Sprayed the grill Super Satin black, changed the whole appearance of the front end for the better, just the side vents to do next. REME .. Rough Engineering Made Easy

Any pictures MY13 HSE LUX Aintree Green
MY57 SE Stornoway Grey. Gone
Nissan X Trail
Discovery V8 LPG
Series II Land Rover

Fitted new rear discs I blagged for little money on Ebay a few weeks ago. Had new pads to hand (Girling from Andrew Page today and cheap) but decided to clean up ones fitted as plenty of meat left on old set. As I also got a litre of Dot 4 brake fluid for next no money ran some through the brake lines as well.

Life is good ......................

Discs were not desperate but why would I want to change them next February in snow just before the next MOT.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Presently on holiday on Holy Island so took advantage of the lovely weather and drove to Seahouses where we took a boat across to the bird colony that is the Farne Islands. Magical.

Replaced a leaking radiator...






Not exactly a straight forward job & I now know why Powerful UK don't do a video of how to remove the radiator & stop at the intercooler

Would have been a lot easier if the aircon radiator wasn't there... would also have been quicker (& about half the price) if the first replacement rad from a motor factors had been the right size & I hadn't had to waste an hour going to get a genuine parts one instead

Lunar-Rover wrote:

Sprayed the grill Super Satin black, changed the whole appearance of the front end for the better, just the side vents to do next.

Over last few days, I have renewed front wheel bearings, wishbones and track rod ends (both sides) I had a rumble noise and suspected the front OS side bearing, took it to halfrauds for a free diagnostic and they suggested front NS bearing.
I replaced this 1st and drove car for one day with the noise very much different and a vibration along the OS of the car.
So yesterday replaced the OS and had the car tracked etc.
I am delighted to report this has cured the rumbles and vibration.
Looking at the old parts they were rusty and noisy to rotate.

It is not the easiest job to complete on your own but certainly do-able spurred on by Halfrauds estimate of £380 to do NS bearing only, I have done the complete front end almost for less than £300








 Fix it until it's broke !

I will take some grill photos soon. Took a trip to Bristol and averaged 35 mpg at mostly 82mph on cruise control, cost about 75quid in fue there and backl, on my 3rd tank of Costco premium diesel and the car seems to love it.  REME .. Rough Engineering Made Easy

Popped a EGR blanking plate in my 2007 TD4 Auto last night in the dark - drive to work this morning was notibly smoother. Not going to call it on a 15mile journey, but dash is reading 34mpg (and it's always been within 0.5mpg to my calculated), up from the normal 30 All thanks to you guys, never would have known to do it without reading here.

Drove 440 traffic free miles from Vierzon, France, to Palafrugell, Spain.

Today I was going to wrap the D pillars but it was far to hot outside to have kept the vinyl in a manageable condition, so I wrapped the aluminium bits along the mid dash and gear shift surround instead. Also meshed the high level tailgate brake light. REME .. Rough Engineering Made Easy

Drove Swansea to Liverpool to drop daughter for exams in Uni, 4 1/2 hours, then drove back home, 4 1/4 hours, 41 mpg, quite pleased with that.

Has anyone else noticed that this particular thread has been viewed over 214000 times

Today? Left it parked while I had my first ever shot in a hybrid (Toyota Yaris) Couldn’t understand why pressing the button didn’t start the engine.... Got it going eventually and drove off for 134 miles down the west. Verdict: great car in town, ok on big roads, not great on the single-track roads (wish I had realised I could switch off the eco mode...) and boy did I enjoy getting back into the FL2! 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

Mot next week so swapped my black rims with GG AT's over for my Evoque rims with Pirelli Scorpion Verde's. GG's N/S front is very worn on the shoulder. However I have noticed that the Verde's give a rather harsher ride, small bumps feel like massive pot holes. They were bought last January , new take offs. If I can get a pair of GG AT's for a good price I'll put my black rims back on.