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    Spot the difference...

    Saw my Landy's near-twin this morning, so I had to draw up behind for a close comparison. Can you tell the difference? If you want to play interactively and have a yahoo/flickr account: Spot The Difference on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Barry
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    Reasons to buy a Landy..

    A letter in the Graunaid Money section last weekend: "...my VW Golf wing mirror was destroyed by a motorist who did not stop. My garage gave me a £338 estimate.... ...I am totally dependent on my car... and am now running out of food and other necessities". My Land Rover wing mirror was...
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    Bugs on windscreen?

    Delivering Tsetse Fly Traps: TDR Image Library Search Results. The UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases but that's a Defender I think. A search for 'vehicle' reveals a number of other manufacturers' 4x4s being repaired :)
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    Bugs on windscreen?

    Indeedy. The females (for it is they that thirst for your blood) come inside, nibble you when you are asleep and then go have a rest on the walls of your room. At which point they hit the insecticide you have sprayed on your walls, and then its one dead mozzie. However there's still several...
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    Bugs on windscreen?

    Think you have problems with bugs splatting on your windscreen? Check out this Series 3, whose job it is to collect bugs! TDR Image Library Search Results. The UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases Found whilst browsing the WHO...
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    Tools for the Job

    How appropriate that Landies are built so close to the home of the 'Birmingham Screwdriver'...
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    Serious Juddering Pulling away in First gear

    My response to 'juddering pulling away in first gear' would be 'so pull away in second gear!'. I did that accidentally on Saturday with a load of concrete mix and bricks in the back, and didn't actually notice until I tried to get into second...
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    speedo problem

    Right. Where's my molegrips....
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    speedo problem

    I've just remembered I got full-on RAC cover last week. If I rang them with a dodgy speedo, what would they do?
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    speedo problem

    Or just measure the distance between oil drops coming out the back... I think I'll wait until I can get a friend round to help, will try disconnecting the gearbox end and try the driller method to see where the problem may be... Barry
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    speedo problem

    I've got the instrument panel off, but can't detach the speedo cable. There's a plastic clip thingy on it. Its like this one on eeee-bay: LANDROVER SPEEDO CABLE SERIES 3 on eBay, Land Rover, Car Parts, Cars, Parts Vehicles (item 230166600967 end time 31-Aug-07 09:42:58 BST) But I can't get it...
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    speedo problem

    But will that get you through the MOT? I found something in the Defender forum (I'd only searched the Series) from Slob suggesting to take the cable out the back of the speedo and see if it turns. I'll do that. The first instruction in speedo removal is 'remove the two screws securing the...
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    speedo problem

    So I'm driving along today doing a nice steady zero mph. Eh? A bit later it started working again but then dropped back to zero. Hasn't come back. I've had a look underneath and the speedo outer cable is very shiny and new (I've only had the car two weeks so I guess Liveridge replaced it). Of...
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    NATO Green

    Never mind speed guns (which I thought were radar and not IR) - you know all those police chase shows where it goes 'the offenders jumped out of the car and tried to hide in the woods, but didn't reckon on the thermal imaging camera in the police helicopter'... All you need is a suit painted...
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    engine cut out

    Who is this "Ron Icks" and why should we elect him?
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    Side mirrors

    That hair was the result of the breeze blowing through the car as I drove it home... I'm worried that if I buy a mirror from Paddocks that when I look at it it'll just say 'No Image Available': Series Mirrors Ah, I love the ridiculously cheap landy parts prices - friend of mine had her nice...
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    Side mirrors

    After misjudging the car's width on the drive home from the dealer last weekend, I was left with a cracked left side mirror on my Series 3. Oops. Its mounted on the door with an arm going to the center of the mirror. There are two big castle nuts on the door end with a hex socket underneath...
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    Insurance for foreign drivers

    If you had bought a lightweight instead you could have airlifted it over to Germany!
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    engine cut out

    You should probably try asking in the Freelander forum - over here in Series world we dont understand these modern toys with their computers and power steering...
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    Miles and miles

    So why does my Series 3 only have five digits on its odometer? Lack of confidence that it'd make the 100,000?