Bill wrote:

So if I drive thru a puddle in my driveway I’m a bit b.....d ( techinical term )

But when you drive through a puddle you are A, Driving so your brakes should be hot! & B, when you wash your car, you stick a hosepipe through the spokes of your wheel to wash them!

Leave the car standing after washing it and the brake surfaces will rust and after a week or 12 without driving it and you may have some issues!

How about spraying the discs with WD40 or Spray Grease?
Any thoughts on pumping tyres up to 50psi to prevent flat spots?? Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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Flat spots!!! This ain’t going to last five years sir!

I just started mine (no problem) and drove it back and forth on the drive. Being as most RRs are auto and I have a level drive I pretty much always just leave it in Park and have no trouble with sticking brakes. Geoff

Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:

Flat spots!!! This ain’t going to last five years sir!

Thanks Craig. You reckon that’s over doing it? Appreciate your advice  Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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Rob, started and drove mine after not touching for over 2 weeks and had no problems...no charger and no extra puff in tyres..
mine was left in park like Geoffs...

i think many are over thinking this and with summer here the battery will be fine.. ... - .- -.




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I agree stan, mines been sat for just over 3 weeks, only started to move a trailer , in park with epd applied, everything working as normal, wouldn't expect anything else. Remember:- amateurs built the ark
Proffesionals built the titanic

 Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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Mine ran fine today after ~2.5 weeks, which is pretty much it's usual duty cycle as it normally gets used every other weekend, but was only a fairly short journey so won't have completely charged the battery.

All this lay up talk has got me seriously considering finally purchasing a CTEK charger (which I have admired many times!), not just for this, but to use on various other cars and boats as well, as we only have a bunch of fairly ancient and low powered 12V chargers.

Paul - get the ctek mxs10. Go big or go home  Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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My msx10 is plugged into the Bmw. But the 405 is fine.

Put the old-new battery I bought for the 322 in the 405 yesterday. All seems fine except for a call from Lr incontrol telling me I’d disconnected the battery.......  There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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DrRob wrote:

Paul - get the ctek mxs10. Go big or go home

The CTEK MXS-10 arrived yesterday, pretty quick delivery from Amazon in the current climate.

Given I was working and didn't have time to wire it in to the L322, for an initial test I just used the croc clips on a boat in the garage, and it took maybe 4 hours to fully charge that and move into Float/Level 7. I then decided to put it on my Series 1 107" using the croc clips again, and give that battery a recondition cycle as well, as the 107" still uses the original generator, which isn't the best at really charging the battery properly. It was still going after 3 hours, so I left it working away overnight, but this morning happily sitting on Float/Level 7.

Wired in the provided permanent lead to my 5.0 S/C first thing this morning, and ~4 hours took that to Float/Level 7 too. For now the connector is just under the windscreen, but need to look at whether a CTEK extension would let me route it elsewhere, towards the front grill perhaps.

Need to charge a few more things now!

Nice one Paul! Pictures of the 107 please! Had a few 80"s in my time and a 1949 still in the family since 1975  Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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