Today I ordered a Venturecam mount. Do I need one? No. But it looks intriguing and well, you never know….

Passed MOT for yet another year! Had her for nearly 11 years now😃 Previous cars:
S-Max 2007-2013 (only diesel I've had, good car but expensive when diesely bits go wrong, so what's the point?)
Galaxy 2001-2007
Mondeo Estate 1997-2001
Sierra Estate 1993-1997
Uno Turbo 1987 -1993
Fiesta 1984 - 1987
Fiat 127 1982 - 1984

Got the old girls MOTd with a pleasantly short list of advisories

Tried out my homemade wheel fitting guides, worked as intended

Passed MOT with no advisories

First MOT pass with me.

4 advisories - O/S/R & N/S/R lower suspension bush worn and O/S/R & N/S/R subframe bush worn. ---------------------------------
2008 L322 Supercharged
2007 Porsche 987 Boxster S
2021 BMW iX3

My wife took ours to her parents over the weekend.

Just after she set off it threw a fault on the dash.

I told her to turn it off and back on and the fault was gone.

I told her "it's a Land Rover remember!"

New coolant bottle (resolving the "low coolant" warning).

New airbox screws, as one was missing, one had a badly stripped head, and all were rusty with mangled heads.

New lighter socket plug, as it was missing, and that annoyed me.

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Yesterday I finished the job started the day before to replace the leaking radiator and all the hoses and plastic in the V including the hoses to the EGR cooler. I also fitted the sender unit for an oil pressure gauge. Lots of the plastic fittings/pipes broke when trying to disassemble, including the known fragile bleed fitting on top of the water outlet. However I retained my brass fittings and standard hose for the bleed line from the donut to the top radiator hose to avoid breaking the connection to the top hose again in a couple of years' time.

Fixed the annoyingly loose rear bumper protector trim that'd got the end lifting. Removed it, the end moulded plastic tab was missing, probably broke off years ago if it was ever there, cut one of the middle tabs in half and used a combination of hidden drill holes and Gorilla 2 pack resin glue to secure it in place. Left overnight on the radiator.

Fitted it this morning, job done, not loose at all, doesn't rattle, no lifting or flapping, let's see how long it holds.

Andy Fuji White / Jet 2012 4.4 TDV8 Westminster

Replaced the driver seat base foam with a new one

Fixed the Seat Heater with the new peltier from Aliexpress, £40 after getting the parts back from the guy who was supposed to fix it but that all fell through.

All seems to be working fine now, repaired the bellows rather than replaced, car did not catch fire yet due to Chinese sourced parts, time will tell on the durability but at the moment, nice heated seats again, Result.

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……….. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” -where’s the fun in that?

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Went to get KFC Geoff