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Window regulator (Post #109) 10/13/2008

What a piece of crap. The passenger side window regulator faied in the Discovery….AGAIN. This time I get to pay for it. After I got the thing removed from the door I realized it was made of aluminum. A really poor quality of aluminum as well.


99.95 from Atlantic British. I can get a used one from Motorcars LTD for 77.36.

The question now is do I spend the extra 22 bucks for a new one?

Is this thing repairable?
Can an enterprising fellow such as your humble greasy fingered narrator get replacement wheels?

My motor is fine. It was the plastic runner wheels that failed. Why do you make something out of plastic, when aluminum would have worked just as well?

Rhetorical question WOODCOCK!

So it can fail and require replacement, that’s why! The dealership replaced the last one under warranty. I am going to replace the next one out of my pocket. Yeah I’ll take pictures.

Why did the passenger side fail twice? The world may never know.

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Brakes…again (Post #106) 10/7/2008

It seems that this is the month for squeeking brakes on Land Rovers that park in my driveway. I’m going to have to break down and give them some attention. Perhaps on my Friday off. It is the day before the OU beat down of Texass. This year it should be fun to watch the Longhorns offense sputter and die as we shut down Colt McCoy. I remember how shell shocked he was in the 4th quarter last year. Not a pretty sight.

Anyway it’s time to get busy on the brakes because winter is approaching. I have some other smaller jobs to do but not much money motivation to do them. If I find anything fun I’ll let you know.

Code 44. The Rangie threw a code 44 last weekend. She’s been running rough for a month and I’ve finally gotten around to replacing the cap. It helped, but the injector cleaner helped even more. Anyway in the midst of all this running like crap including a code 69, gear lever position sensor, the oxygen sensors have gone south.

I’m going to be pricing them out this week and getting them ordered because the gas mileage has turn to ridiculously bad numbers.

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Busting the Myths (Post #105) 9/16/2008

Now, more than ever, drivers are looking for ways to improve their car’s fuel economy in an effort to reduce fuel consumption and expenditure.

There have been many tips and tricks promoted and popularised over the years, but how many of these actually stand up to the test? Some are just the motoring equivalent of Urban Myths, others may have held true in the past but are no longer relevant with today’s technological advances.

In this (and next week’s blog) we will review some of these ideas and see which have merit and which can be discarded. In the next article, we’ll be looking at some fuel-saving ideas that actually work. For now though, let’s explore a few of the ideas that don’t stand up to closer inspection:

They say: “Idling your engine is more efficient than starting up and turning off repeatedly.”
We say: This was certainly true back when all cars were equipped with carburettors, and many drivers still believe that repeatedly starting up and turning off your car is a great way to waste fuel.
But with today’s modern fuel-injection technology, drivers will actually save fuel by turning off their engine rather than letting the car needlessly idle – just look at the Toyota Prius.

And many, many more like this. Check out this link.

What is it about chicks in lab coats?

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Web Updates (Post #104) 9/15/2008

I updated the OkieRover.com site this weekend. I cleaned up some bad links. Mostly pages I didn’t have pages for. I will be writing some more in the coming weeks and will update accordingly.

There are some minor things on the Discovery that are now starting to annoy me. The rear door’s latch does not unlock when the doors unlock. Coincidentally it doesn’t lock when the doors are lock either. This needs to be fixed.

The passenger side window is now starting to derail when you roll it down. I had the regulator replaced under warranty before the 50,000 mile mark. It’s strange to me that it should already be failing now just after the 87,000 mile mark. I’m not sure how I’ll fix it. I’m going to study the Rave CD and see if it is something I can fix without replacing the entire regulator.

Also the secondary air unit is throwing codes about every other day now. That’s pretty annoying. I wish there was a way to take that system out entirely. You remember the trouble I had changing the plug wires due to the plumbing for that system. It hasn’t been the same since. I’m sure everything is plugged back in. But just in case I’m going to take a look at it and make sure.

Thanks for reading and Happy Rovering.

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