Loosing any pixels of my wonderful "infotainment screen" would be catastrophic! Hope they make Android Automotive that runs on that clock screen. :D

We are used to this kind of driving conditions here, it's like this for 4-5 months a year. And you change gears too and turn heat on also with your right hand while driving and won't crash?

Finished our Christmas Tour, 1200 km trip to eastern Finland. Typical Finnish winter weather, got some freezing cold. snowing and slush. Today we drove back home 450 km and first 250 km it was snowing heavily but that changed to a pouring rain in southern Finland. We had our both dogs with us...

Little over 500 km today in snowy winter conditions (-7 C). Have to say this 18 years old car drives like a dream in icy and snowy roads. Average diesel consumption was 9l/100km and speeds 80-110 km/h.

Merry Christmas and happy Freelanding to all! Just packing Freelander to a 1200 km trip to see our families next week.

Dug it out the snow twice. Over 30 cm of snow in one day is a bit too much!

We got 10 cm of snow last night and 10 cm during the day more and it will snow until next morning. :oops: Wish I could upload some snowy pics now!

Oh that's why, I thought I was banned :)

For deep soft snow Hakkapeliitta 10 and of course because I'm Finnish, Nokian. You could also deflate tyres when going from tarmac to softer and snowy dirt roads.

If you can afford a true Nordic studded winter tyres like Continental IceContact 3 or Nokian Hakkapeliitta 10, I'd say you'll prepared for everything. In really deep snow grip will not help when you bottom out. Keep shovels, extra winter wear like down jackets, gloves and stuff in the car.

12V battery that came with my FL1 started to show age in cold starts, so got a new battery. Exide 95 Ah 760 CCA fit nicely there.

It's here to stay and there's more to come next week.

Yes, it's square, 3/8 ratchet works nicely.

How much do you need? I'll sell and send it to you. :p

Driving mostly. It's winter here again and as we know LR loves it.

If you got the right brake cylinder, pistons can't spread too far. I actually managed to order wrong drums from autodoc. Check the lever where the cable is attached inside the drums. It's prone to seize, mine was absolutely solid when I bought the car.

New tyres came for 18" Sport wheels. Falken Wildpeak A/T3WA 235/55R18.

My recent story with FL1 drum brakes could be useful to read also. At least now I can strip and assemble them in no time, done it several times when finding the cause.. https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/handbrake-cable-differences-fl1-ended-up-to-be-adjuster.377734/

It's just enough that it clears the oil dripping down. Was like that when I got the car but really handy.

Sounds like progress! Sounds typical LR fight, with rounded bolts and stuff. When you have done all the typical maintenance tasks once, it gets easy. I have a cut out under the sump in my undertray for easy engine oil change.