I assume they are the same or at least very similar on the Range Rover Classic which probably explains why both were missing on mine......

Just got to find the nut and bolt. Called in today at Avenger 4x4 and showed him a picture of what I wanted. No chance was the answer. When he breaks a car for spares he throws all the wiring looms into a big bin and weighs it in for the scrap copper. He weighed a load in on Monday....... He suggested looking for BMW in a breakers as it was BMW era when the car was built so they may well have the same terminal.

It appears that the pumps are the same except for the colour of the connector which would explain the different part numbers. It's always possible that they are different internally but they are all interchangeable so I've always assumed them to be the same. Thanks for the offer of a decent non-return valve, PM sent with my address.

I've got a couple of breakers in my area, I'll have a look and see if I can find the bolt and funny shaped nut and drop them in the post to you. Simple enough to fit, you should be able to do it yourself.....

All 3 pumps are the same and you will hear the pump whirring away if it is still working. I got my rear washer working a couple of weekends ago but it looks like the motor factor generic non-return valve isn't up to the job as I need to hold the button in for about 10 seconds before anything gets as far as the nozzle if it hasn't been used for a while. Problem I've got now is that it needs adjusting as it washes the road behind me rather than the rear screen......

£20 + postage just for a nut and bolt is a bit steep. I'll see if I can find a D2 in a breakers locally. If they rust as fast as the D1 I shouldn't have to look that hard.

If you are unlucky you'll cause an air lock in the manifold. A better option is to run a small diameter hose from the outlet on the manifold back to the header tank so you effectively bypass the throttle body heater but still allow the coolant to flow as if it was still there..

Neg is fine, it's a standard clamp type, it's the positive that has lost the bolt and conical nut. Question now is, does anyone know where to get the bolt and nut and she'll be sorted?

If it going down because it is self levelling, then taking the EAS timer relay out will stop that happening. The, unless you have any leaks, it will stay up and the reservoir will stay filled.

If it's only noticeable at idle it's more likely that it's dropping down to 7. Not got a big dollop of slush sitting on the ignition coil by any chance?

It hasn't been cut off Chris, it's missing the bolt to clamp it onto the battery terminal. The difficulty is that unlike than all the others the battery terminal isn't on the cable to the fusebox but on the one to the starter. I don't think Maplin are in France (and they've just gone bust anyway) so any bits would have to come from their equivalent to a DIY store.

Dunno, looking at the clamp I would have thought it's some sort of cone that goes on the top to squeeze the sides together. I think I've seen something similar on something like a Renault but can't be sure.

No, I filled up at Flogas just down the road from where you work and asked them what was going on. There was an explosion at a refinery in Austria just before Christmas which has reduced supply. They reckon that wouldn't normally be a problem but with the cold weather they are flat out delivering to household customers using LPG for heating which they are obliged to treat as a priority. It wouldn't look good if pensioners started dying of hypothermia as they had no heating because the drivers are spending all their time at filling stations so we can run around in our V8 powered motors on cheap fuel. The guy there said that although filling a bulk tank is quicker than using the pump at a filling station, it still isn't quick so when they have multiple domestic customers and limits on their driving hours, the punter takes priority.

Bloody hell David, where's that? Considering I'm no more than 15 miles from you in a straight line, I've got nothing in comparison. There's about an inch of frozen snow left over from earlier in the week and light snowfall now but nothing like that.

Blimey, you must be the only place in the UK that hasn't had any. We've got an office in Warrington and it was snowing there on Tuesday.

It seems that the battery cables are different to any that anyone has seen with the main battery terminal being on the end of the cable to the starter rather than on the one going to the fusebox. With a standard starter cable with the ring terminal on the end, that could be changed so it would fit onto the standard one with the terminal on the cable to the fusebox which I've already sent her. No idea how easy it is to get to the starter on a diesel though if that was going to be changed. Either that or the battery terminal could be taken off the starter cable and replaced with a ring terminal to re-engineer it so it is the same as all the others.

She's in a village called Ableiges which is about 30kms NW of Paris, just off the A15 autoroute.

There almost certainly is but without wishing to sound sexist or racist (and I don't think Teri will object), Teri is female, from Florida and living in France. Now she'll try to tackle things she understands but has minimal tools and the local 'mechanics' see her coming and use it as an excuse to charge her vast sums of money and only ever seem to succeed in making things worse. It will have been one of the local mechanics that lost the bolt from the battery terminal when they replaced the battery as it was all complete the last time I saw the car back in June last year. Finding a decent mechanic in France is very difficult, it's taken my mate in the south 12 years to find somewhere capable of balancing a wheel and making it better rather than worse. The French don't repair things, they throw them away and buy something newer.

The big question is, what are they going to give you as a courtesy car while yours is being repaired? I doubt the new owner of your old P38 would want to lose it and I'd lend you the Ascot if it wasn't already out on loan to my boss after his Discovery 3 died on him......

Not had quite as much here (yet, we're due for the worst on Saturday) but it's been a little boring really. I blame Clive for recommending the Vredenstein Quadtrac tyres, they certainly stick. Couldn't even get the ABS to kick in.......

You could..... But I doubt it's MoT approved. There are digital ones out there but it seems that the old wooden box with a scale on it are still approved as I know two test stations that still use them.