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    Air Con Enhancements

    Just read the post on heating, so I thought I'd ask about air conditioning. Do any of the esteemed readership have any hints or tips for enhancing the standard air conditioning. I've a 110 and in the middle of summer herabouts (Oman), when it's in the mid-40's, the AC struggles to cool the car...
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    Electrical Connector Thingy Below Cubby

    Ah, no wonder my phone wouldn't charge! It's kind of what I thought. I remember in my Disco it was somehwere under the dash and my local Landy agent were forever complaining that the connector was corroded and the couldn't connect to the EMC and so all my services felt incomplete. But I...
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    Electrical Connector Thingy Below Cubby

    Whilst I was vacuuming my Landy (instead of paying someone else to do it) I noticed an electrical connector thingy mounted below the central cubby by the driver's seat (LHD). What's that for, then? It's a 2006 110.
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    When to Engage Diff Lock ...

    My question refers to sand driving, but I suppose it's valid anywhere ... The diff lock - when to engage. Traditionally, when I get stuck the first thing I remember to do is try low range and then oh, I can always lock the centre diff! But from re-reading the manual, it seems like it may be...
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    Running in Defender 110, Td5

    There is a school of thought that youshould thrash a new engine from as new as possible, somthing to do with helping the various rings and stuff seat properly by exposing them to high pressures and temperatures from the get-go. Other moving parts in engine are machined to such high tolerances...