Your fleet running reports

[Sundayjumper]

Just booked the i3 in for 4x new tyres. After reading stories of being horrendously expensive - they're a weird size that I think is unique to the i3 - they're not too bad and my local place came in usefully cheaper than BlackCircles - £560 vs. £625 for OEM Bridgestone.

155/60/20 & 175/55/20

Just the rears for the s would be that. Most expensive tyres I've ever bought!

Ah yes. Ooof.

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[integrale_evo]

Ouch. Not a great £/width ratio!

[Sundayjumper]

2. Interesting. Seem to be reasonably priced too. Would appreciate if you could advise which specific one you went for?

This was the listing I bought from but the one I received was slightly different to the pics:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374765001850


The pics here are identical to what I received:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284354587584

[Sundayjumper]

Someone on the Disco4 forum mentioned that the interior of the D4 is bigger than the new Defender 110 so I checked on carsized:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compar ... -suv/rear/

Despite being 19cm longer, 9cm wider, and 8cm taller, the Defender has 474 litres less luggage space with the seats up. For comparison, an E91 Touring is 460 litres with the seats up. The Defender plus an E91 is still smaller than the Disco.

With the seats down, it's a whopping 683 litres less ! An absolutely huge difference.

Apparently the side-hinged rear door with spare wheel attached is a very heavy PITA too.

[ZedLeg]

I’d have a Grenadier over a new Defender tbh.

I’d probably get a new Land Cruiser over either though.

[integrale_evo]

New defender definitely looked like a reverse tardis when Harry was testing them.

[davejevons]

Someone on the Disco4 forum mentioned that the interior of the D4 is bigger than the new Defender 110 so I checked on carsized:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compar ... -suv/rear/

Despite being 19cm longer, 9cm wider, and 8cm taller, the Defender has 474 litres less luggage space with the seats up. For comparison, an E91 Touring is 460 litres with the seats up. The Defender plus an E91 is still smaller than the Disco.

With the seats down, it's a whopping 683 litres less ! An absolutely huge difference.

Apparently the side-hinged rear door with spare wheel attached is a very heavy PITA too.

We looked at the new Defender to replace our L322 Range Rover as it seemed the closest from the recent LR range. It has ~50% more boot space, which would be handy and comes with a full size spare, which we use a lot and the other recent Land Rover products don't have it as standard. Over time I'm becoming increasingly militant about having a full size spare.

I was very underwheled by the interior of the Defender which felt plasticky after the Range Rover and even the oldest ones have held their value annoyingly well. So we spent £5k on a new transfer box for the FFRR instead

[Sundayjumper]

...and comes with a full size spare, which we use a lot...

What are you doing to need to use the spare a lot ??

The last time I needed a spare was the 13th Nov 2009. Not long after I bought my E39, I came out from work on a Friday afternoon to find the nsr tyre flat. I jacked it up, took the wheel off, went to put the spare on.... and it didn't fit. Wrong PCD. It wasn't for a BMW Skip forward to when I got home, and I found the cat was dead. Not the one on the car, the four-legged furry one.

13th Nov 2009 was a Friday - Friday 13th. The whole thing stuck in my memory because of that.

(It turned out to be a Renault wheel, same tyre size but of course, wrong PCD)

[davejevons]

What are you doing to need to use the spare a lot ??

I have been asking myself that given they are £250 per corner… In the last two years; a tps valve failed while checking tyre pressures on the way to Scotland. We got a puncture on the gravel of Raiders Road in Scotland. We picked up a nail in the middle of France on holiday and this month it arrived from a late night dash down the m40 only to have a flat in the morning. Last one looked like it had gone over a stinger

So err, yeah. Full size spare(s) for the win.

[davejevons]

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Getting 2.7t of Range Rover plus bike racks off the ground with air suspension trying its best to find tarmac again is quite hard. Key is to have a big bottle jack that fits the jacking point and don’t go anywhere need the scissor jack. You also have to lock the air suspension in access mode to stop it extending. We’re quite adept at it now.

OV9, the thrill of changing a flat.

[Sundayjumper]

So err, yeah. Full size spare(s) for the win.

That's really shit luck you've had ! Raiders Road you can chalk up to not being "normal" use. The rest is probably the universe punishing you for something or other

Getting 2.7t of Range Rover plus bike racks off the ground with air suspension trying its best to find tarmac again is quite hard. Key is to have a big bottle jack that fits the jacking point and don’t go anywhere need the scissor jack. You also have to lock the air suspension in access mode to stop it extending. We’re quite adept at it now.

OV9, the thrill of changing a flat.

I've recently bought a Disco 4, the suspension system must be quite similar to the L322 (?), I've simply been leaving the tailgate open when jacking it and it's been fine. Often thinks it's in off road mode when you drop it down again but pressing the button to lower to normal height it sorts itself out.

And I think I spy a Merc Sprinter jack there ! I bought one too

[speedingfine]

928 has done almost 600 miles in the last few weeks and has been faultless. First a weekend away with friends, then last weekend the 928.org annual meeting at the Merry Miller and a visit to Classic Motor Hub in Bibury. Worked out my fuel consumption for the last weekend and it returned a very impressive 24mpg.

My switches arrived from Porsche on Monday so I'll be fitting those over the course of the next week or so (seat switch requires me to take the driver's seat out).

My car features briefly in this YouTube video made by a friend of a friend. It's the white one in the corner.

One of my fave cars on the forum. Vanishingly rare now, barely ever see one.

Did you ever post photos of your interior retrim? Please do so if not!

[speedingfine]

Feeling buoyant after a flying colours MOT pass today, I decided to try and change the rear brake pads. Unfortunately ended in failure, the caliper bolts wouldn't budge even on a long bar. Bugger. Still, got to use my natty new gazebo.

Had another go as I was trying to undo the wrong bolts

Did the one side, then snapped a torx bit in the other side. Left well alone and cautiously took it to my TUNA in this DANGEROUS STATE. He then promptly snapped two torx bits in it too. Then did this -



...which thankfully shocked it out.. he'd already given me the speech about cutting the carrier off and finding another somewhere

Anyway. Back to cruising about in it. Had it for ten months and done about 5000 miles in it now. It's a fantastic GT (if you ignore the rear set of doors)

[V8Granite]

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Getting 2.7t of Range Rover plus bike racks off the ground with air suspension trying its best to find tarmac again is quite hard. Key is to have a big bottle jack that fits the jacking point and don’t go anywhere need the scissor jack. You also have to lock the air suspension in access mode to stop it extending. We’re quite adept at it now.

OV9, the thrill of changing a flat.

With a Mercedes you just crack a door open or I open the boot, then the leveling is auto off.

I REALLLLLLLLLLLL wanted to like the new Defender. But it’s a big heavy un-reliable over complicated thing. It was only when I sat in one and then looked at measurements I realised by how much.

Ineos Grenadier for me, but that hits a nerve with the weight. It’s a lovely thing though and incredibly sturdily built. Just new car company silly niggles like the hvac software, sticky door buttons, slow rectification of any faults etc.

Dave!

[integrale_evo]

I’ve seen loads of them with faulty front drls, way more than you’d expect from just the odd coincidental failure. There must be some serious component quality control issues.

[Ascender]

Cold start of the Dakar.... Goes on a bit as like other 911s, it does it stuff and settles down after about a minute.

[Beany]

That's rather like the M135i and I suspect a lot of cars these days - fast idle (and I believe bypasses the turbo initially?) to get max heat into the cat, then calms it's tits and chills.

[Beany]

Oh, forgot to add

E46 has been looked at - back end needs rebushing entirely (I suspected as much), rear brakes need doing (it's been sitting on the handbrake for six months, downside of living on a hill ) and front lower arms, rear shocks (suspected(, a rear wheel bearing, some droplinks etc.

Main mech (who likes my car, and had a supercharged E46 M3 at some point) reckons it'll go through an MOT for well under a grand, but office boy hadn't done the parts list yet (Was meant to be done yesterday)

That's just to get it through the MOT mind, there'll be plenty of bits left for my bro to sort out which they are kindly gonna list for me to - the younger mech has been going over the car with a fine toothed comb.

Nice to be seeing a light at the end of this particularly unpleasant tunnel - every time I see that car, it reminds me of some proper dark times. It's been quite nice not having it sat outside, honestly.

They're also gonna price me up front lower rear arms for the M135i and fix up the screenwashers (involves digging around the inner wing) so I think they're quite happy to get the labour costs out of me, and as my physicality ain't great at the moment, I'm happy to let them get the labour costs out of me...

[Jobbo]

That's rather like the M135i and I suspect a lot of cars these days - fast idle (and I believe bypasses the turbo initially?) to get max heat into the cat, then calms it's tits and chills.

My MX5 does it, probably only for 5 seconds or so. But it’s not a noisy car as standard so it adds a bit of character.

[Beany]

I think my car is noisier from the outside than it is from the inside - I mean, obviously, but I think it's louder outside than I think it is.

I bring joy to the world by putting it in TRACTION mode and letting it pop and crackle like a bastard on the overrun around town (as it does in SPORTS+ MUPPET MODE), which is a thing it does for no thoroughly explained reason.