Looks much better and probably much easier than taking them off, doing the prep and painting them.. I had a thought about the transport situation as I've been asked about collecting 40 stacking chairs from somewhere just north of Glasgow. I can, as a transport driver, go there, pick them up and bring them back. But I couldn't if they were for me as that wouldn't be an essential journey. Bit bonkers really......

I'm going to leave it until Monday before booking it so if the crack spreads it isn't really that important, it's not like it's going to fall out. I may well have a 200 mile journey to do on Sunday morning anyway so it won't surprise me if I've got a two piece screen by then. There's a £100 excess on the insurance so it's going to cost me that for a £500+ screen. Wiper blades were new Bosch ones not that long ago but since fitting them I spent a week near the Baltic Sea and they suffered a bit from airborne sand so could do with replacing again anyway.

I'm more concerned about getting it fitted properly than anything else.

Don't know who will do the job, I have to phone the insurance company and it is arranged through them. I'm going to insist on a like for like replacement so as it has a Pilkington heated screen in it at the moment, that's what I expect it to be replaced with. I've seen some of the bad experiences others have had when screens have been replaced so will keep an eye on how it is done. I had two screens fitted at home on my works van. The guy that did the first one was really chatty, knew what he was doing and was quite happy with me being there while he did it. The second guy didn't want me there and did a really crap job.....

It spread about another 4 inches in the drive back from shopping and almost certainly will continue. Just checked the weather forecast and Tuesday/Wednesday next week should be up to 10-11 degrees so I'll call on Monday and see if it can be done then when it's warmer. I'd rather take it in and have it done but that would involve a lot of hanging around and probably a "go and wait in the waiting room sir". On the other hand, if it's done at home I'll be able to keep an eye on what is being done and replace the plenum filter while it's off too.

Not a bad idea. I figured that fitting a screen when it's cold has the potential to end up with a donmac type bond. As I don't have any water leaks at the moment, and haven't had since I've owned the car, I'd rather not introduce any.

Went out for a bit of (essential) shopping earlier and as I pulled into the supermarket I heard a little pop, looked down and saw this had appeared.

A few weeks ago I heard something hit the screen but didn't notice an extra stone chip (in addition to the 3 or 4 that I already have). Seems that I didn't notice it as it was obscured by my sat nav mount and it had decided to change from a stone chip to a crack.

I've got windscreen cover on the insurance so that isn't a problem and the heated screen has only worked in odd strips for a long time so a new screen will be a bonus. Wondering if it will be better to leave it until the weather is a bit warmer before getting it done, any thoughts?

Disco 1 and later Classic used the same tank so the one I linked to will fit your header tank on the Classic.

I worked on the same principle when I bought a Britpart AC condenser. It was very cheap, in stock and came with a two year warranty. If I got less than two years out of it, getting a replacement under warranty and changing it wasn't a huge job and if I got more than two years out of it, it was a bargain.

I was recently talking to a trade customer of Britpart and it seems they have been taken over by a larger parent company. They are, allegedly, working hard to counter the reputation they have and dropping the sub standard parts and replacing them with a lot of OE parts. Apparently the Britpart XS range of brake components are OE.

Bolt, for the Classic with the black plastic tank, if it has a screw cap and not a standard bayonet fitting pressure cap, then the cap incorporating a level sensor as fitted to later Classics will fit straight in. Part number for it is PRC7925 (https://www.lrdirect.com/PRC7925-Expansion-Tank-Sensor-Late-Rr/). Looking at LRCat, it appears that the earlier Classic had either a metal header tank with a bayonet pressure cap or the black plastic one with a screw cap. If you've got the screw cap all you need do it fit one of them and wire in a warning light (which my 93 Classic had as standard).

As for the P38, a catch tank on the overflow with a sensor is one option but that will only tell you there is a problem if coolant is being pressurised and blown out, not if you have a leak somewhere else and the level is dropping. I'd be wary of drilling a hole in the side of the header tank to fit a float switch in case I introduce a leak there and make matters worse. I'd rather find something that can detect the coolant level from outside, but not sure how yet. If the header was completely clear, shining a laser at the surface of the coolant would be a way to do it.

Don't see why anyone would object. Virtually all of us own a P38 (or more than one) but we've at least 2 Discovery owners and a few more with another LR as well as the P38. You've confirmed what I've been told though, L322 parts are a lot more expensive than P38 and with the complexity there's more of them. Avenger 4x4 are not far from me and they started off breaking Classics (before they started rocketing in value), then moved on to P38s and are now buying cheap L322s to break. Alan, the owner, reckons you can pick up what appears to be a tidy L322 for under 3 grand but it'll cost you twice that to get it back up to scratch unless you are really lucky.

You just aren't going to get a lot of help on here if you've got a problem though......

The one with two cogs should flash while the transfer box is changing from low to high and vice versa so should have been used. There are a couple of other blank spaces though.

Interesting, a UK spec car has a grab handle above the passenger door, not on the A pillar like the Discovery, and one each side that also have coat hooks above each rear door.. They are spring loaded so they sit flush with the headlining until you hang on them. They didn't fit one above the door on the drivers side, probably assuming the driver can haul himself into the car on the steering wheel, just a pair of plastic blanks to cover the holes in the headlining.

Don't you have one on the passenger side already, or is that something they missed off on EU spec? The actual handles have a hook to take the force of someone hanging on them, the screws just stop them from falling out.

While the door is 7 feet wide (and either 6' 6" or 7' high) a standard single garage in the UK is only 8' 6" wide. So once you managed to get in (after folding the door mirrors), there's not enough room to open the doors and get out! As for working on it, you've no chance, there's barely enough room to squeeze down the side of it let alone get around it to work.

Garage door opener was an option in the US. It may well have been here too but a standard UK size garage is too small for a P38. Standard width for a single garage is only 7 feet wide, so unlikely that many owners would have ordered one.

No idea who was the OEM but Borg Warner made the transfer case and the viscous in there seems to last pretty well. If that is anything to go by I'd be happy to fit a BW.

Yes, they never fitted one on the drivers side, just a couple of plastic blanks over the holes. Nothing to stop you getting a spare passenger side one and fitting it to the drivers side though. https://www.brit-car.co.uk/product.php/125985/5497/grab_handle___mist_grey___headlining___p38_range_rover_

The important word here is capacity. Think of the battery as a bucket. Designer says it will use 1 litre per hour running and the alternator can put back a maximum of 1.5 litres per hour (V8 with 72 Ah battery and a 120 A alternator). If you have a 1 litre bucket and the alternator isn't working, the bucket will be empty after a hours running. With a working alternator it will always stay full. If you have a 2 litre bucket it'll run for longer before the bucket is empty but with the alternator working you'll still be taking the same amount out and putting the same back, you've just got more of an overhead in case the alternator isn't up to scratch.

That's what I was thinking, even the factory hinges on the Disco 1 droop. Admittedly that lower half is probably quite a bit lighter but I find the drop down tailgate to be very useful, it's a seat as well as a workbench.

All except for the first one, the others are showing now.