Went out to this in the morning, and she just wound over and over and over. Battery got drained and not even a cough.
Luckily, my neighbour was performing a thorough* check of his Disco 2 before heading to Skye for the weekend.
He discovered a need for 2L of oil, but only had one. I swapped him a litre for a jumpstart.
Leads connected and away it went no bother.
This suggested to me that it was struggling to pull fuel through with just the battery in the car. The filters on the car had been on it since I got it, so no doubt overdue a swap.
Anyways, with it running, it was time to head to the unit.
Once there, I had a look at the pre-filter
Definitely got my monies worth out of it!
A new one was swapped on
Then it was time to check the main filter:
Who knows how this ever ran..
Anyways, a new Main filter was sorted, and the car fired up and taken for a test drive. All well, and possibly a slightly perceptible increase in performance..
Ever since the car has been mine it has been howling inside - I think previous owners have done over 200K on veg, and I reckon they could have done another 20K on the veg that was in the interior..
The plan was simple - a £10 valet
The attack was thus:
Hoover
Upholstery cleaners plus scrubby brush for seats and doorcards
Hoover again
Wipes for all the plastic/trim
Windows cleaned.
I used no less than 9 half buckets of water (changing it when dirty) and about 40 wipes.
An example - the back of the boot prior
And after
In total this took about 5 hours. It felt like I removed about 100kg of utter crud from it.
Whilst the fan heater whirred in the interior, I turned my craftsmanship to the exterior:
One crusty arch:
Exceptional surface preparation (handheld wire brush held somewhere near the panel)
Seamless
It'll do until I can be arsed.
I left it up at the unit with doors open to finish drying out, and brought the A2 loaner home..
Thoughts on that to be put elsewhere
