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My 110 Td5 (2005) is parked in storage, overseas, til next August (2017). Is it a good idea to remove the battery and charge it regularly during this period, or does this risk causing a problem with the electrics? (A solar charger is a possibility, I think, but the man taking care of my vehicle doesn't have one, and I don't think I can ask him to go looking for a suitable one. (He and my vehicle are in Uruguay, where such things are expensive, and I'm in Germany.) The battery was new two months ago. What to do for the best?

My 110 is at present parked until next August with each tyre on a piece of wood (I have no access to it). What are the best tyre pressures to maintain for this period?

I shall be storing my Defender for a little over four months in a fairly hot and somewhat humid climate (Uruguay, now summer). Battery care is already accounted for but are there any precautions I should take (for example maintain certain specific tyre pressures) or anything else? I'm not sure yet whether or not the vehicle will be under cover. Thanks.

There was recently a squealing and scraping from the area of a rear wheel. I discovered that a metal cover over the inside was twisted and damaged, so removed it. I also found that on the other side, the cover was missing. I've no idea since when. So, presumably, I should replace these. I don't know what the part is called so hope someone can put me wise on this, maybe with a part number, too. Is it a spare part that's easy to obtain? Thanks.

I hope this isn't a silly question but here goes. I have a 100Ah 900CCA starter battery connected in parallel (manual in-out switch) with a 115 Ah leisure battery. If I start the engine with the two batteries connected, is there any possibilitry of causing any damage/doing any harm to the leisure battery?

In my Defender Td5 (2005) I have two Delphi YDG100860 110 Ah / CCA 800 batteries. They are separated by a connector switch ("connected-not connected"). From the second I run a fridge all the time and a light and a 1000-W inverter some of the time. I want to buy one new battery (would like a Varta Dynamic 610 200, if it'll fit), which will be the starter battery. Thus I'd be using a new starter battery and the better of the two Delphis. Tayna batteries have told me I cannot do this. Only if I'm replacing both batteries can I use this Varta (two of them). If I replace only one, then I'd have to use (from their range) a YDG100860 Enduroline. "Failing to do so will damage both batteries", I'm told. Is this correct? Is it the case that batteries of two different makes/Ah/CCA cannot, in my set-up, be used together? I would like to get to the bottom of this. Thanks.

I would like to contact Defender owners living in Germany, preferably but not necessarily in or near Berlin.

I will shortly need a routine service for my LR Defender Td5 CSW (and also repair to a non- functioning heater) and would like to get in touch with a local (therefore, I hope, reasonably low-cost) local garage which is Land Rover experienced and capable, and totally reliable. I wish to find this garage somewhere between London and Brighton, or along the road (more or less) from Brighton to Dover. I am overseas at present but will soon be in England for a few days. To have an email address for the garage would be best. I can then get in touch and try to arrange what I need. Can anyone provide a recommendation, please?

Some time ago I came across a list of Land Rover repair garages around the world which are lower-cost alternatives to main dealers. I seem not to have kept it and now can't find it. Has anyone seen this, please, or a similar thing? i am in Austria now. Expect to soon be in northern Italy then the south of France. I need a heater repair for my 110 CSW.

Has anyone reading this had any dealings with AZALAI, a company who will convert a Defender to a small mobile home? We are looking for something along the line of these pictures. Other companies too, perhaps. Any suggestions/recommendations, please?

Our LR Defender Td5 CSW 110 (2005) has, according to the manual, a thing called a “heater” but it doesn’t heat, at all (nada, rien, nichts). In hot countries such as Oman and the UAE the a/c never really worked; we regarded that as just another feature of the Defender with which one up had to put. Now, though, we are in the midst of the European winter, at present in Austria, travelling in warm, thick, winter clothing, woollen hats and with ‘granny rugs’ over our legs. I was having a look at the 12-volt and mains-operated, blower-heaters on Amazon. Some, I wasn’t surprised to read (assuming their likely origin) were described by reviewers as an utter waste of money. Others seemed OK. We need a heater both when moving and when parked. I’m not sure just at the moment if our inverter, running off the second battery, is powerful enough to support a 2-kw heater. Anyway, wondered if heating off this kind might work, if anyone reading this has tried anything similar.

My Land Rover is a Defender Td5 110, CSW. From the region around where the ignition key goes in, I hear a noise somewhere between a tapping and a ticking. It's not there all the time,but most of the time. When it is there, it's not regular like the ticking of a clock, but irregular. At first I thought that some of the keys on the same ring were tapping against the surrounding plastic as they moved with the movement of the vehicle, but that isn't the case. Please, any ideas or suggestions?

I want to fit something double-bed style on top of my Defender 110 CSW: not a roof tent but something solid, a sort of added-on-top sleeping compartment, I could call it. What is available, what might it cost?

I googled “ferry Europe to UK” and got nearly 31,000,000 responses. For “ferry France to England” there are a mere ten million. Simply, I want to take my Land Rover Defender 110, a fairly long and tall vehicle, and myself, on any crossing from the Netherlands, Belgium or France to England, probably in mid August . I want to do it as cheaply as possible, night crossing no problem if that’s cheaper, prefer not to book but would do so if that saved money. Please, any advice? Which crossing should I take? Is there a particular crossing known to cost less than the others? The websites I’ve tried work in a way different to how I’d like them to work: they ask me for route, date and time (to which I’d like to answer “not important” /”don’t know exactly”/ “doesn’t matter”; “please tell me the best price and I’ll be at that port at the right time”.

Before leaving on our overland trip in Land Rover Td5 110, I wish to establish contact with UK spares suppliers who’d be able to ship out a spare part, should this be needed. Reliability obviously is key, also fair dealing. Any recommendations, please?