not only a fantastic post Stanley, but it taught me a new word - bravo sir! You mentioned looking at mundane hatchbacks and considered the alternative to be a classic land rover... Hear me out before you hit autotrader for a people carrier, but please do bare in mind that a disco 300tdi is a...

@sierrafery - Fantastic write up + 1 sir. @Jalfrezi - The D1 ABS has great big muckle teeth in the ABS rings bolted to the back of the discs, they could almost pass for diff pinion gears. I suggest you remove the sensors and peer into the hole, if you can't get your mk1. organic forward looking...

https://airride.co.uk/air/shop/manufacturers/airride/land-rover-discovery-i-ii/ Yup, for the princely sum of about 5 grand you too can put air suspension on your Land Rover Discovery 1/2 🤣

My daily is a straight 6 3.0 twin-turbo diesel BMW (635d), and my wife's daily is a 3.0 v6 twin-turbo diesel Citroen C5, but both of those vehicles are significantly taller geared, and generally less agricultural than the TD5. Both the discos I mentioned are/were manuals, so both were r380...

I bought a discovery TD5 recently, and I prefer the way our 300tdi, which was sold 5 years ago, drives on a longer trip. To me, with the TD5 having 5 combustion events every two RPM, vs the 4 combustion events per every 2 rpm on the 300tdi, it sounds like the TD5 is a 300tdi that's screaming...

I'd agree with Stanley and use downwards facing coachbolts with nylocs underneath them, but if you have reasons for going bolts up, the dome nuts take away some of the ugliness of the bolts up arrangement.

Fair enough. When I did our 300tdi with box, I didn't find it that bad, I started the arc on the heavy box, and worked the puddle up to dissolve the body's thin metal with the molten metal from the weld pool. So I wasn't playing the arc onto the body, and trying to balance between settings that...

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Out of curiosity, why don't you want to use the goto box section replacement?

I've got to say that 300bhp's advice is spot on, and his write up is worthy of publishing in a magazine, bravo sir. There is no one size fits all solution to offroading, it's about tailoring the vehicle to the terrain. However, if you are worried about getting stuck in the mud, rather than go...

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Dude, it's not you, it's us... Your knowledge and english are exceptionally good. You are in my opinion one of the most knowledgeable people, if not the leading expert on Discovery 2 electronics. So there's no way it's your IQ, as MJI said:

100 miles south of me, Dundee have really shown the rest of the UK how to do electric cars:

This is an interesting counterpoint to the Canadian dude's video: Personally? I don't have the infrastructure up here to go EV, nor is there any EV that makes me want to make the jump, but the way the noggies have smashed out the infrastructure, Internal Combustion Engines don't really make...

I had all 4 door cards off, did a window regulator on, ironically enough, front passenger door, fitted 4x vibe speakers in the 6.5" lower positions, and ran new wires from the back of the head unit to each door through the dash, up the pillar, through the door grommit, and in the case of the...

Better declare the modification to your insurance... Best tell your insurance about the modification. 🤣

I've had the door cards off my D2 recently, and a few of the original clips separated from the doorcards, but were an absolute nightmare trying to refit them, in the end up I canned the fallen orignal clips, and fitted these blighters, well something exremely similar to them that I had in stock...

Despite my poor wording, I knew the TD5 wasn't common rail, with it's centrifugal filter and camshaft operated injector units, I think of the TD5 as "a marine engine for the road"- but I didn't know it didn't have a camshaft position sensor. So yet again I've learned something from you, have a...

On the other common rail engines, this failure mode is often caused by a failed camshaft position sensor, although I don't know if the TD5 uses a CPS for timing the initial injection pulses in the same way that other engines such as a hippo TD4 does? A diagnostics sessionshould give you some...