Gilbertd wrote:
Tree clips are the ones that hold the insulation in place but don't have the hook for the washer pipe to clip into. For those you need ALR4425, https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-ALR4425. You will probably find that the reason it has come out of the clip is that the pipes have shrunk a bit with age so they will no longer reach the clips, mine are dangling on both sides for that reason.
Thanks for the part number. We travel back to France on Sunday so I've order from the very reliable RLD Autos just north west of Paris. The clip is only €1.68 but the postage is €4.99. It's due for delivery next Tuesday. https://www.rld-autos.com/fr/clips-et-fixation/35692-agrafe-tuyau-flexible-discovery-2-et-range-p38-alr4425.html?search_query=ALR4425&results=1
I opened up the bonet today to check oil, coolant, etc & notice that the windscreen washer tubing on the drivers side (RHD) was dangling from the bonnet. Examination revealed that a right angle connection in the tubing should clip onto a plastic stud that secures the insulating blanket under the bonnet. I foolishly tried to lever out the plastic stud with a screwdriver causing top out & disappear somewhere in the engine compartment. I secured the tubing to the insulation with gaffer tape but the insulating blanket is hanging down when the bonnet is open because of the missing stud. This is all a longwinded way of saying does anyone know where I can get a replacement. I looked on Rimmer's website www.lrparts.net but can't find it.
https://ibb.co/LdTVrJm
Morat wrote:
The Duches, being a expensive Bi++.. Lady... has the auto dipping, auto dimming, heated wing mirrors.
The driver's side one has now decided that being reflective was far too common and has changed colour to an unpleasant dog-streak brown.
Not wishing to replace the whole assembly (it's colour coded, too) I looked for a replacement piece of glass.https://www.paddockspares.com/crd101240-rh-mirror-glass-electrochromatic-convex-from-ya430702.html
Holy Carp.
After you have spent £212.99+shipping you aren't even guaranteed an intact mirror
"PLEASE NOTE: None of Paddock Spares' carriers will insure us for glass products. As a result all glass products are sent at the customers risk and no replacements can be sent if damaged. However, we do endeavour to pack everything as well as we possibly can and have VERY FEW breakages."
BTW I'm not sure that they can evade consumer protection legislation in this way.
Symes wrote:
Hi mate so you took the plunge on a P38
I've come to the conclusion that diesel p38s get used and abused more than V8 p48s
They get abused by cheapskates who can't afford to refuel a P38 with a V8 petrol engine. The extreme cheapskates run them on cooking oil.
Sloth wrote:
The fob code stored in the becm is always for key #1. The logic then derives the codes for 2/3/4. So you cannot mix and match fobs from different locksets like you can on a D2.
I have the ability to read the fob code from any fob and thus determine the code for #1 in it's associated lockset, but I'd need the key to do so.
How do you read the codes? Is it a widely available device? I have one probably original key & a genuine key 4 that I bought last year from a Land Rover main agent.
StrangeRover wrote:
Chassis removal is actually very easy for the P38, infact because the nuts are captive in the body you don't need 3 arms unlike with the D2.
Drizz Developements has done a chassis galv and replacement on youtube, quite an interesting watch,
That's a very interesting possibility. Not a DIY job though. I wonder how much it would cost to have someone do it for you?
Another big "Thank you" to Richard aka @Gilbertd who has helped me in person & done work on my car as I start to do the work on my 2001 Vogue that will ensure it is as reliable as possible. His knowledge of the P38 is amazing plus he is a really nice guy.
BrianH wrote:
nigelbb wrote:
Gilbertd wrote:
+1.....
I drove to Strasbourg and back this weekend just gone and went via Belgium and Luxembourg rather than using the A26 in France. About 10 miles further and 10 minutes longer but LPG on the French motorways is 0.99-1.04 Euros a litre (plus motorway tolls) compared with 0.75 in Belgium and 0.72 in Luxembourg (and no motorway tolls). Cost almost as much in bloody Covid tests as it did in fuel!
You don't need LPG if you have E85. I live half the time in France where we have E85 (85% bioethanol) at about 69c/L versus E10 at €1.55/L. Due to the lower calorific value fuel consumption is higher at about 14mpg versus 18mpg but I can live with that as it is less than half the price of petrol. It's more climate friendly too.
LPG gets your the Purple – Crit’Air 1 sticker though, which E85 doesn't?
Crit’Air stickers are basically a bit of greenwashing. Another advantage of using E85 is that I don't need to pay for an LPG conversion then have the hassle of getting through a CT with non-standard fuel system. It also means that I can use Eurotunnel.
Gilbertd wrote:
nigelbb wrote:
If you are British with partner who has an EU passport your rights are the same as if you too had an EU passport. The latest French government rules allow an EU citizen to enter France en route to their home state.
Is that home state or residence? Although she has a Latvian passport, she has settled status in the UK, so that would be considered home I would have thought. I know that when UK Immigration scan her passport their screen shows that she has settled status, I would suspect the same info would be shown on her way out. Mind you, an EU passport, or even an EU residency card, is far moire useful than a British passport which is hardly worth the paper it is printed on these days.
Apologies. I just checked & it's returning to their main residence. You might be able to blag it but risk being turned back.
Here is the list of pressing grounds for travel to/from the United Kingdom
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/coming-to-france-your-covid-19-questions-answered/article/list-of-pressing-grounds-for-travel-to-from-the-united-kingdom
dave3d wrote:
As well as that, all travel to France is now stopped due to Macron's Omicron restrictions.
I notice it doesn't apply to HGV drivers though and it is not clear if you can drive straight through France to another country, like Spain for example.
All travel hasn't been stopped. I am a French resident who spends half my time in the UK as I work here. I will be returning to France after Xmas as French nationals & residents are allowed to enter France from the UK. Other groups may travel too eg EU citizens en route to their home state.
Gilbertd wrote:
I wonder what the situation will be in mid-January when we may be driving to Dina’s parent in Latvia if nothing has changed by then? She’s an EU passport holder (Latvian) and I am her partner (which gives slightly more rights than a UK passport holder when entering France) and while we will be entering France we will only be there for the 30 minutes or so it takes to get to the Belgian border. There is an exemption of up to 24 hours if you are transiting through at an airport but what about if transiting by road? Or does it mean we have to use the Stena Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry and bypass France? Don’t really want to as the Stena ferry is more expensive than my P&O season ticket (which I have just renewed with another 5 returns so have already paid for the crossing) and while it saves a couple of hours driving time, it’s a 7 hour crossing so adds considerably to the overall journey time.
I've spent a bloody fortune in Covid tests in the last few weeks as it is but at least they are coming down in cost.
If you are British with partner who has an EU passport your rights are the same as if you too had an EU passport. The latest French government rules allow an EU citizen to enter France en route to their home state.
Gilbertd wrote:
+1.....
I drove to Strasbourg and back this weekend just gone and went via Belgium and Luxembourg rather than using the A26 in France. About 10 miles further and 10 minutes longer but LPG on the French motorways is 0.99-1.04 Euros a litre (plus motorway tolls) compared with 0.75 in Belgium and 0.72 in Luxembourg (and no motorway tolls). Cost almost as much in bloody Covid tests as it did in fuel!
You don't need LPG if you have E85. I live half the time in France where we have E85 (85% bioethanol) at about 69c/L versus E10 at €1.55/L. Due to the lower calorific value fuel consumption is higher at about 14mpg versus 18mpg but I can live with that as it is less than half the price of petrol. It's more climate friendly too.
dave3d wrote:
There is a further 10% off with the following code:
dec10-hankook
That coupon has expired.
The Hankook MF31-1000 is back in stock for £101.38 with free next day delivery. I just ordered one. My current Halfords battery still seems good but is over five years old. I am trying to make my P38 as reliable as possible so am pre-empting problems by replacing items that could potentially fail.
https://www.batterymegastore.co.uk/product/hankook-heavy-duty-commercial-battery-mf31-1000/
JLImmelman wrote:
Goodluck!
Hope the rest of the drive goes as smoothly as it has started 😃
We arrived back yesterday evening without incident.
Yesterday afternoon in preparation for travelling back to the UK from our place in France I checked the oil level & tyre pressures then thought I would have a go at trying to sort out the airlock in the cooling system that I think is the cause of intermittent heater problems. It seems to start off OK but after 45-60 minutes of driving the air blowing into the cabin gets cooler & cooler till eventually it's just external air temperature. As per RAVE instructions on refilling I disconnected the radiator bleed hose at the radiator then lifted the host to my lips to blow & clear any residual coolant whereupon the hose snapped in two places. The 20 year old plastic tubing was presumably flexible when new but is now the consistency of dried pasta so easily shattered.
An initial attempt at repair served simply to prove that gaffer tape does not provide a water tight seal & would not take pressure in any case. There was some urgency to effecting a repair as we planned on leaving the cottage at about 07:30 the next morning to catch the ferry at Saint-Malo approx 120km & 1 hour 20 minutes drive away. Remembering also that it's a Sunday afternoon in France & no DIY or motoring spares place or indeed anywhere else is open.
My initial thought was just to clamp off the outlet from the radiator in some way but before deciding on that I decided to Phone a Friend & ask for advice. @Gilbertd who himself was driving through France but hundreds of kms away advised me that this was a bad idea. If I had thought it through better I would have realised that the whole point of the bleed hose is to vent air trapped at the top of the radiator. He called me back a little later to suggest that if I had some reinforced hosepipe & the necessary fixings that I might be able to secure the hosepipe over the short rubber hose connectors at the radiator end & expansion tank end. I improved on that suggestion by using a 1 inch stub of the pasta-like plastic tubing to stop the rubber hose collapsing. I had bough 50m of reinforced hosepipe during the summer which was about 30m more than is needed in our garden so I had plenty of spare to cut a length from. My neighbour had one jubilee clip of the correct size & I was able to repurpose a plastic fixing that had held a water bottle holder on a bicycle to fix the other end. I tightened up the fixings tight enough to make a seal but not too tight so as to shatter the inner tube & collapse the rubber hose.
I allowed the engine to idle with the cap of the expansion off while intermittently topping up with coolant. Once the engine got almost up to normal running temperature & there was no more space for adding coolant I screwed the cap on tight. The hose didn't bulge excessively nor did it leak. I drove off to our local garage to fill up with fuel (see my previous post) a round trip of about 15kms. On my return the heater was working well & the hosepipe while flexible was not too swollen & the system was up to pressure as evidenced by the almost incompressible top hose on the radiator & the hissing as I gently released the cap on the expansion cap a fraction.
This morning we drove off in the dark & while I anxiously kept an eye on the coolant temperature for overheating & the bonnet for any signs of steam we covered the 120kms in good time. The heater worked fine for the entire journey. I am now sat in our cabin on the ferry while we make the crossing to Portsmouth. I had a look under the bonnet prior to boarding & the hosepipe looked OK so fingers crossed it all holds together for the second half of our journey of 3 hours & 150 miles from Portsmouth to North Essex. I've got a few meters of spare hosepipe in the boot just in case & have a 5L container of water.
I will update this this post in the evening.
Filled up with a full tank of petrol & was very disappointed to discover that fuel consumption over the last 500+ miles had been barely over 12mpg. Surprised as I had even on impulse treated it to a bottle of STP snake oil during that time & it seemed to be running well & revving freely. Then I remembered that I had topped up with 2 x 30L since I last rest the trip odometer not the 2 x 60L that I had used in my calculations. Happily it's been doing a healthy 18.11mpg.😀
I have previously considered a DAB radio but all the stations & more are available streaming over the internet so I just use my iPhone (which is always on the dash running the TomTom satnav app). I use this Bluetooth adapter which tuned to 108.0 MHz gives a nice clear sound. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V7YN8PF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I would prefer a proper Bluetooth input for the radio but I don't know whether this is possible.
Interesting story & an ingenious solution. I think that I would just have driven on the bump stops as despite the order not to exceed 35mph it is possible to do 50-60mph although it nearly shakes all the fillings out of your teeth. I've only had to do one journey on the bump stops when it went into fault mode & I was about 60 miles from home & while uncomfortable it is possible.
The story was also a bit unsettling as I am driving back to the UK from France today. Happily it's not far from our place to Saint-Malo to catch the ferry & only 220 miles in total back to our other home in North Essex. I have previously driven back to the UK catching the ferry at Caen with EAS FAULT & all the lights flashing but that time the suspension stayed up although in an unrelated episode the cooling system boiled over while we waited in the queue for the ferry. It was a transient EAS fault that as I recall Richard cleared with his Nanocom (or possibly we used EAS Unlock). I have a brand new Nanocom that hasn't been used in anger yet but fingers crossed it won't be needed. I must get a set of Schrader valves to keep in the car.
The OBD port is on the right hand side of the passenger footwell on a RHD (UK/Ireland) P38. It doesn't need any panel to be removed you just plug in the cable.