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Yes, I know that also. It's a bit like the insurance company listing lorry drivers high risk occupation, why is that? You can hardly use your own car in place of the lorry! It seems to me every occupation is high risk according to insurance companies. Farming is probably high risk incase you use...

That is true of course but most likely from their point of view you would be using it for motor trade or similar.

Heads on the bolts are a little bit rounded off, any reason I can't use cap head bolts? Local nut & bolt place don't do M8 flange bolts with a 10mm head.

Tiger seal is a PU adhesive.

Closer to 60 than 30. My fully comp always used to cover me 3rd party for any car. Now I can't even get that.

Thinking about it that would cost a pretty penny for you to insure yourself for every car in the country. As mentioned you can get short term cover for a particular journey and particular vehicle.

No, most are 3rd party only, I can't even get that. Long gone are the days it used to come standard on fully comp policy.

My understanding is it cranks over but doesn't start, therefore the OP needs to check for fuel, live at the shut off valve, use a jumper wire to shut off valve to bypass the rest of the vehicle. Once the fuel is out of the equation then the wiring fault can be traced back.

A jump lead is not suitable, you need a wire with a spade connector on the end to plug into the fuel shut of valve/solenoid. Have you located the injection pump and shut off valve yet? You have had it running so the shut off valve seems to work. I am presuming it only has 1 wire on it. When you...

Custom covers limited £75 5 years ago. You do have to be relatively careful with it but worked well.

When it stops working again, check for a live on the fuel shut off solenoid. Carry a spare bit of wire to bypass it as I suggested. If it's working at the moment it sound like the solenoid itself might be ok.

Is it the circlip you are having a problem with? The seal should come out like any other seal really. I guess it's pretty much the same set up as a Defender, some good videos on YouTube.

According to Google then no it won't fit as the bolt holes are different.

Hopefully then it's just a poor contact on the motor, clean them up. I think sorting the additional fuse box should be on your to do list.

My son's tdi has glass fuses, almost all were wrong size when he bought it. You are right the contacts need cleaning every now and again.

@sierrafery might be able to help.

It needs to be live to let fuel through. For testing purposes you can get a length of wire from the battery live terminal, or other live, and connect to the shut off valve. Then try starting it, if it starts you have a wire problem for the shut off valve. You will need to pull the wire off to...

Have you checked its getting fuel when you crank it? If its the same as a 200tdi there will be a fuel shut off valve on the back of the injection pump with one wire going to it.

Good luck with that wiring. It looks rather random on that added fuse box, do you know what any of that is for?