Changing the ATF in the transfer box is probably also a good idea while you are under there, but I wouldn't bother with any additives. I recently had my transfer box out to replace the chain (so gave it new bearings and seals while it was on the bench) but that was after over 400,000 miles, much of that towing heavy trailers. Changing the transfer box oil is another one that the maintenance schedule says to do every 24,000 miles. Recommended oil for the diffs is 75W-90 and I tried Millers fully synthetic and found they were noisier with that in them than with cheapo Comma 75W-90.

Maintenance schedule says to renew oil and filter every 24,000 miles although on some other cars the filter is replaced after the first 10,000 and then never touched again. I must admit, mine doesn't get changed that regularly.

Not going to do any harm even if it isn't necessary.

Yes. The seat base is held to the frame by 4 Torx headed bolts. Not immediately obvious as they are well tucked away. Ideally you need the seat out and reclined fully so it is almost flat (might be more difficult on an electric seat compared with the big windy knob on the manual ones). The base and backrest are connected with a strip of material that is secured with a plastic strip that can be levered off.

It's a cable but if the motor is running and not moving anything it may just have worked loose and dropped away from the cable. If you undo the 3 screws that hold the motor in place and drop it down, it's pretty obvious how it works.

Lpgc wrote:

I'm probably wrong but I thought I remembered you once saying you'd love an L322?

No, I said I'd love the 300 bhp from the 4.4 litre BMW engine in the early L322. But I wouldn't want the ugly bodywork, the complication of the Canbus linked electronics or the cost of spare parts. Putting the L322 engine with the Bosch Motronic into a late model, Bosch equipped, P38 should make most of the electronics compatible (would the L322 engine run on the original P38 ECU even?) and that engine can be converted to LPG without having to mess around with a valve saver.

As my preferred Vredestein tyres are no longer available, I've ordered a set of Kleber Citilanders. I don't need an off road tyre but I do need a tyre that can cope with snow hence going for something with a less aggressive tread pattern. But, I've ordered them from mytyres.co.uk and the tracking information is showing they are currently with Customs. Seems that mytyres is a German owned, but UK registered, company and it appears the tyres are coming from a warehouse in Germany. How long they are going to be sitting with Customs and how this is going to affect delivery times is anybody's guess. According to my partner, who works for a multi-national company dealing with spare parts deliveries, if a UK customer orders something that is stocked in a European warehouse, it used to be delivered directly. Now, in that case the customer would be charged import duty and VAT on it so instead it has to be transferred from one warehouse owned by the company to another warehouse in the UK before being sent out to the customer. Yet another benefit of Brexit.....

I'm not a great fan of classified ads as you will always get the phone calls with stupid questions or stupid offers so figured an auction is the way to go. Someone also has to be searching for a specific car rather than an auction listing where something may catch their eye. However, eBay is the place to go to look for an old dog that you can buy cheaply and most adverts don't tell you anything although you can often work out what problems a car has by looking at the things that aren't mentioned (the old argument of, well the ad never said the AC worked so when you find it doesn't, tough), it isn't the place if you want to get a good price for something a bit decent. The other option is Catawiki, (https://www.catawiki.com/c/708-classic-cars-motorcycles-automobilia) which is Europe wide so may suit you better as you are still in the EU (lucky sod).

JMCLuimni wrote:

There’s thread creep and then there’s this..... ^^^^^^

Jesus wept

Yeah, it's got a bit off topic. If there was a way of splitting it into a new one once it started creeping I'd have done it but it doesn't seem like there is.

However, getting back on topic, I've just been speaking to Car & Classic about putting the Vogue (this one https://rangerovers.pub/topic/1620-what-have-you-done-to-your-range-rover-today?page=41#pid33881) into one of their auctions. Considering one that didn't look as good got bid up to £5,900 but didn't reach the reserve, I said that anything over £4k would be acceptable to me so they suggested putting it in with a reserve of £4,600 (as they take £500 + VAT commission) but expect it to go for more than that. Their estimate is around the £5-6k mark (which I'll be well impressed with).

and? You have to remember the P38 is the last 'proper' Range Rover (and prettiest).

Looks like the serial number should be visible from underneath, see https://www.ashcroft-transmissions.co.uk/transfer-boxes/borg-warner.html and scroll down the page.

I took the spring out of an LPG cap which was too small diameter and carefully opened it out until it would fit and used that. Took ages to do it with a vice and a couple of pairs of pliers but it worked.

Maybe they are the transfer case serial numbers? What does this http://new.lrcat.com/#!/1234/93198/93199 tell you?

At the risk of sounding like you know who, it's in RAVE under Chassis and Body - Repair - Backlight Glass which is section 76, pages 87-89 on my copy (at least I didn't just say it's in RAVE and leave you to it as you've almost certainly looked anyway). Doesn't look to be much of a fun job though and if it were me I'd try to find a tame windscreen fitter and bung him a few beer tokens to do it for you.

The Rolls Royce nuclear project will be a boost for UK engineers but I'm afraid I don't agree with the Trump (am I the only one that finds it amusing that the name of a US president is also the word for a fart?) inspired conspiracy theories over Huawei. Virtually all of the 5G and most of the 4G infrastructure used their hardware because it was cheap, worked far better than anything any other company could supply, was smaller, lighter, cheaper, easier to install and just worked. Now quite how the Chinese Government can gain anything useful from a radio transceiver is beyond me and I worked with them for the last 35 years. They didn't make the rest of the kit, only the transceivers. The fact that initially there was no alternative and once there was, it wasn't a patch on the 'Chinese' equipment (as one senior engineer for one of the MNO's always referred to it) had a lot to do with it. They were being pressured to install 5G (although for the life of me I have no idea why, it doesn't do anything that 4G can't and nobody actually needs it) then once they'd started to roll it out were told they couldn't use the best equipment on the market.

We might be getting a few more home grown ones within 10 years or so, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54703204. We already import quite a bit (it used to be 30% but no idea what it is now) of our electricity from French nuclear stations mainly because what used to be National Grid is now EDF (Electricite, Distribution Francais). Being a French nationalised company, EDF profits in France are capped, so they just expand into other countries where they can make as much profit as they like. France Telecom, the French the equivalent to BT, is the same, home profits are capped, so they bought Orange, which they subsequently merged with Deutsche Telekom owned T-Mobile to become EE (Everything Everywhere) and can make as much profit as they like over here.

I was on a training course once and the Scouser lecturer had a Mk2 Escort that had Ghia badges but Popular black bumpers. When someone queried it he explained that it hadn't been built at Halewood but in a lock-up a few streets away. Seems the whole car had been smuggled out of the factory a bit at a time......

Those numbers are a digit short for the serial number and what the (T)003K signifies is anyone's guess. What parts are they? Your VIN shows you've got a 2000 model year, 4.6, automatic, P38 with the serial number of 422220.

One thing to bear in mind, the drivers CDL switch provides the ground for the tailgate so if it is faulty you either won't be able to open the tailgate or it won't lock.

Whether the door is locked electrically or physically what happens is the motor moves the mechanism to lock and that is what causes the button to go down. It makes no difference how it is moved, just that it is and at that point it should operate the CDL switch which it obviously isn't.