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It may be possible to remove the whole door, but you might have to sacrifice the striker plate!
If you can remove the hinge bolts in the bulkhead, the door can be moved out, jiggled etc. You might get it to unlock, or get a right angled driver in to get the striker off. Worst case, cut the striker through.
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No, that is from a Disco1.
ONLY OEM alloys for a 110 are Deep Dish or Boost.
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Front to rear alignment is just washers on the big bolts at the bottom.
Vertical is by the flimsy bulkhead to chassis braces using thin (specific shape) shims.
If these are not present, then it is your wings!
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Either your hinges have too much wear in them or your bulkhead needs tipping forward a bit.
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sorry but there are no seats that will fit in the middle as the baby will need to travel backwoods
so baby will have to go in the N/S seat missus in the middle
Exactly what we did when we only had the one kid and the 90 was the family (with dogs and buggy) vehicle.
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My pal lives in Les Gets, about 45 mins from the airport.
Great skiing, lots of British Land Rover owners!
and (one of) Mr Ski's Landrover
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The binnacle to fusebox section would be a pain and involves taking a lot of the dash out.
It would be time consuming, but probably quicker than trying to sort out someone elses add ons/bodges/earth faults etc.
Engine loom and front to back loom would be a doddle
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One of my cards was fraudulently used over the summer.
Odd thing was, they managed to use it on a paypal purchase.
I cannot set up a paypal account because the address the CC is registered to does not exist in the database paypal check against
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For people over 30(ish) and a clean licence and little accident history fully comp is marginally more expensive than TPFT.
Adding a "low risk" user (like a wife, mother or father), even to me at 40y/o reduces the policy cost
My 90 with any driver over 25 is ~£220 with NFU, it would come down to £150-170 for just me and the wife.
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Clarkson on snow:-
"And then I was overtaken by a smug-looking businessman in a BMW X5. Because he had bought a large 4x4, he imagined that somehow he was immune to the laws of physics and that the tyres fitted to his car were made from some kind of snow-resistant Velcro. Imagine, then, my sense of joy when I rounded the corner outside Enstone to find him in a hedge.
A similar misfortune befell a friend of mine who had got it into his head that somehow a Volvo XC90 is not subject to vagaries in the road surface and drove down a road covered in sheet ice, into a tree. As I arrived on the scene, it was very hard to arrange my face into something that showed concern, not helpless mirth.
A four-wheel-drive car, provided it is fitted with off-road tyres, will get you out of a snowy driveway and, slowly, up a snowy hill. But momentum is more than a match for a centre differential. So at all other times it is just as likely to crash as your grandad’s Peugeot.
That said, because I live 850ft above sea level in a county whose officials believe grit and pebbles are what poor people put on their houses, I have driven my Range Rover for the past two weeks. This is because it’s the only car capable of getting out of my drive and into town.
Mind you, it’s not capable of getting much farther because some Midlands numpty put the windscreen-washer bottle right at the front of the car in the air flow. So, about a mile after you set off, it becomes an ice cube and my windscreen becomes as see-through as cardboard.
I have, though, enjoyed stopping and offering lifts to the sorts of local people who normally loathe 4x4s. And been very amused by one pinch-faced old rambler who declined. “No, thanks. I’m enjoying the exercise,” she said, as she fell flat on her face. "
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A bit late, as it is warming up and it's the last few days of offer but
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From memory, there are at least 2 screws that fix from below the "upper crash pad".
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Landrover data starts around page 420
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What "did" I buy?
10 years ago I wanted a toy to play in the mud. My "smart" 4x4 was collecting dents too frequently!
I bought, and still have, an 11 year old 90.
Initially it was doing upto 10k a year but now it is 1 of 4 cars we have it is only doing ~3k.
If I had to sell it, I would expect 60-70% of what I paid for it 10 years ago.
However, I have probaby spent 3 times that in repairs and maintenance
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Spot the difference?
I know the difference!
I was very suprised the xcl had a M+S rating, when just looking at it (and knowing how stiff they are) they would be useless.
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I live semi-rurally in Hampshire.
One of the local farmers did way to thorough job of clearing the backroads from around 6am. So there was no fresh to play in.
Unsuprisingly, my Michelin XCLs were pants in the snow. The power of the 2.5td broke traction in 2nd and 3rd when the turbo picked up
Suprisingly, when I took them off (swap for some part worn bfg at) they are marked up M+S.
Things are still slippery on the bfgs, they just seem to hold on a bit longer and the slides are a bit more controlled
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Heating the fluid is great and warm fluid will clean the screen better all year round.
However I still see problems:-
Without a heated nozzle (or possibly the last 3ft of pipe in the dash rail) it will still freeze up.
Heated fluid will freeze on the screen if the concentration is still low, and that is not pleasant!
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Does the washer fluid give any indication of it's strength on the bottle?
I've seen some "winter strength" premix only good to -4C
Best non diluted I could find goes to -27C used neat.
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Entirely different vehicle but running on petrol!
My little 1.2 Panda has been doing 53mpg over ~5000 miles I've had it. In the last few weeks it's more like 45-48mpg a 10-15% difference
Massive differences to you but overall %age change is similar.
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I've got a pal who lives in the French Alps.
1st day/customers of the ski season and his 300tdi almost dies with fuel starvation. Warm water over the filter and lines solved it. Fuel bought locally, so usually winter grade.
This is the only time in 6 years this has happened to him. It's very very cold for this early in the "winter"
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2000 cars abandoned on the Basingstoke ringroad last night, 78 people delivered by police to emergency shelters. Police advises to avoid Basingstoke.
People left work at 13.00, 7 miles down the road, got home at 19.00. That was on main roads. Bit easier on the small country lanes - driving on the fresh snow was great
Now its getting colder and freezing - and the disco wont start - damm
A couple of reported journeys (at work) yesterday
Basingsoke to Aldershot (20 miles) 14.30 to 23.30
Bristol to Wokingham 7hours
then Wokingham to Hindhead 3 hours
I had no problem getting around, just could not get to a road that would take me in the direction of home!
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Well, I did not get home last night and here I am back at work!
Left work at 17.00, went to pick the kids up from my parents.
At 18.10 I left there and took 40mins to do 2 miles (of 40) to the M3, which was solid. So turned around to take my alternate route but could not get to the back roads as the arterial routes were blocked. So back to parents.
I had another try at 20.30, and could get to the M3, but that was still solid!
Had a good think about the alternate, but that takes me just South of Basingstoke (Cliddesden) and the Police shut that in the Feb snow and I would have been seriously b^gg£$%^ if it was shut.
So spent the night at my parents (deep joy) sharing a bed with my 18 month old son.
Apparently Basingtoke was "mostly" clear of traffic by 02.30!
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I get stuck in the same queues as everyone else does, due to plankers driving like they`re carrying a nuke in the back seat on a mercury switch! The temptation to give everyone 'driving' (and i use the term VERY loosely) in front of me like a spanner a quick nudge to make them get out of the way is almost overwhelming.
And your 2+ tonne 4x4 has magic brakes and steering does it?
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I suspect it will deliver nowhere near the volume of air required to run the engine.
Without a turbo your 2.5 litre engine is using 1.25 litres of air per revolution.
At 2000rpm thats 2500 litres per minute.
Add in the turbo at 1.5 bar and it is 3750 lpm.
Its a lot of air to shift!
Will my 300tdi work underwater?
in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
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As the water pressure at 45m is something in the region of 5-6bar I would guess it's only use at that depth would be as an anchor.