If you can find my trailer that was nicked from my driveway last Thursday you can borrow it... Only bought it six weeks ago too.

How will you insulate the fastenings? Electrical connection plus dissimilar metals plus electrolytes equals corrosion sooner or later. Ensuring there’s no water or dampness left or trapped helps and the paint will slow things down.

I’ve used the bit of pipe/tube trick. I seem to remember using a length of thin thread to hold the plastic clip at the right angle too. I looped the thread round so I could pull it clear when the clip was seated home.

I work in the marine industry some of the time so know a little about corrosion and galvanic reactions. Galvanic reaction in the context being discussed here requires two metals separated on the galvanic scale (the further the separation the greater the effect) connected together electrically...

I’ve oiled the hinge and like magic the squeak has gone. I’ve also cured the squeaky clutch pedal by oiling the pivot on that as well. The Defender is never going to be like a modern car but it’s getting a little quieter and more civilised.

No risk whatsoever. If you were trying to supply device that might demand a heavy current you could overload a circuit by tapping in the wrong place (the wires supplying where you tapped into might be too small.) However the antenna you are supplying will draw a few milliamperes (as in...

I had no idea. Apart from the Defender we have modern cars that aren't falling to bits yet... (Although I just got stung nearly £800 for a service and two tyres and replacement of a rear spring and an MOT for our Audi A4) so I haven't heard of the handbrake cable getting hot malarkey.) To be...

I agree - and in fact I was using a cutting disc. I was lazy in my use of English and just referred to the mini angle grinder by it's ubiquitous name.

The black wire goes to the chassis of the vehicle at some convenient point. To avoid confusion, the chassis can be described by different people as 'ground' or 'negative' or 'earth'. Its all the same thing. Just make sure that you connect the wire to a bit of the body work that has a good...

Some sort of electrical meter (a cheap Digital Multi Meter) is certainly very helpful. If you're really impecunious, a 12 volt bulb and two bits of wire will reveal a lot.

In that case I suggest you DON’T tap into the wires feeding power to your radio. You either need the auxiliary feed supply off tgd ignition switch or the switched supply off the ignition switch. The advantage of using the ‘proper’ auxiliary feed is that your antenna will be live as soon as you...

OK. No Problem. Some simple/straightforward questions. (hopefully) Can you turn the radio on regardless as to whether you have the ignition key in the ignition? Or does the key have to the in the ignition and turned to 'position 1' for the radio to work?

You need to power the aerial off a switched ignition feed. The radio should be fed off the auxiliary switched feed from the ignition (it’s prewired to the multi-way block in the dash where the radio fits in my Defender so I don’t need to hunt for it). I’m not sure if that applies to all...

The angle grinder was brought out and new BOGE oil filled shocks fitted with poly bushes on the bottom end. I hadn’t realised that the 19mm nuts for the end of the damper and the stud on the chassis mount had different threads (one is coarser than the other; one metric one af?). On the first...

I've just bought some new shock absorbers. My local Landy specialist (independent) dealer persuaded me that BOGE oil filled would be fine for my purposes. (No raised suspension, mostly road use with the occasional off road use for shooting and fetching logs etc)

I've been chasing down the rattles in my Defender. I know that I won't sort of all them, but she's already a LOT quieter than before. However... I've got an annoying squeak that appears to be coming from behind the instrument cluster - or somewhere? It's on bumps in the road and it's a high...

Has anyone got any tips before I take the angle grinder with cutting disc to the wretched things? All I want to do is change the bushes at the bottom of the rear shocks and I can't move the nuts. There's a piddly little flat on the end of the thread that I have cleaned up and can 'just' get a...

I managed to replace it by getting a tube that fitted over the push rod and pushed the plastic clip back over the clutch release arm. It was a bit of a fiddle, but I managed it after a while. Very satisfying when it clicked back into place. The challenge is making sure that the 'fork' in the...

That makes perfect sense although goodness only knows why as scanning through every 100 kHz is not difficult at all. (I suppose if their preferred channel spacing only allocated station frequencies at even numbers then what’s the point of scanning the odd ones and it speeds the scan up. ). Thank...

PS: I appreciate that I don’t need a radio badged “Landrover” but if I can pick one up cheap I’m happy to make my Defender look original. (And replace the aftermarket cheap and nasty radio with no CD player that keeps fading out for two seconds before cutting back in...)