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Woo hoo, I'm famous! Yes they are X-Lites. Excellent build quality and they're as tough old boots. Functionally though they can be a bit iffy depending what bulbs you go for and where you put them. I have a set of spots and a set of fogs mounted side by side. The spots are great but the fogs are useless mounted up there, all they illuminate is my bonnet.

When it's powered off the heads are automatically parked. Modern laptop hard drives are pretty resilient these days. Of course if you're really worried about it just buy an Asus Eee PC , The hard disk is solid state so no amount of bumping and rattling will cause issues for that. Of course you would loose the "toughness" of the tough book, but then you could buy about 10 Asus Eee PC's the price of a typical Toughbook...

I've also been shopping for a "Mudpod" today in which I'm planning to stick a duplicate light cluster from a standard Defender dash. I've a motolita steering wheel which obscures a few lights already so wanted duplicate it all anyway. Yeh, I doubt it's metric too, but I'll stick a converter on it all being well.

Thanks for all the excellent info. The chances of me ever getting round to trying to waterproofing this beast are extremely slim so I've gone down the simpler electrical route. I've gone for an 80psi VDO gauge with a Sender that has additional contacts for a warning light. Cheers

Thanks for the reply Jon. The www.egauges.com website looks excellent and as you say considerably cheaper than any UK suppliers I've seen. Lots of good info there too.

I'm looking to stick an Oil Pressure gauge on my 4.0 EFI 50th 90 and have a small selection of questions. 1> Electric or Capillary, is there any particular advantage of one over the other? I'm thinking electric is likely to be a lot easier to fit but is there a much advantage in capillary that would make the extra work worthwhile? 2> Looking through a few different companies that sell gauges I see you can get them rated to different pressures. What should the nominal pressure be on a 4.0 efi V8? 3> Fitting the sender unit? Any suggestions on a good spot, or should I look to replace the existing sender with some kind of dual system that can do both the dash light and the gauge? 4> The reason I want to install an Oil Pressure gauge is that my 90 was fettled by Overfinch a few years prior to my buying it. As it's running beyond it's original remit and getting a little long in the tooth (10 years and 80k miles) I'd prefer to keep a closer eye on things rather than reply on just the warning light. Should I also be keeping an eye on Oil Temperature? I've seen a few gauges that combine both Pressure and Temperature, is it worth the extra £30-£40 to display both? Any advice or comments would be appreciated.

Storage and speed are likely to be your biggest issues if you stick XP on it. The reason it runs Linux isn't just to avoid the cost of M$, Linux runs a lot faster on it. In terms of storage 16gb isn't a lot to get excited about these days, by the time you've stuck MemoryMap on as well as XP it won't have a lot of room left. I realise it's 3x the price but personally I use one of these Ebay Link, it's a fully functioning Laptop with everything you're likely to need, and it'll still be useful when you take it out of the truck. Great for travelling too, very light.

Notice the 110 is the only one they got moving again

It was a great car, but if I go down that route again it'll probably be an RS6. With the state of the traffic laws in the UK though I'm more inclined to stick with Land Rovers as a daily car and have something like a Caterham for being a hooligan on the unrestricted roads at home.

I recently sold my Audi S8 for exactly that reason. It was just over 2 meters wide and just under 5 meters long. They're a beast of a car and a nightmare in Tesco's car park. Never had any complaints from people but I did get a few dings in the door where people had obviously struggled to get in their cars. It got to the point where I usually parked right at the bottom of the car park where it's empty and just took up 2 spaces. Keeping in mind each body panel is aluminium and has to be hand finished by Audi as a special order it what one of the biggest reasons for getting rid of it. Since I got rid I've been using my 90 as a daily driver and it's a breath of fresh air in car parks!

I think the Road Angel Navigator 7000 does pretty much everything you're after. http://www.road-angel.co.uk/road_angel_nav..._adventurer.asp Has top down street level navigation like Tom Tom, allows route recording like the Garmin and also runs Memory Map straight off the SD card. Should get change out of £300 for it and it comes complete with a copy of Memory Map for the PC, only includes maps for National Parks though. Also alerts you when you're approaching a Constabulary Cash Point but that's less of a concern in a Land Rover I've been looking for something along these lines for a while and this is the best option I've seen so far.

Don't rule out Linux either, it's not just for expert geeks. Ubuntu is very easy to use if you're familiar with Windows, it's completely free and comes pre-installed with 99% of the software the average user will ever need. If you've ever been tempted to give it a go now is the time. In terms of speed it beats any version of Windows by a country mile. Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/ download a copy for free (approx 700mb) and burn it to a CD. Boot off the CD and you can try out most stuff without touching your existing installation of windows. If you decide to give it a go there's a desktop shortcut that will install it, and you can install it whilst leaving your windows installation in place and choose which OS to boot from.

Depends where you buy your PC from really. Dell and HP are both happy to provide new PC's with XP preinstalled. If you buy from a local shop or PC World they should also be happy to provide you with XP pre-installed. Most PC sellers take the view that if the customer wants it then Microsoft can bugger off, hence the big u-turn some months ago when MS had to start supplying new OEM licences again.

I design desktop platforms for large corporations and governments. As a home/small business user you might have slightly different requirements but here's a quick run down of my experience so far. Vista has some very nice touches and clear security improvements over Windows XP. However it also brings with it a staggering array of issues and problems. The system requirements are pretty horrific for a start. It will run on a basic P4 single core machine with 512mb RAM, but it'll run like a 3 legged dog. As a minimum I'd suggest Pentium Core2 Duo with 2gb RAM, plus a 256mb 3D graphics card. Once into the OS there a few important things that have issues, not least of which is copying, moving and deleting files, which is a fairly fundamental thing for an operating system and several patches down the road Microsoft still haven't got right. Top of my personal niggles list is that Vista and Office 2007 assume too much. It's constantly trying to think ahead of you and push you down the road it thinks you want to go down. The result of this is that you spend twice as much time trying to figure out how to make it do what you want it to do rather than what it thinks you want to do. XP SP2 I would say is finally at a point where it works well and is stable and is pretty secure. Stick XP SP2 on the machine spec above and it will absolutely fly along. Keep in mind that Microsoft are proposing to cut support for XP SP1 in October this year, simply put this means they'll stop producing patches for it. SP2 will continue for the foreseeable future. My advice would be go with Windows XP service pack 2 on a new machine unless you have a specific need for Vista, ie: business critical software that will only run on Vista. Save money on the OS and spend it on the best hardware you can afford and a few more beer tokens instead.

Unfortunately it's a 50th Anniversary Auto, so center seat isn't an option.

Nope, cubby box. Spoken to Land Rover spares today and foward facing seats in the new defender are available as a sparable part at £350+vat for the complete kit. My Stealers are not the cheapest though so ringing round a few places might be the best idea. It's certainly better than the £550ish that Exmoore Trim want.

Yeh, I suggested that, and that my missus should sit in the back... She didn't reply as such, just glanced at me with the "are you really that stupid or just pretending" look. The next obvious solution is to leave her behind and the little one and I can go out and play instead!

I'm after a suitable child seat for the back of my 90 for my 4yr old. It's currently got side facing seats with lap belts. I've seen the £500+ offering from Exmoore Trim, but seriously I'll ferry her around in Taxi's before I pay out £500+ for one seat! Does anyone have any suggestions for a suitable alternative. Ideally I'd prefer to stay with the existing seats as she doesn't go in the Landy very often anyway, so any permanent alterations would be a bit of a waste.

Suggesting that the magazine "has loads of money" and therefore can afford to see this run through to the bitter end is a little narrow minded. The magazine is a business at the end of the day. They're in it to make a profit and nothing else. Tying up potentially tens of thousands of pounds in legal costs when there is no guarantee you're going to win would be an extremely foolish thing to do. For the sake of £3000 any solicitor worth his salt would simply advise them to either pay up in full or simply to offer a contribution towards the cost in exchange for a signed statement waiving their right to take further legal action. On top of everything else this is also very bad publicity for LRM and any LRM organised events.