Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2022 i Land Rover Monthly

Find us on @LRMonthly LandRoverMonthly @land_rover_monthly Land Rover Monthly ONE day we will all be able to take to our graves our memories and experiences. Our money, titles and low-mileage old Land Rovers will count for absolutely nothing in heaven or hell, or whatever else you believe in. I know camping is not for everyone, but I have seen for myself that it is a pretty big deal for a whole lot of people in the United Kingdom. Even more so in the summer holidays. Not bad for an island that can have several seasons in a single day. Our cover feature this month is all about impressive camping rigs, Land Rovers that have been kitted-out so that they will offer you a better experience than a night at The…

Send your letters to patrick@lrm.co.uk Power companies Interesting to read about Twisted’s entrance into the electric car market in the May issue of LRM. But wow, what a lot of money! Seems I’m being bombarded on a daily basis about new electric cars – someone’s even produced an electric DeLorean. I guess that electric is the path that we’re now all having to drive down, but I’m still not convinced that when used for work or for expeditions that an electric Land Rover is the right answer: maybe I’m just an old dinosaur. Do you have plans to test an electric Land Rover at any stage? Stephen Bovie PATRICK REPLIES: If I hadn’t caught Covid the day before I was supposed to drive it, you would already have read a…

SKYTAG currently offers four different levels of service. Standard cover includes a monthly test, battery disconnect and low power alerts, and 24-hour police liaison. This is for Land Rovers that are used every day. Then there is Nightsafe cover, that includes Standard cover plus night time movement alerts from a set protection zone. This is for Land Rovers that are vulnerable at night. The third level is Leisuresafe cover. It includes Standard cover plus 24-hour movement alerts from a set zone. This is the best option if your Land Rover is mainly used during weekends or for leisure pursuits. Finally there is the Liveview cover which includes Leisuresafe cover plus access to view the vehicle location live; you can also set zones and notifications. *To claim your free Skytag all…

ONE glance at the eye-watering prices that currently gleam out from every petrol station in the country is enough to make one grateful for driving a petrol Land Rover. Diesel has been more expensive for years, but with current price hikes, every penny counts, making the higher rate hard to swallow. While shelling out £1.67 for a litre of petrol is nothing to be proud of, I’m thankful not to be wasting valuable fuel driving around town looking for the one remaining garage where diesel can be found for less than £1.79 per litre. I also feel that owning an old petrol Land Rover is finally defensible, which wasn’t always so. During my 17-year ownership of the Lightweight, I have often found myself justifying driving a ‘gas-guzzling’ petrol, mostly to…

AFTER finishing our cover shoot for this issue, I decided to head off for another night of camping seeing as my Land Rover was already packed with all my gear. Plus, we were in the middle of a week-long spring heatwave. Before I get into the details of that memorable night away, I would just like to clarify that when we did the cover shoot we did actually camp out for one night. Unlike other magazines we don’t just get out our gear for the pictures. For the extra one night away I headed to the Fotheringhay campsite, one of my favourites in the whole of the UK. Why? It is less than an hour away from where I live, plus it is on the banks of the River Nene.…

PART FOUR NEED TO KNOW Time: Around 4 hours. Cost: £102 Difficulty: Models: Td5 Defender and Discovery. Tools needed: Engine stand, engine crane, torque wrench, general workshop tools – including socket set and spanners, bolt-grip set (rounded bolt extractor tool). Parts & costs (all sourced BLRC Ltd): Engine glow plug x4 (ERR6066), £4.50 each; intake manifold gasket (LKJ00010), £11.69; water pump OEM (PEM50040), £45.74; crankshaft oil seal (LUF100420G), £15.19; sump gasket (LVF500040), £8.95; oil pump pulley bolt (LYP101400), £2.33. Work safely: Engines being worked on after removal from the vehicle should be safely supported and prevented from rolling or tipping, preferably using a purpose-made engine stand. Wear eye protection when cleaning dirty components. Wear protective gloves. Wear safety boots or shoes, given the weight of the engine units. Contact: BLRC…

The park brake must be put into ‘service mode’ for this and any other job that involves working on the rear braking system. In the absence of a diagnostic tool this can be achieved, and the system reactivated on completion, by the following procedures: EPB into ‘service mode’ With the Freelander on level ground, chock the front wheels to prevent the vehicle rolling. Cancelling service mode Again, the vehicle should be on level ground with front wheels chocked, in Park or Neutral, ignition on, engine off. LOOKING FOR MORE TECH ADVICE? You can find exactly what you’re looking for in Land Rover Monthly’s fully searchable digital library from just £9.99 a quarter. Visit bit.ly/lrmexact and start your search now.…

Dave Barker brings you the best Land Rover gatherings Tues 26 – Sat 30 April KAZAKHSTAN RALLY RAID Aktau, Kazakhstan rallykazakhstan.com Thurs 28 Apr – Mon 2 May ISLAND WHISKEY TOUR Scotland slroc.co.uk Fri 29 Apr – Mon 2 May 4X4 CHALLENGE EVENT Upper Hunter Valley, Australia tufftruck.com.au Fri 29 Apr – Sun 1 May 50TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND Thorpe Marriott, Norfolk brecklandlrc.com RALLYE TERRE DU GÂTINAIS Corbeilles-en-Gâtinais, Loiret, France rallyegatinais.fr BAJA EUROPE 2022 Zagan, Poland baja-europe.com Sat 30 Apr – Fri 13 May PORTUGAL 4X4 ADVENTURE TOUR Portugal atlasoverland.com Sat 30 Apr – Mon 2 May LINCS RTV & LADIES/TYRO & CCV TRIAL Claxby, Lincolnshire llrc.co.uk GREENLANE LONG WEEKEND TRIP Devon sadlrc.co.uk SROC RTV & TYRO TRIAL Cowbeech, Hailsham sroc.co.uk COMP SAFARI, CCV, TYRO & RTV TRIALS Eccleshall, Staffordshire saslrc.co.uk…

LRM’s Insurance Supermarket We ask various insurance companies to quote on the same vehicle with interesting results. Worried about insuring your own car? We’ve got it covered – trust us, you won’t want to be without our comprehensive guide. All-new Range Rover Sport The third generation Range Rover Sport has been unveiled and we’re bringing you an exclusive sneak peek of what it looks like. JULY ISSUE ON SALE 25 MAY Or download and read the digital issue from Monday 23 May bit.ly/lrmpocketmags SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Three great deals for you to choose from… ULTIMATE DIGITAL EDITION Get your first issue for just £2.99, with future issues at £3.99 monthly, or 13 issues for only £39.99. bit.ly/lrmpocketmags PRINT Enjoy 3 issues for just £5. To continue, it’s just £12.99 a quarter by…

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I think at times we can be a bit of a smug lot Down Under. Regularly I will see quips about rust levels amongst ‘Pommie’ Land Rover owners. As we all know, relentless damp and application of salt on the roads in the winter (I lived there for 30 years so I speak with some authority) provide the perfect habitat for rust. But, are Australian Land Rovers always less rusty and are there other negatives borne out of relentless sunshine all year round? Okay, so I may be stretching the truth just a little, despite the perception of many, but Australia does not have year-round sunshine. In fact, recently the weather has been far from idyllic with torrential rain and widespread flooding in low-lying areas across eastern Australia. It can…

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A resume: The DVLA allowed a licensed third party (scrapyard) to create a legal document meaning my car no longer existed, without having my car, or the V5c – with no legal basis to revoke that document. To fix it, the DVLA doesn’t ask the scrapyard, the problem becomes mine, triggering a vehicle identity process universally criticised, judged by a workforce boasting about being in bed, watching Netflix, rather than working. That’s the summation. Yes, my car is back on the road, but the route there was as agonising as it was pointless. Faced with the mystery of how my car could be scrapped without leaving my garage, I investigated the Certificate of Destruction (CoD) procedure, and the DVLA. Everywhere I looked, I found near universal criticism of the DVLA’s…

15 PAGES OF EXPERT ADVICE AND TIPS It’s a love-hate thing I have a love-hate relationship with Defenders – I’m talking about real Defenders, the classic original type. Let’s be honest: they rattle, bounce, rot and leak. They’re noisy and slow and really quite impractical as a general road-going family machine. And I’m not talking about road-going wrecks: I’ve been in plenty of mega-money Defenders that still fit the above description despite the sumptuous leather interior, the total rebuild and the complete modernisation and electrification of every possible component in the car. A Defender is a Defender and, after all these expensive modifications, we’d be disappointed if it didn’t retain the same characteristics. Without its agricultural roots, the Defender could have enjoyed the excellent handling, fuel consumption, safety and quiet, relaxed…

SOMEWHERE along the way, the handbrake lever for our Defender 110 Td5 project has gone amiss, and I’ve been unable to find a later type lever needed for this truck. There is a reason for this shortage. The later transmission brake assembly on Defender 300Tdi models onwards and on Discovery 1 and 2, have fewer moving parts and the setting up and servicing is simpler. This, plus the fact that many early Defender transmission brakes are now quite worn and sloppy, means many late-type transmission brakes are being fitted to earlier models. That requires the later handbrake cable to be used, and that in turn needs the later handbrake lever to be fitted, hence the shortage of levers. So, for anyone fitting the later transmission brake and its cable to…

MARKET NEWS THE thought of sitting in a police car would fill most of us with dread. But there have been a few cars sold this month which prove Land Rover buyers get excited by the thought of being in a car which used to go nee-nar for a living. The first was a Defender which would certainly stand out at any Land Rover show and might raise a few eyebrows parked on your drive, too. The 1993 110 sold at Anglia Car Auctions for £14,256 (including the premium), which is about right for a low-mile (56,824) Defender of this vintage, but this particular model gives you more for your money – it’s fully armoured and has huge Bomb Disposal markings on each side. The 110 was previously owned by…

Tell us a little about yourselves I am a carpenter and my son Will is still at school. It will be his truck when he gets his driver’s permit. I am an LRM subscriber and look forward to the mag coming through my letterbox each month. Where did you two find this project? Do you know anything about its past? It belonged to my friend Gene who works at Rovers North. The reason he had the 88in North American Spec station wagon was because the original owner had passed away. He’d owned the Series IIA from new after buying it in Vermont in 1967, but sadly just ran it into the ground. It had been parked up for the last 21 years. Gene didn’t want to sell it but then…

Jaguar Land Rover announces 2030 sustainability targets JLR has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its operations by 46 per cent by 2030, as well as cut average vehicle emissions across its value chains by 54 per cent, including a 60 per cent reduction throughout the use phase of its vehicles. The goals, which are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), confirm the company’s pathway to a 1.5°C emissions reduction in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Breakfast club IF you’re part of a rally of Landy enthusiasts planning to attend the Land Rover Breakfast Club on 4 December at the Haynes Motor Museum and you’re brave enough to camp at that time of the year, then Long Hazel Park, located just half a mile…

I’VE just finished reading an extraordinary new book that is the latest addition to what my wife refers to as my ‘petrolhead library’. It was an entertaining and thought-provoking read. It could easily be the last book I buy about cars. You should read it too. Everything else in my petrolhead library is a joyful celebration about the things the automobile and the motorcycle have given us: freedom to travel, independence, a means of exploration, delight in their multifarious designs and engineering innovations, fascination with particular makes and models, the pleasures of fettling and fixing… The first books I bought over 40 years ago were oriented towards the practical: they were workshop manuals and parts lists that were invaluable necessities when it came to DIY home spannering, in the days…

We don’t just write about Land Rovers: we live, breathe and spend all our wages on them… PATRICK CRUYWAGEN LRM EDITOR 1998 Defender 110 2.8i GARY PUSEY LRM CLASSICS EDITOR 1969 Range Rover Classic two-door Velar 1997 Defender 90 300Tdi 1981 Stage 1 V8 88-inch 1990 Range Rover Classic ALISDAIR CUSICK LRM CONTRIBUTOR 1995 Range Rover Classic 1957 Series I TREVOR CUTHBERT LRM CONTRIBUTOR 1984 Land Rover 90 Mazda 3.5 Tdi automatic soft top (rebuild project) 1987 Defender 130 HCPU 1990 Land Rover One Ten LHD V8 soft top 1994 Defender 130 Tipper 300Tdi 1998 Defender 90 2.8i BMW petrol 2002 Discovery 2 Td5 Adventurer 2004 Defender 90 Td5 hard top…

TIME: 2 .5 hours. DIFFICULTY: MODELS: Freelander 2. TOOLS NEEDED: General workshop tools including Torx T45 and T50, and spanner and socket sizes 13, 15, 21, 22 24 and 32mm. Unless using a vehicle lift then a suitable jack and axle stands are needed. Substantial coil spring compressors. PARTS & COSTS: Freelander 2 all models: Damper body (shock absorber) left-hand (LR039916), from £65 to £198 (right-hand LR039917). WORK SAFELY: Before working under a vehicle supported by a vehicle lift or by axle stands, ensure that the equipment is correctly rated and is in serviceable condition. Ensure the vehicle is securely on the lift or axle stands. Wear protective gloves or barrier cream to protect the skin from oils and sharp edges of components. Extra care must be taken when using…

ED EVANS REPLIES: Yes, sorry to say many of them really are that bad and the chassis is the first thing to look at, very closely, before buying a Discovery 2. The main problem area is the underside of the main longitudinal sections at the rear, generally at the lowest point where the chassis dips, and fairly close to the tow bar attachment stays. But the sections can also corrode at the sides in this area, and on the outside of the main sections forward of here, behind the rear springs and around the suspension damper upper mounts where corrosion festers from inside the chassis. In fact, the whole rear end needs a detailed inspection, not only visually, but much poking is required with, for example, a heavy screwdriver or…