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    My journey towards an "as good as I can get it" D2

    My first big oopsie on the new Rover. Since I am not a big fan of the EGR i ordered a simple ebay kit to get rid of it. Did not only want to block it but totally remove it. When working on the EGR I noticed the exhaust manifold was leaking. It is even missing some nuts.... Getting the...
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    My journey towards an "as good as I can get it" D2

    The last landrover partly died after not indicating overheating. It might not be a surprise that I want good monitoring of temperatures and levels, complemented with nice alarms. I spend the good part of a day googling my options. I found the following: - ODB2 -> TD5 does not support ODB2 so...
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    My journey towards an "as good as I can get it" D2

    The screen is a china implementation of apple car play. Its quite nice when it works, it just start restarting every few seconds after about 15 minutes of use. So it probably needs a bit of an upgrade:d I am a bit doubtful about the rear end. At least no holes etc, but there is rust. There...
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    Hi!

    Thanks. yes, the first one is still there. It did not pass the mot so I guess the worth is way less than the parts. I might just turn in the plates and steal parts from it.
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    Thanks! Yes the seat covers is on the list of improvements.
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    My journey towards an "as good as I can get it" D2

    harmonic balancer: When I bought the car there was a nasty rattling noise near the front of the engine. searching for "TD5 rattling noise" it turns out the crank pully is a "consumable" on this car. luckily there is a nice instruction how to replace the harmonic balancer...
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    My journey towards an "as good as I can get it" D2

    After taking my previous D2 for granted and not giving it the love it should have received, I bought a second one and intent to make it nice. Instead of buying a nice mint one, I decided to buy the cheapest one I could find and do all the repairs and upgrades myself. starting point: Goals: I...
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    Hi!

    aside from the chair and steering wheel the inside is ok. outside paint is rough.
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    Hi there, I am new to this forum. But have been driving a D2 TD5 for some time. My original TD5 got rejected by the mod and had too many issues to repair. After much searching i decided to stick with the D2 TD5 and got me another one. The new one also got many improvement points, so will be...