davew wrote:

The real issue here is that you, Richard and Lpgc seem threatened by a kid with some unusual ideas; Go figure !

Go figure what? I'm not in the slightest threatened by a kid that has some ideas that the world is going to end and constantly screams that something must be done about it without actually having any answers to what should be done about it, other than changing the lifestyle, living conditions, eating habits and everything else we all take for granted. Christ, if she was old enough and experienced enough to have discovered sex, she'd probably want to ban that too. Think about it, all that heavy breathing generating extra CO2, the heat generated by two bodies raising the air temperature, not to mention the extra electricity needed to put the bedclothes in the washing machine.....

I feel as threatened by her as I do by the nutters that paper their living room walls with Baco foil to stop the radiation from a mobile mast half a mile away from frying their brains.

As Bolt has pointed out, she crossed the Atlantic in a boat that created zero emissions during the journey, while she conveniently ignores the huge carbon footprint and emissions generated in building it.

davew wrote:

That's the problem when folks start thinking/acting differently of course, it upsets the Status Quo; If only The Beatles, Elton John etc etc had been made to conform more by their parents then the whole world would be a much better place ??!!

Whether they were made to conform or not isn't the point, it's whether they insisted their parents followed their own non-conformism. How many on here are parents? Most I would think, and how many of us have heard the cries that eating meat is cruel to animals, we should all become vegetarians. That lasts for a few days but they soon get bored of cooking their own meals while the parents tuck into steak and chips.

"Uniti uses steer by wire technology", now there's a recipe for disaster if ever I heard of one.......

On the subject of Greta, she's no different to the thousands of other kids that have thought they know better over the years. The only difference is that she's got the advantage of the internet to spread her words to thousands of other kids that think they also know better. It gets to a certain point where they can't be ignored. So she managed to convince her parents to become vegan and give up air travel, so causing her mother to give up her career? Just shows what a spoilt little brat she is if her parents take that much notice of her. In most families it would be a case of, "If you want to become vegan dear that's entirely up to you, but don't expect me to give up my life for your ideals".

No, not the BeCM, I was being facetious. Wipers will be RL8 or the wiper motor itself while the other two just need an aerosol.

romanrob wrote:

(there are 2 in a GEMS, right? not sure which one I need to be worried about)

There's a green one and a grey one. The green one drives the gauge on the dash, the grey one supplies temperature information to the ECU. If you use the nano to show the coolant temperature, it will be taking the reading from the ECU, so the one that matters.

Multiple faults, it must be your BeCM, you'd better change it. Ahh, no sorry, this is Rangerovers.pub not Rangerovers.net.

For the wiper problem it has to be something common to both the wipe and the park. I'd be looking at F25 and relay 8 as they supply the power, The alarm fault message is usually due to a dodgy connection at the ultrasonic sensor. Pull it out of the headlining, unplug it, give it a squirt of contact cleaner and that should clear it. Ignition key in means the microswitch is gummed up with dirt and fluff transferred from your pocket on the key. If you push the flap back and squirt brake cleaner in the lock and then work the key in and out a few times. The switch is near to the opening at the bottom. Brake cleaner will evaporate and not leave anything that will gum it up further

Like most pots, they tend to get dead spots on the track so don't give a nice progressive change but jump every so often. If the closed throttle voltage is wandering, that suggests it might be showing signs of wear but I can't see how that would affect starting, idle speed yes, but not starting.

That's what I find pathetic about the whole thing. Forced to buy energy saving LED lightbulbs (that won't work with existing standard dimmer switches), encouraged to get a smart meter so you can see where you are wasting electricity to cut consumption and reduce your bills, then be pushed towards buying an electric car to bump them back up again. The public don't always think about it, they just think they don't have to fill the tank with fuel, they just plug it in so they must be saving money but how many of them would leave a 3kW electric heater on all night every night?

Hi Dave, glad you found your way here. I think we have at least 2 Nanocom owners in the Cheshire area who should be able to plug in and check the settings.

Lpgc wrote:

Just P38's? A local guy (used to run a car paint shop) collects old military vehicles, tanks etc, probably has something that looks like a half track but would guess they're not allowed. In fact, would they be OK about a convoy going anyway?

Once you get East of Warsaw, old WW2 military vehicles are still in daily use but we wouldn't want anything like that slowing us down. Don't see why anyone would object to a convoy, as long as it wasn't old military trucks, they might think they were being invaded again.......

Yes, odd that. My Vredesteins came from Germany and the pair of Avons bought a couple of weeks ago for the other half's Merc, came from the UK. However, despite Avon being a British company and OE tyre supplier to Aston Martin, the tyres themselves were manufactured in Slovenia. Work that one out?

Sorry, the history suggests reference has only just sunk in. As we won't be setting off until March-April time next year, this autumn won't be possible, but I bloody hope next autumn is......

Sounds vaguely familiar but on a cold or hot start if the MAF is diconnected. Cranks for quite a while, eventually starts with a bit of pumping on the throttle and after a few seconds of holding the revs up will idle and run OK (ish). Never seen an O ring on the MAF, can't find one listed on Microcat and the only time I've ever seen one mentioned was on the other side. Could it be an iffy connection on the MAF or the wiring to it?

Not really. Taking the direct route was the best option until the E30 was closed off, now it isn't possible. Never had any problems getting fuel anywhere, no more difficult, and in some countries easier, than here (and cheaper everywhere except France too). Get off the ferry at Calais, head East. Go through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and into Poland, turn left at Warsaw, exit Poland, go though Lithuania and into Latvia. Arrive at Dina's parent's at Saulkrasti and stay there for a couple of days. That bit I've done 3 times already so nothing out of the ordinary, just check the fluids and tyre pressures before setting off and fill it with GPL, LPG or Gaz (depending on what country I'm in) every couple of hours or so. As for the next bit, stick to the main roads and just follow the signs saying Pskov(RUS) into Estonia then shortly afterwards cross the border into Russia. At Pskov, turn left towards St Petersburg. Only difference is once I'm over the border I'm on the lookout for signs for places selling газ (gas in Cyrillic). No more planning than any other 4,000 mile round trip really, that's what sat navs are for......

No, Belarussians can still cross the border but nobody else in protest at EU sanctions against Russia. As using the E30 through Belarus is the only really direct route from Europe to Moscow, they've blocked it. So if you have a need to drive to Moscow you now have to go the long way round via either Lithuania and Latvia or the southern route via Ukraine. As we will be going to St Petersburg first, we'll go up the E77 just entering into Estonia then over the border, pick up the E95 at Pskov and north to St Petersburg.

You can't do the E30 these days. It runs from Cork but you pick it up somewhere near Osnabruk, run past Berlin, to Warsaw, then into Belarus and to Minsk and finally on to Moscow. I've used it recently as far as Warsaw (then turned left to head north) and in the past as far as Minsk but that is as far as you can go now. The border post between Belarus and Russia has been closed to non-CIS (Commonwealth of Independant States) Nationals since 2017 with no plans to re-open it. I'll be going via Latvia and Estonia and into Russia from there.

Shouldn't be a problem. As the fronts run at a lower pressure the rolling circumference will be very slightly smaller anyway, that's what the viscous is there to do. After 10k the rears won't have lost that much tread depth I wouldn't have thought.

Morat wrote:

the bottom line is that most of the journeys are holidays and we really don't need them.

But surely that's what the car is for? Got a trip to St Petersburgh planned for next spring so figured that while I've got a Russian visa, I may as well have a run to Moscow. Purely to get a photo of the P38 on Red Square.......

Lots of options here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_bA6MNTtA

Lpgc wrote:

Should invent a small petrol engine'd vac, would only need a petrol tank of a few millilitres to have the same power and running time as the Dyson and I could clean up emissions by converting to run on a lighter refill canister ;-)

Sounds like a plan to me but where would you find the motor? I've got a hedge trimmer powered by a 36cc engine and a strimmer/brush cutter with a 49cc motor but both are two stroke. So how do you get the oil in with the fuel if running on gas? I've also got a motor mower but a vac powered by a 149cc Briggs and Stratton might be a bit cumbersome......