Nigelw
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Think it may also depend on your driving style, I had my 3.9 running tip top and could and regularly did return 35L/100Kms but when you got a V8 auto you can indeed drive it like you stole it
Are there any other symptoms apart from high consumption? How long have you had it? has it been like this the whole time?
I had a lambda issue once which resulted in rougher running and worse consumption, just wonder if you have running issues also?
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. It does concern me a little that we don't have anything physical in the car to show that the car is MOT'd and Taxed.
I won't miss the stupid design of the tax disc... whoever thought that all those perorations was a good idea wants good talking too.
In Ireland they have a windscreen system where you display your tax disc, your MOT expiry and your insurance expiry dates, all there for plod to see when you get flagged at the road side stops, save for when it's piddling with rain then the Gaurda won't be doing much but sitting in the car drinking tea
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Tax evasion is still very much a national sport here
I see now, after mulling it over with Leon, we both thought it was on top of the €2200/yr tax and aimed at all 4x4s, oh well
Lots of goodies to be had on Kapaza right now, just been looking at a mint series 3 88" station wagon, 2.25 petrol with O/D and LPG already installed for bargain price of €5,500
Better not
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Link for those that can read Dutch better than me.
http://www.xrover.be/Xforum/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=65830&start=0
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Not sure if some of our Dutch members would like to fill in the blanks for me but as I understand it, from January 2014, if it is all given the green light this week then there will be heavy tax burdens against 4X4 users and I quote one member of a Belgian forum I frequent, they are talking €145 per month in tax for private users, and that will be on top of the €2200 a year they already pay taking them up to €3700 per anum.
Bit scary me thinks
They have/are about to do away with private light commercial vehicle taxation as many 4x4s were converted to just 2 seats to get the lower tax bracket of €150 as opposed the €900 but now you can only claim the light freight class if you have a company to register it to.
Seems the anti 4x4 lobby is in town
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We don't have one either
it is paid in full when you renew your insurance, bit of a hit when a passenger carrying Disco is €1000+
Mine being light freight approved is only €150 
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The best way forward and backwards too
Hydraulics are amazing especially hydro-static transmissions, now if the final drive from the back axle could be monitored by some means,possibly an ABS sensor then a second sensor on the middle axle it is entirely possible for an ECU controlled hydro stat to actually maintain ground speed in terms of wheel speed between the two axes but any type of cross axle situation unless transverse diffs were applied might see the back axle either dragging or digging holes.
Unless someone who knows more on hydraulics wants to come and educate us
I like th idea of it but just not sure exactly how to make it work as there are numerous ground speeds that can be covered and not just in low 1 or 2 , on the subject of cooling the hydraulic system could have it's own cooler system as many of the hydrostat wheeled loaders do, normally oil to water through the radiator then to atmos via the heat exchange of the water and radiator. -
Not a 4x4 but ........
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281220186553?clk_rvr_id=555982938104
I'm selling this Ford Fiesta Zetec S of mine because now I’ve grown up, I feel it’s time for me to pass on this special car to another young lad on the path to manhood. You can’t become a man until you’ve owned a proper lads car, so if you don’t buy this Zetec S you will always be spotty, you’re voice will never break properly and you will never beat your addiction to masturbation. I’m not selling this car to help myself, I’m selling this car to save teenagers across the world from themselves. So if you’re a teenager looking at making that next big step in your life, this is the car for you. If you’re a parent looking for a car on behalf of your son, this is the car for you. If you’re 35 years old still living at home and yet to be touched intimately by a woman, then this car is not for you, faggot.
Jesus may have been able to walk on water but after buying this car you’ll be able to swim on land. You’ll be able to squeeze orange juice from banana’s and you WILL be able touch MC Hammer. Why? Because that's the kind of thing real men do.
I simply cannot believe someone could write such an add in my entire life
And as for touching MC Hammer, well what can I say
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If you don't mind getting a sleeve full of oil then yeah you can drop a couple of pints out and then refill to level, depends on how long ago it has had a service mind as I usually associate oil usage with a sign of needing a service(unless a known leak?) so it could well pay to do a full service and be happy knowing it is done.
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Nothing worse then the buying blinkers on.
Think we have all been there buddy.
I recently traveled 85Kms to go pick up a steering damper as the guy advertised it for RRC/D1 and showed a picture of it too, got there and it was pin and eye not pin pin as I needed which means it was a Defender item, could have been my fault as I didn't ask specifically if it was pin pin but the picture shown on the add was!
Always best to get conformation first when the parts are not local, or if like me I'm not fluent enough in Dutch to ask specific questions.
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Thanks for that, will let her know.
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Can someone please explain the rarity of this part??
I got 1 in my workshop and a local engineering works will turn me anything I want pulley wise out of a billet for about €60.
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Had a PM from a girl called Julia on another forum and have cut and pasted her original post, I don't know the answer but wondered if you guys did?
My dad has asked me to post this as we cannot find anything on the web.
My féfe has started to use a lot of oil and we have replace the valve stem seals and eventually took the head off, the bores are very worn and dad took the bottom cover off the engine and the big ends are worn he said, but we have a friend who has a recently rebuilt 200Tdi engine in his garage but he had to take the cover thing off the front of the engine, he said the injector pump is still there but just not the chest thing it all goes inside, he said we can have it for free as he doesn't want to see it go to waste.
So can we take the front chest thing off my 300 and put it on the 200 engine and will it work after?
Or do I just borrow a little bit of money from my savings and get a new engine?Any ideas?
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Thought that I knew a fair bit about cars before I bought it, but knew a lot more afterwards.
Most people find that with Land Rovers too
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I confess to having tuned/ruined a saxo an a couple of clios too, could get MPG down to low teens with serious head work, bit of mapping, injectors and exhausts, but it was still a shizzy little saxo with a 1.6 engine.
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Thought that the cam carrier was very much an integral part of the orifinal TD5 engine and not really interchangeable between engines or am I being silly?
Not the first time this week
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The strange thing is that the stereo typical V8 4X4 with mud pluggers is probably creating less pollution when compared to a boy racer with his souped up Saxo.
I totally get your point though.
But, and this is a kind of weird issue where pollution is created by the want/need to use fossil fuel to provide electricity, provide transportation to basically carry out life in this current fashion, they like to "blame" 4x4s and use them to set an example of inefficient transportation, but they are deflectiong the issue of energy consumption in general.
The house I live in speaks volumes about how society was back in 1968 when it was built, there exactly 1 plug socket in each bedroom, the kitchen has three, the sitting room has 2 and the lounge has 2, note, these are 1 socket adjacent to the light switch and one other in the room not so far away, in the bedrooms the socket is at the light switch, I went into a new built house about a month ago and there was 6 sockets in the living, 4 in the lounge/dining, 6 in the kitchen(not including hard wire points for dish washer and fridge/freezer washing machine and tumble drier, the bedrooms have no less than 4 sockets.
Today we promote technology because it sells and creates big business but we chastise one man who wants to drive few lanes and see the great outdoors.
How random????
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How hot was the engine???
Did it run rough at all???
Have you any other symptoms of trouble??? over heating? Oil usage?
It is winter and there is a good deal of condensation to be burnt off on a cold exhaust system, you do not mention getting it up to full operating temp so assume you noticed the misting and stopped?
Perhaps a video as different people have an entirely different view of what is acceptable and indeed normal.
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Any videos of start up and running?
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Signed as well, has little bearing on me but they ought to drop the cheap motoring bit as it will most likely induce some sort of restrictions of usage clause like we used to have here(or still do? Can't keep up with the changes as they do it every six bloody months
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I have ordered new swivels for both sides and am looking to get these originals re-chromed, but with so much faffing around with trim and wires and now having to do the timing chest also I just have not got time before my safety test to do them, figured €12 on swivel grease and a pass is better than another week or 2 set back for a new safety test.
Thanks for the advice.
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It would only be ridiculous if it was in a serious thread, but the forum was 'Humour, rants and pointless posts' or words to that affect.[/quote
I know but can't do smilees on my tablet to show the humor.
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I know but really have not got time to rebuild the swivels before the MOT and as this one is leaking I really don't want to tempt fate by leaving it for the tester to point and grumble about, my thinking was that the grease being thicker would stay in and I would be able to just make the swivel seals and housing super clean so there was nothing to be seen.
But what harm can swivel grease do with regards to running oil lubed bearings?
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I have a Sandringham 6, 6x6, Series 3 Stage 1 V8 which I have been restoring for about 5 years which I'm just coming to the end of and going to be putting up for sale shortly (have to many WW2 vehicles to restore !!). Mine is a 139 inch wheelbase version. Mine is original as per factory build (chassis cab stage 1 v8 109 from the factory and off to Sandringham MC for conversion before selling as a Land Rover Special Vehicle option,
The one in the photos could be a 125 inch version which they made as well although the defender arch extensions should not be fitted. They used the drive through middle axle as described above. I can give more information about how they were converted by Hotspur Car (Sandringham Motor Co.) if anybody is interested. A photo attached, more available if you want.
I want more info!!!!!
Happy to beg too if needed and possibly PX a grumpy cat and a broken angle grinder
Mine being light freight approved is only €150 
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Netherlands blue paper.
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This is most likely the main reason why the UK stopped the rolling historic status at 31/12/72 in 1997 as they foresaw the potential problem with those wishing to evade tax by running an older car, but it is very much swings and round about's as far as the taxation goes as I see it from a different point of view.
You want your €2200/yr + fuel duty. But is it not feasible that the €2200 can be made up multiple times by furthering the industries that surround the hobby of off roading? I for one would rather see a small machine shop ticking over nicely doing wheel spacers and roll cages and selling off road tyres than have those same guys sitting on the dole waiting for the next social handout. Or is there something wrong with that? I see it highly possible that the idiotic €2200/yr can be far exceeded in terms of long term savings by allowing industry to flourish and maintain a work force whereby the game of cat and mouse can continue but everybody makes out of it not just the public getting shafted harder than Jordan in a strip club!!!
On the subject of speed traps, I love the Eindhoven ring, I counted something along the lines of 70 cameras and saw a mobile radar station too......