BoatBuoy

Welcome. Sounds like you have cash to burn, so fit a GKN overdrive to give you motorway performance, but not affecting your offroad / towing. Willl be better geared. I run a 110 TD5 on 50/50 muds and no, you won't be able to hear the radio at motorway sppeds, although an overdrive might help with this. I really like the Electronic Traction Control, and could help you extract yourself from the beach if you have issues, especially as the Shogun probably has a locking rear diff and the 110 won't. Air-con models are a bit cramped, but again I like the option. I've not seen the seat runners, but heard good reviews but maybe a little expensive for what they are. But then again, what''s your time worth trying to make them?! My advice really would be poach a loaner from a dealer for the weekend or hire one from SHB 4x4 just to see if you can put up with the lack of comfort, before you shell out a load of cash on one. Extra's wise, just fit a EP9 superwinch with plasma on a standard plain winch bumper, and you with have understated non-chav bling, that will work when you need it too. That is all a road going defender should have, along with Wolf wheel rims. So what boat do you have then? Cheers, Keef.

Quite a handy link if you haven't seen it. http://members.shaw.ca/jbarge/springinfo.html

Yup welding cable is ideal for the job. Very flexiable & cheap. Also the X-eng split charge is a good buy.

Is it level when you sit in it? The extra spring in the drivers side is supposed to allow for the driver.

I did read somewhere once about jabbing the brake pedal 10 times in quick succession turned ETC off until the engine was next restarted, but I'm not sure if that was a tiddle take... The ETC is excellent in my view. Regularly kicks in offroad on the heavily laden works 110, but more imortantly is quite useful for burning off chav's in nova's on wet roads.

A tad late I know, but if you have taken your power and earth of the live feed in the dash you may find you get interference and poor reception when you run other dash electrics especially charging something using the cigarette lighter. I have this problem on the works TD5 and on my old 90. I put a completely independent fused feed in when I fitted one to another LR and didn't have any interfence problems.

What's yer budget. I used to live 3 miles out of St Austell. Never stayed in the hotels there, but there is a travelodge there, or at the other end of the scale, there are slightly flashier hotels in "Carlyon Bay", about a mile out of town. Charlestown is worth a look if you like square sail ships, there are generally 1-3 of the beasties in. Fowey and Mevagissey are worth a walkaround too, if you like the smell of seaweed.

If it's a 1985, depends on what the conversion is like, and state of the chassis bulkhead etc. £2000-2500 I'd say. Is only a hardtop after all. The least sort-after of all 90s.

Stage-discharge over a weir 1/2 mile downstream, callibrated by one of these (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler):

4 m^3/s was flowing down the river. Quite a bit!

And again!

Stupid slow website and IE7 that is't updating and crashing on me!

My N35 will take upto 1GB sd cards. I have a 2gb from the works hp hx4700 that will not work in it. Currently running 1 region of MM2004 plus load of 1:25k & tomtom on the 1Gb.

Duh... forgot, will do it in the morning!

If I remember, I'll have a look tomorrow, and I'll tell you how much water was flowing through there then. That's one of our flow guaging sites. Any guesses as to how many m^3 / S going through?

These online petitions are only there to give people the idea that their opinion matters and is being listened to. In reality it means and will do spaff all.

I took 2 of the works landies to the bowerings animal feed place on the docks. Front, rear, total mass done on the scales. £2.97 per vehicle. A SV land rover warn winch on the front of a series II disco and 2 passenger puts it smack on the maximum rating for the axle.

Any of you on here from that club today... (BLROC even.... can not edit the title...) Saw a convoy of Landies trundling along outside Keynsham, then off down a muddy lane. I was the white 110 you were all holding up whilst I was trying to get to a flooding incident... Looks like you were having fun though....

But it is at this point where you will alway be looking for clouds of smoke in your left mirror.

Dear Claims Direct...

So what would you do? It is possible to pick up another TD unit for £300-600, but that will just be another time bomb. Then you need to fit it. To be honnest, if you aren't a good mechanic or know of one, then it is very expensive to own an older Land Rover... especially pre-tdi, and now early tdi's too. I know you get good ones, but there are many knackered ones now.

If you are a good mechanic rebuild it yourself. Don't waste money sticking a TD in to a garage. Trust me, I speak from experience.

I've seen one from a South West Water 130 that had torn itself apart. Done a good job there! I'd just fit another, if its lasted 65k, then that ain't too bad, you've had your money's worth.

I just use tvguide.co.uk seems to do the job & free.

An honnest person cannot cheat paying HMRC, Council Tax, or the DVLA. Pay the fine and claim it back later. It will save the fine getting larger, which it will. Just because one telephone operator grants you an extension, it doesn't mean it actually exists.