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My son and I fitted my FIA cage in a weekend. Fitted four eye bolts into some 4x2 cross beams, feed some rope through and hoisted the cage over the car. Lined it all up, marked on masking tape and checked, then checked again. Pilot drilled the key fixings front first and all was good. I decided to weld in the side impact bars in, rather than bolt as it was a neater job and avoided drilling yet more holes in chassis box section. All in all pretty straightforward. Definitely stiffens up the chassis. In terms of getting in and out.... yes you've gotta be pretty flexible... Mines lowered floors and id say for me a detachable steering wheel is mandatory. That said I'm overweight, 65y old, 6ft 2 inches but still can get in and out reasonably OK. Not sure for how many more years though 🤔. Getting in, is left leg in first, head up through the hole in roll cage, grab the top, right foot in and lower your bum into the seat. Getting out is trickier, head up through the gap, right leg out, duck under and left leg out... I'll have to video the manoeuvre, it'll make for some good laughs 😃

We had our meet up this evening. Roger who lives near me in Andover came along. He has a small collection of Duttons. He has been using one a lot recently as his daily Rover needed work for the MOT. It passed yesterday so he came along in that. Stuart who owns a very nice Westfield also came along. I haven't seen any other Westfields recently so it was interesting to see another one parked next to mine. The Pub was nice but reasonably busy. I might have to research other local pubs to see what else is around. I've had interest from a couple of Robin Hood owners so it might be worth moving to somewhere more central. I completely forgot to take pictures, sorry.

I thought I'd seen that registration number before. Close but no banana. Queen Square meet, Bristol, September 2016

Glynn is there space in there for you ? 🫣

@Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman I thought I recognised that number plate - have you still got its big brother??

He needs one of my special badges. Other makes are available.

Packed and ready for the off in the morning👍

@GarethHD your porta potty has had a risk assessment pass by @Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman and we can confirm it’s suitable for club members to use 👍

Supercharged Mega S2000! Blimey, I bet that shifts!

💙 Meet Westus! – the Blue Westfield wannabe!💙 One careful owner (Yorkshire type… so aye, it’s been well looked after 👌). Fast, fun, and guaranteed to put a bigger smile on your face than a bacon butty on a Sunday morning. 🥓🏎️ 📍 Catch him at Silverstone Festival this weekend – ready to drive home with you! If you fancy owning a proper head-turner that loves corners more than a whippet loves chasing rabbits, give us a shout. 🐇💨 part exchange for beer considered. 🍺 📲 DM to make Westus yours.

Having a bit of fun with some new photo editing software..... anyone for a bit of mean and moody 😂 Matt's Sport250 Lee's FW Nicks Striker Rachael and Iain's Luego Dave's supercharged MegaS2000

In addition to this, I have a friend who has an electric jaguar whose wife point blank refuses to get into it after two incidents where the regenerative brakes and the acceleration systems have ended up fighting themselves while driving and frightened them to death.

My Jag XK hasn't been too bad at all over the last 5 years, but then I do very little mileage.

Jaguar Landrover have had a catastrophic reputation recently, particularly the land rover side. Land rovers combined terrible reliability with so much complexity that they gained a relation for being undiagnosable/unrepairable, to such an extent that most of the second hand dealers wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. In addition to this their security was terrible; they were so easily stealable that for a while they became uninsurable. I wouldn't touch one unless I had so much money that I could afford to write off the purchase price.

In my experience, most of the warranty and reliability problems these days with ICE cars concern diesel EU6.2 versions - modern petrol reliability is often an order of magnitude better in faults per 1000 cars. Many JLR petrol cars actually have very good reliability - my own petrol F-Pace is at 50,000 miles/ 7 years with absolutely zero faults (touch wood).

Range Rovers regularly came dead last in the reliability stakes for many years, until Tesla showed up and stole their thorny crown. My neighbour owns a Range Rover Sport and his repair bills are eye-watering. The offside headlamp failed due to a wiring loom fault that took three weeks and £1k to sort, and that’s just scratching the surface.

Lots of little things….

Did it go wrong A LOT? I'm considering buying a full fat Autobiography Rangey in maybe 2 years time but keep hearing bad news stories about Land Rovers in general, but especially the Range Rover

@Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman @GarethHD @Martin Letts - Joint Hampshire & IOW AOand @marcusb at woodlands as well approx same place as last year 😎

Pitched for the weekend at Woodlands and flying the flag!

Some more photos now the cwp is out of the casing. Open to offers on this.

Open to offers on this before I file it in the bin!

Open to offers on this before I file it in the bin!

Some more photos now Bara has removed (& cleaned) it all up.

I’ve never bought a warranty in the past, but bought a second hand evogue 2 years ago, and with it being a Landrovers I got a warranty with assurant (through cazoo at the time) Cost was £20 a month for 4 years, and bit gas it been worth it. Several claims in (currently having def tank replaced for £1600 - £1300 paid by the warranty) Assurant have always been great to deal with, and never had a quibble (apart from DEF which was understandable). Even deal direct with the garage, so they just sort it all out for me. would I buy them again - yes if the car needed it. Would I buy a landrover again - no way…