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Yes, that was the warning I got! It was a very expensive message. Be careful!! Stop car,, restart and the message would go away for a while, then come back on at random.

Mine still getting through about a litre of coolant a week. i must sort out the leaky oil cooler. It hd 2 advisories on previous MoTs on "coolant leak from rear of engine" but strangely enough no advisories this year. I suspect dealers' MoT garages turn a blind eye for minor things.

Sounds good to me.

I had similr on my 08 TDV8, engine warning comes on going up hill and t random on the motorway for a week or two,, the message was something like reduced engine power. It ran very nicely otherwise. Took it to my local indie garage who road tested it and the engine suffered catastrophic failure...

Yes, the battery in my partner's Disco TDV6 was holding up well at 11 volts but wasn't enough to hold the low volts relay in. New battery fitted, problem solved. Old battery is now on our 24v 100kv/H genny set! It starts the old AEC engine nicely No low volts relay on there. :)

It seems to me the battery simply isn't man enough for the job, not enough amps/hour for cranking over.

You could get arrested for that!! :)

You still haven't said what model it is, what engine? Petrol/diesel?

I had one of those on a 52 plate from new. It had 3 gearboxes. One of them melted the toque converter in the far side of Belgium in the middle of winter. Sounds like gearbox rebuild for you, sorry to say.

My "new" bargain basement 60 reg 4.4TDV is using about half a litre of oil a week, and a container full of coolant a week, doing about 500 miles. It's been diagnosed as leaking oil cooler, I really will have to chase the dealer who sold it to me. I emailed the prolem to him 2 weeks ago but no...

But shop around the comparison sites as well, I found Money Saving Expert was finding stuff a lot cheaper.

I'd go back to the historic insurer and tell them the car is doing under 100 miles a week, the average historic car would probably do 5000 a year going to rallies.

About 100 miles a week, that's not a lot really especially if you live in a rural area. I do that in 2 days going to and from work.

My previous decent 08 Vogue suffered earth strap failure. an additional earth strap cured a lot of starting problems. i suspected my partner's Discovery had the same trouble, but a battery change was the answer, it was 11 years old.

Sounds to me like it's not man enough for the job. Maybe a short-life battery? My partner has recently (or rather I have) changed the battery on her 2013 Disco TDV6, that was showing 12.4v. during starting dropping to 11 v, and don t "poor" on a 10 second load test. But then it was the original...

What sort of mileage does your classic do as a regular user car?

Maybe that's because they didn't look to see what else had to come out! Their price for the cooler has a good mark-up for the Nissen unit, but hey ho, it's got to be done. The car is worth spending a bit on TLC. Just waiting for the dealer to aagree to getting it done though. On my "other" car...

You really do need to shop around for insurance. when I was "shopping" 2 months ago I put in some dummy quotes using my partner's name. It worked out some 40% cheaper for the same level of cover. Tempted though I was, I don't want to get caught "fronting".

Drove mine to and from work this evening, about 35 miles each way, mostly on motorway at "cruise control" speed. The low coolant light didn't show its face today. I forgot to mention in the morning I took it to a fairly local non-specialist garage, they gave a good estimate for changing the oil...

I've got 2 vintage buses, a 1952 AEC Regal IV half-decker and a1954 Guy single decker, fully comp on both is about £500 a year. Both are certified for PSV use, MoT exempt etc, can't use them for hire and reward but can use them fully loaded for free services in connection with vehicle rallies...