay. Cost me £535 but has GPS and GPRS, I run Memory Map and Oziexplorer (for Irish maps) and prefer it to my works Dell despite the smaller screen plus it's still running on XP.

Its OBD one end and RJ42 the other. There's pinouts in the instructions for the old type Nanocom but I don't have access to mine at the moment.

When I rebuilt the 3.5 in my 101 I fitted a standard 3.9 cam which gives an improvement without going overboard (oops, see you have a 4.6 so ignore this!).. Got all my bits from V8tuner and got good advice from www.v8forum.co.uk

I had similar a few years ago, sounded like a demented parrot trapped in the box and was told a layshaft bearing. Did around 1000 miles like it before I swapped the box. Changing your Tbox makes no difference to the ECU, just need to swap the speedo drive over. I have a 1.22 box from a D1 in my Td5 which means the throttle map doesn't switch but I',m not too bothered. If you want to keep that and are fitting a SH Tbox from a D2 make sure it has the difflock.fitted.

Get it plugged in and faults read, It's most likely a sensor issue. I've a dodgy rear right sensor that's tried to lock the wheel a couple of times. On the to do list before I re-tax and use it again.

Changed the swivels on my 00 ABS 110 a while back, there was no difference in the housings, the difference is the hollow top pin that comes with a half bearing, one of tracks is the pin itself. It's easy to tip the rollers so be careful, shimming is a PITA with these.

The towing electrics are simply plugged in, reach up behind a plastic cover above the crossmember behind the LH rear wheel and unplug it to see if the problem goes away. If not, remove the cover panel at the LH rear inside the back door and you'll see the wiring loom and variuos plgs where it branches off. Carefully check the loom and the plugs for chaffing, there should be enough slack to pull it through the grommets for a good look. If you can't find anything it could be chaffing inside the chassis as Aragorn says, I've seen it before but on a much older vehicle. Only cure is to full it out, repair it and run it along the top of the chassis.

That does sound like a typical earthing issue.

Nanocom will, Hawkeye too probably. No real need anyway, just floor it in 3rd or 4th up a hill and you' ll soon know.

On my old crossmember the NATO socket on it's diamond shaped mounting plate fitted in the oval hole on the RHS. My replacement Black Sheep crossmember doesn't have the hole and I haven't worked out where to fit it yet! Will probably mount it on the body as NATO trailer leads tend to be fairly long. Rather than hard wiring the socket in I fitted a 7 pin socket on the other end and plugged it when needed. I'll probably hard wire it this time.

The Defender uses a separate Wabco ECU. If you ever get shuttle switch failure on a Defender ABS modulator, the fix is same as Disco 2

I fitted Bearmach blues as I happened to buy in a Bearmach shop. My old springs were sagging esp at the front with a a winch on. I asked for standard springs but ended up with around a 1.5" lift, it does look better for it but I don't run so heavy now and the rears are a bit hard so I may have to find some lower rated rears.

ParkingcamerasUk and ReversingcamerasUK seem to be the same company operating from two addresses in Ramsgate, the websites us the same camera images. I got mine from ReversingcamerasUK, the service was very good and the advice honest, I'd buy from them again.

Alternative would be to mount a bullet camera in a custom housing. I tow 14 and 16ft Ifor Williams trailers regularly and a camera is handy for keeping an eye on the load and LH reversing, my current camera isn't much good for that.

This is what I currently have fitted above the back door, as you can see in the link it gives a very distorted view but is fine for close reversing. If the spare wheel wasn't on the back, I'd probably see the hitch as well. http://shop.reversin...roducts/CAM071W I'll probably fit one of these as the main camera, I thought it would be too big but having seen the one on my brother in law's 130 I reckon it will be fine with a bit of modding to the mount. http://shop.reversin...Products/CAM061

Those mirror monitors are good aren't they. I don't have parking lines on mine, must be a function of the camera. I currently have a small very wide camera with no IR which gives too much of a distorted view so I'm probably going to mount that behind the spare pointing at the hitch and use a standard CCD camera with IR above the door. The mirror has two video inputs and it's easy to switch between them.

White smoke could be unburnt diesel, does the smoke smell? Are you losing coolant? Take the top off the coolant tank, are there bubbles when running? Probably better asking this in the Defender section, you may get more answers.