Hmpf. Mine stopped working again on the way back from Summer camp 17 one year after Gilbert fixed it at Summer camp 16.
I'm not built for gymnastics either!

You really need to leave off the LPG until you've got the idle/misfire sorted on Petrol. Random fuelling isn't good for engines!

That's an excellent average MPG - well done :)

I'm happier with computers than spanners :)

WJ Overland? I looked at some of those but ended up with a P38 :) nice motors but I couldn't find a nice one, if you see what I mean.
I think Simon has some relevant advice on fuelling the midrange on those, or was it something to do with PRINS? Anyway, I'm sure he'll be back :)

Either way, OBD doesn't add much to LPG installs for reasons that have been explained a few times on the LPG forum, but boil down to lag. If the Petrol system makes a change to cope with a transient condition the LPG will then try to correct itself as well but the conditions will have changed so it ends up chasing the needle.

If I were you I'd get a cheapo Bluetooth OBD adaptor and the paid version of Torque for your phone. You'll have a readout of your ST/LT trims really quickly with the minimum messing about.

We're working on that :)
There will be a trip to the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge at some point, just trying to settle on an evening.

Can any of the others squirt the EKA direct to the BECM? cos the sweet sweet clunk of the locks firing the door pins up followed by the engine starting on the button was worth £300 of anyone's money!
(My P38 was stuck in a local garage with EKA lockout and a dodgy door microswitches)

Or just adjust the tyre pressures until it's sitting level!

(I'll get my coat)

but but... why not use manifold vacuum? It's free!
Rover must have had a spare committee or something

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Depends. How long is this race, and is refuelling allowed? :P

A V8 with LPG might just have a longer range if both tanks are brimmed... but I'd also like to be able to afford certain luxuries, like food!

What is the range of a petrol 4.6? I don't think I've ever brimmed the tank on The Duchess - the furthest she went on Petrol with me was when we picked her up from Bradford, or maybe the trip to Simon's for the LPG conversion.

I take it back - I'd got the wrong entrance, but there's a permanent TRO on that route (Hambleton Drove Road). Seems there was 500km of RUPP in the North Yorkshire Moors but now there's only about 3km of BOAT that are still open.

Grrrrr. There's a clearly marked BOAT on the definitive map which has a locked gate across one end courtesy of the Forestry Commission.

OK, the North Yorkshire Definitive Map is... DRUMROLL
here: http://maps.northyorks.gov.uk/connect/analyst/?mapcfg=Out_and_About

Sadly there's very little in the way of Green Lanes on it.
Actually there's a couple within striking distance, but one of them is so mild the Google Maps car made it all the way!

Wow, there's a battery cover? I was chuffed to have a battery clamp/strap.
My Jeep makes do with a natty piece of angle iron!

We are, eventually, going to meet up and put my nanocom on his P38 but until the moon, stars and several planet align (or we get to the end of the events season at work and I have some weekends to myself again) I think is a long way off.

What a very smart young subaltern you were :)
Smarter than me, that's for sure - but it looks like we shared the kit packing skills!

tbh, I probably would take the Jeep because it fits down smaller lanes.
It seems that there has been quite a lot of rule tightening recently and it's pretty hard to get offroad in the UK if you don't own a farm or a forest.

http://allterrainuk.com/ £25 to join, not a lot of info. Has anyone any experience?

I've never done any green laning (just one go in a Pay and Play place near Robin Hood's Bay) although I'd like to give it a try. The thing that holds me back is the worry that I'll end up trespassing, ignoring a TRO or basically pissing off a lot of people without knowing where I stand. Does anyone know much about it or know of any groups that are worth joining? I'm not really interested in discussing which type of Defender differential has the best pinions, just would like to get our and enjoy some countryside in confidence I'm not going to get arrested!

Either you have a metallic purple Range Rover or my monitor doesn't agree with your camera at all! :)

Diesels are great for industrial/marine engines pushing high torque at constant (relatively low) revs where the application doesn't require fast or regular accelerations. In those applications they're simple, reliable and efficient. They also get away with being heavy without any great penalty.
The further you stray from that sort of application the more diesels have to depart from their traditional strengths and more complication is added in the form of turbocharging, exhaust gas recirculation and often higher running temps to turn them into something they're not.
You can see the same trend with the teeny tiny petrol turbos that have come in to meet Euro6. We're being forced into building ever more complicated engines to meet silly targets that don't seem to have a great correlation with real world driving conditions.
This is why I run a 4.0 straight six petrol engine in my Jeep which will easily hit 250,000 before any rebuild beyond the occasional headgasket. The warranty expired in 1998 but I don't care. All parts are available because these engines were designed to be used, abused and rebuilt when they became worn.
The same is true (to an extent) for the Rover V8. It can be rebuilt (a bit more often than the Jeep!) and all parts are available.
Nip forward to the M52B30 in the E46 BMW that we used to have. Fantastic performance, no doubt - but if the headgasket went there was a decent chance the head bolts would strip their threads and the block was scrap. Still, it would do 200k if you looked after it.
Now the teeny turbo 3 or 4 pot petrols haven't been out there long enough to be sure but I wouldn't bet on them still being in service after 15 years. Yes, we've moved forward in materials science and engineering experience but they just look too highly stressed to have much longevity, at least to my eyes.

Does this matter? Not if you're a manufacturer who only cares about products during the warranty period. I'd say it's the wrong direction to take if we're looking to reduce the lifetime costs of vehicles both financial and ecological. There are plenty of vehicles out there with life in them it seems absurd to me to say that a brand new vehicle, no matter how economical to run, will have less impact on the environment than one that is effectively recycled. If you're hammering 50k motorway miles a year, fair enough, the economy might make the difference as long as you keep the car for long enough but for the average joe doing 10k a year... how does new make any kind of sense?