Feed to the high level brake light goes via a connector tucked up above the headlining next to where the rubber tube goes between the body and upper tailgate. Might be worth looking there first.

I've found these work best as long as the weight is downwards https://www.screwfix.com/p/easyfix-self-drill-plasterboard-fixings-metal-32mm-100-pack

Another thought. Do you know anyone with personal AA cover? I get mine as part of a package with my Lloyds bank account and it covers me for any vehicle I'm in, even as a passenger. Get down there with your token AA member and tell them it's just died. While, like you, I feel pretty confident at being able to sort most things at the side of the road, there's only so many spares you can carry and if you need something you don't have with you and can't buy it locally, you're stuffed. On the two occasions I've used the AA in the P38, the first time the belt tensioner bearing collapsed at a filling station in Harlow and they took me, the car and the empty car transporter trailer I was towing back home. The second time when my water pump bearing exploded about 5 miles from the land Rover factory, they arranged a hire car for us to continue our journey and the car arrived home at about 11pm that same night on the back of a transporter.

Good point, depends which model it is as they are rated at anything from 2.2 tonnes up to 3.5 tonnes. If it is one rated at 2.2 no chance, as an empty trailer capable to taking the weight of an Elgrand weighs a tonne unladen and I suspect an Elgrand will weigh a bit more than 1.2 tonnes..

No, it is MoT tested on whatever fuel it is running on when bought in for test irrespective of what it says on the V5. Different insurance companies have different rules (sometimes even depending on who you talk to at the company), some aren't interested, some will accept that it has passed an MoT running on LPG, some want it to be on the V5 while others insist it is on the DriveLPG register, but you may as well do it. As yours is post April 2001, you'll get a whole £10 a year off your road tax too. Of the last 4 LPG cars I've owned only 1 had it shown on the V5, so the DVLA estimate of 150,000 LPG cars on the roads means that there's likely to nearer half a million. They just don't know about them. If there are to be any concessions for LPG powered vehicles at some time in the future, it's better that they know how many there actually are and not just treat it as a minority fuel that can be ignored.

Sounds a bit like Lyon. You can drive through the centre or follow the signs for the ring road. Driving through the centre makes a pleasant change from sitting at a constant 65-80 mph (depending on how much weight I have hanging off the back) to cruise alongside the river rather than sitting on yet more motorway. About 20 minutes quicker through the centre too as long as you don't hit it at rush hour. That's actually the main reason I paid my 4 Euros for the vignette, without it I wouldn't be allowed to use the centre route at any time. Driving on the Continent makes you realise just how congested our roads are. I've driven for hours at a time on main beam because there simply isn't anything else on the roads to cause you to have to dip the lights.

Redraptor141 wrote:>

Anyone know if when I remove the bonnet does the bonnet open warning keep the BECM awake?

The BeCM will still go to sleep with the bonnet open, just as it does at any other time. It sleeps after 2 minutes if there is no changes to the state of anything.

You used to get free congestion charge in London but only if the car had LPG on the V5 and if it had been placed on a TFL register and for that it had to be fitted with an LPG system that they had approved for that model of car. If you are on the post 2001 emissions related sliding scale for road tax, if on LPG you get a tenner discount, if you are on the pre-2001 fixed rate, then you don't. However, I got mine changed with a view to the future. France has introduced a vignette scheme for Paris, Lyon and Grenoble with numbered vignettes depending on the emissions class of the vehicle and at times of high pollution only the lower emissions classes are allowed in these towns. A P38 on petrol is Euro 3 so would be class 3 vignette, but as I declared mine as running on LPG I got issued a class 1 vignette, the same as a Euro 6 petrol and only 1 down from an electric or hybrid. I figured that if a similar emissions based system was introduced here then they would go on what was on the V5 and not what you told them so got mine changed for that reason.

They need to see proof, either an invoice from the installer or invoice for the component parts. They will change it to PETROL/GAS. I did mine last year even though it was originally converted in 2008.

oilmagnet477 wrote:

Hi All,
If you do get nylon 30mm bar and have the means to cut it, what are the measurements for length that you need to cut and how do you use them to then calibrate the suspension? Sorry if this is in RAVE but it's too hot lol

The process is in RAVE but it involves using Testbook which you won't have. You'll need either a Nanocom or the free RSW EASUnlock program to read and write the numbers. Block sizes are here https://www.rangerovers.net/forum/7-range-rover-mark-ii-p38/73321-eas-calibration-blocks.html

I got the 30mm nylon rod from a supplier on eBay and cut them with a standard hacksaw. Dulls the teeth a bit and I went through 3 blades but does the job nicely.

Top of the block on the flat piece next to where the dipstick tube enters the block.

Nah, no LPG. Looks tidy enough and I quite like the colour. Don't like the Disco-esque wheelarches or the light guards though (with apologies to RedRaptor).

Apart from the fact that having just moved house I've still got loads of stuff to do, for me it would be a run from home to Newquay, Newquay to South Elmsall and then back home again which, according to Google Maps, is a 762 mile round trip. So I'd be looking at 4 tanks of LPG, so approaching £200 and another £100 for a weekend hire of a trailer. As Chris says, getting close to relay price. If you get stuck, I could do it but it wouldn't be for at least another couple of weeks. Might even need an overnight somewhere too. 760 miles on Continental motorways with no traffic and hold ups is easily done in a day, 760 miles in the UK is a different matter entirely.

Lpgc wrote:

Varnish = lacquer?

Close but subtly different, see https://www.doityourself.com/stry/what-is-the-difference-between-varnish-and-lacquer

I suppose it all depends on the actual mileages. If the car has done 120k and the cluster has done 200k then you wouldn't want to add that sort of mileage to it. If the other way round the dash can be updated to match the BeCM but if there's not a lot of difference, then I agree, I won't be that important.

It's always done that for me, not just on Opening Time but on all forums. Read the posts, click refresh to make sure nothing new has come in while I've been reading then click Mark as Read. Probably something to do with different browsers or operating systems.

Martyuk wrote:

Swapping the whole board will swap the mileage chip too... It's soldered to the main PCB

I didn't think it was as I had to swap the board on mine. Although the spare cluster wouldn't have had as many miles on it as on mine (I don't think anyone has as many miles on as mine!) so maybe I had to sync it with the BeCM and update my mileage, I honestly don't remember. So, if you have more miles on than on the spare cluster, it will be OK, otherwise it might be safer to get the soldering iron out and swap the MOSFET and hope that is the problem.

Easiest option is to keep your gauges and mileage chip but replace the whole PCB. With the cluster out break the seals on the top of the plastic cover on the back, unclip the locating tabs all around and remove that (you'll need to unplug the wires to the sounder). There's a peg fixing in the centre which just pops out if you pull the cover off. Disconnect the ribbon cable that goes to the separate board that is standing up from the other one by lifting the edges of the IDC connector, to take the pressure off, don't just try pulling the ribbon or you'll break it. It is this board that stores your mileage information so as long as you don't turn the ignition on while the cluster is out, you won't have a problem with that. Undo the 9 screws holding the circuit board to the back of each gauge (3 on each gauge) and lift the whole PCB off. Fit the PCB from your donor cluster, being careful not to trap the ribbon cable from the other board, and refit the screws. Reconnect the ribbon, put the back on (remembering to reconnect the plug for the sounder) and that's it, job done. If you've got a spare cluster, you can take that one apart first and see how it comes to bits before you remove the one from your car.

You may find that the gauges read slightly differently, that is what the 6 trimmer pots along the top of the circuit board do, they allow you to calibrate the gauges. My ex-police car has a calibrated speedo that is spot on accurate but I contacted the company that calibrated it for plod and they told me which pot does what if you want to be really anal. Normally the speedo reads slightly fast so an indicated 70 mph is an actual 65 mph but on mine what it says you are doing is what you are actually doing.....

With the longevity of the P38 you're hard pushed to find anything as old on the roads these days. Most similar aged cars that are still in use tend to be Volvo, BMW and Merc, all favourites for an LPG conversion so there is more overlap than might at first be obvious. There's two ways of looking at it, a Range Rover forum with a separate LPG section for all vehicles would cover the mutual interest or the two should be kept separate. Then again, Pistonheads started as a TVR forum and has now become a general car enthusiasts forum (in theory at least although from some of the posts on there you begin to wonder if some posters have ever actually opened the bonnet on a car). As it happens Simon has already approached Damien who has run LPGForum for years and enquired about taking it over so our new section that Gordon so rapidly added may not be needed anyway.