Yes, I'm getting old too! I can still plant trees and heave lumps of stone around, so most of me is still working.

Good to see you again @Al2O3 Hope all's well with you and yours. I haven't any comment to make on doors because I'm still using the original ones the Land Rover came with.

I put a new switch on and it seems to be working. I hope that'll be OK for another few years.

When I was young we never had any money and almost everything was broken. So I started taking things to pieces as this was unlikely to make matters worse, and sometimes made them better. This sort of thing was carried forward into later life. It would be prohibitively expensive to have a Land...

Noticed that the headlights aren't working. I expect it is the switch. It usually is. They still come on with the flash function on the other stalk, and they've both gone together which means that it isn't bulbs or an individual bit of dodgy wiring. I know some of you prefer to modify the...

Absolutely! Dinitrol diligence is key. My chassis is approaching 20 years old and hasn't been welded yet. Thin and runny inside the box sections and thick and sticky on the outside. The thin runny stuff can also be used as a primer, because you can't necessarily get a wire brush on all parts of...

It's perfectly possible to apply Dinitrol with a brush, because I do so when I'm just doing small touch ups. You can use the thin runny products to dilute the thicker ones to make them more easily brushable. The use of a compressor is good for getting inside box sections, of course, but if you...

It was a dark and stormy night (as Edward Bulwer-Lytton famously wrote) and I was heading westwards on the M54, just where it changes into the A5. The engine hesitated for a moment but then came back on again, complete with yellow light. As it was still running, and the January rain made getting...

Another thing I discovered is that if the MAF fails when you're driving at speed it puts the yellow engine light on. When I got home I had a look with the Nanocom and it didn't appear to be flowing any air, which was a giveaway. Interestingly enough this also yielded a whole load of faults...

There's various stuff that goes wrong with TD5s that I've experienced. It sounds like there's some sort of intermittent electrical fault. As well as the accelerator (or 'driver demand') potentiometer going wrong, it's also possible for the wiring loom itself to develop faults. Land Rover seemed...

I've found with the exhaust pipes there can be a bit of fettling needed to get them to fit, and not foul the chassis. to stop my downpipe rubbing on the chassis I've spaced the relevant bracket away from the chassis with a few washers. Also, I don't know what @Anaconda's is like, but mine have a...

Yes, that's my experience of the R380 too. It doesn't like changing gear at all if there's any power getting transmitted. There might be a tiny bit of movement coming through with the clutch disengaged, because after all, the gearbox input shaft goes in a bronze bush on the back of the...

I saw the most enormous caterpillar today: It was travelling across the shed floor as fast as its little legs would go. I wonder what it will turn into? Edit - maybe it's the larva of an elephant hawk moth.

It's a good idea to get a new one while we're still allowed to have them.

Well, it was weeks ago, but I thought this was an appropriate follow up.

We've talked about shoplifting here a good deal. I see the latest advice from the policing minister is not to put high value items near the front of the shop https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/13/dont-put-expensive-items-front-of-shops-labour-shopkeepers/ because 'obviously people will...

Yes I think it's just heating and cooling and vibration over 13 years that's done it. Yes indeed, there's certainly been a lot of discussion on Landyzone about how stainless is not recommended for loadbearing bolts.

It's got those on the underside of the pipe at each silencer. I assumed they were there to stop the edges of the silencers catching on high ground. However, I've not scraped the exhaust on the ground in 13 years of ownership, so those Lode Lane engineers got something right in the first place...

I suppose in theory yes. The question in my mind is whether it would be worth it, seeing as the part in question is on sale everywhere and reasonably priced. If it were off something like an Armstrong Siddeley or Alvis Grey Lady I'd do so, of course!

I have a crack in my exhaust pipe. It's a stainless system I fitted at the end of 2012 so it's coming up to 13 years old. It's in the tail section, which is, fortunately, the bit of the old exhaust which is still intact. I jacked it up by the chassis to let the axle droop and cut the bolts...