I just knew there would be rapid and logical response - thank you … !!

Am just wiring in a satnav/dashcam combo (Garmin 51) and also a reversing camera screen, both on the dash top centre. Seems logical (and tidy) to route the wiring behind the panel below the steering wheel. But where to access +12v and earth? Is there any easily-accessible switched power under...

To go back to the technical stuff that started this thread - I have always regarded alternators as a single item, not a regular and rotor etc etc. Don’t swap elements- just get a complete exchange unit and swap it out: job done. But then what do I know…

Well done for getting it home. Alternators fail - fact of life - simply get an exchange/recon one and away you go. Ignore the rude comments on this thread - they are just indicators of what the internet is, these days. The King’s speech relates to the way things should be but he is ****ing...

Not a nice posting. The guy was not a hazard. Alternator failure can happen to any car at any time.

Merry Christmas Keith, and many thanks for all the help and info during the last year….

Oh dear, low voltages and a dodgy radio station… Looks nice and clean though.

Thing is, that little voltmeter shows what the voltage drops to when the ignition is on, and also when the starter is turning. Can be a useful fault checker…? I know your clever nano screen shows that sort of stuff in excruciating detail, but I am not a complex person and hope my inherent...

D’oh…!!

I know this is a kiddie-level comment, but ref the voltage level, I think it’s worth getting a cigarette lighter plug with DVM built in. It tells you what voltage the car wiring is actually seeing, rather than what the battery thinks it is delivering. The pics are with ignition on and off. I did...

+1 ^^^^

That’s a good approach - one problem at a time. Maybe get the gears sorted first? As Kermit says, drive a few feet and try selecting various gears / low / high a few times…?

Er, P38 owners are generally neither rich nor wealthy, viz: ”You have a Range Rover so you must have lots of money” ”I have a Range Rover, so therefore I have no money at all” … and welcome to LZ.

Seems logical to do what GrumpyGel says and then work out the thickness required. Then buy an aluminium spacer of the relevant dimensions off eBay? If necessary, use blue Loctite to hold it in place.

Could you explain why being a driving instructor gives you brilliant night vision? Do you have reflectors implanted in your eye-balls? Great to have surgically improved balls. I suppose it is useful to have brilliant night vision if your headlights are inadequate. Or does your brilliant night...

If the reversing lights are stuck on, maybe you should just drive everywhere in reverse?

I love these classic Landyzone responses - epic.

Well I’ve got one, and would ask “relative to what??” Admittedly mine has been “simplified” by switching the space-hoppers for coil springs. You know, springs, like the ones in classic Bentleys, Ferraris and Alfas.

That’s an old Skoda joke, from when they were Soviet-made. You could double their value by filling up the petrol tank.