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.
My guy just sits on it the floor in the passenger footwell. Amusing thing when his newly qualified tester did the Ascot was that he'd just driven it off the ramps having had it jacked up on the chassis with the wheels dangling. That had made the EAS think it had grounded itself so had put the suspension to extended height. Damn near fell over when he hit the brakes as the centre of gravity was so high. He tested mine a couple of weeks later, went through the test, drove out in preparation of doing the brake test and asked me how to get it down off stilts so he didn't get seasick this time.
and wrote:
the brakes are ok very good readings on the mot so all good for now
Good readings? How did they test them? They should be done with the deccelerometer (thrash across the yard and stomp on the pedal) and that doesn't give any readings, just not good, good and scrape the tester off the inside of the windscreen. To get readings, actual numbers, they would need to test them on the rolling road tester which isn't good on a permanent 4 wheel drive vehicle.
The GEMS one is a brittle plastic pipe with a short length of hose on each end. As the parts list shows it as Hose Assembly (rather than just hose) I thought it was the same.
The cable I sent you has one of these https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/product/118/category/26#gallery-3 on the end which goes on the battery and the other end goes to the fusebox. The cable you have that goes to the starter has a strange looking version of that on the end. That needs cutting (or melting as it is made of lead) off and a ring terminal fitting instead. This ring terminal and the other one (marked on the picture above as the extra one for a diesel) then go under the nut on the bolt that clamps it onto the battery.
Teri. The problem is that if you order the cable Marty gave you the part number for, it will be the same as the one I sent you. What you need to do is find someone that can cut the battery terminal off the cable you have and fit one of these https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/product/155/category/32#gallery-9 on the end instead. Then it can be fitted the same as all the others.
Is it the brittle plastic pipe that can easily crack on a Thor the same as on a GEMS? I replaced the whole run with 8mm ID silicon hose on mine.
I've had to fill up three times over the weekend and the only one I found out was one in Luton (after dropping a friend off at the airport), but another one less than a couple of miles away had supplies. The services on the A1(M) have LPG too but all of these are Shell and I believe it's mainly the Flogas supplied ones that are out.
Those discounts are the standard ones offered on the website anyway. Colin did offer a further 20% discount to members on here, see post 19 here https://rangerovers.pub/topic/627-which-diagnostic-is-appropriate
Whatever you have at the moment is the one to go for and if you do change in the future, it's around £50 for the licence for the extra engine. So you'd want the diesel version now but if/when you change to a V8 then you just pay the extra then and it will then cover both. Bear in mind though that although it won't do the engine on one that you don't have the licence for, it will do everything else. So mine will only do GEMS engines but will do the BeCM, HEVAC, EAS, ABS, etc on all versions of P38.
The price has gone up due to the value of the pound against the Euro (as they come from Cyprus). I got mine when the exchange rate was much better and it was something like £310.
OB's memory is correct, I did try one a few months back. They are 3D printed parts and needed an awful lot of fettling to get everything to slide as it should but even then only lasted for 2 or 3 operations before breaking. In saying that, the cables weren't in brilliant condition either and that may have put extra strain on things. I got a complete cassette and fitted that instead. Once you've got the glass out you will be able to see the broken part, set it so that it holds the rear of the sunroof up and put the glass back in. Depending on what actual part has broken, I might have the original part still on the remains of my cassette but otherwise you will be better off swapping the whole lot. It's a 3 person job though, 2 to hold it in place while the third person puts the bolts in.
I suspect it's down to the cold weather and people needing LPG for home heating. I had to wait over a week for a delivery of heating oil despite phoning two days after placing the order and telling them I'd run out. They couldn't bring the delivery forward as demand was so high. I would think it's much the same with LPG, they make more profit on home heating supplies than garage forecourt sales so prioritise those.
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but I really wonder what he/they think RRnet is actually for....?
It's his own personal site, he even lists www.rangerovers.net as his website on a few profile sites. I once posted that I had a spare ABS pressure switch in my garage if it would be of any use to someone on there who was having trouble and suspected the switch. That got me a weeks ban because items for sale should be in the For Sale forum yet he's done exactly the same thing here http://www.rangerovers.net/forum/7-range-rover-mark-ii-p38/310897-source-overhauled-valve-blocks.html, but as it's his site he can.
Every time I've tried to remove a rear height sensor, I've had to resort to the angle grinder. Wickes do some very useful 1mm thick cutting blades.....