Found one.......

Yup, an Evoque with a cloth roof. Can't find a decent picture online but the rear window is tiny and it looks really bottom heavy if you know what I mean. There's far too much bodywork below the waistline and a very low roof above.

No, it just won't connect if the firmware in the ECU and the software you are using don't match. No different to trying to use something like Bigas, OMVL, etc software with your Zavoli ECU, although they use the same AEB ECU, it just doesn't connect because of the differing firmware.

Not sure if anyone else has seen one yet, but saw one of these today

Possibly the strangest looking vehicle to have ever carried the Range Rover name. Admittedly, I've always though the Ejoke should really be the Land Rover Freelander Mk3 (or is it 4?) and not sully the Range Rover name but this thing is just plain weird. Looks even worse with the roof up.

You ever known one fall off? Seems pretty robust to me. Anyway, they knew the hoses would split and it would stop working within a couple of years so it didn't matter.

I was amazed at the difference it made. My mate bolted the compressor in with both top and bottom washers the wrong way round and you could hear the EAS compressor over the sound of the engine when driving along. Had a look at mine, swapped them over so they were the same and I had to put my hand on the compressor to see if it was running. You wouldn't think something so simple was so critical.

Looks like Tony has just caused someone on the other side to make his humming even worse. The EAS compressor washers have to go concave side DOWn at the bottom and concave side UP on the top so they only bear against the metal centre leaving the compressor to float on the rubber but with the rubber not in contact with anything.

These days I'd ignore any incorrect info on there (if they don't want me, then why should they have the benefit of my info?) but when it comes from someone on here, I felt it needed to be corrected.

Didn't come from a man in France did it? We bought a fully overhauled Volvo B20 engine that was like that. It looked pretty but had virtually no compression due to valves that didn't seat and bores with a lip at the top you could trip over.

I doubt it, the GEMS has a Sanden TRS 105N AC compressor while the Thor has a Nippon Denso 10PA17 compressor so I wouldn't think they are interchangeable.

Well damn me, I always thought the heads were the same for all versions right back to when they went from 14 bolt to 10 bolt. However, checking the part numbers it changed from the end of the WA series. So Thor heads have a different part number to GEMS heads and you've just found out the difference.

You're right, I thought there was one but just looked and there appears to be a gap. L322 from 2010-2013 but not for the earlier ones.

Probably, I usually use diesel.

The sex of a car can be a problem. I always referred to mine as a she but Dina has this habit of giving character to a car. When she first saw the Innocenti Mini I bought a few months ago in France she said it was a small boy. She said she could imagine it running around kicking a football and climbing trees. So I asked her what the ex-plod was and she said it's a big, strong dependable man and always refers to it as big white man. So what is it now?

OK, thrash the tits off it then......

Not sure about the Thor but on a GEMS there's a hose that comes off the front of the inlet manifold and then runs down to the thermostat. I had a mysterious coolant leak on my Classic which turned out to be that hose had a split in it. As the split was at the bottom it couldn't be seen but it dropped coolant onto the valley gasket which then ran down and dripped off the back. Spent ages checking everything at the back before I found where it was actually leaking from (and a lot harder on a Classic with a bloody great distributor in the way).

Marinade it, put it back together then thrash the goolies off it. That'll clear it out. Only pull it apart if it starts drinking oil.

He's darn sarf, it never gets that cold......

But only if the door isn't locked, if it was locked when the battery was disconnected then the lever doesn't do anything as the cam it bears on is moved by the locking mechanism. It's the one with the red clip on by the way, the one you have marked isn't a lever, it's the strange bit of metal that performs no useful function other than make getting it out of the door difficult and often gets cut off (I've got latch with duff microswitches sitting here waiting to be returned to Marty when he is back home so just had a look at that).

No, not normal. Usual cause of that is slop in the panhard rod bushes so the axle can move from side to side but as you've already replaced those it doesn't seem likely. In saying that, some brands of poly bushes have been found to wear out in a matter of weeks, so if you've fitted poly bushes there could still be movement where there shouldn't be.

Southbound M11 near Stansted at around 09:45 this morning, I was pleased to see that I'm not the only one that makes my P38 work for a living. A very tidy looking 4.6HSE towing a tri-axle trailer at a steady 70 mph. Is it anyone we know?

However, one of the most difficult cars to get into is the P38. Doing it without damaging anything is nigh on impossible.