Congrats Joe

like me your a pootler and not a racer then Much to my wifes annoyance

Proper wash and polish. Looking very  Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Currently waiting for Landrover assistance in a cold wet retail park.

Stupid thing has run out of electricity again

Sorry to hear that Simon.

Sounds like a battery issue or the alternator pack is allowing current to leak back...

Sorted now

When Landrover assist called to say that they would be delayed by 2 hours I resorted to highly technical wiggling of every connection. Having previously checked that the battery was connected I crawled though into the back of the car and checked the main fuse board (only think I could check as total lack of electricity meant that I couldn't check the other fuse box as I couldn't open the glovebox ) as nothing was out of place here and as I also had no tools with me I resorted to pushing on the live connection to the battery, Lo and behold, sparking sound of electricity and life in the car

Seems that when I swapped my old 90A/h battery for the 110 A/h one I didn't get the terminal on as well as I thought I had and it had worked loose (really not certain how as the battery and the terminal are so tightly wedged in due to the increased size of the battery)

Car started, land rover assist cancelled and I have since used a little extra 'persuasion' to move the battery slightly to the right and get the positive terminal better attached to the post on the battery.

Couldn't open glovebox without battery connected - is that a new trick introduced with post '05 models?
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Yeah, I know scarey, new thread!
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"Open Mike Night " sounded like a lot of fun until i found out i was going to an Autopsy

LOL, sure is Joe, but only on the ones with the facelift interior as the upper and lower glovebox are actuated...

Great if your car is stuffed and you need to get to the fuseboard...

I wish they had made the boot rise and fall electrically instead of the glovebox trick mind

My glovebox(es) randomly refuse to open, though to be fair it's been fine since the alarm sounder tilt switch thing was fixed a couple of weeks ago. Random connection #23132. Over engineered to the point of uselessness. What's wrong with a simple mechanical catch with a lock. Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

I was lamenting this design oversight as the kids were complaining and the wife was looking 'a bit miffed'

Also the fact that I had to crawl through to the rear fuseboard as I couldn't risk releasing the rear boot and then not being able to close it again as none of the actuators would have fired, as it was raining heavily and blowing a gale

Where's the fuse for the glovebox actuator...?  Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

In the glovebox

Genius  Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Drove home early afternoon right through the worst of the rain and wind, visibility down to 10-15m during one very heavy shower. 3x road closures due to fallen tree's, another 3 or 4 places were fallen tree's had been cleared and a whole lot of surface flooding.

Also found (masquerading as a puddle) a f ing great big, square edged pothole which took a couple of small pieces out of the sidewall. Will need to get that checked tomorrow  2006 Supercharged
1990 Porsche 928 GT

Nothing sadly - I've been in the office at home all day