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[lesapandre]

[beko1987]

12 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

I wonder if any of the 'walks around london' still exist? Looks quite interesting

[Metal Guru]

4 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I wonder if any of the 'walks around london' still exist? Looks quite interesting

Probably bits still exist but then end abruptly at the M25, HS2, a shopping centre or a housing or industrial estate.

[beko1987]

57 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Probably bits still exist but then end abruptly at the M25, HS2, a shopping centre or a housing or industrial estate.

"take the path down to a beautiful little brook and meadow" which is now under barnet 😬

[C3C3]

Saved a scooby rat from the heap. Checked the dizzie cables, cleaned out the airbox, fresh guzzle and it fired right up. Front cross member is rotted out, lower front wings are non existant but other than that solid. Last drove on the road in 2013.
 

 

I might be getting my hands on a second one but its far worse off.*

[Joey spud]

1 hour ago, C3C3 said:

Saved a scooby rat from the heap. Checked the dizzie cables, cleaned out the airbox, fresh guzzle and it fired right up. Front cross member is rotted out, lower front wings are non existant but other than that solid. Last drove on the road in 2013.
 

 

I might be getting my hands on a second one but its far worse off.*

The front panel on mine was rotten under the bumper (box section below the rad was fine though) but a clever bloke up near Halifax makes a bolt on fibreglass replacement he may even do wing bottoms too.

Once painted you'd never know. 

If it's really solid around the rear inner arches and axle location points then you've got a really rare truck.

[catsinthewelder]

20 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

What a lot of rubbish. I thought for a second this was about UK imports of American spec Dodge Rams, Chevrolet Silverados etc, but it’s just about perfectly normal UK market ones. Usual eco warrior press release guff, which will only get reported by the Guardian and maybe that scruffy git on the BBC. Amusing to note that the market stats about the ‘most popular’ include two that haven’t been available new for quite a while, the Navara and the L200. Rust will do its bit for road safety by eating its way into Navara chassis! 

I assume the BIK changes will reduce the popularity of the double-cab ones, but then, if these will have the exemption from the ZEV mandate out to 2035 in the way vans will, they will stay popular.

They certainly get used by farmers but I don't see many of the workers in trades using them, they'd get their tools nicked.  Of the 4x4 pickups that aren't being run by farmers its usually an aggressive prick with loads of tattoos.  You sometimes see them signwritten for a trade but its usually the bosses ride.

Occasionally you see tree surgeons with them but they tend to get something more useful like a Cabstar or flatbed Transit much like scaffolders and builders.

[dozeydustman]

9 hours ago, artdjones said:

What Renault is it?

Scenic III

[artdjones]

49 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Scenic III

The diffences seem to be chassis no. related.

[lesapandre]

A new low  - lower than the last lowest low...

"Vehicle production in the UK falls to 73-year low"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clymp4ynldlo

(Has Jaguar production actually restarted? - photo implies yes).

[lesapandre]

21 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I wonder if any of the 'walks around london' still exist? Looks quite interesting

Yea I took a look through - most of the walks are still intact. Only one where the M40/M25 has made a difference.

[D.E]

42 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

(Has Jaguar production actually restarted? - photo implies yes).

Another case of media using a fairly old picture again: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/an-employee-adjusts-a-protective-cover-on-a-luxury-jaguar-f-news-photo/450337884

Quote

An employee adjusts a protective cover on a luxury Jaguar F-type automobile, produced by Jaguar Land Rover Plc, a unit of Tata Motors Ltd., at the company's assembly plant in Castle Bromwich, U.K., on Monday, June 9, 2014. The International Monetary Fund underestimated the strength of the U.K. economy in its earlier warning against the government's austerity program, Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

 

[lesapandre]

Tut tut tut BBC. They were the gold standard of news reporting - certainly not any more.

2014 photo 😂

[Snake Charmer]

Some days it's tempting, but l rise above it and continues being the consumate professional. 

(Don't tell the shpolling polease on me neiver.)

[richardmorris]

On 28/01/2026 at 13:13, beko1987 said:

"take the path down to a beautiful little brook and meadow" which is now under barnet 😬

A few years ago I was following a route on the Blackwater valley ( from Hampshire CC) that said climb the style and cross the field diagonally. It was now a new housing estate!

this one is good and reasonably up to date.

[Split_Pin]

So there was one bit on the 75 I forgot about where a drain hole now identifies as a rust hole:

As you can see its worryingly near a subframe mounting point. I had a good old hammer and right where my yellow mark is the sound changes to a solid chap rather than a dull thud so we are good to go. Ive a half day coming up so plan to cut that out and weld in a wee patch. You can't see it but underneath right where the metal turns up to meet the mount is another box section which on shining a light in the hole is spotless.

[Gaffer]

Here we go again…

[stuboy]

34 minutes ago, Gaffer said:

Here we go again…

whats gone wrong, this time??

[richardmorris]

9 minutes ago, stuboy said:

whats gone wrong, this time??

Everything by thr look of it.

[EyesWeldedShut]

10 minutes ago, stuboy said:

whats gone wrong, this time??

Who cares? I'm happy just ogling the kit surrounding the patient

[stuboy]

7 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Who cares? I'm happy just ogling the kit surrounding the patient

id like that workshop

[EyesWeldedShut]

Just now, stuboy said:

id like that workshop

Like? Like? I'd kill kittens for it. One day ....

Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon

.... I'll get that £1 Million on the Premium Bonds

[Six-cylinder]

From memory some of the simplest and common jobs on Land Rover products need a body lift?

[Gaffer]

24 minutes ago, stuboy said:

whats gone wrong, this time??

Engine donor to revive another one. Great engine and transmission in this one but the body is absolutely rotten to the point where the sills collapsed when lifting the body off!

[Gaffer]

1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

From memory some of the simplest and common jobs on Land Rover products need a body lift?

Rear fuel pump belt, inlet manifolds, turbo, exhaust crossover pipe, exhaust downpipe, rear brake pipes, rear upper suspension arms, handbrake module - just a few examples on a D3/D4/Range Rover Sport. All doable with body on with a lot of pain but take a fraction of the time with body off.

I can have a body off one of these in 1.5 - 2 hours now so it’s no big deal, but the ‘while you’re in there’ list becomes huge…

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, Gaffer said:

Rear fuel pump belt, inlet manifolds, turbo, exhaust crossover pipe, exhaust downpipe, rear brake pipes, rear upper suspension arms, handbrake module - just a few examples on a D3/D4/Range Rover Sport. All doable with body on with a lot of pain but take a fraction of the time with body off.

I can have a body off one of these in 1.5 - 2 hours now so it’s no big deal, but the ‘while you’re in there’ list becomes huge…

Wow that is a good effort in less than 2 hours.

I seem to remember when I had the L322 the garage cut some bolts out of the rear suspension because new ones could be fitted the other way round and save a body lift. 

Before that I have had 3 classic Range Rovers and a P38. Now I have a L405, a Discovery 1 facelift and the 1985 Classic Range Rover I bought first in 2002.  I have got away with not having to lift a body in that time. (YET)

[vtec-e]

On 29/01/2026 at 10:08, lesapandre said:

Yea I took a look through - most of the walks are still intact. Only one where the M40/M25 has made a difference.

These days TFL (and others) promote the London Loop walk, an orbital route just inside the M25 and easily accessible from public transport. Do any of the walks follow the 'Loop'?

[lesapandre]

In the book they are circuits- of a few miles in an area. Walking 'around'. Nothing very long.

This is good to describe the whole M25 thing.

[RoverFolkUs]

A nice way to end the month with a fresh advisory free MOT on the 620ti

[richardmorris]

Collected two ( free) 2cv windscreens this morning. Spot the difference.