Successfully wired in a ryder bypass relay to sort out the brake light issues, fantastic advice from on here. A big mahoosive thank you for the thread on that topic

Rinsed, snow foamed, hand washed, dodo waxed, plastic restored and finally tyre waxed my car today. And as I was finishing the posty turned up with my replacement car phone mount meaning I have proper on board recording now...



T Terran



'The' Car For The Modern Day UK Roads ( ie all the pot holes )

'A Freelander that leaks oil is just marking its territory' - Wise words

Now a member of the FL2 'Silly Bill' Club

Friday lunchtime: accident on the outside 2 lanes of the M4 westbound.
I moved over to inside lane and just as I got to the front it was closed.
The ambulance and police that had just previously arrived closed the motorway.
Lots of people and vehicles on the hard shoulder were joined by an ambulance.
The police tried to clear one of the immobilised vehicles to the side, but as the track rod was broken it wasn't going anywhere.
An officer was walking toward me and I volunteered my towing services as I have I towbar and a tow rope.
He asked do you mind ? I said not at all.
I moved forward as instructed by the officer, hooked up my FL2 to the broken vehicle and pulled it to the hard shoulder.
Where the officer thanked my and wished me a safe journey.
I was relieved as I was on the way to an interview.
I pulled away with a sense of pride, an empty road in front of me and an unblocked road behind. FL2 HSE 2.2 TD4 MY07 Sumatra Black
Packs - Bi-Xenon Lights, Heated Windscreen, Heated Memory Seats, Privacy Glass, Fuel Heater, Armrests, Towbar
FL 2.2 HSE TD4 MY00 Station wagon Black

Very cool, koolandy! Good LR community work! The important thing is, at the interview did you recall this recent experience as an example of "the kind of guy I am" and, more importantly, did you get the job?

Bob 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

Took it clay pigeon shooting.

no finer way to spend a morning/afternoon

took mine on a shopping spree, buying paracetamol, shampoo, conditioner, plasters, imodium and Alka Seltzer for me hols

Have just taken mine in to Stratstone's to investigate "Detachable Towball Clunk" at behest of Mike @ LRCR. Not feeling very positive that they will find anything. For a start, they don't have anything approaching 1400kg or more to hang on the back.  10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

On mine you could feel the play if you grabbed hold of it firmly only a couple of millimetres at most but it could be felt.

Fitted a set of Side Rubbing Strips today, bought from Duckworth Parts. This is the first day with the temperature approaching the 20 degrees needed to get the stickys to stick. Now to brave the supermarket car parks  10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

Had a full software update and then a remap by Alive tuning, to same I'm impressed would be a under statement I haven't stopped smiling yet.

dunkley201 wrote:

Have just taken mine in to Stratstone's to investigate "Detachable Towball Clunk" at behest of Mike @ LRCR. Not feeling very positive that they will find anything. For a start, they don't have anything approaching 1400kg or more to hang on the back.

ah some sense at stratstones then, its a car not a tractor At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Washed it, in preparation for tomorrow's Royal Windsor Horse Show, courtesy of Mike @ LR. Foraging near Gaydon....
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MY13 HSE Lux SD4, Baltic Blue - current, 30,000> miles without fault
MY12 HSE 2.2 SD4, Sumatra Black - gone after 10 months/43,000 fault-free miles

Badger, we're here now curtosy of Mike. Hit the owners area for bacon butties first thing, burgers between 12 and 2 then tea n cake 4 till 5

Will not have time to post this tomorrow as leaving home at 06.00 to officiate on The BTRDA Plains Rally run by Knutsford & District Motor Club in the Dyfi forest complex.Special Stage will finish at aprrox 17.00after the 2nd. run and then 2.5 hour run home so will be somewhat cream crackered by the end of the day. Hopefully weather will be as good as the forcast.

If interested in the event check out link. http://www.plainsrally.co.uk/

Cheers,

Bill T. Life Honorary Member of Wallasey Motor Club.
Licenced MSA Radio Operator for 35+ years.
Rallying is the only sport.

Hi
I have just returned from a 4500k trip to Jindabyn and back to Hobart. Stayed with some friends in a house overlooking lake Jindabyn. We have been doing this for the last 34 years. There is some wonderful fly fishing in the area. The main rivers we fish are the Snowy, Moonbah,Eucumbene Murrumbidgee, Gungarlin, Murry and several others that are secret.
The car went extreamly well, and performed remarkably well on some very challenging tracks.
On my drive back to Melbourn to catch the ferry to Tasmania I had to leave very early and drive in the dark, this something to avoid doing because of the risk of hitting Kangaroos and Wombats both animals being capable of weighing upto 90ks.
Well I wacked one just short of Adaminaby at 4am. A big !!!. An Eastern Grey
Well I expected to see a grands worth of crumpled front when I got out; but no!!
The dipped beam light had popped out of it's holder easily replaced, the headlight washer had broken off not so easy to replace;
absolutly no panel damage, which I consider to be mucking refarkable.
Roger