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ring your solicitor a local mercedes dealership went bust owing me 15k and i had an emergency ambulance of theirs on site,rang my solicitor who said i can keep the ambulance for the £50 that job owed only and was i prepared to take an emergency ambulance off the road on a friday afternoon!! I...

Hi Can you pm me your registration so I can check what solutions are available please?

my variation for .223 was about a month all in,really quick,maybe easier/less work for them?

can you send me your registration number (pm if you prefer) and i'll put it in my laptop to see if it can be done 🤞

rac mate called to a brand new custom and said it had a chain not a belt ?

hopefully with the new ones going back to a chain they should have less problems 🤞

what age do you mean when you say second generation? the brand new customs have gone back to a chain? (so i am told) seen plenty of 19/20/21 plates with blown engines

didn't realise that.from what ive seen/heard (from mates in aa/rac) about new landrovers is that they are no better :banghead:

I know,It really boils my p@ss,on the ecoboom (as we call it in the trade) engine they were using the excuse the wrong oil was used at services etc (they are using that excuse as we speak on the wetbelt) until all the ones that were dealer serviced with the correct oil started failing :banghead:

not sure on the new ones but very possible as most of them share everything. ask if the engine has a wet cambelt (immersed in the oil)

wow,not done anything with the bigger engines,doesnt sound good then.on the 2.0 rac and aa are changing them at 50k and don't seem to be having any major problems now but before this had nearly half the fleets down. only real fix is new engine,dealers tried all other fixes and they only last a...

don't go near the 2.0 litre engine,fitted in quite a few makes now,wet cambelt :banghead: service schedule to replace is 10 years or 120k they usually fail 60-70k :mad:

cut off overhang (cut at back of rear spring hangers)

don't need class one,they both drive them on car licence (grandfather rights up to 7.5 tonne) no tacho needed either as personal use

not sure but the guy with the hilux was doing it for a caravan and a transporter trailer so guess you could,not sure what would be involved in the conversion on the stock box as the brakes on the caravans are electric :eek: the shoes/drums and cylinders look like normal trailer brakes but are...