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3 Tab screen is a generic replacement screen - OEM (factory) front heated screens have only 2 tabs. So here's the question - If you have wiring for a 2 tab screen ( ie factory wiring) what happend when Autofit want to give you a 3 tab screen?

The requested topic does not exist. I think it's a bad link maybe?

A few heated front screens on offer, and a fair few people doing "plug and play" wiring kits. I know that some skilled person on here has drawn up a "DIY" wiring diagram, but when you price up all the components and postage from each of the suppliers (ouch) it cost the same as a complete kit with wires all fitted ready to go. The trouble is that the screens are all 2 tab, and the plug and play kits for my fascia/switch style (06MY) are for 3 tab. Can I fit a 2 tab heated front screen and just use 2 of the feed wires? I would leave the thiird wire wrapped in insul tape for the day when the heated screen gets replaced by Autoglass with a 3 tabber. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the scans. Very useful.

Thanks James & Ralph. Owners manual is missing. Haynes is on the way. Appreciate the help- Haynes can be misleading on things like oil spec.

I searched here and on google and I either got conflicting info or none at all. Vehicle is a Feb 07 (06 MY) TD5 110 County. Please can someone let me know or confirm: What type of brake fluid? DOT 3 or 4 or? What type of Coolant/Anti freeze? Oil for a standard engine (2.5 TD5) - 5W40 Fully Synthetic A3 B3/B4 ? Gearbox oil = -MTF94 or FTF 94? Finally - threads - metric or imperial? A million thanks in advance (tried to donate but the Paypal option is broken!)

No I looked when I was at Home and I'm now "here" with a laptop and no history. Good idea though. Thanks.

Yes - that's more like it, but the one I saw was full width. Thanks.

Peter - you have a PM

Before Christmas I saw an ad somewhere for someone selling a wire meshed full size inner rear door with a lock. I think it was listed as a dog cage door or similar. Now I can't find it. I wasn't dreaming because I saw the same thing on a County for sale on Ebay as well. Full sized inner rear door with its own lock. Any idea where I can find such a thing - I have looked everywhere online again, including Ebay. No luck. Thanks.

There is no bleed screw - this is a typical sensor failure. Buy a new coolant tank. Sensor checks the level, not the constituents of the fluid so you can have it full of beer - it dopesn't care as long as it is full. Don't forget that 100% and anti-freeze mixture will freezebefore a 50/50 mix. I can't remember why, I did learn why a long time ago in advanced chemistry, but have since forgotten, because I just know that it does.

TY Paul

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110 County. Feb 07 build. Medium spec - but not the XS model.

56 plate td5 County. I fancy a pair of XS spec heated front seats. Is it an easy task to swap them over - is the wiring lurking somewhere ready to clip into? Is there the right wiring already hiding behind the centre console waiting for me to fit switches - or do I have to start completely from scratch? Thanks.

Just bought a 56 plate TD5 in the UK before disappearing back overseas for a while. Missing one or two pieces so I need to order some stuff.............Couple of what might seem odd questions - but I can't just pop outside to check for myself: Rear wheel carrier - stock steel wheel on it. - What size socket to remove the wheel nuts? 4 road wheels are standard factory alloys - what size socket to remove the nuts (or are they studs?)? Does the factory fitted spare wheel cover come in one size just for standard steels with standard size tyres, or are there different sizes of cover? Where should the jack be stored when not in use - it's currently missing from everywhere I looked - is there a better alternative item. No need for an accessory high lift jack - it's staying at standard hieght. Thanks

Peter Best seems to have great prices for "classics" and heavily modded, but less than 10 years old or unmodifed and he's not a lot of cop. Ran out of time and had to go with Flux.. Ouch, but it's done............................

Are you going to say who dishes out respectale quotes like that? Sounds right on.

Comparison sites come up really cheap if it is your daily. We have 2 dailys which really are dailys and I can't get them any lower. Got a call booked with Flux tomorrow - fingers crossed. Rang one firm today and I got the feeling they didn't beleive me when I tried to insure it as a stocker - should have told them it was modded to bits and hacked about as well......

Nice tips - was aware of those and still got nothing "decent" in the way of quotes. Going to try the NFU route as listed earlier. Like the sound of the one at the top, but no reference to any insurer.

Any hot tips on insurance - I know it differs for lots of folk, but are there any "avoids" and any "hot tips"? 46 with full NCD, standard '06 TD5 110 County and happy to do limited mileage - this is the 3rd car in the family so it'll only get used properly not as a daily. Thanks in advance.

I have heard it called a sunroof by many soldiers, especially to wind up officers, but escape hatch - that's stretching the imagination a little. It's neither - it's for soldiers to stand out of with their rifle pointed to the sky to ward off MIGs and HIPs and HINDs.... "Air Sentry" it used to be called - not a pleasant job in winter in Germany, driving down dual carriageways. Then when the Cold War ended, and we only fought bad guys after their airforce ( if they had one) had been neutralised by our own. So the need for air sentries died out, so we stopped ordering sunroofs on our Rovers. No-ne ever called them "landies/landys". Always Rovers.

Making a mock up discharger is easy - a few bits of the right diameter pipe and a base with a MOD plate on it. Don't forget the weather proof caps - thaty remainon allthe time to keep the smoke cans in perfect working order. They are a one shot deal - press the button and all 4 fire at once. The grenades don't go particularly far and if you get the wind direction wrong, you end up filling your escape route with smoke instead, which is not a clever thing to do when you are reversing away from an enemy ambush...... It's more effective to throw hand smoke out of the windows instead if there is a spare crewman who isn't firing off something more deadly at the enemy at the time. All in all they are a useless piece of kit.