[Went to see a 110 CSW yesterday]

Mine was private off Ebay, the other one was in the local paper

Cheers, didn't know if there was some special ex-AA auction or something.

Oh hum, I'll keep looking

[Went to see a 110 CSW yesterday]

Thats well expensive a 94 sold locally for £4000 and i paid £6000 for my 2001 TD5 both ex AA

Out of interest where did you get your ex AA vehicles from?

[Went to see a 110 CSW yesterday]

You sound like your in a similar position to me, looking for a good 110 300tdi SW or CSW for sensible money, but although having knowledge from mags/forums no real hands no experience.

Oh well keep looking and as others had said someday the right one will turn up

That said anyone looking at getting rid of a 110 300tdi SW or CSW in the midlands area - let me know

[Si's great service]

Never order anything from Si (need to buy a LR first me thinks), but

and it's a big BUT I have had things sent via DHL, the last thing was something that the mrs ordered on line. returned home from work at lunch time - and note through the door - can't deliver no-one home need signing for.. Ok far enough not a problem. I phone my mrs (she is wanting this order - I'm sure you men will know what this is like) tell her the numbers - so she phones them to say my husband (that's me) will collect from your depot the day after tomorrow at lunch time. Ok no problems... next day same thing - I get home note through the door - no-one in ........... we shall return to sender. grrrr more phone calls etc (mrs getting v not happy) so next door go to collect... Do you have written confirmation that mrs XXXX would like you to collect this for her... ummm no, cause you never told her that I would need it on either the first or second time she phoned you to tell you I would collect.. Well here is the package but what proof do you have that you are married to her (well bu66er me I normally carry our wedding cert around with me, but today I just forgot).. oh hum - I had my driving license, and as the surnames and address matched they let me have the package......

[NO SORTOUTS IN 2008]

But where am I going spend my money this year with no sodbury..

[It really doesnt hurt you know]

Cheers, now we know

the Galaxy

aka chocolate bar

I though the Galaxy was in the universe - or was it in the garage having a service

as for the chocolate bar - that'll be in my belly

[It really doesnt hurt you know]

I agree, It's always refreshing to see someone else who isn't in the South West........

Jas

I'm not - midlander here - although originally from the South - is Dorset South or South West????

They really upset you, didn't they Les

Location is good, keeps up the north/south divide

I'm southern, the mrs is from yorkshire, which according to her is not northern it yorkshire......

I would like to see Members locations too, just the nearest town or city & County & Country will be more than sufficent, so don't be shy.

Just done...

[Anonymous members]

Also seems to be a lot of guest members (currently 121) compared to members (67) haven't noticed this before but did spot that if you log out and come back as a guest the Video Shack forum disappears

Or a perks of registering perhaps

Don't know if this is the case, but most the time (as I don't have anything useful to say) I'll just have a look around without loging in - this is especially the case at work - it's just a normal web page till I try to log in.

I'm guessing then most the time - I'll be just a guest member...

[2008 Range Rover Supercharged Workshop Manual]

CANbus is an industrial standard, there's loads of info out there and the bits are readily available from the likes of RS, you may be able to make your PC talk to your car without too much faffing about.

I have no idea about MOST and how feasible that is to interfere with, although I do have an arc-fusion fibre-optic splicer should the need arise

For a general overview of MOST see here

and in order to interfere with MOST, you will need to either have an optical spliter or link lead of some sort - plug it into some like this connect to your laptop (well desktop will work as well - but a little awkward for carrying around in the car) and then you are interfered.

How you talk to the car - and whether the rest of the MOST Bus would understand you is a completely different question.

[2008 Range Rover Supercharged Workshop Manual]

Thanks guys. I am familiar with the Forum you mentioned (and I registered) and I also found this morning (before I saw your posts) the LR technical forum. I paid for a one month membership to that site and I looked around and will download lots of stuff (well, I will download the entire thing!!).

I received the answer to my question by reading the electrical circuits and connectors on that LR tech site. What I wanted to do (past tense is not a grammatical mistake) is install a car pc with as much OEM as possible. Looks like this will not happen. There is no easy way to pipe video into the OEM touch screen display nor is there an easy way to tap the serial touch interface. Its all MOST, Can Bus, etc. This vehicle has more electronics than avionics on an aircraft.

The only way to accomplish my project would be to tap into MOST and the various buses for a completely automated solution. This is WAY above my head. I mean, I can read the schematics and pin outs and such.... but i am not writing software and drivers and building hardware bus interfaces. Well, not yet at least :-)

Thanks for the info...

Adam

I too, like (the other) Dave have spent quite some time playing around with the Infotainment System in L322's.

You mention that you had wish (past tense) a car pc, whilst keeping as much of the OEM as possible - I'm quite interested to know what aspects of the car pc features would would be wishing to use (over and above what the standard OEM system can do).

I'm guessing the idea was to be able to use the screen in the vehicle as the car pc screen and use the touch aspect of it as an input to the car pc..

Dave

[December 07 LRO]

I haven't seen it, but my general view is that a Land Rover magazine should be for and about Land Rover's. It should be suitable for all ages to read, which from the tone of the first (and second) post it would suggest that this is not the case.

[Calling PUMA Defender owners...]

Bah. If they had researched me I would have told them I wanted a gauge that showed how much effn fuel there was in the tank

I quite like my fuel guage to accurately reflect the tank. My other cars start showing the fuel used as soon as I fill up and I just draw satisfaction from the fact that the guage is working.

I agree with you, I want my gauge to show me what I have in the tank. It's now getting common for cars also to fake the temp gauge. As long as the engine temp is within a normal temp range, then the temp gauge will just point to the mid point and not move. Once it's out of that normal range (when hot) it will move up into the hot area, so you can go straight from normal (pointing to the mid point) to the lower hot area in one move. If my engine is getting hotter I want to know - even if it is just hotter in the normal range (i.e. am stuck in traffic - just driven up a big hill - etc)...

[Calling PUMA Defender owners...]

The fuel gauge seems even quirkier than the TD5's. Fill the tank and drive - the gauge needle doesn't move for ages and then goes slowly down to the halfway mark, once past halfway it makes a quick dash toward empty

Don't most of them do that? If I top off my Discovery V8 I can get about 80 miles before the gauge starts to move, but I am lucky to get 80 miles out of the last half of the tank...

Yep, most gauges do that - the reason behind the 'quirkier' fuel gauge is explained as follows.

Research has shown that the majority of drivers don't like, once having filled there vehicles with fuel, to see the fuel gauge needle start dropping as soon as the engine is running. Therefore the gauge is keep pointing to the max for a longer period of time so to give the impression that all the fuel you've just put into your tank is still there. After a number of miles - varies between car companies - but usually around 50 miles, the gauge will start to move from max (check it next time you fill the tank - but this really does depend on how you drive etc). Then the gauge works as normal till you start getting low, at this point it shows you have less in your tank than you really do - to try and encourge you to fill up before you get to all that muck in the bottom of your tank.

So what happens in real life is, you fill the tank up - gauge doesn't move. Then it has to move from max to min very quickly to show less fuel then you really have, but then normal can stay on min for a while.

[New ford engine]

I read that the 5 was part of an intended range of 4, 5 and 6 cyl engines based on the same main dimensions, intended for Freelander, Discovery and RR respectively. The four and six engines were sunk when BMW bought the company and used the Td4 from the 3 series and the TD6 from whatever BMW that came out of in the RR. Not sure if it was true but it made sense.

Yep - correct from what I've been told. The reason that SII disco had a TD5 was that the engine bay was too small for the TD6 that BMW brought to the table - and the TD4 wasn't man enough for the job - oh and they had already started the development of the TD5 engine ...

[TDV8 for use in a Raid Defender....]

Theres a very clever chappie (Known as Baldrick) who does all sorts of wiring probs etc for RRs generally,

I saw him recently and he was telling me the tale he had on a very modern RR which has a 'network system' bulit into the electrics making diagnostics and repairs a nightmare, not sure what he called the wiring loom, but it was 'fibres' rather than 'wires', and again he had a mare sorting it out (main delaer called him in )

His comment was that the entire system was interdependant and resisted 'fiddling', ie the engine wouldn't work without the full network in place and even then he has to then set everything via a PC with the correct codes before it would talk to each unit............ and hence run.

I would do some research to see if this technology has 'leaked' into TDV8s if so you have some fun ahead ?

Nige

Yep, all that is on - you could choose between the many electrical databuses that are currently on a TDV8 - and an optical one for the Infotainment (radio, sat nav etc). It is technically true that you need to have all of the system in place for it to work correctly, and for it to be all correctly coded (after all the car needs to know what it is and what it has fitted).

You can get it to work by faking parts of the system to the remainder of the vehicle. I do this all the time - I suppose I should say I work for Land Rover and test certain aspects of the electrical/optical system - all you need is the correct software, hardware interface and the knowledge/configs to make it all work. The software and hardware interfaces you can buy over the counter, the knowledge/configs - well it's more than my job is worth... and even then I only know a very small part - and you know what they say about alittle bit of knowledge...

Enjoy

Dave

[Four axle stands]

I've had my old SIII LWB on four axle stands before. Would agree with all the advice already given.

I used to jack up and then support each corner in turn. Once you have more than one corner up on axle stands, it's a good idea to re-check all stands. I used to find that on jacking up the rear of the vehicle (with the front already on stands) the front stands did move alittle.

And yep, once all up leave the wheels on and give it a good shove - as said better it falls off at that point that with you under it.