You will get a lot of (damaging) wind up and the VCU will deteriorate very quickly if you have mismatched tyres or you loose air in a tyre and drive on it.

Have you done 1 one wheel up test on the reconditioned VCU? Are all your tyres the same make and version and (tested to be) pumped to the same pressure? Have you examined the IRD for wear? eg drained the oil and checked that the bearings are not mashed and suspended in it. Always loosen the...

Yeh, they'll nick and/or destroy anything. One ripped open the spare tyre cover on the back of my Freelander 1 day. They'll nick tea towel or clothes hanging up to dry at huts, or the shoe laces out of boots. They love it, can't help themselves. Usually soft stuff, but not always...

Our Keas (alpine Parrots) are cheaky chappies. On Saturday I drove up to Arthurs Pass to meet a campervan that needed some parts replaced on the heater. So took Mrs & Miss Grumpy and the mutt along for the ride up into the mountains. While I sorted the camper, they walked into the village for...

To right to. Them frozen chickens would be a predatory threat to our bush chickens.

Look on the bright side, you got a nice dinner. Hope where you got them from has some more.

Nice write up :D There are various threads on here about reinstating prop shafts and the possible perils. Your expectations look to be in the right place ;)

TBH, I'd have thought that if there was a leak in a fuel hose that was large enough to drop fuel pressure - you wouldn't have needed a garage to tell you that, you'd have seen it for yourself under the car. The hose may have been weeping and needed replacing, but not the reason for the car...

If the car thinks there's a problem, you need diagnostic kit plugged in to read the error codes. It will tell you why there is an error message on your dash. Then you fix it! Hopefully its something simple. I imagine if the garage say the message has come back, they are not doing diagnostic...

Looks like you need some diagnostics. The car thinks/knows something is wrong - you need to find out what it thinks is the problem. If you have the codes read it will tell you the component or give you a pointer to it.

I think there is a low chance of getting low 30's round town, and not a cat in hell's chance of getting mid 30's. I'm going by the dash display though. When figures are that poor, you don't really want confirmation by doing the sums. :rolleyes: I do get low 30's out of my manual L Series F1...

Dunno if my 2010 TD4 is Euro 5, VinDecoderz.com says "Emission Directives - EU4 [053BM]", so I presume not... but it is an auto. The dash stubbornly tells me my avg fuel consumption (because it s not fuel economy!) is 11.3L/100km - that's 25mpg. The driving I do in it isn't conducive to good...

I found a place over here that said they would overhaul/repair the Wabco modulator. But the unit had to be sent to them for repair so I'd have been without the car for quite a while. It was also expensive. The local Landie spares place also said they could do it... but all they would do is...

Ahh, see you've found it.

I would imagine something has happened historically that caused the 4 sensors to fault/drop. That would have given a speed related error and faults for all 4 sensors.

Sounds like this... https://landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/baffling-to-me-front-half-shaft-axle-length-mystery-too-short-twice.394540/

I wonder what the view is that with a 50mm lift the shafts are going to be destroyed anyway, so you may as well go cheap. But will they make it to the parts store to pick up their replacements :oops:

Double sided tape. Although, I'd recommend you stick with the rubber mat. I did what you did and replaced the mat with drinks holder, but hardly used the holder and missed the mat for "putting stuff on" - so went back to the mat.

Its a while ago, but I don't think he cut wires, I think he jumped 2 pins or summat.

This is the chap I was talking to about the L Series ECUs. https://www.landyzone.co.uk/members/sail.135201/ He has posted a couple of times on here about ECUs/immobilier. He sounds very much like your long lost Polish twin. :D He is/was active on Polish Rover forum(s) and like you has...