November 2004
A girl at work has a Landrover Freelander and this morning she parked up and oil was coming out by the front wheel. She thought it was brake fluid but when I opened the bonnet the oil has come from the expansion tank and is everywhere. I took the oil filler cap off and there is a mayonaise type deposit all over the cap with water. I'm no mechanic but it looks like the head gasket has gone big time. I think it's an old K-Series Rover engine and I seem to recall that the head gaskets can't be changed, is this right and if so will she need a new engine.
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I had the misfortune the other night to catch up (on a twisty single-carriageway road) with a towtruck that was giving a suspended tow to a car that had no lights. The towtruck had lights, however ~ two rearward-facing high-wattage searchlights near the top, aimed slightly downwards, that were shining over the top of said towed car! I was not amused!
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature. Read more
>>Can't agree with you there. The lights in uestion are usually
pretty powerful floodlights, designed so the operator can see exactly what
he's doing when attaching the car. I'd say you could be
a fair way back and still find them dazzling.
Lights are only there to assist. not to drive on..Think you
missed the point.
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Steve
I don't think I missed the point. The point, as you say, is that they're there to assist when loading the car, and should not be lit when the truck is in motion.
My point was just that they are very bright, and very dazzling, which is why they shouldn't be lit when the truck is in motion.
Could anybody recommend a very simple cd/radio with rds for my mothers Arosa. Read more
Well if you're in Dorset of a weekend or in the vicinity of Telford/Wolverhampton in the week let me know and I'll give you a demo.
has HJ stopped going to the auctions as they havnt appeared on the right hand side for sometime? they are very useful and make interesting reading.
cheers
dave Read more
cheers guys il have a mooch now!
Hi guys. I have a 98 'R' DTurbo and I'm wondering whether the looms are in place to retrofit electric mirrors? I have seen some cheap on ebay and was wondering whether the project was do-able. I guess they might be albeit wrapped up and tie-wrapped off somewhere. Thoughts and suggestions most welcome! Plus if anyone has provence blue mirror covers and same colour rear bumper then get in touch! Read more
I dont think they have. Easy way to tell thought, if your car has the external temp sensor, then the wiring is there. If not, it is not. It a simple job to change the door looms though, I did it on my '95 DTurbo so I could have the external temp display. The door looms are a straight swap. Got mine from a scrap yard!!
If I buy a manual car, generally it will have 5 gears. Some autos have 4 speed.
Does this mean that an auto in top gear would be pulling higher revs, so there would be more engine noise when cruising at 70mph, or does an auto 4th gear equal a manual 5th gear?
Does this mean that auto 1/2/3 equal manual 1/2/3/4?
I'm confused!
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The Merc gearbox is probably a 4-speeder with a two-speed final drive (not dissimilar to high and low boxes on some 4x4s) The cross-over point (gear X in low = gear Y in high) is the 'lost' gear from the eight forward ratios.
Hello,
I am looking by a Rove Coupe but reading the car breakdown it mentions head gasket failure is commonplace.
Can anyone shed any further light on this? Should I be avoiding this car? (I've sort of got my heart set on one!)
Thanks
Rich.
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Hi Mark. thanks for the correction
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Steve
Got a bit (OK it's a lot) of an oil leak problem on the Xantia TD.
Oil is dripping from an aluminium casting bolted to the block just under the injection pump.
Any ideas where it's coming from?? Have you seen this before DL?
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen.... Read more
Anybody else see the road test by Neil Lyndon in the Sunday Telegraph colour suppliment?.0 to 60 3.5 secs,185mph,425bhp,it would appear that after some testing on minor roads which decided a friend with him that it was too hairy for him to contemplate owning,Neil then accelerated on the slip road to join a motorway when he lost it so completely that it slammed into the embankment,spun and came to rest with the rear N/S wheel broken off,fortunately no one else involved or the driver and passenger hurt,made me think either the throttle control wants rethinking or Neil Lydon needs retraining before being let loose again with a high performance car.Must take my hat off to him for honesty,think I might have kepy quiet and not published the article.
ndbw Read more
Hi Algernon
Yes it was a wet road and their concluasion was that faced with a wet gradient and no traction control the Quaife auto torque based differential was unable to cope,would a car be road legal if tyres fitted cannot give control?.
My daughter is now on her third Jag.XKR having been invited in Oct to purchase one of a limited edition of fifty,these as you will know are 400bhp and all she has managed to do is to kerb one O/S front wheel on her previous one the cost was eye watering and the damage fortunately only cosmetic as it took Jaguar two months to get a replacement,her partner did tell me that it can be a beast with the traction control off.
Regards
ndbw
After a number of months without making a single appearance, the auto diagnostics warning lamp on my wife's 29,000 mile 1994 306 1.8 SR Sedan has illuminated several times over the past few days. The caption for this lamp looks like the side view of an engine with a letter 'K' inside it.
Whilst the lamp is illuminated, the engine continues to produce normal power, with the only indications that something is wrong being:
(a) The lamp is illuminated
(b) If the car is coasted, engine revs only drop to 1200RPM and not the normal 900RPM idle.
Whether co-incidental or not, every time the lamp has illuminated it has been during main road cruising on a wet day with the engine thoroughly warmed through, and it has self extinguished after ten seconds or so.
Foolish of me to think that not making an appearance for a few months meant that the problem had gone away!
Anyway, I cannot get the car over to my trusty Pug Indy for a couple of weeks, but if something relatively inexpensive stands out from a list of known XU7 engine / Magnetti Marelli 8P ECU gremlins, I'm quite prepared to take a chance and fit it myself.
Many thanks for any help you can give. Read more
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yep nailed on that one.
put my house on it
my sis in laws freelander has been at the maindealer for a month now
while they argue with land rover assistance
hers is a v6 . its a travesty how they are allowed to sell these
the eu will look into eccles cakes not being made in eccles and yet l/r turn out this crock of XXXXX week after week and get away with it is beyond me.