I think we will be okay, two adults both with two pensions, plus one house possibly two to rent out, of course if she leaves me that will all change!

Many moons ago we went to see an ifa for our first mortgage, he was a huge round man called Alan Middleton Stewart, and I really liked the bloke gave good advice, and yes he had a large house in a lot of ground with a very nice car! The co he...

I have my doubts being mid 50s is even worth adding/starting to any pension. Recently changed job and decided I am not starting another pension at 56. I think existing ones means I will be able to retire early and keep afloat until state pension...

I did worry about this. so checked into it. Nowadays, they don't make a killing but I think that back in the 80s they must have made more. Speaking as one who got his fingers burnt in the "low cost endowment " farce.

If you want to have a look at a useless website, try the Teacher's Pensions one. Can I log on to it? Can I flip. They keep sending me codes that don't work.:mad::mad::mad:

My pleasure, do take pics for us all!! ;):)

I move 1 mm to the left!!

What if you've just eaten a curlywurly and half a yorkie bar???

https://www.unbiased.co.uk/discover/pensions-retirement/starting-a-pension/starting-a-pension-at-50-in-the-uk-what-s-the-process

To me they are incredibly complicated and something I think might be a good idea may cost me badly. Until I paid the mortgage off I couldn't really pay in enough but now I have some money spare I have found I can't pay in more. Something to do...

You'd never be able to drain through the filler hole I don't think. But the weld-a-nut-to-the-plug idea isn't new. Somewhere I have a book that goes back to the dawn of time on welding that mentions all sorts of ways of using a welder to do just...

+1^

If you are quite happy with your current pension and how much it will give you, for what you pay in, then why not set up a separate 2nd pension?

By what standard? J

Me harvester arrived. Well pleased wivvit. Pulls apart to clean easily. Metal filter inside. Just like a Freelander built fer the job and good at wot it does.

But they is "cheap"...yes?

Don't know the D4, but is there no chance of draining the sump via the dipstick hole? I have been doing this on my D2 for a number of years for precisely the same problem as you have. It works fine, if a little tedious. No one seems to have...

Perish the thort!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

Ive never wore anything under me kilt & no I wont be showing ye. :p

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Just to mention that they use more or less this sort of method to calibrate torque wrenches and thinking about it, I cannot think how else they could do it, apart from a comparison test with another of exactly the same type that has just been...

Here's a link to a previous thread on exactly this subject, it makes interesting reading! https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/r380-gearbox-what-oil.360867/

So yesterday I couldnt come and give you all an update, cos my blood pressure wouldnt have handled the rant. Safe to say that, after many "easy to understand" drawings on scraps of plasterboard about where the wood should be with measurments...

Not much lawn there Dan. But certainly a lovely place to sit and enjoy the sun. With a nice long drink :D. Make use of and enjoy the relaxation time:). J

Some say ATF is standard in R380 or gear oil is standard in R380. My R380 from standard is gear oil, just to clarify 😵‍💫 now I'm getting confused 😔

Why would you say that??? :vb-confused2: The gearbox is an R380 which take ATF as recommended. So he should drain the ATF and add ATF🤔. J

@kevstar as a little kid. "Guess what I got for Xmas?" His little mate said "What?" "An "indestructible toy"." "So what did you do wiv it?" "I used it to destroy all my other toys!!!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂

.... Mowed the lawn this morning.

Out little burn/stream has dried up, got one pool with a few small trout in it.