Nigelw
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Oh and lest I forget that should they find something wrong then it will be a £550 fine and 6 points on the license, driving without insurance as it is not road worthy in the eyes of the law. So potentially you could end up an instant £100 in cash out of pocket and a whole lot more in the long run with the points etc,.
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If I were to be the OP in this case then I think I would "want" to go down the IVA route due to the variation in peoples interpretations of the rules and mods to this truck, not that there is anything wrong or too far out of place but also knowing as I do that road side stop by the po-po can turn into a long drawn out affair if they have a bee in their bonnet about something, that test and official paperwork surrounding it tells them,
1) it is legal.
2) the owner has had the fore thought to have it examined by officials who deem it to be road worthy.
For peace of mind £450 is nothing compared with the hassle of seizure and then having the burden of showing and supplying proof that it is a legal road worthy vehicle.
Sorry to seem as though I am scare mongering but sometimes you have to be honest and open with the authorities, they make the rules, and others can try to put their own interpretations of them forward, but a signed and stamped official document is proof, not just one mans opinion, whether he is right or wrong, just my honest opinion.
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I have a peugeot Partner van with almost the same symptoms.
Occasionally when started the engine dies immediately. When I try restart it it just continues to turn over and over without firing. I have noticed on these occasions that the glow plug heater light is not illuminated on the dash board. If I get out of the car and lock it then reopen it with the key fob it starts most times. However at that stage sometimes the lovely M and S lights blink and I am confined to limp home mode. If I again lock the car and start it most times it starts normally.
I have a thread in the international forum about it, although most seem to believe it to be a dry solder joint as my particular problem has an addition that the gauges die and the din from the engine is horrendous, so it also has something to do with the EDC fitted to this pile of junk.
For your problem I would actually suggest putting it on a test book as it could well be an immobiliser fault or something as simple as the battery in the fob.
Not sure if all your components are all linked in the BECM??? They are not unknown to fail or at least be affected by water ingress from condensation caused by a leaky something or deep wading.
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I guess I'm a little late to the party here.
But for me it depends on the exact vehicle in question, ie how it's stock suspension works to begin with. And the sort of terrain you want to drive on.
Personally I think a medium to well setup suspension system and an off road biased TCS is all I need. Lockers sound great in theory, but I can count on 1 hand the times I'd have truly "needed" one.
I am picking my way through this as it is mainly for my Discovery, but others will find the discussion a good source of inspiration for what ever they are driving.
I can think of a good few occasions where Diff locks would have seen me out of interesting recovery situations where I have had to be winched out, winched up, and winched back over when I slid sideways into a gulley and needed pulled back over onto my wheels enough to drive out and that could have been avoided had my back axle had a locker as the weight was on the down hill wheel and the up hill wheels just broke traction due to not enough weight on them and it was a bump when I came to a stop, I do however put most of it down to youthful stupidity and lack of experience for getting into those situations in the first place.
But just because I got older and wiser does not mean I am willing to pass up a bit of fun on a play day or get back to the real world after exploring some off the beaten track scenery.
I read through the D44 stuff regards the one-link, kind of miffed as to the lacking of any real discussion but there was a lot of bashing going on!!!
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I'm sure this is mechanically very nice... but...
Appeared here once before on post #822
A month has gone by and it is still for sale, what a surprise
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How much of it do you have? Pump, pipes, box etc,.
Might be worth having a trawl through the world of "members vehicles" as it may well be covered in a build thread?
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The SVA police will be along to shoot me shortly
Perhaps the OP could start a thread in the "safe zone" so the topic of the test "who's name we cannot mention" can be discussed further so we can help him find a safe and legal way forward, it might be of enormous help to others to see what faults he has made and what he needs to do to rectify them.
On a side note, I really like it
Well done 
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People who just take TPF & T are rated a higher risk.
This I don't understand? How can they be any higher risk than any other road user? I thought it would bear down to the potential payout from a claim, where by a TP cover would be accident damage only, TPFT would cover accidents, theft and fire damage where as fully comprehensive covers just about everything with inclusions for cargo and often towed trailers and their cargo, so I would have thought it went on the potential payouts and the risk was associated with the driver only for TP and the location/security implementation for the rest, or am I missing something?
I would hardly want to insure a 1.1 mk2 Fiesta fully comp at a higher premium due to it being regarded as an easy target for theft, so would only want TP cover when I drive it therefore meaning any potential risk is based on my driving and not my post code.
Not sure I get how it is supposed to work this insurance system, anyone care to elaborate for this old fashioned thinking farmer
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You need a high powered air rifle and some hollow point slugs for them eeejits, first their car then them as they go for the off.
Good job you got CCTV CW!!!
Hope you still got a truck in the morning mate!!!!
You got a DISKLOK and some X-Defend goodies bolted on her? Might need them!!!
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How about this as an idea: third part insurance through the DVLA, paid via fuel duty. That way, no-one would be uninsured. Fast or heavy vehicles have more momentum, so their increased fuel consumption offsets the higher costs of their accidents, and the greater one's annual mileage, the more risk you pose but the more fuel you're buying, so it's self levelling. The only trouble is that it wouldn't be adjustable for criteria such as age, driving history and so on, but if you had to swipe your driving licence and ANPR (to prevent the fraudulent use of others' licences) before the fuel duty was calculated, algorithms could be included so that low risk drivers paid less fuel duty per gallon than new or young drivers or those with significant claims histories. Additional levels of insurance like fire, theft or comprehensive would be through the existing separate system.
It's not perfect, but it's a system which should ensure every moving car is insured and should be feasible to make reliable and also economical, cutting down on false third party claims - I suspect fewer people would claim whiplash and such if they were claiming against a government agency rather than an insurance company, and the hoops to jump through are invariably more for a govt agency. Cutting down of the fraud should lower premiums, and the total duty should be demonstrated to run the system at cost, not for profit to subsidise other taxes.
By far the most sensible suggestion I have ever heard involving insurance!!!! You should run for PM
Then again if there were serious penalties like having a limb cut off under the current system you can still bet your life earnings that some idiot would still drive without!!!
I do think third party only insurance should be cheaper as it only covers accidents, but I had some rather shocking quotes that were stupid in my view as it was a whole £35/pa more to insure fully comp, how can that be
and I even had one quote that put TP more expensive than TPFT, again where is the logic there? If you are insured TP then there can only ever be claims for accidents, so why is it a similar price to TPFT and only marginally cheaper than fully comp? -
I would like to bend them in both ways. Thanks for the info.
I can't say what entered my head when I read that post
But as Jamie says look at a P38 radius arm
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I was not so impressed as there was no real demonstration of flex just clambering over a log and that could have been done with big tyres and a chopped back front end. Would have been nice to have seen it on flex ramps or like bills Wyld Fing where one front wheel climbed a vertical tree.
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Niels has 35" creepy crawlers on his YJ, 80Kph tops anything more is scary!!! His father has a Patrol on 33" KM2s and happy as a pig in poop sitting at 120Kph on the highway and nothing is a problem for them, not sure if it is just because they are 2" smaller or what but the creepy's are horrid on the road!
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Well, this thread has inspired me to sort the front suspension on my truck out, I know it is too stiff, time to get my thinking cap on!
Glad something was achieved by this thread
When I was changing the front shocks I was actually quite surprised by how much travel there actually is on the standard setup, I plan on lockers front and rear on this truck but I was keen to see what folk thought on the whole traction advantage front, whether suspension was equal to lockers in some respects?
The only thing I would want more from the front end is good articulation without stuffing the taller tyres through the inner arches, suppose I will be scouring the various threads around here to see what can be achieved without too much modification, whether it be more flexible bushings or what I am not sure but I am also considering ride height too as the only reason to go higher is to clear the tyres.
I am starting to see an end to getting the truck on the road now and as we get closer to that day my head is wandering towards wondering how far we actually want to go with this build? I am not so keen as to want to run two trucks so it kind of has to be compromises on some bits.
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"Glued" or "bonded" grp is no where near as strong as a moulded section. I knew you had a disco that is why I gave the reply I did.
Mike
I know you knew Mike
Question is, as you are the man for GRP(there is a strong rumor
) is it possible to mould the front end from the bulkhead forward? What would it consist of? 3 pieces I assume inner arches both sides and integrated light boxes and slam panel? -
On a Defender the front inner wings have no structural function at all, and on post 2009 vehicles are moulded plastic anyway. There's no reason not to make them completely from GRP (forget the steel frame) except that if you can buy a pair of plastic ones it will save you all the hassle.
Sorry Nick, should have mentioned it was for a Discovery and not a Defender.
I have been wondering this all evening and wonder if the GRP could be cut to shape as per say a set of inner wings from YRM and then "glued/bonded" together to make an inner wing, light box and slam panel, yes I know this is a body mount but as I have seen on my own truck that the inner wings are nothing more than window dressing as there is not a lot of real strength in them and seeing how easily they buckle I see absolutely no reason not to have then in GRP or fiber glass.
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Been contemplating this the last few days as I am ever closer to actually having the first of the two inner wings rebuilt and refitted, but can anyone enlighten me as to why it couldn't be made in GRP or fiber glass around a steel rod frame?
I was thinking about weight saving too but also the other implication that it won't rot away to nothing.
Or should I put the bottle back on the shelf?
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Standard?
If it's a leather covered steering wheel as fitted to a 300 ES then it's 38.5cm (385mm)
I got a spare standard of each in my spare room and measured them both
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Disco Steering wheel 410mm to outside edge, same diameter 200 and 300.
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Poll, vote and tell us why you would rather have one or the other?
Trick suspension with massive travel or transverse diff locks and medium travel suspension?
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I was thinking along the same lines Daan, new BH and chassis then it's just swapping stuff over, although I did go one further and think about S/H axles and building up a rolling chassis with BH first and that would really speed things up!
Won't discuss my own build but I am a full year into it now and getting closer to a point where it can go for the safety test but sometimes it still feels like a million miles away!!! I saw a project Defender two weeks back, basically everything just lobbed in the back of the loosely fitted H/top, the guy was planning on doing it within 6months, and sold it on after 2yrs as life just kept getting in the way as it does, money and this, that and the other. I nearly bought it, then SWMBO kicked me in the leg and said if it turned up on our farm she was gonna aim a little bit higher and I thought better of it!!
I have been watching the thread by Western and think he has it pinned for a long weekend but he is only chassis swapping I think?
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I had two hits by uninsured drivers, both hit the 109 and both cars got written off seems NATO hitch on the back makes a lasting impression on an old Clio and the home made 4"x4"x1/4" home made H/D front bumper fended off an A-hole in an Escort just nicely, I thought the slight scuffing of the nr/side wing just added patina to my truck
Although in all seriousness there does need to be some sort of rule making/adjusting as far as insurance goes as I just can not for the life of me understand how anyone under the age of 21 can get insurance these days
There was a kid next door to mum, 18yrs old with his first car a 1.2 1997 Fiesta no mods nothing just TPFT cover and they wanted £2,350, ok he lives on Leighpark but surely to god that is £2000 more than he paid for the car 
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Would replace thermostat first to ensure the block is getting up to temp, but other than that it can be the case that the heater can draw sufficient heat off the engine to keep it cool, maybe a rad muff for winter but would be more inclined to remove the viscous fan and keep it and the spanner in the boot should it be needed but over winter more than likely not!
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My money is on the thermostat.
88 degree stat should be perfect, and as far as the viscous fan goes it shouldn't make that much difference as the stat controls the water temp before it gets to the rad where it will cool and the heater is a sort of bypass of the rad and sends hot water straight to the heater matrix and into the cab before getting cooled in the rad.
Or you could be brave and whip the viscous off for the winter but my money is still on the stat.
Well done 
and I even had one quote that put TP more expensive than TPFT, again where is the logic there? If you are insured TP then there can only ever be claims for accidents, so why is it a similar price to TPFT and only marginally cheaper than fully comp?
) is it possible to mould the front end from the bulkhead forward? What would it consist of? 3 pieces I assume inner arches both sides and integrated light boxes and slam panel?
No wonder there are so many uninsured's out there, not trying to justify it at all!!!
The "Pass the Bucket" 4x4 For Sale on Ebay Thread
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Actually very impressed by that
Although it does remind me of a Hi-lux that we built up as a sprayer and a fert spreader with extreme floaty tyres on when I worked on the farm, it was hydraulic drive too so just a spool lever in the cab.