Got my IID Tool BT in the post Monday just set it up today, and enable my park heater hopefully this will work as the weather is getting colder.

All brake lines replaced and mot booked for half one tomorrow.

I’ll be keeping fingers crossed Current: 16 my2016 Range Rover l405 4.4 sdv8 Aruba gold & 11 MY2011 RANGE ROVER L322 4.4 TDV8 ZERMATT SILVER

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59 MY2010 Range Rover Vogue L322 3.6 TDV8 Zermatt Silver
53 Range Rover Vogue L322 4.4 V8 Java Black
98 P38 Range Rover 2.5 DSE Champagne Gold

Swopped out the cam cover gaskets found a coolant leak, replace air and pollen filters darkness stopped play engine oil and filter tomorrow stat mod left to do. Happy days don't trust your mechanic remember I bought this car as spares and repair original owner broke down on the m25 with low coolant warning topped it up broke down again got recovered home his mechanic who has been servicing the car for 3 years diags head gasket failure. If the mechanic who had previously nipped up the cam cover bolts on a service a year ago had done the job properly he would have found the Coolant leak in the 1st place.

I'm very happy so far

227 mile round trip on one tank of gas at £48 so 21 ppm I'm a happy bunny

Carried out the 80 degree thermostat mod and coolant flush and refilled with corret pink type with the help of my mate john a wizard on these engines.

Serviced the lpg seems the filters have not been changed in 46k miles just the engine oil and filter left todo and the engines serviced.

Removed and replaced injector copper washer on cylinder 8 due to blowing by! Wasnt as bad as i imagined, injector would not budge, cracked the bolts off and started it up, gave it some revs until it got louder and louder then managed to wiggle it out! Recut the seat and fitted new washer , ran it up for 10minutes and retightened bolts then rebuilt. Someone has already been there as injectors have been numbered with tippex! 2004 td6 l322 - gone
Now 2007 tdv8 l322

Oil and filter as 7k since last change. Would the designer who added the extra sump nut under the cross member on the TdV8 3.6 please have the guts to own up and tell me WHY there and why so %$%& to get at ?

After 18 months of a blank instrument cluster, managed to get it sent off this week and repaired. Refitted today and can now see I've done a lot more miles than I thought I had. Now on to the brakes.... David

2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4TDV8
2004 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 (LPG) (Not quite gone)
2021 Mazda CX-5
2003 Porsche Boxster

Popped in a new carbon activated pollen filter, bought in the sale at ECP - saving £30 over a boggo LR one  Current: FF Westminster money pit

Gone:
RRS 4.2 SC
RRS 3.6 TDV8
FL2 TD4

Xray charlie wrote:

I fitted new arms & lower ball joint to my N/S/F suspension, going to do other side tomorrow.

So it was my Daughters 27th birthday and as a surprise we booked Disneyland Paris for the weekend. We drove from home at 4:00am and got the Eurotunnel across the channel. All very nice in a FF tbh and then I got a warning that my OSR tyre was low. I pulled over to put some air in and discovered I had a puncture. Took me about 20 mins to swap the wheel but couldn't see anything which may have caused it. Today having returned after an incredibly expensive and wet weekend I was told it was fatal. A new tyre is needed just to add some further expense to the mouse weekend.
I must say I'm now no longer interested in queueing for an hour for a two minute ride or buying four burger and chips with extra onion rings for £100. I have donated far too much to the little rodent over the years and it has come to an end.
Very impressed with the FF and the TPMS.

Applied more sikaflex to drivers side inlet manifold today. After probably 6k relativaly trouble free miles apart from a precautionary battery change due to baby being due... saturday evening rushing the other half to hospital in labour a sudden 'bong' and engine system fault ... calmly pulled over and restarted engine and all appeared normal until hitting 2500 rpm then a noticeable loss of power under load so used the gearbox in manual to keep the engine under minimal load and managed to limp half an hour to the hospital! Dont know what was more scary, birth of my first child or how much the repair would be! Baby boy born 1.56am nice and healthy 7lb 10z and then checking the manifold finding the crack and the relief! Funny thing is i have a new manifold ready to fit since last time just havent got around to fitting it!! 2004 td6 l322 - gone
Now 2007 tdv8 l322

Congrats on the baby