I didn't want to go down the hole in the roof route so the cables run out the battery box, along the chassis, up the ladder and along the roof rack. It's a bit long winded but I couldn't summon up the courage to drill through the roof.

I have 4 of these mounted on my roof rack, fairly cheap, they've been on there two years and never had any problem with them...

Too many variables to give a comprehensive answer, such as which side of the bed the insurance bod got out of in the morning.

I'll be honest I feel a long way out of my depth with this so can't answer your questions as I don't know. Hence it being at a garage rather than me doing it myself.

Thoughts? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271933702647

All the piston rings were intact, I saw them myself

I ended up taking it to a local LR specialist as I didn't have the time because of work. They went through everything external on the engine but it was all fine. Next step was to take the cylinder head off. The piston is scored vertically as is the cylinder. They've measured both and the piston...

Update time! After much investigation it appears that the knocking from my engine is due to it eating itself from the inside. The piston in cylinder 1 is apparently slightly undersized so it's taking chunks out of the cylinder :( So options are 1) engine rebuild 2) refurbed engine or 3) new...

Managed to get a couple of videos this afternoon:

I'll try and get a video afterwork tomorrow

As above I've only had it 6 months, so it's not been done in my time with it

Yes, well I think so. I've only had it since december and the valve clearances have needed doing since I got it so I assume so, it's hard to tell.

Hi all, After adjust the valve clearances on the 110, there's still a knock soming from the engine. I took it to my local garage to make sure I'd done them right (first time I'd done them) and he was happy that they're fine. He reckons the knock is something more internal to the engine and...

Job done! Ended up taking the radiator off to get a good look at the thread, tiny amount of grinding with the dremel and it engaged almost immediately. Mow I just have to wait for the battery to charge so I can try and start the damn thing

Haha, propa spanna aquired and fan+cowling off and not skin missing would you believe, however still no luck getting the bolt in...

I may just do that after lunch

Thanks for all the help, I'll give it another go this afternoon as you can propbably tell I'm quite new to this, though willing to learn :)

Don't have a proper fan spanner unfortuantely

Can't actually get the spanner on, wonder if it's got a 36mm for some random reason?

Online it says tdi is 32mm, TD5 is 36. Haven't had it off before