Dave, not sure what part of the country you are in but I suspect nowhere near London. Until I retired I used to drive into Central London 2 or 3 times a week and it has its own set of problems. Unless you have at least a million to spend on somewhere to live, you have no offroad parking (20 storey blocks of flats with 5 car parking spaces?) but public transport is so regular that many people don't see the need for a car. Unfortunately that means they never take a driving test but can buy a pushbike and, having no idea of what the Highway Code is let alone having read it, promptly get squashed by a truck because they had no idea what those flashing yellow lights on the back of it meant. The vast majority of traffic in London isn't private cars, it's working vehicles, service engineers and the like. Like me, they have no choice but to drive in because they need the tools and kit that is in their car (or in most cases, van).

Unfortunately a lot of the decision makers live in London and assume the whole country is the same. Give up your cars and use public transport they will tell you. Yeah right. Living in a village with a bus once an hour (and the last one at 7pm) means there isn't one every 3 or 4 minutes to hop on any time you like. But public transport creates its own problems. The best day I ever had driving into London was the day the bus drivers went on strike. No traffic queues, no hold ups, it took me half an hour less to get across London than it would do normally so I would propose scrapping buses and offering people use of a car instead.......

I've got a mate who is an architect and he was once doing a drawing of a theme park. He was laying out where each attraction could go and leave the required amount of space between them for punters to walk round. But that meant that the total space required would encroach onto the area that had been set aside for the car park. They also wanted a minimum of x number of parking spaces which wasn't possible with the space available. So he just reduced the size of each space until he could fit the required number in. As he said, nobody would be able to open the car doors once they were parked but at least he'd achieved the number of spaces the client wanted. When you look at the size of modern cars and compare them with those of 20 years ago, they've all got bigger so they can fit in the airbags, crumple zones, etc that manufacturers are obliged to fit these days.

Stick them on the thread and it will bump it up to the top.

It's here https://rangerovers.pub/topic/1983-the-place-for-sales-swaps-wants-offers-gifts-and-giveaways

Maybe it should be made a sticky or even a separate forum heading?

We had 10 D2s at work and all were ES models with ACE, mainly because 6 of them had an 8m Clark pneumatic mast stuck through the rear sunroof. When they were being disposed off at least 3 of them sat waiting to be collected with their arses on the floor.....

P38 chassis isn't galvanised but the metal is very thick, unlike the chassis on a Classic or D1, and the D2 apparently, which is wafer thin. I always thought the Disco was a luxury Defender, aimed at the farmer who's wife wanted something a bit more presentable, the D1 certainly was.

Simon, if you look at his sig, it's a '99 fitted with a Prins system. Hence my mention of the emulator unit.

We had a 51 plate D2 ES TD5 from new at work and while it was a vast improvement over the 200TDi D1 it replaced, it still drove like a truck. You didn't get the 4.6 V8 but you did get the 4.0 litre Thor, that's what BrianH runs. Unfortunately they are very few and far between as most people that wanted a V8 went for the P38 so most of them were the TD5 version. Much like the later D3, almost all have the oil burner and only a very few were sold with the 4.4 Jaguar/Ford V8.

Had another look at RAVE. Seems there may be two switches on the side of the gearbox, one is the reverse switch while the other is a neutral switch. Of course with yours being very early it may be done a different way.

From the ETM:

A shift between ranges is possible when the
transmission is in neutral. The Transmission
Gearbox Control Unit (Z256) senses this via a
Park/Neutral Switch (X308) on automatic
transmission vehicles and via either a clutch switch
or a lever neutral switch on manual transmission
vehicles.

That suggests you should have either a neutral switch under the centre console, or on the gearbox itself, or a switch on the clutch. If the latter, you'd need to have the clutch pedal pushed down to change range.

Could be although I would expect a wiring problem to be permanent not intermittent, but some Prins systems use a separate injector emulator so it could be a problem with that (if your system has one). In which case you'd get injector disconnected codes stored once you get OBD working again.

I suspect the sticky strip was put there by someone to stop the noise, there was nothing on mine although the leading edge does seem to be more flexible. The trim isn't slid into place though. The trim is put into place and the clips slid to one side to lock them on the pins or, if you do it how I did, the clips are slid onto the pins and the trim then pushed downwards so it clicks onto the clips. The clips will then pull it in to contact the screen.

About the only things that aren't common to the two fuel systems are the injectors and fuel pressure. I can't see it being an injector problem or it would be there all the time. Nanocom will show if you have any fault codes (likely P030x code to show which cylinder is misfiring or simply a P0300 multiple misfires code) but will also allow you to look at the live data and see if one bank or the other is running lean or rich.

In fact thinking about it, there were some pretty odd decisions made by LR in the past. The Classic got a completely new wiring loom and interior when the soft dash came out for the '94 model year, yet the P38 was announced later the same year so why bother upgrading the Classic? If they'd upgraded and used parts that were destined for the P38 that might make a bit of sense but they were completely different again.

leolito wrote:

Except some muppet at Solihull thought it was GREAT idea to swap the transfer so the axles are the "other" way around ...

I know the Classic and D1 had the propshafts running down the RH side of the car rather than the left as on a P38 but I'd always assumed they'd swapped it over on the D2 and used the same bits. The hubs and driveshafts are the same design (but different part numbers it turns out) rather than the exposed swivel joint and the wheels changed over to the same PCD as the P38 at the same time. Brake callipers are the same too but the D2 gets vented discs on the front that we don't. Considering the V8 uses the same engine and gearbox as the P38 I'd always assumed the D2 was the budget P38 the same as the D1 was a Classic underneath.

Yeah, that's a bit obvious though. I'd want it to look perfectly standard, I've always preferred the sleeper look.

What trailer are you using? Brian James tow best, Indespension bounce all over the place when empty but are OK when loaded and Ifor Williams are somewhere between the two. It was an Ifor Williams CT115 I used to collect your father's (your) Austin Seven but that is only single axle and rated for a load of no more than 1000 kgs.

StrangeRover wrote:

A chap in new zealand fitted a Rotary engine in to a Model S, the EV people weren't happy!

I've considered fitting the 190bhp Toyota 2ZZ-GE motor from the Celica (which is the same motor used in a few of the Lotus's but breathed on) in a Prius just for the hell of it. Should go like stink once the weight of the batteries is removed. Just a shame the Prius is so damned ugly.

Yes they are, Disco 2 and P38 share the same axles and brakes.

If you buy a BMW i8, you can set the DSP sound system to make the proper noises. You can even select if you want it to sound like an M3, an M5 or various others. Only problem is, you are the only person that can hear it.....

It's the Volvo FH and FM that are available in CNG or LNG forms. The Ashford services on the M20 have recently installed LPG pumps to fill them. Unfortunately the Ashford services are HGV only otherwise it would be an alternative for me instead of the filling station in Dover before I get on the ferry..