I know a lot of mechanics look up to them - from underneath mostly! :D:po_O

Hi Paul, sounds as though you have a star there. I have a friend quite a few miles from you north of Pontivy in 56 and he will diagnose over the phone and always will help and advise. His name is James Barrington, he used to fix Landies in South Africa (he's a Brit) and what he doesn't know will...

Is this Jaguar Land Rover hedging their bets - the production of the Discovery is moving from UK to Slovakia next year, allegedly to make way for a new wave of Range Rovers, which from memory, we were told recently, are already selling fewer diesel cars than expected. Is this to do with Brexit...

Just to add well done to all....

Good luck

+33 3 57 48 03 89 This is the number for a breakdown garage 1 hour and twenty minutes from you at Avesnelles. They may well have knowledge of help in the area you are in. Do call the pompiers well before nightfall. They will treat it as an exercise.

There's a hotel less than 20 miles from you where the proprietor is going to know numbers/people who may be able to help: +33 3 24 53 01 20

Worth a try - call 112 and ask for the pompiers (fire and rescue who all have 4x4 access) and/or gendarmes. Begun with politeness: " pouvez-vous m'aidez s'il vous plait? Je ne parle pas Francais tres bien........and ask in English

Welcome. One word of wisdom after twenty odd years of living in France - don't let a French mechanic anywhere near a Landy. They're puzzled by them, in fact they're puzzled by anything that isn't home made. There are quite a few good ex-pats which you'll probably find on here or on the net...

Same here in the North Riding, tratters driven by faarmers and rangies and hippos driven by wimin! Nary a smile tixt 'em.

Thought y'all might like to see this one: currently for sale in USA @ $26,999. Very handy for when the NHS goes tits-up!

If you get a big enough box you can enclose mine and we'll share postage.............

Go for it and think of it as an adopted child - you can't send it back! Stack of info on here and no shortage of advisors.

Welcome. Did you not get any counselling before you got the hippo?

For what I read about LRs I think I'll stick with a vehicle that works ! @Stuart hall I think you are in reverse because you know you're talking sh*t. First, you shouldn't be put off by what you read on a motorists forum - this is where folk swap stories and help and advise each other - and...

It was Phil Bayliss of OFG who repaired the car - very special weekend for me and the missus saved by this guy going a step further than most

I had an alternator go one Friday afternoon in April and ended up calling AA and also calling a 4x4 indy in Lincoln who went more than the extra mile and promised to fix it over the weekend and left me another landy, a hippo, to borrow for the duration, told me where he'd hidden the key, called...

Just to add a boring bit - are you sure about the road tax? I thought it wasn't transferable these days.

Haha. Hope you have a good secure place to start work on it. It's a good project so stick some pics up please. For the price of six months in Benidorm you've got a lifetime of being a full-time carer!