Do you have any actual evidence that diesel emissions (including particulates) are essentially harmless? I doubt it. I am a climate change sceptic myself, so I see where you are coming from, but the evidence that traffic emissions are harmful to human health is far more convincing than the AGW...

Sorry, but you are wrong here. Diesel fumes are known to be a group 1 carcinogen, associated with lung and bladder cancer, as well as heart disease and mental impairment in children. The problem with particulates (soot, ash, metal particles, silicates) is that they are tiny (less than 100...

Well, I would agree. However, I had this debate on another forum, and a lot of people say a rear blowout is worse. In my view, after a puncture/blowout, you need to be slowing down and steering above all else, and it is the front wheels that do the majority of this. I've never had a blowout...

Standard advice (for normal cars) is to put the best tyres on the rear. The thinking is that it's better to have the car understeer in an emergency than oversteer. Worse tyres on the rear will encourage the car to be tail-happy. Not sure if that applies to a 4x4, though. I find this...

Phew, looks like I have dodged a bullet here. I have been looking for a 90 for the last few weeks, and they seemed to have several interesting trucks in my price range. I emailed them (as they invite you to do) asking about the cost of delivery to remote West Wales. They never replied, and I got...

Pembrokeshire here - near to H/West. Seems there are a couple of members fairly close.

I'm at work. It's quiet :)

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I'm collecting a new (to me) Defender at the weekend - 1996 300Tdi 90. I started a while ago with a Ninety (2.5 n/a diesel) which morphed into a V8 space-frame trialler, and along the way I have had a 2a, a Disco 1, two Disco 2s, a 3.9 Range Rover (ex-SAS) and a P38 4.6. However, I sold the...