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winter driving tips Heritage have been working with Vince Cobley to bring some key advice for Land Rover drivers in winter. Vince Cobley is the owner of Pro-Trax, one of the longest and premier off road training centres in the UK. He’s the man with a wealth of knowledge and has trained many Land Rover enthusiasts before. He’s also the proud Dad of Ed Cobley who is well renowned in the industry for his driving skills.

their vehicle or worse.

When it comes to hard-to-handle terrain and even conditions, there isn’t much a Land Rover can’t cope with. However the cold, wet season brings extra challenges which the savvy driver can consider and improve their chances of making it through to spring without adding extra dents to

Written by Leena Marsh, Marketing Manager and huge Land Rover fan of Heritage Classic Car Insurance.

Preparation and Driving Style have to be considered when tackling winter weather, including the type of tyres that are worn. Heritage have a comprehensive guide for you to download which gives more details on prepping yourself for winter. Take a look At our online guide, you can tdownload from our site.

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Leena Marsh Joins The Series Owners Team Hi all, I’m Leena Marsh, the Marketing Manager for Heritage Classic Car Insurance, and a NEW editor of the Series Owners Club.

I’ve had an interest in 4x4s since I was little. I learned to drive in a 4x4 although apologies it wasn’t a Land Rover. I was eight years old driving about on my Mom’s driveway, changing the radio and the interchangeable seats in a Daihatsu Fourtrak (soft top).

I hadn’t been offroading till I worked for Arbil. It was at that

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moment I saw the light and now I’m totally into Land Rovers. I love offroading, going to shows, seeing modified Land Rovers and superbly kept Series Land Rovers.

Best of all for me though is the Landy people (as I call them).

I absolutely love how passionate and supportive, engaging, funny and friendly you can all be. I’m hooked on the landy drug for life and with Heritage getting the 110 I can’t wait to get out next year and be more involved.

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LAND ROVER THEFTS Read all about how securtiy is important on your land rover.

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Heritage Classic Car Insurance is the classic car insurance branch of Norton Insurance Brokers. Norton Insurance was launched by Founder, Chris Wilkinson, from his then home in Kings Norton, Birmingham.

That was back in 1965. We’ve been providing high quality car insurance, with a personal touch, for almost 50 years.

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have you knoticed that in the last year or so people are starting to make sure that their land rovers are kept safe. leena marsh

Despite classic car theft being on the rise, with more classic cars reported missing daily, classic motoring insurers have not seen an increase in policy claims.

Worryingly most of the classic cars stolen either don’t have the correct type of cover or have been in storage and don’t have any insurance at all.The team at Heritage checked with the leading insurers it works with who reported claim numbers were actually going down or staying the

alarmingly discovered that the victims sit in these two camps – neither of which gave them any financial recompense for their loss.

project cars and barn finds, with television shows highlighting the increase in value to the cars when restored and the market for car parts for such vehicles, is also making these vehicles a target.

Alan said: “Most of the victims we spoke to have bought their car insurance from an online aggregator and therefore have ended up with an off-the-shelf policy that hasn’t given them the cover they needed.”

He explained: “In most cases these cars are in storage so the owners haven’t got them insured to the correct level or insured at all as the cars are not on the road. To make matters worse, if the owner doesn’t make regular trips to where the car is, it can be two to six weeks before the theft is discovered.

Land Rover thefts Are On The Increase. same rather than increasing.Managing Partner Mark Wilkinson said: “On seeing the number of classics reported stolen in the magazines and enthusiasts spreading the word on forums and Facebook, we did some investigating internally before contacting our insurers and we were surprised that the number of claims doesn’t reflect the crime levels.” Confused by the lack of claims, Heritage contacted PC Alan Colman of the Central Motorway Police Group and West Midlands Police Crime reduction team to find out more about the thefts themselves and

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Mark added: “With classic car policies, we go into much more detail as well as providing an agreed value so that if the worst happens, the owner isn’t out of pocket.

“We explain the reasoning behind every question we ask and the impact it can have on the policy. There’s no such thing as an off-the-shelf policy when it comes to classics. Like the cars themselves, each policy has its own story to tell.” classic car theft barn findAlan also went on to explain that the rising popularity of

“In that time, the car would have been broken down and sold for parts, which aren’t traceable in the same way as modern car parts. We’ve had one case where it was six years between the owner’s last visit and the discovery that it was missing.”

“This is why owners should either have a full classic car policy that covers them for all eventualities,” Mark comments.

“They should also make sure they follow the advice given by the police on precautions they can take to make it harder for thieves and help the police trace the vehicles.”

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keeping your land rover in top condition is important to keep it lasting for years.

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The Series Land Rover is still the first thing that comes to people minds when one mentions a Land Rover. Usually the image is of a scratched and dinged Rover, the looks like it’s on it’s last legs, but amazingly keeps on chugging for a few hundred thousand miles. Here’s some information that will help you when repairing your Land Rover series, gather some interesting information, or just keep your aluminum workhorse running, so we contacted Canvey Auto Elctrics for some great tips on how he keeps his land rover running nicely.

available. The general advice from most parts suppliers is to drill a new hole and convert to a later version of the choke cable. However, the old cable can be repaired if the cable housing is still in good condition.

The choke cable that came on the positive earth Land Rovers is listed as no longer

The rod has two holes drilled in it. One is the hole that fits the inner cable. The other transacts the cable hole near its end. This means that there is a little length of cable to the knob side of the transverse hole.

You will need to purchase a new series III temperature control cable before you start.

Remove the knob/inner cable assembly from the cable housing. You will see the knob on a long metal rod with the remaining part of your cable coming out the end.

The inner cable has been flattened inside the transverse hole to anchor it to the rod.

So all you need to do is remove the old cable, insert a new one and flatten it inside the transverse hole.

To remove the old cable, you need to break the cable in the hole using a punch and a hammer. The cable is hardened and will not drill, but a punch will break it. I prefer to use a punch about half the diameter of the transverse hole for this. The reason being that the short end section seems to come out easier if it is not cut at the edge of the hole. I lay the punch against the edge opposite the short section to break the cable. Remove the old cable from the rod after you broke it.

Try to remove the short section of cable on the other end of the transverse hole. If it will not fall out, do not try to drill it out. It is hardened steel and you will end up widening the cable hole. If you can not get it out, don’t worry, the fix will work anyway.

Remove the inner Series III temperature control cable from its housing and discard the housing. Insert the new cable into the choke rod as far as it will go. Set one punch into a vice pointing upwards. Place the rod with cable on the fixed punch so that the punch fits through the rod’s transverse hole.

Take the second punch and hammer the cable flat inside the hole.

REPAIRING A SERIES Land rover

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Grease the inner cable well, insert it into your old choke housing, tighten it at the carburetor choke and cut the cable off to the correct length. I had enough cable left over to do a second choke.easier if it is not cut at the edge of the hole. I lay the punch against the edge opposite the short section to break the cable. Remove the old cable from the rod after you broke it.

Try to remove the short section of cable on the other end of the transverse hole. If it will not fall out, do not try to drill it out. It is hardened steel and you will end up widening the cable hole. If you can not get it out, don’t worry, the fix will work anyway.

Remove the inner Series III temperature control cable from its housing and discard the housing. Insert the new cable into the choke rod as far as it will go. Set one punch into a vice pointing upwards. Place the rod with cable on the fixed punch so that the punch fits through the rod’s transverse hole.

Take the second punch and hammer the cable flat inside the hole.

Grease the inner cable well, insert it into your old choke housing, tighten it at the carburetor choke and cut the cable off to the correct length. I had enough cable left over to do a second choke.brakes a one man job.

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LEAF SPRINGS KEEPING YOUR LEAFSPRINGS “SPRINGY” Today, all you hear and see is coil springs. They are soft, comfortable, give excellent axle travel, do not break often and are not very well suited for carrying heavy loads. Also, they tend to sag often.

For carrying heavy loads, however, leaf springs are still IT. Just look at all the heavy tipper trucks you see on building sites: all on leaf springs, except for Tatra which are on torsion bars. Torsion bars give the comfort of coil springs, combined with the load capabilities of leaf springs and one can only wonder why this suspension system was never adopted by Land-Rover.

One of the most frequently heard objections about leaf springs is that they give a harsh ride. If that is your prob-

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lem, pack your springs with grease and wrap the whole spring pack in a leather booth, well in the manner of a 1935 Rolls-Royce. Believe me or not, this improves the ride by 50 %. Leaf spring packs are typically rusty and as the leaves rub over each other when absorbing road loads, this rust generates much more friction than grease would do, thus giving a less comfortable ride.

Also, it is the application that dictates the type of spring to be used. Heavy loads demand leaf springs. A good compromise is „parabolic“ leaf springs, which combine comfort and load carrying capability. There is no friction between the leaves of parabolics, hence the comfort and this also allows for more axle travel.

Another issue is reliability Imagine being in the middle of nowhere, and breaking a coil spring, that could be an End of a voyage. In a leaf spring pack, one may break a leaf or two without major consequences and ANY more-or-less equipped workshop can „mend“ this is if the problem becomes a nuisance.

Leaf spring maintenance is easy: the only problem with leaf springs is rust, so packing them with grease is allways a good idea.

The other part of this is the bushes. Install polybush whenever and wherever possible, and renew the through bolts once in a while because of the wear or install „greasable“ bolts.

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“Its been a couple of months now since the LRO Show and i must say it was my first time in going and i had a wounderful time, i was really supprised how many series landys where there, i think we done the old truck well”

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