Introduction
Pan is my late mum's car, inhereted in early 2025 (along with a couple of minor scuffs).
Gets to stretch his legs a bit more now he's with me.
~47k. Service history is best described as mixed ... but it's getting better.
▪ Timing renewed in summer 2025, along with repalcement oil and filter.
▪ Replacement brakes and suspension / bushes next. As tempting as it is to swap out the rear drums for discs I almost certaly will retain drums (lots of work for no real gain). Suspension is just showing it's age, but might get upgraded with something a bit more responsive than stock units.
▪ Just (as in yesterday) replaced the air filter and MAP sensor (following a CEL & DTC P0101). 'Twas an interesting experience trying to make sense of a choice of multiple part numbers and repeated incompatabilties listed on parts websites despite simply replacing like for like. (Which assumes the part I was replacing was correct to start with
). Probably not helped by coming from owning a 110 Defender 200TDi for ~20 years, where pretty much anything from most other LRs of a roughly similar is either interchangable or can be made to fit.
Lives with his younger, much larger (and almost impossible to work on) sibling - George, the Transit.
Gets to stretch his legs a bit more now he's with me.
~47k. Service history is best described as mixed ... but it's getting better.
▪ Timing renewed in summer 2025, along with repalcement oil and filter.
▪ Replacement brakes and suspension / bushes next. As tempting as it is to swap out the rear drums for discs I almost certaly will retain drums (lots of work for no real gain). Suspension is just showing it's age, but might get upgraded with something a bit more responsive than stock units.
▪ Just (as in yesterday) replaced the air filter and MAP sensor (following a CEL & DTC P0101). 'Twas an interesting experience trying to make sense of a choice of multiple part numbers and repeated incompatabilties listed on parts websites despite simply replacing like for like. (Which assumes the part I was replacing was correct to start with
). Probably not helped by coming from owning a 110 Defender 200TDi for ~20 years, where pretty much anything from most other LRs of a roughly similar is either interchangable or can be made to fit.Lives with his younger, much larger (and almost impossible to work on) sibling - George, the Transit.
