I got a local specialist to replace my gearbox with an Ashcroft Transmissions refurbished unit. Got it backa couple of days before Christmas and parted with just over £3k for the pleasure....

Boxing Day - won't start, won't even hint at it... Have a check about and determine its the fuel pump. Fabulous! Local Stealer had to order one so I bought a "new, take-off" from EBay to try and ensure I had at least one before the end of the year. They both arrived yesterday so I fitted the EBay one and will try and take the other one back...

Fitting the fuel pump is fairly easy. The trickiest bits are getting the fuel pipes off the top without damaging them and then getting the internal cross-pipes off and then on again. Top tip for anyone going to do this is tie a thin piece of string round the pipes so you don't have to go fishing in the petrol tank and have something like surgeons forceps to get a hold of it and guide it back onto the pump while the pump is half in the tank - That was fun, not.

So, now its up and running once more. There must have been air in the fuel pipes for a while because my mpg figures were hilarious - reset and got 5mpg, reset, same again... I actually wondered if I'd missed a seal out but it sorted itself out soon enough...

Oh, and I now know whats next. SWMBO has just informed me that her battery light came on on the way home....

I thought you were going to tell us that the missus needed a new Louis Vuiton handbag, at least she told you about the light before the car konked out! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

Feel your pain..

Nav computer, Injectors, Turbo, Recon Gearbox here all in last 12 months, for the ffrr. Just getting on my feet then the shower & Central heating Boiler packed up.

This weeks failure - the Mrs Car (Laguna) has been laid up for 2 weeks in the snow and Ice and the Dashboard has died... £450 pllus VAT for new, parts only.. waiting for the web sites that offer repairs to open up on the 4th so I can get an idea of cost from them.

Hoping for less expense this year  2010 Disco XS TDV6, 2009 Freelander 2 GS

Previous Landrover products -1990 110 TDI CSW, 2003 TD6 Vogue - RRC TD Vogue, RRC v8 Fleetline, Disco ES V8 LPG, 101 Ambulance "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".

Tim,
Trust me, that was a break from tradition.

Previous classics have been "the heater hasn't been working for a couple of weeks" and now the temperature gauge doesn't move... Fortunately, no lasting damage to that one.

"The postman must have knocked down the dry stone dyke at the entrance... Me (and I am not Sherlock Holmes) - Not unless he has fitted BFG Mud Terrains to his van, look, there are tyre tracks across the verge and onto the rocks..

 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

DeltaC wrote:

I got a local specialist to replace my gearbox with an Ashcroft Transmissions refurbished unit. Got it backa couple of days before Christmas and parted with just over £3k for the pleasure....

Boxing Day - won't start, won't even hint at it... Have a check about and determine its the fuel pump. Fabulous! Local Stealer had to order one so I bought a "new, take-off" from EBay to try and ensure I had at least one before the end of the year. They both arrived yesterday so I fitted the EBay one and will try and take the other one back...

Fitting the fuel pump is fairly easy. The trickiest bits are getting the fuel pipes off the top without damaging them and then getting the internal cross-pipes off and then on again. Top tip for anyone going to do this is tie a thin piece of string round the pipes so you don't have to go fishing in the petrol tank and have something like surgeons forceps to get a hold of it and guide it back onto the pump while the pump is half in the tank - That was fun, not.

So, now its up and running once more. There must have been air in the fuel pipes for a while because my mpg figures were hilarious - reset and got 5mpg, reset, same again... I actually wondered if I'd missed a seal out but it sorted itself out soon enough...

Oh, and I now know whats next. SWMBO has just informed me that her battery light came on on the way home....

Well they say it comes in 3's so your done for a while mate, only a bulb and some wipers to change this year...  2004 black Vogue TD6