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I will if I keep the modification. This is an engineering experiment and I have asked the garage to put all four bags in a box because they're relatively new and leave everything else in situ, just in case. I like options that can be reversed and this is one of them.

What a brilliant reference. Thanks for that link. Although we should always be cautious about accepting Gov data at face value, it has removed some of my uncertainty about using E10. Cheers.

A rose is still a rose by any other name. Exhausts are standard kit and it wasn't badly fitted. I like to believe I can spot potential faults but, even I would have missed that one. The only problem is they left the U bolt pointing sharp end down. So to prevent it from happening again, I rotated...

pwood999. I wanted to avoid washing all my dirty linen in public and perhaps I've just been unlucky but, when grovelling under my car before Christmas I noticed the rear diff bell housing was oily. Now, I know you're all going to find this unbelievable but, at some point in the past during...

The suspension failed and afterwards I noticed the exhaust had fractured. My exhaust was not blowing before this suspension failure. That happened afterwards. So, I may have suffered air pipe failure due to the pipe's proximity to the exhaust. Then the suspension failed, which caused the exhaust...

Fair enough but, I view my P38 as a layered onion. In the beginning, the LR engineers would have started with the basic car and then embellished it by adding layers of toys from sales' advice, who obtained their info from various focus groups within 1990s LR and from around the world. Great for...

I think this is a 'horse for courses' discussion. EAS may have its advantages but, I don't need them and I definitely do not need its failure rate. The nearest I get to 'off road' is when I visit a car exhibition or a National Trust property. My car is never used for towing or carrying bags of...

Good to know and yours is the second comment confirming I can run my P38 on E10 fuel, which will reduce my fuel bill. I also liked your calorific comment. A simple ratiometric calculation shows your bioethanol energy density is 77.8% (14/18) when compared to E10, which some estimate to be down...

Whilst there's no such thing as zero risk. you can mitigate obvious risk. Another EAS failure that would leave me and any passengers stranded in a cold dark night, miles from home can be avoided by removing the source of risk. Of course, I'm not removing risk, just moving it along a scale of...

Speaking for myself as a P38 owner, I found the analogy very funny. But then Clarkson and I are only three years apart in age and we're both 'old skool' in humour and opinion. :)

I admire your devotion to the cause but, with nearly fifty years of engineering behind me, my motto has always been KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. A few months ago, I read a car article about whether peak car had occurred at the end of the 1990s. I would have set that date a decade earlier at the...

Kermitt_RR. Thanks for the E10 advice. That'll save me £6 - £10 every time I fill my tank. Just to be clear, I'm not saying I know more than any other member but, I feel like a battered wife, just waiting for my next beating. By exchanging bags for springs, I'm removing the uncertainty of my...

I forgot to add that a lead acid battery is also limited by a finite number of charge/discharge cycles, typically 3500 if depth of discharge is below 20% and higher depth of discharge shortens battery life. It's electrical capacity decreases with age and temperature, whilst its internal...

Just for reference, a 12V x 90Ah lead acid battery should be charged at 14V4 and a manufacturer will typically advise ten hours, known as the '10Hr rate' for a full charge. Therefore, a 90Ah battery should be charged with 9A for ten hours. Thereafter, it should be 'float' charged at 13V74. The...

I have a spare battery with a pin hole near one of the terminals. When left outside its OK, but if charged, this terminal acquires a fur coat of powdery oxide. Leaking battery acid is always the cause. Acid should cover the internal plates but not drown them because it will escape when charged...

OK Gents. My Maxiscan MS509 OBDII scanner read quite a lot, but also couldn't read some of the embedded stuff so, a mixed bag of useful and useless information. My dash just reads EAS failure with the yellow car and up arrow light to highlight it has a suspension fault. In other news, I have...

That's interesting and worth trying. I've got a Maxiscan MS509 OBDII scanner so, I'll try that to see what error codes it reads and if any can be deleted. My P38 used to slowly lose height over a weekend but, since the last pair of bags were replaced, it holds height very well for more than a...

Only when it lashes down and only when parked on a camber slope. When parked on level ground, it does not leak so, I ensure it's always parked on level ground when available. Fuel consumption alone is a reason to describe the car as money pit. I get 19mpg no matter how carefully I drive. But...

Thanks for replying. I'll investigate the Schrader valve advice but, don't hold your breath. From my perspective, my EAS experience has made me very nervous about taking the car anywhere further than a few miles from home. In which case, what's the point of owning it. An EAS failure 70 miles...

I'm new to this forum but, I've read loads of past discussion about air to spring conversion for a P38. At the risk of attracting the wrath of purists, I have suffered five EAS failures in only three years and 10K road miles. I'm not an 'off-roader' and EAS has become very weary and expensive...