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£2,000-£3,000 for the particulate filter. Of all the companies listed by TFL as 'approved' fitter NONE have ever fitted one to a Land Rover. Convert to V8, gas it then get congestion charge exemption too!

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Whatever price you set it will be too high. If you say £300 then people will say it should cost no more than £200, if you say £200 they will argue it should only be £100. Then you get the jokers who reckon they can make it themselves for £20 in the garage. Unless you have identified a specific market I wouldn't bother. A set of deflators and a good compressor can be bought for less than £100. Not sure who needs on-the-move activation so desperately that they can't take 10 mins to do it manually.

No-one can really tell you what it costs to live on the road, we did a trip to Poland in the summer and spent just about £300 in total (fuel and groceries) for a 3,500km trip 4 bags of shopping at a rural Polish supermarket was just £8, the same here would probably be over £50

Hi The Azalai will fit into a HI-CUBE container. These are higher than normal and not available for all routes and all time-slots. But so far we've had no problems getting quotes for the destinations on our wishlist. As for headroom, with the roof up there is over 7ft headroom at the back. There is also room for me to sit at the table with the roof down (I'm 6'4") and you can also sleep 4 even with the roof down. I have to admit that at today's prices the Azalai would be out of our price bracket too. We were fortunate enough to order it over three years ago when the Euro was worthless and we also did a bit of paper shuffling to save donating a further 19% in VAT to the French Government. One advantage is that it will hold its resale value. So far only one has been sold 2nd-hand and it went for 80,000 Euros (same spec as mine) The long waiting list in France (14 months) and UK (9 months) will help maintain this.

Hi Neil. I sent you an email. It's my Azalai that'll be on the OEC stand (thanks to the others for saying you can crawl all over it!!!) But I'd also like to reiterate what mmgemini said, have a look at the vehicles that have already done what you're planning and talk to their owners. There are far too many companies who sell stuff that they have never actually used in the field. Before you buy anything ask the person selling it where was the last place they had to use it. As I said, too many people selling stuff from a catalogue with no idea why its any good. I'll be at the show and I'd be happy to talk you through the pros and cons of an Azalai conversion.

A few years ago I met the bloke who made that MG, the first show he took it to he was physically assaulted by an irrate MG enthusiast.

A guy off the Difflock Forum visited their premises after waiting a while for his tyre (he only wanted one!) and said the place was empty. This is their new 'premises' not their original base in Leek Last I heard they were touting the business around to try and get someone to buy it. I reckon it would be unwise to pay upfront for anything at the moment.

The problem if you're only visiting is transport, are you flying in or driving? Gigglepin is in the south but hardly 'close' to London. I'm on the outskirts of London and it takes me 30 minutes to drive to him, there is a train station nearby but you'll need to get a taxi too. Same for Autopost, they are possibly the most central but not really a place you'd just go to browse. I can't think of anyone worth a visit just for the sake of it. You COULD go to Scorpion if you're just looking, they have lots of shiny stuff. London isn't the most Land Rover friendly place to visit, do the tourist stuff instead.

Cheapest I can find is 95p litre at both Waitrose and LIDL, Sainsburys oil has gone up 20p/litre in the last month alone - about the same as diesel!

WARNING: anything with a 'Land Rover' label is immediately double the cost of similar products for other markets. I tend to look in the motorhome spares section of ebay. I bought 4 map pockets for £3 each and they are MUCH better made than the ebay reference above. and large enough to hold an A4 sheet (12 inches x 8 inches) Mobile Storage Systems ones are also very good quality and they also have a long thin one that fits on the front of the seatbox in a Defender. I also bought a set of 4 cup holders from a VW spares company for £4 each. The sold the EXACT same holder for £10 in the Land Rover section of Ebay just by listing is as a 'land rover cup holder' with a picture of it on the dash of a Defender.

I wanted to view a Defender 130 he had advertised in LRO last year. He was very unhelpful on the phone and was too busy to meet me 'for a few weeks' I bought a 130 from elsewhere.

I got these off Ebay after my genuine LR ones broke There's no way to get a wrench on without the 'key'

Thanks again for the comments and feedback. We are absorbing it all. Unfortunately the last minute technical glitches kind of monopolised our time and a few errors crept in while our backs were turned. We will be keeping both the standard PDF and the digital viewer versions. The digital one will allow us to add video an other fancy stuff later on but we know that people still like the plain PDF version too. Regarding the advertising it won't be so sparse in future issues, or at least I hope not otherwise we can't afford to keep doing it. But you won't ever find that over 50% of the book is ads like some of the print mags are currently running. Lots more new articles to come and it should be out on the first Monday of every month. Cheers Simon Diff Mag Editor