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Upgrading Position Lights
WE’VE all followed a Defender on the motorway in heavy rain. Amongst the grey road spray or in fog, the dim red pinpricks of the factory tail lights can take great effort to see. Modern cars commonly employ larger, brighter lenses and LED technology,
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Torque Back
In the recent cold snap my Series III 88in diesel was reluctant to start up first thing in the morning. It eventually fired, but was a bit rough for a while. It has been all right since, and I still use it daily for work and towing off-road, but I’m
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JLR Spares Have Gone To The Dogs
I’M starting to wonder how long I will be able to continue to use my 1990 Range Rover as my daily driver, given that an increasing number of replacement parts are getting harder to find, even for a late four-door. SYD was rebuilt from the ground up b
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60 Years Of Peak And Dukeries
PEAK & Dukeries Land Rover Club is one of the oldest clubs dedicated to the green oval. P&D came into being when the Rover Motor Co decided to stop hosting Land Rover club events around 1964. At that time the factory-run Land Rover Owners Club became
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Ratan Tata, Who Oversaw The JLR Acquisition, Passes Away
TRIBUTES have been paid following the passing of former Tata Motors boss, Ratan Tata, who recently died aged 86. The Indian businessman took over from his father, JRD Tata, as chairman of Tata Motors in 1991, and oversaw operations for more than two
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Smug? Moi?
I now have myself a V8-powered Series IIA trayback and I am very happy! In fact, it has been a great month for me – not only did the V8 transplant go extremely well, my 80in scooped Best Off-Road Vehicle and Best in Show at the All-British Day here i
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The Lre Story
THE launch of the Discovery in 1989 had a direct impact on the creation of the first Land Rover Experience centre, which opened in 1991. As the Discovery’s 35th anniversary year comes to an end, it’s a perfect moment to review how the Solihull centre
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Aluminium Supply Hits Retail Sales
JLR has revealed that retail sales in the second quarter of the financial year 2025 were 103,108 units, down 3 per cent compared with Q2 the previous year. Partly responsible for the decline in sales was a 7 per cent fall in production, which JLR att
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Letters
Firstly, I must say I’m thoroughly enjoying the LRM podcast so please keep up the great work. I particularly enjoy the weekly dose of talk about buying Land Rovers, which has actually influenced me to go out and buy a second. The vehicle in question
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Crumbling Crossmembers
IF I had to give just one reason why Land Rover became the global success that it is, I would point to the box section chassis designed for the first Series I in 1948. This form of construction evolved through the original Range Rover through to the
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Events
Call for a free quote on 01480 484 803 BLACKPOOL LIGHTS RUN Blackpool, Lancashire landroverclub.co.uk NORTHUMBERLAND LAND ROVER TOUR Alnwick, Northumberland uklandroverevents.com TYRO AND RTV/CCV TRIALS Little Baddow, Essex elrc.info MOORS & DALES GR
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Land Rover Monthly
Editor Martin Domoney Art Editor Sam McMurray Technical Editor Ed Evans Sub-Editors Louise Woodhams, Brett Fraser Regular contributors: Louise Woodhams, Richard Hall, Trevor Cuthbert, Gary Pusey, Steve Miller, Dave Barker, Thom Westcott, Jack Dobson,
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A Friend In Need…
@LAND_ROVER_MARTIN DESPITE having owned Land Rovers my entire driving career, I’m a relative newcomer to Series vehicles. I only bought my first one, a Series IIA 88, in 2017, and have only owned my current 109 V8 since 2020. Because of this, I’m sti
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Genesis Of The Jays Final Part
“ANOTHER challenge that the Project Jay team had to overcome was a major strike at Solihull, when around 6000 Land Rover hourly-paid workers went on strike for five weeks in early 1988,” remembers Brian Hipkins. “This was a particularly crucial time
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KSR Ups The Ante For Restomod Range Rovers
FOLLOWING the successful launch of its Land Rover Defender series, British coachbuilder Kingsley Re-Engineered has revealed its Range Rover KSR, based on the iconic classic. An evolution of the company’s KC and KR series Range Rover restomods, the KS
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Products
£399 Website: mltk.com/ Treat your classic Defender to a front-end makeover with this tapered bumper. Made from TIG-welded laser-cut 4mm thick 5051 aluminium and finished in a durable gloss black powdercoat, the bumper has holes for a pair of Lazer L
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Series Strip-down
LAND Rovers aren’t like other vehicles, or even other 4x4s. They get tired, rusty and run-down, but never truly die. And while my Series III is still very much alive, the adventures I’ve had and people I’ve met because of it over the last few years,
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Replacing A Dd295 Transfer Box
THOSE who read the driveline feature in the November issue of LRM will know this 2006 Range Rover Sport had developed noise from the transfer box rear output bearing after 176,000 miles. I’ve no complaints about that failure, and I’d say the car’s do
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Your Pictures
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Peaks Social
IN a similar vein to both of those drives came another of my Peak District LRM get-togethers. They informally started in 2021, when LRM’s Ed Evans, Steve Miller and I met up for nothing more than a casual catch-up and drive around. And it was fab. We
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Prom Taxi
WE’RE always looking to help readers at LRM. We create features as enthusiasts, to please fellow enthusiasts. Occasionally something crops up where we can help share the passion in other ways. Which is how, in mid-June I came to be taking two young l
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A Day With CKD SHOP
WE are spoilt. As Land Rover enthusiasts and owners, we are privileged to have a vast number of skilled companies across a whole range of aftermarket segments available to us – probably more than any other vehicle brand in the world. In this series,
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Drive Time
I’VE just stepped in after a fabulous drive. For almost two hours I’ve revelled in a deserted world. No traffic, no cyclists, no horse riders, nothing. Just the whole place to myself and a soundtrack of roaring crossplies. You see, the time of writin
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How It All Began
Alex Massey was 16-years old when he got his first Land Rover – a 1953 80in over in Clermont, Queensland, Australia. He was always fascinated by the very early vehicles, and after one of his dad’s friends gave him a book containing road tests of the
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At Home In The Range
2002 RANGE ROVER L322 Owner: Thomas Mills WITH the increased popularity of people buying the third-generation L322 Range Rover to use as an off-road tool and overlanding platform, I wanted to share with you the story behind my own car. My name is Tho
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Halewood Prepares For EVs
JLR has announced a £500million investment to transform its 61-year-old factory in Halewood, Merseyside, ready for EV production. After one million hours of construction work and £250million of investment over the last 12 months, the site has been ex
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Survival Secret
IT’S not unusual to hear of Land Rovers having covered 200,000 or even 300,000 miles; sometimes on the same engine, gearbox or axles, though rarely all of those major components. This doesn’t only apply to the early models: my own 2006 truck is headi
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Ready For The End Of The World
HAILING from America is the first (and, for the moment, only) 6x6 conversion based on the L633 Defender. It’s the creation of Apocalypse Manufacturing, a Florida-based tuning outfit renowned for extreme six- and four-wheel drive SUVs and pick-up truc
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In-tents Work
REGULAR readers may remember my last update in the July issue, where I was busy beavering away in my shed, hoping to get my Penman trailer finished in time to take it to LRM Live at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern. Well, it happened! Well, w
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1957 SERIES I 86-inch
How long have you owned it? It’s actually owned by my old boss who persuaded me to restore it. He’s had it six years. How did that come about? I told my boss I would find him a Series I, but I think he got fed up of waiting for me and found one himse
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