I noticed that there seemed to be a bedraggled blackbird nesting in one of the tailpipes. A quick tug later and it turned out to be fibreglass wading from the back box
I snipped it off and went 1h20 up the road with the family. I checked when I arrived and found blackbirds in both tailpipe.
Hmmm
Back box is a Klarius (2year warranty) sourced andfitted by a local indy in may 18.
Whaddya reckon? I pay labour they provide parts?
ECP had them listed at £Cheap. Too cheap to be true as it turned out :/
I wouldn't bet against four more hand-labelled filters at this point - some genius must have re-labelled a whole bunch of them :/
Very handy, thank you!
Hah, no - Rimmer Bros. £28 delivered for Land Rover original...
let's see :)
I've still got mine :(
There's an ECP in York that I'd like to visit on Saturday.
Phew :)
I've ordered a new one which has a good chance of being here for the weekend. Load the parts cannon! :)
There are two? I thought it was one unit with two sets of contacts and three wires...
Not that I've had chance to look, yet.
Hmm, I'll start with a de-gunge and hope it does the trick. Are these common failures?
Thanks!
Edit: On reading up, I wonder if this will fix my cruise control? The pipe looks OK at the usual places but the system doesn't work.... Here's hoping. If the clean up doesn't work, the switches themselves don't look too expensive at about ~£30
Hi Folks,
it's all been running a bit smoothly :)
I was driving home last night and the ABS light came on. So, I tested the ABS and it still seemed to be functioning.. but definitely something to investigate.
Got home, shut off, restarted - no light. Hmm
So I hooked up the nanocom and of course there were no errors showing because I should have hooked it up when the light was still on.
Silly me
This morning, on startup, ABS FAULT on the dash soon followed by TRACTION FAILURE. I Checked the nanocom and got "Brake Switch Fault 1 time". I drove for about a mile and checked again "Brake Switch Fault 13 times".
OK - I cleared the fault, switched it off and on again* and all was peachy for the rest of the drive to work. No faults, not lights, ABS functioning (good news as I swerved round an oncoming lorry on the muddy road).
So it's an intermittent fault with the BRake Switch - is this the jobby under the brake pedal or is there another one hiding somewhere?
cheers,
Morat
*it's a perfectly valid test if you work in IT :)
Sounds fair enough to me - your towing is far more load than The Duchess ever sees.
Yes, that's another thing I'd like to do. Having seen Marty's Android unit I can't really see a downside. The stock Nav is cute, but no longer working. To have Nav fully integrated again would be nice, especially if it's Google Maps which is my preferred option.
I run the tyres at 28/34 unless fully laden or towing. I find the rears wear the middle bit if I leave them at 38psi when lightly loaded. YMMV!
Handy! Does that include the tweeters?
Mine have arrived - probably the third time this set has been sent out to a P38 owner in error!
Crossland C40353P with a hand written label on the box saying 507607 038.
Bollox.
Speaking of Cam wear, shouldn't we be using oils with higher than normal ZDDP/Zinc content for our flat tappets?
One day, when I get round to it, I'll replace the speakers with modern equivalents. Some of them are definitely past their best now.
I also change into lower gears when going down steep hills to save the brakes.
StrangeRover wrote:
BrianH wrote:
StrangeRover wrote:
I don't exactly remember what it did to £40 on pez as i always filled it on payday..
£132 would get me 407mi which wasn't too bad.
That would equate to £32.43 per 100 miles on petrol then.....
Not too bad then..
Actually, pretty grim.
I buy gas at 52.7ppl right now and get an easy 170 miles per tank even when thrashing the thing round country lanes on a 7 mile commute. With a 65 litre fill that's £34.25 per 170 miles and all those figures are worst case apart from the price which is correct.
Petrol consumption is absolutely minimal, I waft out of the estate on petrol and it changes to gas just after the NSL sign. That's no more than half a mile.
On a motorway trip, 200 miles is quite possible as Gilbertd says.
Mwa hahaahah :)