Made an under wheel storage bin from a builders bucket

Put a facelift on my 2009 model. Used the PowerfulUK bumper, spots etc.

Had it painted on the driveway by ChipsAway, did a superb job for less than half the price of the local paint shop! £220 plus VAT and he also polished out a load of scuffs and scratches whilst the UV lamps were cooking the bumper, for no extra. Well chuffed with the service.

I've got him coming back to flatten and the paint the black mouldings, skirts, mirrors etc as I was so impressed with his work.

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Drove home from a weeks break in Yorkshire Dales - poured with rain until we were about 80 miles from home.
Why oh why do people not switch on their lights when the visibility is that bad??
DRL cannot be seen from the back you stupid
Rant over

A good training mantra should be,
Wipers on Lights on,
and yes people do tend to rely on the
cars technology to do everything for them,  DAVE.

Sidthecat wrote:

Drove home from a weeks break in Yorkshire Dales - poured with rain until we were about 80 miles from home.
Why oh why do people not switch on their lights when the visibility is that bad??
DRL cannot be seen from the back you stupid
Rant over

Dave47 wrote:

A good training mantra should be,
Wipers on Lights on,
and yes people do tend to rely on the
cars technology to do everything for them,

agree Jules

Sidthecat wrote:

Drove home from a weeks break in Yorkshire Dales -

hope you had a great time, I have not been since March 2020, longest I have missed the Dales for years. I am a sad , I have 2 computer monitors . . .one is permanently showing the view from Penny Garth cafe in Hawes . . . .I miss Hawes, BUT, I have done nothing but moan about the millions of bikers there on a warm day (lockdown or no lockdown)


webcam in Hawes https://pennygarthcafe.co.uk/live/ 2017 SEAT Ateca 4drive 2.0 xcellence (May 2022 -
2007 HSE with HST bodykit in Zermatt Silver 169,700 miles (dec 2016 - May 2022 )
2007 Honda Civic Type S GT (2012-2017)
2002 Mini Cooper S (2008-2012)
1992 Honda Legend 3.2i (2003-2008)
1990 Honda Concerto (1999-2003)
1985 Honda Accord (1997-1999)
1983 Honda Accord (1993-1997)
1983 Mini Mayfair (1988-1993)
1974 Mini 1000 (1979-1986)

Never been there before but beautiful countryside; had a cottage in Smardale, couple of miles outside Kirkby Stephen. Technically just inside the Cumbria boundary.
Didn't see a bus all week, no bloody sirens or 'kids with their hats on backwards' racing about. Bliss.
Back there again in September, but staying on the east coast

Sidthecat wrote:

How far away does she live?

Ha ha... funny enough, If I take the path of least (traffic) resistance it is about fourteen miles - that hadn't even occurred to me when I saw that reading...  Lexus RX450H - 500 mile a week commuter- I just couldn’t trust in a newer RRS or DS for that….
2009 Freelander 2 HSE... 155K miles, we’ve done 135k of those, has done brilliantly on the commute and staying firmly put as car two in the household
2002 Jaguar XK8 Coupe... fun, fast, ours for 12 years and owes us nothing - so staying with us too…

Nothing today technically but spend the weekend taking the family to Paultons park and Peppa Pig World. Great though tiring weekend to be fair and the Freelander performed brilliantly. Stopped at Leigh Delamere services on the way home only to have a PRA when I came back out with 3 or 4 off road prepped Discovery 2s parked next to us, no photos though as sadly they where so close we couldn't open the N/S doors so had to move to get the wife and one of the kids back in!
Average for the trip (by the trip comp) was over 39mpg - pleased enough with that. Andrew

Drove it to MOT centre this morning,,
Result for another 12/13 months  DAVE.

Tuesday afternoon was rear brake day - new pads and disks & a clean & lube of slider pins, all very straightforward and easy but you will need a T50 bit for the disc retaining screws.

Yesterday afternoon was Major service time, flex head ratchetting spanner made the oil filter housing removal doable - without it I don't think I'd have been able to get at it without a spot of spanner bending

Is there a good way of fitting the new pollen filter I wonder - seems a very daft design as you need to bend the filter and kind of roll it in to its housing.

I used this for priming the fuel filter (in place on vehicle) connected to the outlet that I believe goes to the HP pump & then fuel rail - the one that comes with a red cap on the new filter & right of the inlet from tank. The tubes were a perfect push fit on the output stub.



Thanks to the contributors of the threads I reviewed before doing these jobs - always great to have a resource like this forum for a bit of pre job preparation  2014 Freelander 2 TD4 Manual Dynamic
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover - undergoing restoration

Got the heated steering wheel fitted Thanks Infield 4x4

Drove it to Bewdley (yesterday) for
an appointment with Bell Engineering tomorrow.  DAVE.

Dave47 wrote:

Drove it to Bewdley (yesterday) for an appointment with Bell Engineering tomorrow. Neutral

Ah... You'll likely get to drive the dirtiest FL2 I ever saw while your car is up in the air... Bewdly is a not unpleasant little place and thanks to having the use of the mucky motor (a manual but itdrives well enough), we had a nice lunch down on the riverside recently when we did our same day round trip for Hx service & R/D oil change.