davie

Oooops should have added they were at 2's i had on my disco - very good memory just short!

Simple answer - dont buy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also had them on a 200tdi disco - lovely on the road but as soon as even close to mud or wet areas then you best hope there is somebody to recover you once stuck - truly hopeless tyres!

Ahh there is a god - sooo glad to see somebody else breaking a vice on a seemingly little task - now on my third vice, each one getting progressively larger and hopefully harder to break!!!!! Famous last words i know!!

my personal favourite method to try and reduce emmisions - about 20 - 30 miles driving as hard as i dare in 3rd or 4th gear,,,get the engine really working hard up the biggest hills you can find nearby and then get test,,,,god knows my 200 tdi smoked enough and always managed to scrape through after that tender loving driving!

Just made me remember a ? i was going to ask........ Recently bought a defender also and spent a while finding the fuel filter - next thought was how to remove it for changing? Maybe a silly question but worth asking before i go breaking something expensive

Soooooooooo not jealous or anything - very nice indeed!!!!!!!

Oooopd Duhh me i forgot to say the wheel arch extensions are same colour as body, not the black rubber ones. All the usual lovely green. Davie

The conical adaptor i bought is quite small and the idea is the very fine point of it pokes inside the nipple onto the bearing - same principle as the one on snap on site. I use it with the metal tube on grease gun so i can push it on easily without the flexy tube bending all over the place. The nipple that is most difficult to reach is one nearest the handbrake drum but adaptor works ok there.

I had roughly same problem - always on the nipple nearest handbrake drum, turns out its to do with the size of the yokes on u/k I bought a conical adapter from local motor factor since i was on holiday and had time to go shopping but Snap On do a suitable part on their web site, its a needle point extension for grease gun, my local garage has one and its perfect

Some delightful learner driver decided tonight to test the strength of my 90 - guess who lost!!!!! the lil white car with L plates on. Was overtaking a line of slow moving traffic when the car i was alongside opted to overtake - umm i was currently occupying that space on road as they moved right! End result by time i got stopped and turned around the lil car on L plates has vanished and i have some marks on a shiny 03 90,,,, T cut has taken care of marks on metal but i cant seem to get rid of the marks from the wing mirror i think on the wheel arch extensions type plastics - Sooooooo want to get rid of these as rest of paint is perfect ( so far). Any ideas???????????/ Cheers all in hope of some brilliant solutions.

sounds like your trailer indicator work is working perfectly to me - did exactly the same on my 200 tdi disco and does same on my 2003 90 - guess i would be more worried if it didnt do that!!!

My 200 tdi disco passed its mot with extensive rot all round the rear. was so bad when you opened boot door and looked down you could see the road real clearly + the rear bumper was just clinging on and no more with one bolt only half done up due to a rotten/twisted body mount in the road for tightening it up....also the door hinges had a snapped bolt in there. Got the mot tester on an extrememly busy sat morning so it was rushed through.........worked for 2 years like that. Definetly blind luck i reckon!!!!!!!!

I loved my 200 tdi disco for towing, even if it was a lil knackered with 157 000 miles on it, slowed down a bit going up hills until a tweak on the fuel pump sorted that out. Seemed to tow pretty well regardless of what unsympathetic load weight i gave it.................pity the wheel bearings and suspension units on my trailer didnt do the same!

Strange i know, never did figure out why AT's were destroyed quicker than the MT's on road - just put it down to my driving in the end

I can recommend against the yokohama geolander at2 type tyre - they hold real nice in the dry but are nothing short of terrifying in the wet and totally useless in even the lightest of off road stuff. I am running the bfg mud on the road for all uses and so far seem to be perfect, i used to run the bfg all terrains on road but found they wore out too quickly.

Ooops guess i should have included what my uses were - good job there are more awake people than me around Its a mix of self recovery, pulling over the odd tree in my garden in the name of forestry and at my work for pulling lawn maintenence machinery up and down sets of steps occasionaly. Did have a T Max 9500 on last landy but found it rattled like mad from new and its solenoids werent exactly weather proof for a deluxe aberdeenshire winter ( lots of salt)

Hi All, Thought i would start a new topic on winches as i am looking to buy one sometime soon. I have been looking at some of the stuff from Warn - T Max - Britpart - Superwinch. All electric. Its to fit a 2003 td5 90 i recently bought ( huge change from 200tdi disco). I reckon this would be best place for advice.

Hi All, First post here - so bets on i make endless typos,, I personally recommend Teng tools for all uses - usually by destruction testing method, they aint broken on me yet so have to last.