Finally got round to a few jobs:

lubricated CSOV -I think
Changed the donut hoses and cleaned out a load of horrible crap
Replaced the throttle body
Changed the O rings on the oil cooler - while I was there.

Hopefully that is the end of my intermittent RP

Also should have mentioned thanks to everyone on here who has shown me how to do it

Today I turned my Full Fat in to an ambulance.
91-year-old Mother fell and fractured her hip.
Ambulance going to be at least 6 hours.
So managed to get her on to a single mattress, caried her on it to the back of the car and loaded her in on the mattress, then drove her the 17 miles to local ED lying flat in the back.
Arrived at a rather surprised ambulance bay 40 minutes later. letters not necessarily in the right order

700 miles on a single tank. 50 miles DTE and no refuel now message. 2012 TDV8 Vogue (L322)

Another set of oil cooler O-rings changed here too. Complete with losing the bolt down the back of the engine, much swearing and cursing, but now have a drip free driveway and a happy memsahib. Next up - brakes!

Cleaned out the old girl after a 625 mile trip to Ceredigion and Pembs. It is amazing just how much sand you can collect in a car in a week?
She ran like a dream too. Coming back to Northants I did two three hour stints (with an hour break in between) and on arriving home was fully fit and able to immediately unload all the boxes, bags, wellies, chairs, dog food and the dog, ferrying the lot across the drive round the side of the house and up and down to the various rooms WHILE my wife nattered about what a relaxing holiday she had had to a neighbour!
Before the trip she (the car not my wife) had an oil and filters service at our local LR indy. During which the engineer moved a plastic coolant pipe which promptly shattered into pieces. Good job that was spotted BEFORE the trip.
Also had the four Toyo Proxes replaced because they were all cracking (the recent hot spell did for them?). Shame as they still had loads of tread.
The Pirelli Scorpion Zeros fitted, while not the most advanced or best looking tyres, have transformed the car with less noise, tauter handling and a connection with the road surface I had really missed.
Ron

Whilst washing my L322 last weekend I noticed I had a scuttle retaining pin missing (passenger side). Which led me to check the remaining ones which had turned white!

So, some kind soul on Thingiverse (website where 3D printer folk post up their designs for free download) had cleverly recreated the very same.

Downloaded the file, sliced and printed some and the result fitted.

https://www.fullfatrr.com/gallery/albums/u...20pins.JPG
https://www.fullfatrr.com/gallery/albums/u...fitted.JPG RR Westminster 2012 4.4 TDV8 Orkney Grey
LR Freelander 2 TD4e HSE Stornoway Grey - gone but not forgotten

Drove 1220 miles round trip up to Scotland and back (over 3 days). Got an average of 22 mpg! Not bad from a 15 year old Supercharged! And was so comfortable the whole time, what a great vehicle. 01 Disco 2 4.0 V8
89 RRC 3.9 V8
05 Disco 3 4.4 V8
96 D90 300tdi
99 Disco 2 TD5
03 Freelander Td4
07 Range Rover 4.2 S/C

Got through another MOT Always a nervy time of year….

OS upper control arm and swivel. Made a hydraulic press using the Mercedes bottle jack, scaffold pole for uprights, 40mm box section. Still hard work pressing the Bush in.

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Drove to the wirral - 250miles and first trip after blanking Egr valves. Much more responsive, no turbo lag. Disappointed that fuel consumption is the same - about 30mpg at constant 2000rpm on motorway. 2007 3.6 TDV8
1979 Mini Special
1988 Yamaha FJ1200
!952 BSA Gold Flash

Changed the osf door release cable, not difficult to do and now I can open the door from outside once again. Managed to get the cable for £7 on line.

Used the car to take family to a bonfire night fireworks display this evening, all cars (Well into four figures ) parked on fields with relatively long grass which quickly became a quagmire. Upon leaving I was going to help free a stuck car when I was asked to help a lady with a mini-bus full of children with 'learning difficulties'
She said that their mini-bus was well and truly stuck in the mud. (It was well and truly stuck )Got my tow rope out, used low range, and the car towed the bus out, across the fields with barely any effort.

When I appeared in the car and backed up to them, they seemed surprised that a RR driver had stopped to help them! Hopefully they now view us RR drivers in a different light, so some good PR accomplished this evening

I know we are not meant to comment on this thread, but well done Rob.

Took it for MOT today, flew straight through. 2 advisories slight oil leak which is just the power steering fluid and corroded brake pipe. Great result I'd say.

It wasn’t until I saw ‘er indoors use the brakes that I realised the third brake light was only 50% illuminating!
Wasn’t brave enough to buy a fleabay Chinese special so opted for a genuine LR one from our friends at Advanced Factors.
Pretty easy job to do, just be careful & put a towel underneath the rear spoiler to stop any scratching.

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