I love all the dogs in the back pic Devonguy, I take it yours is a 3 door? My fat ass Malamute takes up the entire boot area in my 5 door on his own!

The handbrake cable on my lad's 2001 110 TD5 Defender handed it's notice in with a massive bang yesterday, I've ordered a new cable and decided while we're under it new shoes and springs etc might as well be fitted so ordered those as well (I do have to say the lady on the phone from Paddocks...

Just about to read your VN1500 thread Magic, nice work on the 535, got room to rebuild my TLR?!

Be very careful getting the rusted one out, I know from experience how easily rusted steel ones break off in motorcycle calipers!

Thank you :) We've just put new front door seals on my lads 110 and now the doors are a swine to close properly, this will sort it nicely. Sorry for the thread hijack....

It's worth a nose on preloved.co.uk as well. Keep looking out for what you know are your parts, a mate had his custom painted Suzuki TL1000R stolen a few years ago, about a month later a breaker on ebay was trying to sell it in parts, it wasn't just the police that visited him....

Having just gone through this with my son's 2001 TD5 110 I can pretty much say you have bought the right lock. The plastic outer will slide off the old barrel to be reused, get a wire brush and gently clean around the area at the bottom of the old lock and you will find the brass pin holding the...

The Fiat Ulysse people carrier used to have a pin code keypad, code had to be entered before the ignition was turned on otherwise it wouldn't start. Took me about 2 minutes to bypass it using instructions off the net when my ex wife's keypad failed. I think whatever security measures firms come...

With regard to your fuel sender - it may need cleaning. I had an old Vauxhall VX4/90 years ago that did the same thing, turned out it had been sat for a good while on about 2/3 of a tank so it wouldn't register anything above that due to dirt and a bit of corrosion, a gentle clean with some fine...

Good read Joss, keep up the good work. Now if you'd like to park it outside my house and take the Freelander with you....

Why would they click? Whichever way I go into reverse (auto) there is a beep and nothing else until they sense something behind, then I get a very loud beep, beep beep, beepbeep, beepbeepbeep, beeeeeeeeeeeep, thud - well only thud when I forget the wheel bolted to the back..... Definitely no...

Birmingham is already looking at a congestion charge for 2020 "inside the ring road", some silly prices on there and it includes buses. It won't be long before all city centres are at it, yet another way of making easy money of motorists...

That this is a Series 2a? It's one of those "a friend asked me to take a look at some pictures", I haven't seen it in the flesh/aluminium/rust yet, the only things I do know is it's a J suffix registration and someone my friend knows may be selling it as a project. I'm waiting for more...

Or in the case of my lad's Defender everything is wired with red wires that run back to fused links attached to the battery live..... I suppose at least the previous bodger, errrm owner did think of using fused links

Swap you the scruffy 17" wheels that need new tyres off my HSE for your 18"s :p

Would depend when it is and we'd probably be in my lads Defender - if he isn't working (which is why it depends when it is! As for not being in my Freelander - errrm, slight lack of a full license, my lad isn't old enough to be official supervisor and they don't accept my wife's American license...

hd3, what did you do to mod the air intake?

I've got that to do as well as change the crankcase breather, I have no idea what it's like but I'm going to change it anyway, only a few quid for peace of mind. My Freelander is currently parked outside (too many motorbikes in the garage!), does it matter if I have the inlet manifold off for a...

No help whatsoever Col but I have the same switch on my HSE, the few times I've driven the car I've been tempted to press it and see what happens but not had the nerve yet - and there are no hills by me!

I have the RS tuning box from Race Chip - https://www.racechip.co.uk/shop/land-rover/freelander-1-ln-1998-to-2006/2-0-td4-1951ccm-112hp-82kw-260nm.html won it on ebay for £25!! They claim a HP, torque increase and fuel decrease but I haven't fitted it yet as I'm too lazy (the new Assassin's...