With certain acrobatics, blend motors are accessible. However you should know which one to access in the first place. Then, having handy some diagnostic tool is a godsend.

In a dark and sometimes unhappy place, but never alone! ah ah ...

Best wishes for a happy and healty time!

... and you can be sure by choosing a 'proper' installer the thing would be done the way it has to be.
Most LPG installs I have seen are horrible work, done on the cheap with a million zipties all over, ECUs thrown around in the engine bays unprotected, and so on ...

If I has offered another P38 I'd had to ran away from it before wife catches me and that will be the end of me :-)

Yes, this is a correct approach. Sometimes, if they have never been removed, they are a pain!
I also noticed the paint on them chips away, very poor manufacturing choice. Other makes have the color "embedded" in the plastic directly, and this means they tolerate much better the handling.
I've looked carefully and the parcel shelf area ones are the only with a 'shiny' cap, no fir tree type but normal "press-on" clip, and beige-brown in color.
Fascinating topic for a Friday night! Gotta love RRP38 owners!

From the poorness of my location, you got to be crazy to go buy a handle new ... any breaker must be glad to get rid of it :-)

Richard, the clip you called "middle" should be the one that goes in the plastic covers of the front seats' "feet" (towards the rear seats), except the very long one mounted on the front (towards the driver and passenger's area) ... all these they literally disintegrate ..
The last one looks exactly like the parcel shelf ones ... I've noticed they are unique and found only in that area.

Uhm, mine is a Lightstone and its "donor twin" is a grey (don't know but I think is Granite), but the roof stuff (handles and such) are in the same color, which should be "Mist grey". It seems upper of the middle line, all plastics and roof fittings are the same across the models, regardless of the lower trim. So anything you can find locally, should fit.

The first photo seems to be the "quarter turn" for the rear luggage trim area (say, the cover for the subwoofer), this you need to find it in Lightstone indeed.
The third photo I cannot make it, I thought it was the 'shiny cap' in the rear parcelf area, but it does not seem to be.

Pierre, what thickness have you used? up to 2mm is fairly light and flexible, 3mm upwards not so, for bitumen/bytil based.
the closed cell 6 o 9 mm are also doable.
For the material I use (say, CTK), 2mm "basic" is around 3.45kg per m2, a 3mm "premium" (more dense) is 3.7kg per m2
I use no less that a full box for a large station wagon (A6 size) which are around 2.5m2, that means 8/9kgs.
Add the foam, and I guess when you make the entire car must be around 15 to 20kg. No more than the rubbish in the thunk ... :-)
In any case, worthwhile addition!

Go top price (and be willing to negotiate). The condition warrants it!
Is easy to under-sale or give away the fruit of your efforts and you'll never get that back ... don't make a present to the next guy! Make it worth!

Sorry I still suck at English 101 ... I mean the luggage area, I already have a hole in the firewall for the purpose (PO made a crude battery switch that I removed). I will prowl around trying to do it nice.

Sloth how did you sort out passing the big-ass battery cable from the front to the wheel well? I am getting materials to address my additional battery setup (mentioned it elsewhere like a million years ago) but I am not sure where to drill to pass through.

Over here, as long as a modification doesn't make the car less safe to you or others, then it is OK.

This is a very civilized and smart thinking. Unfortunately, most lesser countries - especially European - have decided that the only one empowered to believe how much of an improvement to safety is the manufacturer. This is, if he allows such mod by issuing a specific certificate, then you can validate the mod, otherwise it is "illegal". Now there are some workarounds in the form of independent bodies (such as the TUV I've mentioned above), but not always avaialble in all countries.
As a tinkerer of cars since early age, I have been battling against this backwards mentality since I have memory (over 20 years now), and I see no improvement whatsoever in this mindset.
Approach in later years is I don't care any longer, and I am ready to argument that technically. Luckily for me, I am off the hook, or so it seems .... :-)

I wouldn't send my car off to do stuff like that regardless.

And in a COVID world, I think many would abstain to send their cars off to have someone else they don't know leave some sticky goo oever every surface for you to catch something afterwards ... lol

But if anyone needs any replacement clips, I've got 7 brand new, genuine Rover ones, going spare.

Will keep this in mind when I tackle this job as well, mine has always been noisy above 75mph and it has a small gap on the right side. Being a non-original replacement, I suspect poor refitting.

wow ... stunning!
hats off to you :-)

Agree with Marshall, when I made my (poor) repair, it took just a full cycle on both ways and it found its way.
It does sit a little low on one side, but this is glass' adjustment, not motor/mechanism issue.
Will someday spend the proper dough and get the damn thing original brand new and stop bothering ...

Like other countries have already, everything depends on the original homologation certificate for that vehicle (and they DO have and it is available upon request ...).
So if OEM is LED or Xenon, you can replace them as usual.
If halogen -> stick to halogen.
If you want to convert, if you need to obtain a manufacturer's homologation certificate, or pass a technical inspection where manufacturer's data will be reviewed, or an independent technical body that can authorize the modification (like TUV or Dekra in Germany and Austria).
These norms are standard in most countries (that I know for sure: Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria).
You guys in the Island have always had a ... unusual approach to these.

That does not remove the fact that probably if the modification is done right, you will be rarely harassed ... I've done over 35k km in the last three years across southern europe with my tri-xenon mod on my A6's headlights, and never an issue whatsoever. And like me, many others ... countless of them :-)

First question: I've managed to refit the rear seats (duh!) but I noticed I cannot make them upright.
Something seems to be blocking the mechanism. I know it has to "lay down" properly, but is there any locking feature hidden anywhere?
I'll start putting up photos in some moment as well..

Gents, I've resurrected this to ask for help and advice.
As I am trying to pick up the pieces of the mess of my life in the last couple years (too many projects, too many engagements, too many complications), I took a hard look at my beloved P38 which is sitting since two years gathering dust.
I've took the commitment to move it to completion and start (finally!) using it, so I took it to my place where I can do something at it every day, even if few minutes, as opposed to the yard in my working place where I never seem to have time for it.

Now the problem is that ... most of the stuff I seem to have forgotten how to do it (urgh!).
So if you are patient with me will try to go step by step and concentrate on this topic most questions I hope you can help me with.... thanks in advance!!
This year IS the year!

I think you have nothing to worry about.
After spending tons of kms made with 95-108 degrees and equivalent tons of sweat and worry (would often see 115/117), when my fan disintegrated, I took matters in my own hands (alienating my former "pal-mechanic") and replaced absolutely EVERYTHING (except couple hoses which are bidding their time).
Never saw more than 85-87 deg. afterwards, and 90-92 when at standstill in the heat with the AC on ... which makes me think most stories about the RV8 "too hot" are mostly due to (normal) deterioration of the water cooling components over time, and neglected until the inevitable comes.