I have had my d3 for ten years and reckon 1k a year on parts alone! that includes tyres etc. £700 a year road tax, 25mpg average. Never failed to complete a journey under its own steam. That said if something big goes I reckon it will be the end...

Don’t listen to ‘em - they are all jealous! Sounds like you should look at the boot switch…

Burn it now and save your soul!

The Milwaukee grease gun has a little button you push to bleed the air out nice and easy to use, it is especially useful as some of the trailers I have to grease up use three whole cartridges of grease.

It's 100% 300tdi + LT77, previous owner cut and welded mounts back.. has a steve parkers kit, so can give you the extended hoses also Everything can go - I only need the transfer box, even have a brand new clutch kit to give you (LOF heavy duty)...

If you really want the clock at the right time, you could disconnect the battery and reconnect it at the right time if you aren’t using it for a bit, or pull the clock out the dash and pull the plug until the times match if you are using it

My error then, I didn't buy carbide blades. They would have made the job much easier to be fair, the access is tricky with a grinder.

You want carbide teeth blades, they are the mutts nuts. No matter what blade you use on the recip saw do not run it flat out as that kills the blades.

I think it comes with a large plate that mounts on the outside of the door skin, fitted mine a few years ago, still on there. Even if fitted well they are a bit crap, and seem to shuffle around a bit.

You will still get 500 for that with the buyer removing it, core units alone have a value.

If you can get it in there a sawzall is good, 40 quid from wickes and a carbon teethed blade 15 quid ebay.

Grease cartridges sure make life easy, less air locks as well.

I had a d2 on 18inch hurricanes, slightest camber of the road and she was off, one way or the other, tyres always wore evenly and lasted 50k.

Agreed, coil springs are pants.

Get yourself a cheap power probe off ebay, they are great for this kind of fault as you can apply earth or power exactly.

What size wheels and tyres?

I would say that was an original cock up, but I bet it would be an issue going into the USA.

Air suspension all day, dead reliable, how often do you hear of d2/d3/4/rr with suspension problems, thats right never!

Series ones smell bad though, because they don't have coil springs probably.

New vehicles are bloody awesome, until they go wrong and they will go wrong and cost a fortune each and every time!

Plenty of modern crap still with leaf springs on the rear axle. Series of all models are pretty crap, 90/110/defenders also crap, though people seem to get really upset when you say that, so it is always worth a mention every now and then!

Always stat first, tdi can run rad so fecked they are only fit for scrap and not over heat. Are the small coolant air bleed pipes still present? Is the coolant system pressurising by to much when at operating temperature?

I would jury rig some temporary temperature gauge set up for testing purposes, until you are sure the engine is good and you are not going to wreck it. A cheap mulitmeter that accepts K series sensors will do, or cappiliary sensors are the best

My 110 csw has one.

Handy tip for all you greasers, if you get a tapered grease gun end you can use it to grease normal nipples by simply poking it into the spring loaded ball bearing on the grease nipple, and as the pointy bit is super slim you dont waste ages...