I bought a Noco Genius charger early last year - it's been great so far. Mine is only 3.5A but it does do a full P38 battery overnight if needed. I'd link you to it but the precise model I have has been discontinued but they have a wide range.

Yeah, it's really unpleasant. My experience was bumping along tiny country lanes in Dorset about 5 hours from home. We made it without any damage and Marty rescued us. I do carry the little valves in the centre console now so in theory I can pump up the airsprings at a garage if the compressor or valve block fails away from home.

Factory Fresh!!
That is some amazing attention to detail, congratulations again :D

With lots of yummy zinc for all those cam lobes and tappets....

I fitted a headlight bulb! What a surprise.
I got the Philips Extreme Vision 130% ones from Amazon (£16 for two H4s) and yes, that side is now visibly brighter.
I have managed to resist the temptation to rush out and swap the bulbs in all three vehicles currently residing chez Morat but I know what I'm buying next time.

Here's some good news on batteries. Even if you don't want an Electric Car, it'll be great for phones etc :)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-range-breakthrough-as-new-aluminum-ion-battery-charges-60-times-faster-than-lithium-ion/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

My mighty Austin 7 will run on beeswax and camel piss - it'll outlast us all!!
Not that you'd necessarily WANT to drive very far in it, mind.

The Duchess has been looking a bit scruffy after several weeks of daily driving, so I treated her to a car wash and a full tank of LPG. She repaid me by blowing a headlight bulb.
Ah well, could have been worse.

I buy from my local tyre fitters. They're always cheaper than the online prices and they get stock next day!
I'm probably lucky though, we have two firms located either side of a small market town. They keep each other honest on prices :)

The key with brownie points is to spend them immediately. Banking them is impossible.

Nikasil/Alusil isn't an issue now, as all UK fuel is now low-sulphur. Any pitted blocks should have been replaced under recall/warranty.
However, it does seem that BMW got infected with the same Accountancy > Engineering management practices as Mercedes which is a shame as they were fantastic in the E30/32/34 era. What the hell they are doing producing cars like the X6 I've no idea.

Two fingers or four, madam?

mad-as wrote:

China is becoming a real problem for the world and they must be approached with caution, don't forget where the china virus came from ? and the reason it was let out, i think it was a test to see how the world would respond . not an accident.

You are Donald Trump and I claim my five pounds :)

If I'm honest with myself, the main reason I didn't fit the AT3 to the P38 was looks. I like the chunky tyres on my Jeep, but not on the Range Rover. Don't know why.

I don't think a condenser would be a tricky thing to engineer in relation to replacing the whole fossil fuel supply chain :)

It's an interesting point on increasing the world's humidity by turning water into steam/vapour. I guess it all depends on how quickly it would condense on its own accord. I'd like to think the effect would be minimal but people once thought that would be true of CO2 emissions.... CO2 does stick around until captured by plants, though It doesn't just fall out of the sky by itself.

True, but the steam that steam engines produce was water before it was boiled.. so all the additional greenhouse gases produced are a byproduct of burning the coal (or wood, or coffee!)

16 or 18s?
AT3 is a good tyre all round, although I haven't run it on the Range Rover. It's probably a little noisier than the AT but it's hard to tell in a Jeep.
How much off-roading do you do? After the Grabber AT line was discontinued I was in the same boat as you a few months back and decided to stay on-road and use the Michelin Crossclimate tyres. They're a solid step up from the Grabber ATs in wet braking and noise.
I haven't tried them off road, and probably won't venture further than some flat grassy fields at work so if you're into muddy tracks I guess this won't be helpful. Unless you buy some spare wheels ;)

For basic cleaning I've always used gliptone in the past. The cleaner helps get the grot off and the finishing stuff helps soften the leather and prevent cracks.
It won't help with re-surfacing leather that has lost the coloured top layer but it's good for seats that are in decent nick but dirty.

Pierre3 wrote:

I can't see that emissions from hydrogen, water, will ever become an issue. I would suggest that with all the steam trains in the world there was no effect on the weather. Although, I suppose you could say that there may be millions of cars. But, a steam train would easily require 3 or 4 thousands gallons of water, and this was all puffed out into the atmosphere.

Maybe if hydrogen cars could effect the weather then it would probably be with rain. So if there was a very dry summer we could get all our mates to call around and run their engines until it rains !!! [OK, I think that that's enough with the jokes stuff].

Pierre3.

Just got to point out that Steam is not a greenhouse gas. Burning coal for steam trains is a bad idea and that releases a lot of CO2 but it's not the water that matters.
If you used Hydrogen in the burners for a steam train, you'd be carbon neutral - as long as the H2 is produced using wind/hydro/other renewable electricity.

I've never heard that arguement before!!
Of course it's from renewables.
And most of the windfarms are offshore now where they slice seagulls instead of eagles :D

And yes, the government is building nuclear as fast as they can - which turns out to be not very fast at all...