Had a very odd one this eve. Went out for my dad's 86th birthday and on the way back from the meal the trailer lights indicator dash lamp started flickering. Upon getting home a slight burning smell was apparent and seemed like it was coming from...
300tdi through MOT with 4 new coil springs and shocks and with freshly rebuilt front hubs to replace the ball-swivel joint seals that I replaced back in 2008.
Got an advisory about a deteriorating upper rear ball joint. I am guessing that is...
This is a bit funny as I have owned my Defender 90 300tdi for 20 years and registered for this site 10 years ago, and this is my 10th post. This is a quite helpful site. lrukforums was also a good site.
Not sure if this is allowed on this site but feel it’s only right to share where people have helped us discovery owners when we are in desperate situations:
I’m on holiday and I hit a pot hole just outside Penzance which tore off a newly fitted...
A couple big gobs of No 2 grease behind the mounts. Also a liberal amount of grease on the shock mounting pin and bolt threads. Used penny washers with a lock washer. Next item on the list is the ball joints at the rear axle.
Thanks mate, im having to manually flip the lock each time I need to open the door which is a PITA.
Joys on the heater motors, ive seen somewhere its a dash-off type of jobby, and the motors are about £250 for oem LR, having a hard time...
Star thanks a lot for that, assuming that would involve swapping out the BCM from say a HSE (if its even as simple as that, which i assume not) but then I assume if it cant see all the other features like fog lights etc as mine doesnt have them...
I need to replace the diff driveshaft oil seal due to it leaking. I prefer to avoid undoing the driveshaft nut as I don't have a 400nm torque wrench.
Can the driveshaft be taken out of the diff by removing the link arms but leaving the other end...
Thunderstorms and rain most of the day we did need it water tank now half full grass going back to green so all looking fresher , yesterday had a big bang on the window rushed out to find a sparrowhawk looking surprised but OK 😕