Thanks for your replies, I thought the inner door shuts are quite important as they are close to the seatbelts, yet most discoveries I have seen have brown patches down in that corner - obviously an area we are all going to have to replace one day unless they have been well waxed and cleaned...

My '95 Discovery went in for its MOT today, and failed on welding. It needs repairs to boot floor where the body mounts are and also to the offside inner door shut (seatbelt anchorage). I had treated the door shuts to some kurust back in the summer and waxoyled them and they havnt got any worse...

I now have a 300TDI and my starter solenoid is sticking - can anyone answer Kens original message. Thanks.

Yes please chipv8, I also need to do a full service and cambelt on mine and really want to give it a go myself. It would be very helpful. Good luck to you and I hope everything comes off and goes back on easily!

Is Tractor Universal Oil green? and is it of different viscosities or one bottle does everything? I bought some correct viscosity tractor oil from Griggs country store and it was green - apparently completely normal! Landy seemed to like it.

Yep I always get my batteries from our local farmers (countryside) store. They are about half the price and last just as long. Tractor batteries come in all shapes and sizes, but must of these places also sell land rover batteries because they go hand in hand with farm life.

Oh dear... another one. Please if you are going to be removing the rotor arm, press down on the eight sided star or break it off rather than lifting it. That's how all my current problems started :( Hope you get it sorted quickly! Matt.

Thanks for the firing order clutchdust - I had got it right. Hi eightinavee, thanks for your reply. Where does this collet fit? I have stripped the distributor and reattached the weights, all i need now is a new circlip as i stretched the current one. But where would the collet fit as I haven't...

Hello. My 1994 Discovery 3.9 V8i Auto started running lumpy on tickover. I had a look at the dizzy cap and rotor arm and they looked a bit worn. So I bought and fitted new ones, and now the engine turns over but shows no signs of firing. When I took the rotor arm off, the mechanism below seemed...