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Well, we had a trip from home near Ashford to my son's place at Horley near Gatwick Not a spot of trouble there and back at motorway speeds most of the way. Luckily I'd checked the tye pressures on this car before we set out, the nearside front was down to 10psi, maybe hitting a pot hole just...

I'll have to have a look round for the Webasto in mine! Maybe read the handbook?? :)

Sounds possible, so far the car hasn't used any water this week, but then it hasn't ventured too far. I usually use a tank full of diesel a week on trips to and from part-time work and going into town. It's booked in on 2 Jan for oil cooler change. What's an FBH?

I lent my Vogue to my partner today while her Disco 4 was in for service at a local garage. What they found was a surprise! Change the air filter and they found the filter box was completely blocked with a birds' nest, complete with eggs! We'd seen some little birds coming and going through the...

Collected a boot load of goodies from Gosnays Engineering on Monday, crankshaft, cylinder heads, con rods, piston rings and bits for my 1952 AEC Airport coach. The crankshaft just about fits in the boot! This was before it was unloaded in the workshop at home. There's a box of Plastigauge used...

Yes, got a new MoT, clean sheet, but checked online for historic MoTs showed coolant leak at rear of engine as advisory for a couple of years. A check over at my local indie garage diagnosed oilcooler problem with traces of engine oil in the header tank, wear on brakes and various suspension...

At last, the end is in sight for the "bargain" 10 reg Vogue I got from a dealer in High Wycombe. This was the one sold without a radio and because of that a lot of the "features" didn't work. the letter to Trading Standards seems to have worked, most of my money has been refunded and he's coming...

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.