Oooh that'd be handy Chris - I'll drop you a PM in a sec.

How do you find these things Marty? :) Searched for everything I could think of.

Does anyone know where I might be able to get a Bosch MAF connector? Ideally with 6" or so of wiring.

Mine has a break in the insulation on the MAF signal wire (it has no cover like others, hence the 5 wires are exposed), so I'd like to lop it off and replace it to rule that out causing me some minor issues.

Yeah I'm not ruling out I may have some worn bushes etc too. Much better on the way in to work this morning though, so I'm thinking the tyres are the majority of the problem.

I'll slowly go through things and replace them for good measure - can't hurt.

Just had a little drive around on varying roads after swapping front/rear tyres - seems like a huge improvement. Had to do something for the time being - the last couple of days has been driving me mad. Pun totally intended. Will see how the HGV grooves on the way to work fare tomorrow morning - trying to drive with a lighter foot at the moment... very annoying when being sent all over the road.

I think I'm going to go with the AT... I think. Going to order online and have them fitted somewhere locally. £452 for four. Oh... need a new unbuckled alloy too...

I can get both for the same price. They seem to be favoured equally really. How do you even get stuck on flat wet grass? Even my Nexens don't get stuck... you just end up nowhere near where you want to be :)

Oddly only two of the four tyres had date codes - both the same though. 5th week 2010 - so they're just over six and a half years old. Done well I guess, but time for a change.

Swapped the fronts with the rears to see if the wondering changes till getting new tyres next week. I think I'm going to go with the GG AT - or AT2... maybe the AT2.

The Nexens seemed decent when I got the car - certainly it handled far far better than my old car with its pretty-much-new no-name cheapy road tyres, but the wondering has become progressively worse of late and isn't as 'arm chair' relaxing as it should be.... I've actually done about 8,000 miles so far, quite a bit more than I'd realised or planned to do in it.

Sorry should have added - alignment etc was done not long ago, maybe a monthish? It was out before then. It doesn't pull to one side, rather it just... wonders! Wherever it pleases, certainly dependant on the road surface.

I've heard mixed things about the Scorpion tyres that are available now, so somewhat ignored them.

I don't know how old the tyres are - I've had the car since January, but I'm guessing they're pretty old to be cracking/perishing.

Yes erm the... press ;)

My steering has been getting a bit wondery of late, and while I know any play in bushes etc underneath can cause tramlining/vagueness etc, my tyres are definitely in need of replacement. I have adjusted the steering box with no effect either on the wondering thing - and the indy had it a week ago or so and couldn't find play in anything underneath. I may call upon the almighty Marty though and his shiny tool to replace the 18 year old radius arm bushes for good measure at some point.

Currently I have Nexen Roadian HPs on it - and they've been fine I guess. A slightly damp field though has them totally flummoxed. I mean - trying to park in a field I'd have better chances in a RWD BMW with no weight over the back end. That was months ago too, now the front two don't have much left on the outer edges (worse on the inside, but not massively so), and all four have some perishing/cracking going on on the sides.

General Grabber AT - they seem to be a popular choice with little complaining of tramlining etc? Seen quite a few posts where people have had problems with other tyres and put these on, problem solved. While my P38 will spend most of its life on roads, I'd like it to be able to take on some mild off roading at some point. Or you know, park in a field without going sideways.

Thoughts?

It would be nice to have a basic image hosting thing that ran alongside the forum. Always irritating when you come across a great guide from 5 years ago, and the OP has used a Photobucket/Flickr/Imgur/image-hoster-of-the-year account that has long since expired... and all the images are now dead links.

Hmm, a tadpole can become a what now? ;) But of course; should make more of an attempt and keeping things on topic!

Ha, as was I... quite a few threads here, but I'm guessing not many with 8mm in them yet! After trying the lazy route, I found the thread and its on the way! I did try searching a few times, but seemed to give the same result.

Hopefully it will turn up... who did you order from?

Just tried to search for '8mm' under posts, but it no likey:

Feels like the pub is getting enough threads to warrant searching, which is nice!

Ouch :(

Mine was rear-ended about a year ago by a tool in a white astra-van coming down a hill. Speed limit dropped form 70 to 40, he did not. Left skid marks all down the hill before stopping in my boot. Ruined the bumper and crumpled the body underneath. Thankfully the place that sorted it were able to get a new bumper and pull out the metalwork almost perfectly, and under the cut off for writing it off. Like yours - bar one ding in the drivers door, it is mint. No V8 sadly though... it is the sensible, economical, reliable one. Ignoring the £1200 worth of injector work 6 months ago.

Something something P38...

Don't see many 530i models about - I'd quite like one. Well, what I really want is an E39 M5. Mine is a 530D SE - but the original owned specced pretty much every toy apart from navigation, which is no great loss.

This, is the best kind ;)

Coming up on 158k now, and it really is (read as James May) rather excellent.

Re-reading the TSB, I think actually the loctite goes on the hub end of the shaft... so you can still remove the hub and half shaft, and then worry about separating the two away from the vehicle. Disco IIs apparently were all built this way.

http://www.landroversonly.com/forums/288410-post7.html

I'd just like to get rid of some of these noises. I wouldn't care if it were just when going between reverse/drive, but now its doing it when I pull away, its a bit more annoying.

Both of my P38s have made a click/clunk/clack noise shortly after you start moving when reversing. Now though the noise occurs when you pull away, more often than not. More than anything its just annoying.

The LR TSB outlines resolving the problem by applying Loctite 648 to the splines in the diff end.

I left the car with the local indy to sort a few bits and see if they could find the cause, if not, look at the TSB and perhaps do that. They weren't too inclined and raised an interesting point... if the half shafts are loctited to into the splines, how do you remove the hub/axle to replace a wheel bearing?

Ha, making a very nice noise in the process.

It appears one of my front calipers is sticking though... so I might want to sort that first!

Probably not that then :P

I don't rag it about really, but it doesn't get babied everywhere either.

From the back its a lovely sound :) I must admit... this afternoon I left it with the local indy with a list of jobs - clunks and fluids to hopefully find/fix/replace.

Had to wait for a lift home, meanwhile they (after scaring the crap out of me trying to unlock it with the wrong P38 key) moved my car about... I do love the way it sounds.

I digress. I'm relatively sure the sound is coming from within something. Heat shields are secure. The starter motor is a remanufactured unit fitted in 2015 - I somewhat wonder if the bendix is maybe rattling around. Or if the flex plate has a loose bolt or two, or a crack. I don't know.