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If you everyneed to buy spare parts fro your landrover in Germany. The best place to go is Landy-depot. I am very impressed with their service. I ordered a radiator for my 109 from them which would have cost 170€ but because their supplier had put the cost up to them it should have now cost 320€. They sold me the piece plus all of the fittings fro 220€ which included the currrier delievery. I have bougth all my spares parts from them for a number of years and have never had any problems with them noramlly the spare parts arrive the next day at a fraction of the price at the local landrover dealer. Dixe

the 109 is already commercial (for tax perposes) but that does not help, everything with out a cat and euro 3 is going to be banned. Itzs going to be choas here. Lots of small businness are going to have to buy new vans or just go out of bussines. Its not Europe that sucks just the Germans. The power stations can throw out as much muck as they want for the next 12 years.

The new law has now been finalised except for the excemptions which will be comeing out in June. It looks like changing the engine will not help as all of the engines which would fit not conform to Euro standard 3. The only way out of this delima for me is to find a chassis plate from a 109 which is over 30 years old, then my I am allowed to drive 700Kms per year in the city centre. So does anybody have a chassis plarte from a 30 year series III 109 laying around which they would be willing to send me along with a reciept for a chassis that "sold" me for the TUV (Mot). Once I have said I have fitted a older chassis I would still be able to run my car to Tesco´s in Poland every month. For your information all cars with a foriegn number plate which do not corform to Euro standard 3 are also banned from Berlin´s city centre. David

thanks for the information David

Iam thinking about changing my engine of my series III 109 and heard that there is Ford/IVCO conversion kits available but I have not been able to find out any information about them. Does any body know where I can find information about the engines that can be used and the prices of these kits? David

If you write the word "Seilwinde" there 434 for sale in GCheap whinchermany. Idont know what the quality of this one is but it has a 2 year guarantee and would cost around 30 GBP to ship to you in England.

It may be worth you loooking on e-bay here in germany. There are a number of warn winches up for sale here e.g http://cgi.ebay.de/Land-Rover-Defender-WARN-WINCH-8000 Artikelnummer: 230102017669-This one is siezed up throught lack of use but here is another which is working Artikelnummer: 320090186927. The postage may be a little bit higher than that for the uk but not much. Dixe

I have already thought about lpg but the Germans will not accept that because They go on the manufacturies values and not that of a modified system. In berlin there are not that many lpg cars running yet. In Poland it is very common though. Dixe

The new laws are no oldtimers are allowed to drive through the city centre and I live there. It appears at the moment that no ambulances and fire engines will be allowed to be driven which do not conform to these laws. The final version of the law wil be known in June but I am being prepared for the worst. What I am trying to find out if there is a modern engine that would fit into the landrover so that I can keep on running her. Dixe

I have a Series III 109 which is my pride and joy but due to the new emmision laws in Berlin. I may not be able to keep her on the road any more. I am thinking about changing the engine to a diesel, but I do not which one I can use which will comply with the new laws. Does any body have an idea which eingine I can fit without extensive modifications i.e. the bulkhead and Gear box. I was thinking of a Montego turbo diesel (Perkins Prima) but I dont know if this will comply. Dixe