Bolt wrote:

Now, there is a very angry ex pat Brit in Wa state who does seem a wee bit peeved at all of the Z Plate registration folks out there........

Who would that be? You're not going to let on that RRTH is an ex-pat surely? He must have had the full frontal lobotomy at US immigration......

We get it to a certain degree over here with Londoners. It may be because it can take them 2 hours to drive from one side of London to the other or anywhere you can't get to on the London Underground is a foreign country but they think the world stops outside of London. For 3 years I drove into London every day, 84 miles each way, all motorway, and it I could do it in under an hour and a half. Yet Londoners would look at a map, see how far away somewhere was and wouldn't even consider travelling that sort of distance. Many years ago I used to run a car owners club and we had a meeting every couple of months somewhere in the country. As we couldn't find anywhere suitable in London we arranged one in Windsor. Now it's only 20 or so miles outside of London yet no London based members turned up. A week later I got a phone call from a London member who asked when the next London meeting would be and I told him he'd just missed it. Oh no, that was in Windsor, when's the next one in London? He couldn't comprehend that for me to get there I'd driven to London, gone around the outside and then out to Windsor. Surely, you'd need a couple of overnight stops for a journey like that?

Anyway Tom, we'll accept you as an honorary Brit. You're travelling around the British colonies in a British built boat after all.......

I have nothing against Canadians at all, I spent an extremely enjoyable week in Montreal a couple of years ago. Amazing place and people although I must admit it did seem a little strange at first. It looked like I was in the US but everyone spoke French. Now I go to France about 8 times a year and have a reasonable grasp of the language but listening to someone speaking what is obviously French but being unable to understand a word of it seemed very odd. The thing that amused me most was that in France a stop sign says STOP, in Montreal a stop sign says ARRET.

Driving there was interesting too. I've never come across such a polite bunch of drivers anywhere in the world. The way everyone stops at a crossroads and takes it in turns to move, anywhere else in the world they'd all try to go at once and end up in a big, mangled heap in the middle.

I also heard that the biggest insult you can give to a Canadian is to call them American........

He's moved from Dubai so I suspect it was to keep all the cool air from the AC inside rather than keep filing the car with stupidly hot air from outside. Most of us need to do it the opposite way, to keep the hot air inside.

Very true. Problem I have at the moment is that it switches off at 8:30 because I would normally go to work at around 9:00 but I'm working from home today.....

Doesn't work when I've got two cars outside that have things I want to do on them, it's down to about 3 degrees and the front of my house faces North so doesn't even get any sun on it. Doing fiddly things in woolly gloves is a bit difficult.

Good job you're not in England then, it's bloody freezing over here at the moment.....

Although Gordon would probably call me a southern softie because it's probably a lot colder where he is.

At the risk of sounding like someone else, the procedure is all in RAVE. If you haven't downloaded it yet, do it now!

But yes, it is a fill to the hole. It's done with the engine and gearbox cold. Start engine, go through all gears slowly a couple of times, leave in neutral, then leap underneath and fill to the level hole. The reason why there's no dipstick on the later cars is the gap where it comes up on an earlier GEMS isn't there any more as it's filled with that big bunch of ally bananas on top of your engine.

gordonjcp wrote:

It's been pointed out that the member list looks pretty damn weird,

Too right it does, I'm not a member any more. Have I been banned from another Range Rover forum already?

But you're our resident diesel expert, you're supposed to answer questions not ask them! Have you tried starting it without the drive belt on to rule out alternator, AC compressor, idler pullys, etc?

I think that goes for all of us, it's just that we've probably all dealt with just about everything that can go wrong with a P38 at some time or another......

Yes but you have to host them on photobucket or similar and then when you click the image button it asks for the URL for then and drags them off the net.

Hmm, just had a thought. Should a question about EAS be in the electrickery section? It runs on 'lectric but it leaks so maybe it should be in the oily bits section......

I'm sure there's an admin on another forum who would make the decision and move it.

So now we've got an oil burner expert too......

Fit Dunlops not some crap American aftermarket things.......

I was about to say I'd have the spare ones from you as both my front ones (non-HK, bog standard LR originals) are getting a bit tired and rattle when I want to make my ears bleed. Then realise where you are and speakers are heavy so postage would probably cost more than a new set.....

GeorgeB wrote:

Just wish i could replace the LED sides now, but can't find the incandescent bulbs I need here.

They are off the shelf from any motor factors over here. Do you want a handful picking up and bunging in the post?

Absolutely spot on that man. A 2015 model (October 2014 build), Russian spec, Bentley Continental GT Speed. Biggest headache is going to be swapping the headlights for RHD ones so it can go through an IVA test (and then swapping them back as it is destined for France anyway). Bentley themselves quote 6 hours labour to change a headlight, I reckon it's going to take me a couple of days and the weather isn't really conducive to working outside even if it will be in a garage. It looks like the front grille and both front wings have to come off, all without damaging anything on a car that only has 5,000 kms from new......

There's a thing called a Grom unit which will do what you want to do. See http://gromaudio.co.uk/partfinder/product/list/?make=Landrover&model=Range%20Rover%20HSE&year=2000-2004 not cheap though.

Normal display means the XYZ switch is OK so the most likely thing is that it's a bit low on fluid. Unfortunately you've got the later one so no dipstick on the gearbox, checking the level involves crawling underneath and risking getting a face full of Dexron 3. If the engine is off, then the level will be high making you think that there's plenty in there but it has to be checked when cold but with the engine running and after you've gone through the gears a couple of times to circulate the fluid.

I am still on there and dropping the odd PM to people telling them about this site too. What annoys me most is that when someone who has been around for a while asks a stupid question, then I can understand the unhelpful replies (it's all in RAVE, try a search, etc) but when you get a new owner who has no idea what he has and has just joined, it isn't exactly welcoming.

As you have obviously now found, there's not much you can't do on a P38 yourself. They may seem complex initially but once you get stuck in, they're pretty simple machines really. My father, who always worked on his own cars when he was younger, called round while I was doing the head gaskets on my SE and thought it looked complicated until I pointed out that it's only a pair of nice simple 4 cylinder pushrod engines no different to the old Fords he used to pull apart without a second thought years ago.

We'll accept anyone on here and the more stupid the question the better. We'll just take the piss out of them mercilessly if they ask about converting to coils or fitting an L322 front end......

But only in the opinion of Americans......