Ah, no worries, grateful for the attempts to help! Turns out if very careful the sunroof is a lot more insecure than it looks. Worth knowing for future!

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Nodge you're a star thank you. I was doing your procedure when my son managed to pop the sunroof up without breaking anything so we are in. Phew! Great tip re crash sensor, will store that idea for next time! Thanks very much everyone.

That's a good start thanks! However I think the rear window motor is rusted out or faulty. There's a bit more to the story... The friend who gave me it gave me another FL key and fob which he found at home (he has had tons of landys). he wasn't sure if its for this vehicle or not. The key works...

PS - Of COURSE only last year I cancelled AA membership after what must be 20+ years of membership without a call out, hard times forced me to pull the plug. Someone told me they can break in somehow, IF I was still a member of course!

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A friend of mine gave me a 55 plate Freelander TD4 yesterday for my son to learn to drive in. It has been standing a couple of years so needs work but worth putting some time and money into as it's not had a bad life apart from being neglected recently. Got it home, parked it, put keys on dash...

Trying to help out a friend. He has replaced his auto gearbox and torque converter. Did it with Disco on its side jacked up. He checked there was drive from rear of auto box in all gears and reverse, then put transfer box on and there's no drive at all. He plugged it in today and it has one...

Thanks very much, really useful this. I need to keep the time span as short as possible when fitting as it will be taking up his whole garage/ramp until its done. I may ping you with a PM if i get stuck, if thats ok!

Thanks Frosty, very useful info there. I am hoping to avoid cutting holes in floor, removing seats etc. There looks like 2-3" of space to get welder in, slowly and carefully. Hope so anyway. Will print off your diagrams and have a good look before we start. PS We haven't decided whether to do...

Yep it's a 2 poster. Body can't come off the chassis, we are cutting the chassis and welding on new rear half. Thats kinda the problem, otherwise could just lift it all off but front end will remain attached to chassis.

Thanks Stan. To be honest the 'how' to fit isn't so much the problem, the smaller details such as mounting and unmounting bits will be ok once we work out how to actually do the chassis. I think our best plan of attack at the moment is to do it with the car on floor rather than up on ramp (which...

Bugger, do hope I am not the first person to try this :D

Howdy all. Well my 'half chassis' (bit more than half) is coming next week for my D2. It's 2200 mm long to replace the rear end of my old chassis, from Dixon Fabrication (https://dixonfabrication.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=87_92_137&product_id=169) My mechanic has replaced...

Thanks, sorry I missed the bit about Braith Speed. That looks reasonable. Mine is still on airbags yep. It might just be the perspective/angle of the photos, never had any comments about it being particularly low, its same as any other disco I have owned or used. here's another pic

I'd love to know where you got the fuel tank cradle from please, mine could do with being replaced. Also on your pics above I saw your tow plate. Mine is a funny one, way too high and I keep grounding the tail of my trailer when i pull onto a slope. Pics... Any idea what the cheapest way to...

Pretty obvious NO to those questions, as you know. Does that make the landy worth the insane prices some of them are going for? Well, that's just opinion. Some would say yes, some no. My point was that 2k can buy a lot of car if you don't have some silly brand loyalty which companies turn around...

Salt on windscreen, Yep, you got it! We do try to get out of the wind but the fog we get here drops it everywhere. Wind is definitely the worst though, and yeah Landy's are rust magnets!

hehee Well i dont know where you were, but I do know where I am. I could wax lyrical about the speed stuff rusts. A friend of mine is a metallurgist and comes to visit, he often laughs at the state of drill bits, drills, basically any metal anywhere which isnt stored dry and warm, and even then...

Thanks very much. I am hoping that too :D