Spot on advice - the wastegate was jammed shut. I knew the Ferrari style acceleration didn't feel quite right :eek: 5 minutes work with 3-in-1 penetrating oil and some mole grips and it's now running very sweetly indeed.

As a follow up, I've now bought my first Landy - a 2001 Defender 110 TD5. Still getting used to the controls, steering and seating position but nothing a bit more practice won't fix ;) MOTed this morning with no advisories, there was a bit of cutting out at higher revs/load and the MoT man...

The lease car is doing very low mileage, only 11k miles out of a 30k contract - unfortunately my job changed a few weeks after I got it, so it's sat on the drive for most of the time and never really fulfilled its intended purpose. For transport, I've also got a Sooty Van which has to be kept...

Just a quick hello from a new subscriber. I don't have a Land Rover currently but will be looking to buy one in the next 2-3 weeks when my lease car goes back :)