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If your garage is an LR specialist, I'm sure he'll know the coolant leak issues on that engine, and will advise appropriately

I don't have any pics of my door cards after refurbishment, and have been through all the Meet pics too.

If you remove the door pocket as well then you'll be able to completely coat the grey with no edges

An alternative covering method would be to wrap everything, but not sure how the soft surfaces will take it.

This might be of interest...

70F1-0216M3N1

70F1 is the material. 0216 is the colour. Pretty much everything from wood grain to brushed aluminium and every colour in between. M3N1 is the backing... From memory this is heat activated self adhesive. M1N1 isn't self adhesive.

This particular number is Fog Grey and is the colour of the outside of the toilet doors on easyJet aircraft.

It's a heavy duty covering it responds to heat for shaping purposes and will fold over a radiused edge such as the door storage panels and arm rests.

Not cheap,.but you might be able to grab some time expired or off cuts.

The trim colour is on the VIN plate.

For the hard plastics I used Tamiya spray, TS29  but you have to strip the soft touch off first, which takes time, effort and care, but the results were hard wearing and easy to clean. That car was a taxi and I didn't have to retouch a single piece.

Their Polycarbonate PS range should be a reasonable solution for the soft touch areas, and even if it you can't find a colour that's an exact match, something close enough could be used throughout as the results will be consistent and repeatable and it will give colour consistency across all the surfaces. Note that the PS paints aren't generally gloss as they're usually sprayed inside a clear RC body shell and it's this that gives them a glossy look.

As you have gone that far stripping the cards down, you should consider retrimming the soft panels (cloth/vinyl) with alcantara or leather. This will eliminate any colour mismatch between the refreshed coating on the trim Vs the filler pieces.

The glovebox and fuse box lids can both be split to enable refinishing or retrimming. I had mixed results with this but I am not in upholsterer, but the door cards came out pretty decent.

I'll see if I can find a pic or too of my door cards to give you an idea.

It's another RRS , I wasn't fussy on either model but was particular  regarding service history & mileage paid my indi to travel over & inspect this one " you won't find a better one" were his words the seller took mine in part payment which was handy so did the deal yesterday, going in next week for a thorough health check, but I'm not expecting any issues, it's very fast compared to the TDV8 which wasn't a slouch by any means.👍

Is that a full fat RR or another RRS?

(Fuel aside) that is a lovely engine.  Be aware earlier ones have issues with some coolant pipes and water pumps - if yours is one of these, might be worth pre-emptively getting these replaced when you don't need the car for a couple of days.

Probably one for Mr DTM....

Freeze frame data is pretty rubbish, covering no more than batt voltage, RPM, mileage etc.  Doesn't cover MAP or MAF readings or anything useful in this instance.

So I believe the -84 means its out of range at lower end, possibly short to ground?

I've looked for airleak, nothing obvious on airbox to throttle, and from turbo to intercooler, or from intercooler to manifold.  Can't really check intercooler without removing.  If the signal is out of range, would that imply its a pretty massive airleak?

Visible parts of loom look good.

As a general rule, the fault occurs at low RPM - 1500ish - and under very modest load in my experience, either just cruising or very light acceleration.


I hate just swapping parts, but tempted to try a new MAP/Temp sensor?

Took the RRS across to Oxford & picked up a 5.0 supercharged autobiography in exchange,what a great journey home over 500 BHP and the sound is amazing 👍

That will pull the van ok, at 100 mph if desired 

Might give that a try..😂

Took the RRS across to Oxford & picked up a 5.0 supercharged autobiography in exchange,what a great journey home over 500 BHP and the sound is amazing 👍

Outstanding 😊.

Is this a permanent exchange?

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Yes been after one for a few months, saw this advertised with a low mileage and excellent service history, such a lot of car for so little money..👍

Took the RRS across to Oxford & picked up a 5.0 supercharged autobiography in exchange,what a great journey home over 500 BHP and the sound is amazing 👍

That will pull the van ok, at 100 mph if desired 

Anyway i could find out the the what colour of paint was used on interior trim?

Im currently restoring my door panels from the gunky soft touch coating, i did initially scrape it off but couldn’t get a finish im happy with. After taking the door card to the bare bones it looks as though they were painted when new. I want to colour match all trims so its not 50 shades of grey.

Im going to take it to my local paint shop to get them to scan it but they said they highly doubt it would scan, just wondering if theres anyway i can find build data etc.