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    ABS Battery drain

    Thanks Sierra, reading up earlier I know your right and I'll swap it out for a bigger one but we've had the car almost 10 years, that was a direct replacement for the one that was in when we bought it and we've never had a problem before. I have just started using it for the short hops to work...
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    ABS Battery drain

    So the fuse was F11 Battery is 570CCA 70AH
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    ABS Battery drain

    will pop to the garage now and have a look at the battery and fuse but original SLS fitted. back in 5
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    ABS Battery drain

    First things first, battery is under a year old and in good condition, alternator is fine, voltage at idle is 14.4. Conditions were as you described, everything off, vehicle off, battery off, ammeter connected, cuppa made and watched the news went back out and took the readings, pulled the...
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    ABS Battery drain

    Hi guys, In need of an electrics guru to help with a fault with my 03 TD5. I have a battery drain, I think because I mostly only use the car to and from work which is about 3 miles either way, over the course of about two weeks the battery will drain as I'm not really going far enough to charge...
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    Disco 2 Catastrophic Wheel Bearing Failure, Advice Needed

    Why do I always buy these cars, land rovers, mg's...... o_O....., I had a look on the D2BC website, can't find them on the offers page, anyone have any idea if they're available on ebay?
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    Disco 2 Catastrophic Wheel Bearing Failure, Advice Needed

    Yeah, although I was surprised whoever fitted it never crimped it in......
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    Disco 2 Catastrophic Wheel Bearing Failure, Advice Needed

    Couldn't budge it with the hub puller but the whole shaft came out by hand after a couple of taps to try and break the corrosion. The hub is more or less in two pieces but other than that everything else looks in reasonable condition save for the melted rubber
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    Disco 2 Catastrophic Wheel Bearing Failure, Advice Needed

    Thanks Nelly, I'm happy enough with changing the hub its a bolt off bolt on thing, I'm more concerned with the driveshaft and cv joint, I don't know what should be there once I clean off all the crap or what will need replacing, I'm assuming there should be some sort of seal and I don't know how...
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    Disco 2 Catastrophic Wheel Bearing Failure, Advice Needed

    Hi All, My first post and already looking for advice :( So as the title suggests we had a front wheel bearing go on the motorway, no warning it just went and by the time we got it across to the hard shoulder it had caught fire hence the melted rubber and fire extinguisher powder in the...