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I had a pleasant trundle over from Leicester to my place in Wales yesterday afternoon, as it was nice and sunny I was able to do some proper Land Rover driving with my window down and my elbow on the window sill. Consequently, when I saw Land...

Just to add to that, yesterday I trundled from Leicester to Wales yesterday and made good progress when the road was clear. However the near-stationary traffic on the M6 slowed me down a bit and the stop-start-creep-stop again etc. meant that my...

I don't know what all the fuss is about myself. I drive thousands of miles in my TD5 and don't find it burdensome at all. The most miles I've covered in a day is around 700. My everyday motoring includes rural roads, motorway trips and the...

No doubt it'll be in the slow cooker as soon as it's expired.

How are those of you with boats or in the martitime trades responding to the new net zero policies? There was a piece about it in the Telegraph a couple of days ago...

Is there anywhere in the West Midlands that can be trusted with an engine rebuild I wonder? I don't need one myself, but was having a conversation earlier with a friend who wants one. We've had long running threads on here about people operating...

Somebody's got very feathery legs. Looks like he's wearing little plus fours.

It seems to me that the solution to Dan's dilemma is to find a period correct SU electric pump. The low pressure ones are designed to work with carburettors that have a float and needle valve, unlike many of the modern pumps that are intended to...

A while ago Xylia was looking to buy a Ouija board but all the products online seemed to have really low customer feedback scores, which made her reluctant to press the 'buy' button. On reading the reviews, the problem became apparent. People...

I've had a few things that rattle over the years, including: 1 The alloy heatshield that goes on the gearbox mount on the exhaust pipe side. I assume it's to stop the rubber mounting block getting hot. Mine had a crack in it and rattled. I...

It's getting more and more difficult to bury yourself under the side of an HGV now too, as a lot of them have barriers on the sides as well. But that telegraph pole fits the bill nicely. The side I took the photo from wasn't the side that had...

I think I can see wht's happened. Looks like the Audi pulled out from a parking space at the same time as the silver BMW estate was passing, which accounts for the damage down its right hand side. The BMW was tipped onto its side and scraped...

Makes sense to me. A few years ago I had what I thought was a door lock mechanism problem but it turned out to be the pastic surround of the lock button which had broken down inside the trim panel and the lock wouldn't latch, or would only do so...

Yes, as I said above, there was another vehicle , an Audi, which was dented down one side and one of the rear wheels was at an odd angle. I didn't take a picture because there was a group of young men around it shouting and gesticulatuing...

Many years ago, during my teenage years in Somerset I was in a car with some friends one night, driving along one of those narrow country roads with high sides when all of a sudden a cow appeared on the bonnet. The car nose-dived under the weight...

There's been a big accident in the street outside. Yes, I was one of those ghoulish people who went out and took a picture. But I did have a good check to make sure there was no one hurt first, so it wasn't in the poorest of taste. It's hit the...

I've recently adopted one of Xylia's cast off iPhones. She has to have the latest one, of course, and I get the old ones. I'm not a mobile phone person, but it's useful to stick in the Land Rover with a PAYG sim in it in case I need to get the AA...

Meanwhile in Leicester the locals have moved beyond the miniature nitrous oxide cylinders and are buying bigger ones: 'Do not inhale' indeed. I doubt if it's been used to make whipped cream.

Not too sure about this Americanisation myself. All this raised middle finger malarkey; it's a bit like people saying 'gotten' and 'high school'. Is anybody doing a traditional British V sign version?

No I haven't ever had a Disco so haven't changed the gearbox single handed at the side of the road. I'm getting pretty nifty with the Defender box though, having taken it out and put it (or its replacement) back in a few times now. Get the...

Oh, I see @Stanleysteamer's beaten me to it.

Yes @Stanleysteamer, as per @Hippo's post above, I'd have thought a reconditioned gearbox is the best option. Various other bits and pieces on the car have already been renewed so you're dealing with a known vehicle rather than just buying...

Don't forget the wiper relay. These go wrong and can yield all sorts of weird wiper behaviour. They're more than just a relay - there's a printed circuit board inside. I don't think there were many variants of the motor mechanism - I've replaced...

The cable goes over the top of the gear wheels on the wiper spindles, so a push would raise them and a pull would lower them. So it may still turn out to be a broken cable.

Is the armadildo indigenous to your location perchance? They can leave a three toed impression.

Did you take any pictures?

I'm only here for the creeps . . .

Well, I did think of cutting it down to fit my core cutter drill, but it seems a shame to do so. One day when I've got a shed to put it in, I'll get a lathe. I look longingly at secondhand ones for sale. Something about the size and weight of a...

Just riffing along with last night's innuendo-fest on here, I thought you might like to see that I have a large tool. A 50mm drill with a no. 4 Morse Taper. I'll be wanting to drill some big holes later this spring so seeing this advertised on...

Many years ago when I was a child my mother used to go around our garden with a little tin shovel and flick the dog dirt over the hedge into the road. It was usually an ex-coal shovel that had been demoted to dog dirt duties. One day she hit a...